I will start off by saying Wakiki/Honolulu is my least favorite place in Oahu, it is a big, dirty, noisy, busy city with a really ugly beach and all the good and bad things i associate with LA and West Hollywood. Sure there are fancy shops and great restaurants but it is horribly overpriced, parking is a nightmare and there are tourists everywhere!!! The Mariott banks on its location as the best thing about it and justifies its pricing on that aspect alone. The amenities are terrible, the beach that it is across from is equally terrible and overcrowded. There are no services on the beach for guests, your daily resort fee allows you to check out a beach chair, or a body board, heaven forbid not both, and they will fine you if you lose them or break them, which most of the chairs look and feel like they are about to break on you anyway. They offer the worst excuse for a yoga class in their "garden" which is the busiest breezeway between the hotel and main street with a bustling starbucks adjacent to you and the shopping on the main level is also equally overpriced and abysmal. The whole feel of the hotel is about making money from its guests and nothing is really geared toward improving your experience. Parking is insanely expensive and when we checked in they offered to switch our room which i thought was them doing us a kindness then saw my bill for an extra room upgrade, which i never asked for and were not transparent about, nor refunded when I complained.