We travelled along way to visit the Iolani Palace as we are from the UK. It was an excellent place to visit, very similar to going around a large UK country house or palace. We found the staff to be very friendly and helpful and eager to help us to understand what we were viewing, more especially as the Hawaiian King, who had the palace built, had very close links with the British royal family. We discovered that the ‘Union Jack’ British flag even appears as part of the Hawaiian flag. One of the guides, called Norman, was ever so helpful and friendly and I think he was really pleased to have some British visitors. If you are ever in Honolulu this palace is truly worthy of a visit and the surrounding Capitol District also has some very fine buildings to have a look at.