Talk:Royal Hawaiian Hotel

Ownership
Just to clarify, the article states that Starwood owns the hotel in the info box, but in the body it says it's owned by the Osano family. Anyone have further info on this? --Travis Thurston+ 07:40, 10 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I don't know, but I don't see why the Osano brothers should have their own section. I'm going to combine this with the History section where I think it belongs.


 * In 2007 it was owned by Kyo-ya Hotels & Resorts LP, according to this: Royal Hawaiian Hotel to close for renovations. I suspect it's owned by Osana family by way of Kyo-ya, and Starwood is the franchiser. But I can't find a recent source.


 * There is a bit more info here: Sheraton Waikiki Hotel Rees11 (talk) 18:22, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

History
The frst paragraph in the history section has numerous inaccuracies including the relationship between the purchase of the Moana Hotel by the Matson Navigation Co. and the subsequent building of the Royal Hawaiian. The Matson Navigation Co. did not even acquire the Moana Hotel until 1932 which was 5 years after the Royal Hawaiian opened. There is also a suggestion that William Matson was directly responsible for the Royal Hawaiian which is gross exageration of his role since he died in 1917. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kanapapiki (talk • contribs) 21:31, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Is this an ad or an article?
Probably useless to try to rewrite this thing and battle the hotel's PR staff. So bad that the cost of building the hotel is cited twice, and changes. Came here because of Mad Men. When they wanted to set a scene in the sixties, they set it here. Not a good sign. This area was less fashionable by the Eighties, and heavily aimed at Japanese tourists. Profhum (talk) 20:58, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

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Abigail Kawananakoa
The article states that Abigail Kawananakoa, "would have been Queen of the Kingdom of Hawaii had the monarchy survived." That's not strictly true. While Abigail Kawananakoa certainly would have been a candidate for the throne, the fact that Liliʻuokalani died without issue, and that she did not (or rather, could not, as it was no longer possible to fulfill the constitutional requirements) select a new heir designate after her original heir designate, Victoria Kaʻiulani, died in 1899, means that, under [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1887_Constitution_of_the_Kingdom_of_Hawaii#ARTICLE_22. Article 22 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi], no one had a legitimate pretense to the Hawaiian throne, and it would have been necessary that the Legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii elect a new Sovereign from among the aliʻi had the Kingdom survived (or were the Kingdom restored) after 1917. Consequently, I'm removing that statement.—MNTRT2009 (talk) 17:23, 21 May 2019 (UTC)