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The Laylow Waikiki is one of the newest hotels in Hawaii, and is also one of my favorites. The Laylow Waikiki is one of the newest hotels in Hawaii.  It’s also the newest Marriott in Hawaii, as well as the first Autograph Collection hotel on Oahu.  And as a Marriott loyalist , it was a hotel I really wanted to check out. Prices for the property, though, are quite high, as it is a luxury boutique hotel .  But before opening, the property had some really great pre-opening kama’aina rates, which I decided to take advantage of. Location As its name suggests, the Laylow Waikiki is in Oahu’s main tourist district : Waikiki.  However, unlike many of the larger, more well-known properties, it is not located on Kalakaua Ave.  Instead, the Laylow’s location is on the “back street” Kuhio Ave.  And while not having a beach-front location may be a negative for some, I think the Laylow’s location is a benefit.  Why?  Because it’s located in between the International Market Place and Hyatt Centric...

Finnish cabinet ministers do it, Russian hockey players do it, Koreans do it on a first date. Social bathing—known as "naked communion" in Japan—is an integral part of several cultures, strengthening bonds between family members, colleagues, and heads of state. In many countries it's also considered the proper way to welcome a foreign guest. Whether sauna or sento, banya or hammam, the shared bath is society's great leveler, its group hug, its collective sigh. "Not sampling the local bathing culture would be like not trying the local cuisine," says Melisse Gelula, co-founder of Well&Good NYC, an online wellness guide . And like any other institution integral to a society, this one has its rules, the first of which is to behave with churchlike decorum. In Finland, the sauna is the church, says Joonas Berghäll, co-director of the Finnish documentary Steam of Life. (Statistics bear him out: With just over five million inhabitants, Finland has roughly...