Description
The Hotel adjoins the Ala Moana Shopping Center and is across the street from the Hawaii Convention Center as well as the Ala Moana Beach Park. As of 2010 it was managed by Outrigger Hotels & Resorts.
The Ala Moana Hotel has 1,169 rooms. The 38-story building has a height of 396 feet (121 m). It opened in 1970, to a design by the Seattle architectural firm John Graham & Company. The hotel has several restaurants. It is not to be confused with the Moana Hotel which was built about 70 years earlier.
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