Hawaii Day 4 - Chuck E Cheese Kapolei and Waikiki Beach - 2025/07/05

It's Day 4 for our Hawaiian Vacation! 

Riding the elevator down to breakfast, it's always fun to get the one that is themed like a tiki room. Some of the elevators are your standard plain boxes, but a few are decorated special. 

Breakfast at the Club Lounge had all the usual breakfast items again. 

Plus these Ube pancakes. We like the purple color and purple sauce a lot more than we like the actual flavor of them though. But it's fun to have a region specific offering for breakfast. 

We're getting out and about today, doing a little more shopping, but also stopping by the 3rd of the 3 Chuck E Cheese restaurants on the island. What goodies will this one have in store for us?  

Instead of having a typical hand stamp at the entrance, you take a photo of your party with your phone, then show that picture on the way out. 

It's always fun seeing Chuck E walking around. 

Gotta get a picture of course. 

But what's this!?! Mr Munch is here too? That's the first time I've ever seen anyone besides CEC walking around. 

We got a table assigned (this CEC seems way busier than most we've visited) and set off to find the good games. Theresa seeing if Quik Drop is working properly. 

Alli and I make a good team on Bean Bag Toss. She keeps the conveyor belt moving (it stops if it detects a bean bag that you haven't picked up) and I keep throwing them. 

This particular machine had a very reasonable high score to win the 100 ticket bonus, and even better it didn't go up after you beat it! I could play a game to win the bonus and play again immediately after to win it again! The only downside was the anti-cheat sensor which makes sure you're not leaning too far in, is angled such that whenever someone plays basketball right next to it, it goes off. I had many good games going that suddenly halted and said TILT when someone came over to play basketball. Oh well. 

T setting some high scores on Piano Keys. All those lessons were good for something. 

The other good game we found was Milk Jug toss. 

I was able to get a couple of the 5 jug bonuses for 250 tickets, but while we were playing we noticed something very odd. In all our years of going to different Chuck E Cheese restaurants around the country, so many of them display one ticket payout but actually give you something else. 

Ian discovered that the payouts were correct for the 1, 2, 4, and 5 jugs (and the corresponding scores), but for making 3 jugs, which should have paid out 25 tickets, someone must have fat-fingered the score and entered 205 instead!

Well 5 jugs is really difficult, but with some skill you can make 3 jugs with some regularity! He had a new goal now. Never get 4 jugs because it's always less than 3 or 5! 

Any time Chuck E came out for a dance party, the kids took a break from playing to go participate. And I liked that they mixed up the parties too, from being the beach theme (very appropriate for Hawaii). 

I love that they throw tickets in the air at the end of the party here too. 

To the regular birthday style party. 

Another walk-around character! Jasper T! 

Well yesterday's Pearl City Chuck E Cheese was a lot of fun, but this Kapolei CEC is right up there too! 

We had a little more shopping to do after that before we came back to the hotel. Looking down at the ground floor between the two towers while we head up to our room. 

Getting to the room was always interesting too. Some days you walk right up to the elevator. Others you wait for 5-10 minutes in this line that forms while people try to get to their rooms. Some people ride down one level just to make sure the elevator isn't full when it's time to go back up!  

Once we made it to the room and got changed, it was time to head out to the beach. The hotel gives you beach chairs and towels (with tracking chips in them so they can charge your room if you don't turn them back in). We bought an umbrella to use for the week and found a nice spot by the water. 

Yesterday we saw people having such a good time just floating on tubes and we thought that looked like a lot of fun, especially on these little waves which were different to ride on a boogie board. 

It's nice here underneath the umbrella though. 

The kids moving on to the next fun thing to do. We have to make sure these floats don't go anywhere. It only looks relaxing. 

Alli trying to catch a few more waves. 

She's moved on to doing tricks.

Then joining Ian in his quest to find shells and dig a hole on the beach. 

We've found a friend! 

They don't speak the same language, but digging holes together in the sand seems pretty universal for kids. 

Big enough to make a pool when the tide comes in. 

As the sun starts getting lower on the horizon, it's time for us to head back to the hotel for dinner. 

Tonight at the lounge they have fried chicken finger, ube noodles, and of course a big plate of fresh vegetables. 

And when the desserts came out later that evening, we were excited to see the lemon bars making a return. 

So good. 

Never one to pass up a treat, the kids requested shaved ice again. We found a shop within walking distance of the hotel and went to get something. 

And while it claimed to be shave ice, it was a whole lot more like crushed ice, with a crunchy snow cone texture instead of the soft melt in your mouth feel of real shave ice. Oh well! It's been a good day! Tomorrow will certainly be another one!