MCAS Kaneohe

Author Message   Phil Doubleman Senior Member Username: Phil Post Number: 1426 Registered: 08-2005 Posted From: 205.172.16.102 Posted on Monday, January 25, 2010 - 05:37 am:    Sandi and I and our newbies are at the Cabanas for one night. Nice room... no bath. You have to go outside and down the walkway. A plus might be that we are almost on the beach. Sandi does'n like the idea of no bath in the room. That's OK, we have a reservation at the TLF (starting rtomorrow) til the 1st.   Jack T. Paxton Senior Member Username: Jpaxton Post Number: 763 Registered: 07-2003 Posted From: 24.27.231.67 Posted on Friday, January 22, 2010 - 08:04 pm:    Pinkies: Brings back great memories. In about 1961 I was stationed at MCAS Kaneohe Bay. Pinkies was a new restaurant opened in the-then Pali Palms Hotel (now an office building). The hotel was out what is now the back gate where Kaneohe Bay Drive begins. In those days, if you PCSd into KBay, you most likely spent up to 60 days at the Palms while you searched for civilian housing. You could not immediately get on base housing. As a lot of us enlisted did, I bartended at the PP and, when Pinky Nolen, decided to put in a steak house, we all thought it great. Pinky went out of his way to hire Marines. My best friend, Jim DiBernardo was an amatuer (albeit great) cook and Pinky hired him immediately. We did two great years there. Jim later accepted a commission (as I did) and prior to the TET offensive in 1968, he took over the AFRS station in Hue, was captured and served five years as a POW in the Hanoi Hilton. He died about three weeks ago. On each trip to KBay I visit Pinkies. Pinky Nolen is also dead, more's the pity.   Lowell Bynum Member Username: Pagosasnowbird Post Number: 28 Registered: 11-2007 Posted From: 207.119.19.226 Posted on Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 12:00 pm:    Back gate is all the way across the base.   Phyllis DeLancey Senior Member Username: Phyllis Post Number: 2526 Registered: 06-2003 Posted From: 99.68.197.35 Posted on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 01:59 pm:    Ronald how far is the back gate from terminal & lodging?   Ronald Lee Long Member Username: Ronsheila Post Number: 17 Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 64.200.90.146 Posted on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 10:14 am:    Just left there last week. Stayed at the Lodge 1 nite, then got a cottage for 5 nites due to cancellation and ended up staying 1 nite in the cabanas. Sunday buffet at OClub very good.   neal floyd Intermediate Member Username: Nfloyd Post Number: 119 Registered: 09-2007 Posted From: 67.233.139.215 Posted on Monday, January 11, 2010 - 12:04 am:    There is a great restaurant just out the back gate on the left. I think the name was Pinkies? Food and service was super and everyone was very friendly.   William C. Allanach Advanced Member Username: Poppop Post Number: 188 Registered: 01-2006 Posted From: 207.200.116.12 Posted on Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 08:27 pm:    Aloha - Cherry, The #s posted by Phil are the ones for the BOQ. Fax #808-257-1318 Mailing Address: UPH Divisian (LFB) Attn: General Manager, Five Palms BOX 63028, MCB Hawai'i Kane'ohe Bay, HI 96863-3082 Physical location is NE of the airfield, W of the O'club, @ intersection of Reed and Reeves Rds. Mahalo, Bill   Cherie Schenker Member Username: Cheriemt Post Number: 35 Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 173.198.87.203 Posted on Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 05:58 pm:    If you don't mind staying in a single room, it is only $39. It is nice and the price is right.   Phil Doubleman Senior Member Username: Phil Post Number: 1404 Registered: 08-2005 Posted From: 68.35.71.161 Posted on Saturday, January 09, 2010 - 02:21 pm:    Beach cabanas are booked through February. The Q's won't take reservations until 2 weeks before you want something. Below are the Q's numbers: Work: 808-257-2409 Other: DSN: 457-2409   Cherry C. Senior Member Username: Cherry Post Number: 6033 Registered: 06-2003 Posted From: 96.241.127.69 Posted on Saturday, January 09, 2010 - 11:08 am:    The "Billeting" link on John D's site does not have any information about the Q's that William mentioned. Does anyone have the contact numbers (and maybe the location on base; &/or anything on line about the accommodations) to add to John D's site?   John D. Moderator Username: John_d Post Number: 3792 Registered: 06-2003 Posted From: 95.208.80.143 Posted on Saturday, January 09, 2010 - 06:21 am:    According to their link: "Active military, retired military, reservists, and DOD personnel are eligible to rent any of these units." "Retired military, reservists and DOD employees have 30 days in advance to make a reservation. "   William C. Allanach Advanced Member Username: Poppop Post Number: 187 Registered: 01-2006 Posted From: 207.200.116.12 Posted on Saturday, January 09, 2010 - 03:49 am:    Aloha Leland, The clerk was ready to sign us, wife and me, up for the following night. No mention of "official". I had shown my ID card to get keys to look at various rooms and had said we were on vacation. The old ones have AC. The newly renovated ones do not have the AC hooked up yet. We live on Kauai w/o AC so the new ones, w/ fans and the "trades", would have been just fine.   Phyllis DeLancey Senior Member Username: Phyllis Post Number: 2485 Registered: 06-2003 Posted From: 99.97.181.144 Posted on Saturday, January 09, 2010 - 01:19 am:    I talked to them yesterday, they would not book anything around the dates of the BFB, will only do 2 week out. Also said it could get canceled due to flight crews.   Leland Senior Member Username: Leland Post Number: 5577 Registered: 05-2006 Posted From: 98.218.147.237 Posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 - 07:50 pm:    Officially it looks like billeting is only available for unaccompanied personnel http://benefits.military.com/misc/installations/Base_Content.jsp?id=2155 but I seem to recall some retiree couples staying there. Has anybody done it?   William C. Allanach Advanced Member Username: Poppop Post Number: 186 Registered: 01-2006 Posted From: 138.163.128.41 Posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 - 07:34 pm:    Ken, Just stayed there 1 & 2 Jan at the Lodge. $108 per night w/ a continental b'kst each AM. The Lodge is right inside the main gate and a short walk to a MCX. Only one room w/ two queen sized beds, micro, mini fridge and pvt bath. There are Qs for $74 per night. The Lodge had not told us about the Qs and we found them up by the O'club. Got to looka at them - very nice w/ the typical two room suite & pvt bath. Bkfst only during the week. The pain of a move outweighed the $34 saving.   John D. Moderator Username: John_d Post Number: 3787 Registered: 06-2003 Posted From: 95.208.80.143 Posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 - 12:53 pm:    Ken, See the "Billeting" link on spacea.net's Kaneohe Wiki Page.   ken lamont Member Username: Lamontkw Post Number: 35 Registered: 06-2003 Posted From: 72.84.155.204 Posted on Friday, January 08, 2010 - 12:46 pm:    Any info on lodging at MCAS Kaneohe would be greatly appreciated, thanks