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The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Waikiki Beach
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States · Curio Collection · High Luxury
The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Waikiki Beach opened in 2016 as Oahu's first Ritz-Carlton address, at Kalaimoku Street and Helumoa Road, ten minutes' walk from Duke's Waikiki and twelve from the 1901 Moana Surfrider. Studios and suites run to three bedrooms, all with balconies and ocean-facing glass, an eighth-floor infinity pool has private cabanas, and an $82 million renovation was completed in 2025.
- 300 rooms
- Opened 2016
- Neighborhood: Waikiki
About The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Waikiki Beach
- Oahu's first Ritz-Carlton address, a ten-minute walk from Duke's Waikiki and twelve from the 1901 Moana Surfrider.
- An eighth-floor infinity pool with private cabanas sits above studios and suites that run to three bedrooms, all with balconies and ocean-facing glass.
- Forbes kept Four-Star for 2026; AAA Four Diamond and Hawaii's Leading Business Hotel from the World Travel Awards landed in 2025.
History
Waikiki's history as a place of concentrated human pleasure stretches back centuries. The beach and its surrounding lowlands were the favored resort of Hawaiian royalty, who maintained fishponds, taro paddies, and surfing grounds on the strip of land between the Ala Wai Canal and the Pacific. When Western tourism transformed Oahu in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Waikiki was again the chosen site for the pleasure infrastructure of the new leisure class , the Moana Hotel opened there in 1901, and the Royal Hawaiian followed in 1927, establishing the resort character that would define the strip for the next century.
The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Waikiki Beach opened in 2016 in a tower that represents the post-2010 generation of Waikiki luxury development , tall, vertical, and oriented toward the residential luxury buyer and the high-end hospitality guest simultaneously. The property was developed under the Ritz-Carlton Residences brand, which Marriott positions as branded residences that also function as hotel accommodations, offering the service infrastructure of the Ritz-Carlton flag within a residential ownership and management structure. The Waikiki tower holds the distinction of offering the largest number of premium suites on the island of Oahu.
The hotel's 300 accommodations , premium studios to multi-bedroom suites , are configured around the Pacific views that Waikiki's position delivers with exceptional consistency: the open ocean to the south, Diamond Head's volcanic profile to the east, and the lights of Honolulu's urban core to the west. Infinity pools at various levels take advantage of the tower's height and orientation. Solera, the property's dining venue, sits high above the surrounding resort landscape.
An $82 million renovation completed in 2025 represented one of the more substantial reinvestments in the Waikiki luxury market in recent years, refreshing the infinity pools, redesigning the guestrooms and suites, reconfiguring arrival spaces, and introducing new dining concepts. The renovation demonstrated the continued confidence of the property's ownership in Waikiki's position as the Pacific's most enduring luxury resort destination , a confidence rooted in a geography and a cultural history that no amount of market fluctuation has ever seriously threatened.
The setting
The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Waikiki Beach commands the corner of Kalaimoku Street and Helumoa Road in central Waikiki, rising above the neighborhood's mid-block residential grid that buffers guests from the busiest stretch of Kalākaua Avenue while keeping them within walking distance of the beachfront. The property , Oahu's first Ritz-Carlton , stands a ten-minute walk from Duke's Waikiki, twelve minutes from the historic Moana Surfrider, and is surrounded by several of Waikiki's most celebrated luxury addresses. The Ala Moana Center, Hawaii's premier luxury shopping destination, is ten minutes by transit, while the vantage point here offers unobstructed views toward Diamond Head and the Pacific. 7 miles from Bishop Museum.
Restaurants and bars
- Solera — Restaurant
Amenities
- Spa
- Infinity pool
- Fitness center
- Pet-friendly
Awards
- AAA Four Diamond (2026)
- Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star (2026)
- MICHELIN One Key (2026)
- Hawaii's Leading Business Hotel 2025 (World Travel Awards) (2025)
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