{"id":323,"date":"2007-08-20T14:59:38","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T18:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawaii.kadetstationery.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2012-06-06T15:46:46","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T19:46:46","slug":"dolphinquest-program-at-hilton-waikoloa-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"DolphinQuest Program at Hilton Waikoloa Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hilton Waikoloa Village as a &quot;Dolphin Quest&quot; program where you can get personal with the dolphins, however it is not a cheap adventure.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(See: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.resqwest.com\/docs\/dolphinquest\/hilton_webres2.asp\">http:\/\/www.resqwest.com\/docs\/dolphinquest\/hilton_webres2.asp<\/a>)  <\/p>\n<p>It costs a minimum of $199 per person for a half hour adventure, where you actually only spend 20 minutes with the dolphins, and that 20 minutes is shared with 7 other people, or 3 other couples, if you are in a couples group. I guess that averages out to $199 for a little less than 3 minutes with a dolphin per person, or $398 for a little more than 5 minutes for a couple&#8230;. Not exactly a bargain. Marianne thinks she saw a similar program in Florida for about $75 a person&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/dolphin2.jpg\" height=\"360\" alt=\"dolphin2\" hspace=\"8\" width=\"480\" align=\"top\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">This is the children&rsquo;s program, which might be less costly, but it is still expensive&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/dolphin1.jpg\" height=\"360\" alt=\"dolphin1\" hspace=\"8\" width=\"480\" align=\"top\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">These are some of the dolphin trainers working with the dolphins.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/dolphin3.jpg\" height=\"360\" alt=\"dolphin3\" hspace=\"8\" width=\"480\" align=\"top\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Two of the dolphins having fun&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/dolphin4.jpg\" height=\"360\" alt=\"dolphin4\" hspace=\"8\" width=\"480\" align=\"top\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">More pictures of the trainers working with the dolphins<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/dolphin5.jpg\" height=\"360\" alt=\"dolphin5\" hspace=\"8\" width=\"480\" align=\"top\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hilton Waikoloa Village as a &quot;Dolphin Quest&quot; program where you can get personal with the dolphins, however it is not a cheap adventure. (See: http:\/\/www.resqwest.com\/docs\/dolphinquest\/hilton_webres2.asp) It costs a minimum of $199 per person for a half hour adventure, where &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/?p=323\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigisland","category-hawaii-2007"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawaii.lwwilliams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}