OUTRIGGER Hospitality Group today announced that the newly reimagined guestrooms at OUTRIGGER Waikīkī Beach Resort are complete and available to book, marking the first guest-facing milestone of the resort’s $100 million transformation.

The new rooms are the first chapter of a transformation that is reimagining OUTRIGGER’s original flagship as a design-led destination at the birthplace of modern surf culture. Guests booking today are among the first to experience the work firsthand, and to see a legacy property evolving in real time.

“Our hosts have been welcoming guests to this beach for nearly 60 years. What people tell us when they return is that it feels like coming home,” said Steve Miller, General Manager of OUTRIGGER Waikīkī Beach Resort. “Our resort rooms are now all new, but that feeling isn’t.”

Rooms Reimagined from the Sand Up: Designed by PowerStrip Studio in collaboration with WCIT Architecture and DTL – a Hawaiian Strategy Studio, the new guestrooms draw every material and motif from the land, water and living history of Waikīkī.

Woven-basket screens replace solid walls, filling rooms with natural light and drawing the eye straight to the ocean. A soft palette of sun-washed woods and pastels echoes the surf, sky and sunset light, while rugs carry the sand pattern left by a retreating wave. Each room is anchored by He keiki aloha nā mea kanu (“Beloved children are the plants”), a custom mural of Queen Emma’s lily garden by native Hawaiian artist Kamea Hadar — a reference to the aliʻi who once owned and tended this very ground. In the corridors, room numbers are paired with surf photography by Zak Noyle, and graphic rivulets inspired by ʻĀpuakēhau Stream trace a winding path the full length of the property.

“Every choice in these rooms begins with what was here first — the stream, the garden, the sand,” said Dayna Lee, principal at PowerStrip Studio. “ʻĀpuakēhau translates to ‘basket of dew,’ and you feel it in the woven basket wall as you enter, in the rivulets running the length of the corridor, in the pattern a wave leaves behind. We wanted guests to sense the geography of this place before they ever reach the water.”