Start on the capital island of Oahu, basing yourself in Waikiki or Kailua for a week.
Instead, players pay millions to vie for such flashy properties as South Beach and Waikiki Beach.
The festival is held every year on Earth Day weekend outdoors in Honolulu's Waikiki Shell.
Along with time spent on Waikiki's beaches, snorkel at Hanauma Bay and hike to Manoa Falls after visiting the Lyon Arboretum.
Sure, you can still buy kitsch coconut-shell bikinis from a Waikiki Beach vendor and sip from umbrella-garnished Blue Hawaiians at Don Ho-inspired tiki bars.
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Hosted on Oahu, the Waikiki Spam Jam, this year held 27 April, welcomes more than 25, 000 people to sample restaurant dishes featuring the canned meat.
Google may not open a Waikiki office any time soon, but resort towns offer plenty of opportunities for entrepreneurs, self-employed professionals and people in the hospitality industry.
The festival will also feature the 2013 International Ukelele Contest Championships at 8:30 pm on the Outrigger Waikiki Hotel Stage, plus local music and hula dancers on two stages along Kalakaua Avenue throughout the evening.
The top pick in the natural wonders category is far more visible, especially from the beaches of Waikiki: Diamond Head State Monument in Honolulu tops the list, followed by the Grand Canyon, Northern California's Muir Woods and other awe-inspiring natural sites in the United States and beyond.
Also on Oahu is Waikiki Beach, long famed for its mellow surf, outrigger canoes and string of hotels that has recently received a facelift with high-profile openings like Ian Schrager's minimalist-chic resort Edition, the Trump International and new tropical outposts of nouvelle Japanese shrines Nobu and Morimoto.
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Eye-opening drasma and locations almost too beautiful to be real unfold at all points of its coast and core: from the South Shore's retro-swinging Waikiki Beach to the East Shore's pristine beaches and dense jungles to the North Shore's Waimea Beach, feared and loved for its tsunami-like surf.
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So, instead of spending three hours in a single restaurant, I continue to roam, nibbling at glimpses of the moon between the pachinko parlours, the click-clack of high-heels down an alleyway towards Kiyamachi, the way the couples still sit at decorous intervals along the riverbank, formal as courtiers, even if talking of that wild night in Waikiki.
After the tsunami Hawaii still attracts thousands of visitors daily: the huge Waikiki hotel and downtown Honolulu office infrastructure remains intact, and if one wanders down the main tourist drag of Kalakaua Avenue, the tourist throngs at the omnipresent Starbucks, MacDonalds, and surfboard rental shops reflect a calm, business-as-usual atmosphere, as if there never was such a terrible tragedy across the Pacific Ocean.
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