This review is in regards to the Zumba class I recently took at Studio 808…read more Studio 808 is located in the heart of Waipahu next to the iconic Leeward Drive-Inn. I've heard of Studio 808's dance programs but have never taken a class until I heard about the Zumba class being offered there. You can take the stairs or elevator to the 2nd floor and reach the studio on the Leeward Drive-Inn side. Once arriving, there is a front desk area set up in front of the studio where people were manning. You can pay in cash or Venmo (I did the mobile pay option because I didn't have cash). Fortunately, Studio 808 has also catered the Zumba class as a remote class so you can actually sign up for the class and dance from home by watching the instructor. Upon arriving to the class, the room was overall clean and spacious. Because the class is also done virtually, there wasn't many people in the room. The Zumba instructor was Erin and I have nothing but great things to say about him. As someone who isn't a dancer, Erin was kind enough to teach the lessons via virtual cam and in-person. The overall class was a lot of fun and I enjoyed the music better at Studio 808 compared to the Zumba classes I take at 24 Hour Fitness. I would definitely recommend to go with Erin because he's exudes positive energy, always smiles while breaking a sweat and definitely knows what he's doing. I was even watching the participants online (who were older folks) and they seemed to thoroughly enjoy the class at home as they would in studio. If you're up for doing a Zumba class in Waipahu (or simply at your own home), I would definitely recommend this class to take. Admission is about $7 per class but the first class is free! Classes are every Tuesday from 6-7pm.

So far my two girls in love with this studio. My oldest is extremely extrovert and shy but I can…read moresee her slowly, very very, slowly coming out of her shell. My youngest in

The theater has been closed ever since the pandemic started in 2020 and hasn't opened except for…read morespecial meetings.

At $4.50 per ticket, you're seeing a movie in the theater that's been out for a while. The…read moreconcessions are average - definitely cheaper than off-base. Sodas, popcorn, candy. You do, however, get what you pay for - just watched a movie here last night (I think our 3rd time at this theater) and I could hear this clicking sound every time there was a quiet scene... it really took away from the movie, in my opinion. It sounded like as the reel was spinning, it was knocking into something every go around. Anyway, it's a nice cheap place to catch that movie that you missed out on a couple of weeks ago! Sometimes it's not very tidy, but at least it doesn't stink, and it's not usually full unless it's the theater's first showing of a REALLY popular movie.

After a 20-year absence, the Mililani High School Carnival returns to the community!…read more 2015 dates: Feb 20, 2015 Friday from 3 PM to 11 PM Feb 21, 2015 Saturday from 11 AM to 11 PM Feb 22, 2015 Sunday from 11 AM to 6 PM PARKING is to be found along the side streets or you can pay $5 at Mililani Waena Elementary for parking. Ride tickets = one coupon $1.50 or a book of ten for $15.00 RIDES by EK Fernandez = there's a mix of rides for the tiny tots to the Screaming Fire Ball - the 360 degree roller-coaster where you go around in circles upside down and hope the Funnel Cake you ate doesn't come flopping out of your gut onto your face. Kiddie rides include the carousel, Magic Maze (hall of mirrors and a slide), Crazy Plane, Helicopter, Super Slide and the speedway (fixed rail car buggys). Other rides for tweens/adults and daring kids include the Zipper, Area 51 UFO ride thing (a slow human centrifuge), the ferris wheel, the jungle twist (like a teacup zippy ride in a car-shaped cart), Pharoah's Fury (like the Pirate ship ride, goes back and forth like a crazy banana) and the Fire Ball! Kiddie Rides are 2 coupons. Pharoah's Fury, Jungle Twist and Ferris Wheel are 3 coupons. Zipper, Area 51 and Fireball are 4 coupon rides. Bathrooms = you can use the high school toilets (unless locked) or the luxury porta-potty trailer. Sinks are outside of the trailer. FOOD = Not sure how much food scripts cost, but Beef Stew and rice with mac salad is 10 scripts. Some booths take cash, some scripts. Funnel cake $6, Cotton candy bag $6, Cotton candy $3, Candy apple $3, hot dog $3, corn dog $3, whole pepperoni pizza $28, pizza slice $3. Variety of soft drinks, Icee. GAMES = Your typical carnival fare, i.e. dull darts aiming at somewhat deflated week-old balloons; knock over milk cans. Aim gun ball at cans on a pedestal; shoot water gun at target to win florescent squid hats. The only game we "won" at was the fishing for a turtle in a turtle-pond-game for $5 - guaranteed to win a large nubby rubber ball or a plastic helicopter you assemble yourself - no time limit. Great for people who want to win something and not shell out $30 to win a stuffed animal. WHAT WOULD MAKE IT BETTER = a White Elephant or Garage sale type event in the cafeteria including plant sales. If I'm going to waste money, I'd rather buy other people's junk and I guarantee the school would make tons money off of other's donations. RETURN FACTOR = yes. It's a small carnival but the money goes to the Mililani Trojans so its for a good cause.

The sky was gloomy with a light drizzle, but it didn't stop the crowd from showing up to the annual…read moreMililani High School Carnival this past weekend. It seemed very well organized. There was ample parking on campus for a $5.00 fee or drivers could take their chances finding street parking nearby. The uniformed military personnel and students at the gates were very polite, respectful and helpful in providing directions upon arrival. Next, the layout of the event was sectioned off well. As families entered, I noticed the childrens' eyes fill up with excitement as they ran in towards the carnival rides pulling their parents' arms encouraging them to hurry-- my daughter included. Coupon booths were strategically placed in all of the right places for customer convenience. The rides were separated for the "big kids," then a little further in, on the left, the little ones could enter "Keiki Land" for their rides. Ride coupons cost $15.00 for a sheet of 10 scripts and $1.50 for individual tickets. Most rides were 3-4 scripts by the big kid section and 2 scripts in Keiki Land. Directly across Keiki Land, were booths from HPD, where parents could sign their kids up for a free photo ID (fingerprint included), and The U.S. Vets, where the children could pet a few service dogs while they waited for their IDs to print. Other booths included a place where kids could get temporary tattoos ranging from 4 scripts to 14 scripts depending on the design choosen. Again, script booths were strategically placed for customer convenience. Adjacent to those specialty booths was the dining area and food booths. There was a variety of options to choose from, such as Tacos in a Bag, Filipino plate lunches (the pork belly is roasted right in front of you), as well as desserts like shave ice and ice cream. All seemed like popular choices judging by the formation of the lines in front of each booth. Then, inside the cafeteria were even more booths, such as the official photo booth for the event, which cost 8 scripts for one sitting. Going back outside, you'd find the carnival games and circle back to the "big kid" rides again. Overall, this event was a very well thought-out, well-planned and well-executed event. At the end of the day, my daughter told us that she had a lot of fun and the 4-star rating was actually hers, which I thought would be appropriate to ask her for her opinion being that this was a family event geared toward kids.

First time attending the weekend drive-in movie nights…read more Purchased tickets on Eventbrite. Price decent: $20 per movie per car with up to 5 family members. Live music playing on stage 2. First screen was showing one movie, second screen a double feature. I arrived in a truck and was parked in the back fence near the walk-through for the restroom. We could easily see the screen and hear the soundtrack which were blaring through the concert speakers. Mind you, this isn't a HUGE outdoor movie screen. It's a large screen set up on a stage with speakers on each side. A food truck was present til halfway through the first movie. Small concession stand set up in the front building. Bathrooms also in the front building. A little strange walking into the school, but restroom were right inside the building. 3 stalls for women. It would have been nice to have them cleaned before intermission as The floor was littered with TP. All staff were very nice and gave directions to facilities and parking. Overall a pleasant experience, would definitely recommend.

None of my friends knew where this place was, maybe because it wasn't on Yelp? Maybe because no one…read morehad heard of it? The address was confusing because it was listed as 91-1180 Midway Street on Stubhub and Google reviews, the official webpage lists it as 300 Franklin Avenue. If you get lost, just follow the long line of cars heading to the same concert that you're going to. We were headed to see Kaskade play on November 2 and we were just following the cars pulling off Midway into a large field. They charged us $20 to park in a big, dusty, Keawe-thorn strewn lot. My friends were mad that they had to pay $20 after shelling out $68 for the concert, which was in a large field. I told them hey, at least they posted their prices, because I've been to events where the parking attendants are shady as hell and quote you any price they want. I once got ripped off at an Wonderland event, where they said "$35" for parking on a grass field. My friend, who was in another car, got charged $25, so where is the justice in that? For this very reason, I boycott Wonderland Events. I think a much more fair price would have been $10...after all, it is a DIRT field with giant roaches, centipedes, thorns and trash. It appeared as the place had been weed-whacked the day before as there were huge clumps of chopped vegetation every where, logs, rocks and detrius. It was so dusty the dust went right through my sneakers. PAT DOWN: I heard someone say, "women line up" and I was separated from my friends for my very own frisking. I am sure the girl patting all of us up hated the job. She asked me to open my fanny pack and started asking me what was inside my ziplock bag. She picked it up and started to inspect it when I told her it was my "pee stick", you know, so you can pee standing up like a man, coz no way was I going to sit down on those nasty porta-potty seats. She very quickly returned the bag back to me. CONFISCATED: my friend got his cigarettes taken away. Again he was mad, because there were people smoking everywhere at the concert. You can take in a sealed pack, but not an open one. MINI-FLASHLIGHTS come in handy, and I always say this at concerts where there are Porta-Potties. Super duper nasty and dark, so you don't know where, or what, you are stepping on. Also good for using in the parking "lot" to avoid stepping on those large obnoxious roaches. NAKED WOMEN: plenty of them. I've never been to a concert with this many half-naked and nearly-naked women. Perv paradise. SOUND and STAGE: pretty decent. We were able to get pretty close to Kaskade but I don't think in my concert-going years that I had this many people STEP on my foot, shove past and generally be rude about it. Maybe it was because we were squished up toward the front. My friend had a broken toe with a post-op shoe and a crutch. I was worried for him. My concert days in giant fields with cigarette smoke, pora-potties, outrageous parking fees, sweaty arms and bods shoving past, toe-mashers and half-naked to nearly-naked women are slowly coming to an end. I'd probably repeat this scenario only if my favorite band Above and Beyond came around again, but they would probably have a classier getup.

We have enjoyed our lessons with Matt at the Kaneohe studio. He makes everything fun and relaxed…read more We have a new passion. What a truly wonderful experience for adult learners. Mahalo!

Love the staff here, they're always helpful and friendly. The only down side is when the Chinese…read morerestaurant has a party, parking gets too congested.

Brought my 5yo daughters here for their first dance lesson and it was wonderful! The owners were…read morehere and were so welcoming and the studio is big and full of fun costumes and was clean and comfortable Their teacher, Ms Jenny, was very fun and sweet but also knew how to keep girls listening Wonderful experience

This review is a bit tardy, but I am finally coming around to giving some well-deserved praise…read more We found this place through Yelp when we were scouting a dance instructor for our wedding first dance. I have to hand it to my fellow Yelpers for the stellar recommendation; Ed was great. He is clearly passionate about what he does, and he and his wife Juliet are very accommodating. We have very busy schedules, and they rescheduled our sessions multiple times and met us in the evenings after work and even on weekends. We would be exhausted and many times did not even feel like going to dance lessons, but then we would end up having so much fun. Afterwards, we were always glad that we went. At times, it was very stress-relieving and even calming to go in. This is largely due to the fact that Ed and Juliet are such nice people, and they make dancing fun. Just to provide some context, we attended private dance lessons about once a week for a couple of months before our wedding. We had no real prior dancing experience. I usually feel really uncomfortable dancing. But Ed was very patient and went through basic dance steps just to get us more used to things. After we finally picked a first dance song, he practiced everything from the entrance through to the end of the dance. He tailored the moves to us and our song. There were many times that we just changed things so that they just felt more comfortable. We did not get a one-size-fits-all type of dance. That makes it all the more special. Just so you know Ed used to be a dance instructor for, I think, Arthur Murray before he had his own studio, so in going with Ed, you get Arthur Murray instruction but for a much more reasonable price. Due to an injury, he cannot dance as much as he would like to, but he often times would still show us how to do certain dance moves by bringing in Juliet to our dance session. I think Ed is due for a surgery, so he will be up and running again. However, the bottom line is that the best instructor is one who can teach people who do not know how to dance how to dance. And Ed is very good at that.

Anxious for it to start. So many kids here that it's busier than usual. Traffic and parking are…read morecrazy so plan in advance. 6:07pm and hasn't started. ------------- The show was amazing as usual given the number of people involved with the production to include music. It was slightly different than last year which we thought was strange, but I guess keeps it fresh and people returning. We brought our two teenage boys with us this year and they enjoyed it to some degree but would have preferred to stay home. I wouldn't say that's anything negative about the production but rather more about the lack of maturity of the boys. They were both in band and played different instruments, and were able to tell us all about what they saw in the orchestra. So they did get something out of it even if they don't care much for ballet. lol There were bus loads of kids in the theater to the point they occupied the lower tier of the Blaisdell. Noise levels were higher as the kids were chatting and No food is allowed in the theater despite it being sold outside of the Blaisdell. It must be consumed there. Drinks are allowed to be brought in. Prices aren't cheap and lines are long so be prepared.

(Pros) The stadium is nice and has a capacity…read moreThey serve food Admission is free You can bring your food and drinks University of Hawaii's very competitive Softball Team Ample parking for $6 Serve Beer Playing softball in Hawaii (Cons) Drunk rude fans People and kids walking in and out and all around during play University of Hawaii fans drunk on Cava alcohol drinks University of Hawaii Coaches who do not abide by conference rules and only allow visiting teams to use the crappy practice facilities Always rain delays at this field

It's the best deal in town - free admission to watch the the 17-0 Rainbow Wahine softball team!…read more Awesome! Even better - you can bring in outside food, drinks (non-alcoholic), coolers, etc. The only drawback is that if you're standing or walking outside of the stadium near the foul ball area, be aware of stray foul balls!