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We stayed at the luxurious Trump International Hotel whilst in Waikiki, staying again in a two bedroom apartment on the north west corner of the building on a high floor (26th)

Note: These photographs (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger – so click any of the images below to see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer.

The apartment takes up the entire corner of the building so from the outdoors balcony of the building you get about a 270º view from the south east towards Diamond Head and around through the north east towards the city with the central mountain range behind it and across to the west and south west towards the ocean

Our apartment was spectacular with epic floor to ceiling panoramic views from the main living and dining area. One advantage of both the room location on this corner and also the building location relative to the Waikiki/Honolulu area was that:

– we could see both sunrise (over the city and mountains) and sunset (out to sea) from both inside the apartment but especially the view from the outer corner of the balcony where I could take 250º+ panoramas
– the building is located with a large parkland area to the western side of the building so we had a clear uninterrupted view out to the sand on the beach and the closest building on that whole side were quite a few blocks away allowing a nice clear view
– we were also high enough up in this building to see over the top of most of the other city buildings and thus had a great view of the receding city, the mountains behind and all the houses going up the fingers of land between the valleys going up the mountains

To give you and idea of the view here is a panorama I took from our balcony on the first evening there (7PM – just a few minutes after sunset) – ten (10) vertical frames taken with the 24-70 at 24mm with the Hitech 0.9 Reverse Grad and the Heliopan CPL

Waikiki Sunset

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm, 4 sec at f/11, ISO 100

and a panorama taking inside the main living area looking out at our view just after sunrise

Trump Suite Sunrise

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm, 3 sec at f/16, ISO 200

and two straight shots – the first looking essentially north and the second looking pretty much west

Room with a View A

NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 16 mm, 1/3 sec at f/16, ISO 100

Room with a View B

NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 17 mm, 1/2 sec at f/16, ISO 100

The main ground level entrance and lobby

Main Lobby

NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 17 mm, 4 sec at f/10, ISO 100

The Level 5 Lobby with some fireworks on the beach in the background

Lobby Fireworks

NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 16 mm, 20.00 sec at f/11, ISO 100

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