Queen’s Surf Beach

this is with out a doubt, my most favourite beaches (well, one of them anyways). its quiet. its not crowded. its small. it has a wall that you can sit up against. the location is great. its close to washrooms, and the best little beach front café ever !. and we have met so many nice, gay and straight men over the years, that’s its incredible to say the least. and the snorkel is great.
just go to the right side of the break water, out to the reef and see for yourself.

Keeping it simple:
* small but cozy area
* there’s a lifeguard
* there is a beautiful grassy area as an option
* beach café
* bathrooms
* you can rinse off
* gay (mixed)

Clearly I’m a beach bum! This beach is convenient and great for surfing when it’s up… I love the beach park factor which makes it easy for gatherings and bbqing after any beach sesh. Bathrooms are easily located and parking is usually a breeze since Kapiolani Park offers so many stalls! Have fun, bring your sunscreen!

It’s not the nicest part of Waikiki, but it’s close to Hulas and there’s usually parking at the Zoo on Kapahulu. There’s an ABC store if you need it on the corner of Kalakaua and Kapahulu and the crowd is usually a mix of (mostly) tourists. If you have gabies, it would be better to take them to the Hilton Hawaiian Village Lagoon and play with the other families.

Very small. Nothing «special» but less crowded than main beach

Less crowded than Kuhio and rest of Waikiki shore. Plus, it’s lined by lovely green park instead of concrete buildings! Decent snorkeling if you swim out past buoys. Lots of ledges and little caverns where you’ll find uhu, manini, pufferfish and even ulua! Make sure to stop by Beachbar café for lunch, snacks or drinks.

admired this area from our hotel room and is as pretty at ground level as it looked from the 15^th floor. It’s a nice beach near Waikiki hotels and is not as crowded as most that I visited. Nice, quite location with a ton of amenities to include very clean restrooms and picnic areas. It was pretty sedate the day we were there and there was not much in the way of people watching. Had I not been told it was a gay beach I wouldn’t have known it was, which is a good thing. There was some sort of Luau training going on across the street which added some interest as well. I imagine there are nice as well as beaches not as nice. I don’t think I’d make a special trip to visit this beach except that it was a nice convenient walking distance from our hotel.

As a snorkeler this beach is the only location in the Waikiki area that has anything to offer. It’s actually quite good though, just head out along rocky barrier and the farther into the reef you go the better it gets. As with most places it’s best with little to no surf or the water will be cloudy. So if you are stuck in Waikiki but still really want to try snorkeling this is the spot.

Great location. not too busy, but close to Waikiki and lots of parking options.

Its not the most beautiful beach in Hawaii, its also not the most beautiful beach in waikiki.
The nice thing is that there is grass right next to the water (for those days you want the beach without the beach), it’s not too busy, and the revamped Café there is convenient.
There is a sandy channel where you can walk into the water, use this instead of tripping your way through the coral to get in.
Oh ya, it’s gay too, so bring your oil and speedo.

The snorkeling is decent here. I’ve surfed at publics and that reef can really tear you up. I have some pics and info about Queen’s on my blog:

Hard to believe that I’m the only gay guy writing a review for the major gay beach in the Wakiki area… but that sort of says it all, in a way. It’s just not a big deal. It’s not a part of the ‘scene’ really, and there’s not a lot of conversating and interacting. Gay tourists pick this part of the beach and hang out, and behind in the grassy area near the almost-​always-​closed snack bar is an eclectic mix of homeless people, gay tourists, and families who want to be close to the bathroom due to incontinent toddlers.
Not a fun vibe, not a bad vibe. One would think that with the amount of gay tourism in Honolulu, this place would be a bigger deal… but it just… isn’t. Still, it’s a place to go with fewer screaming kids, and you can nuzzle up against your significant other without getting the stinkeye from conservative midwesterners on vacation. Better than nothing.

Queens surf beach is known as the premier gay beach in all of Hawaii. See link.
It has a friendly vibe and anyone can and does go.
It is a more quiet beach than Waikiki.
Amenities include volleyball courts, shady areas, picnic tables,
restrooms, food booths.
There are movies on the beach here and other fun activities.
Hawaii’s own Lost debuted the first episode of it’s final season
before the TV airing at Waikiki’s Sunset on the Beach movie screen. A
special treat for residents and tourists in the area.
It is listed in
for the beach to go to for gay’s.
But you don’t have to be gay to go there are many beach activities
here such as bodysurfing, swimming, snorkeling, and surfing beach
located in Waikiki’s Kuhio Beach Park near the Kapahulu Groin, the
Honolulu Zoo, the Waikiki Aquarium, and Kapiolani Park.

I’d watched a bikini parade the day before on Waikiki Beach near the Outrigger Reef Hotel and gotten quite an eyeful (or two) as I kicked back and people watched. Later I launched into a monologue about the merits of natural vs. surgically-​enhanced boobs.
«BOOBS?! I’ll take a look,» said Mr. L., who to his great disappointment, hadn’t noticed. He’d been kept busy digging immense sand castles and swimming with our 4-​year-​old, while I mostly kicked back, watched, and read.
His attempt to ogle scantily-​clad women that day was foiled by Queen’s Beach being populated mainly by men in skimpy swim suits and body-​boarders. No boobies. I didn’t plan it that way, I swear.
We’d stumbled onto one of the premier gay beaches of Waikiki.
It’s a very nice beach within walking distance of the Waikiki Aquarium, with limited street parking. The only drawback for me was huge population of mangy pigeons that were aggressively encroaching on our space (or were we in theirs?).
We ate the slowest «fast food» ever from the Paniolo Beachside Grill. The food was nothing special, but it was convenient.
The beach is named after Queen Liliuokalani who had a beach house here. Queen’s Surf Beach is in Waikiki and is located between the Kapahulu Groin (faaaaaaaabulous!) on its west end and by the Waikiki Aquarium on its east end.
Check out «Sunset on the Beach» weekend evenings when free outdoor movies are shown on a big movie screen (look for the large construction on the beach). The event includes music entertainment, food booths, and begins at around 4 p.m. The movie starts around sunset or 7 p.m.
This beach is popular for body-​boarding, snorkeling at the reef near the aquarium, and a gay gathering place. Not much eye candy for straight guys or lesbians — just sayin’.