Rooms are relatively nice inside, except for the rusty old tub and bathroom. Rooms seemed relatively clean.Rooms seemed to be renovated in the last coupe years. Rest of the building seems dated. Lobby extremely small for size of hotel and fronts busy street. A place to avoid when a tour bus arrives.
Location of hotel is extremely busy. Lots of street noise, especially at night. I get the feeling that this could be considered "the red light district" of Waikiki Beach, as both nights I stayed there were women screaming in the alley below. Can only guess what that was about. Night clubs and lots of late night noise.
Pool access is strange. Like entering a prison. Down the alley, up some stairs through a locked fence gate. Cement walls on all sides. Not very appealing.
Access to Waikiki Beach through the MarketPlace is a short walk.

Having stayed at literally 1000 of hotels I rate this one a 2.5 out of 5.
Place to sleep. Bring your ear plugs (or ask front desk for some) and you will be fine.

Aloha to everyone there for making our holiday so memorable, we stayed at the aqua on the first leg of our holiday and stayed there at the end of the holiday, thank you to Issac who upgraded our room on the last leg to level 15 which gave us awesome views of the ocean, the accommodation was very clean and we were treated well by all staff members, highly recommend aqua waikiki wave, we will be back

Mahalo

Robyn & John Cromwell

I am in the hotel right now. It's 12:57 AM on November 23rd. You can heard every rap song paying in every car driving by. The night club down stairs doesn't help. Thank God we only booked it for one night before going somewhere else.. I have never wrote a review about a hotel but I had to about this one. This is not the Hawaii experience you want for your family. Go somewhere else!!!!

...for the price. Hotel was in a pretty good location, couple of blocks from the beach. If you walk through the International Markets (good experience) then you can walk through to the beach. Dukes Bar is on the beach, not cheap but good food, drinks and ambience. Back to the hotel...rooms were a good size, we got upgraded to the 14th floor because the room wasn't ready when we arrived. Bathroom was ok, clean but outdated. Front desk staff were ok. The bar attached to it The Big Kahuna is average. A bit expensive, adequate food and ok for a drink if you want one close to the hotel. I would stay there again, for the price and location but if you are looking for a bit of luxury, you should probably stay elsewhere.