Prince Kuhio Ho'olaule'a Festival

This festival gets smaller every year. I remember when this event was huge, took up 1/2 of Water Street. Food vendors up and down a long aisle. Three stages of live entertainment. It took a good 3 hours to cover the event. Now it's down to being centered just right on the plaza with just a few vendors. This time I spent less than 45 minutes here since I missed the one and only halau scheduled to dance and the bbq huli chicken people were missing. They were a big draw! Major bummer! The Positives: I found some cute pareos, like I need more. They don't charge admission and have always remained free to get in. It's family friendly and still has the laid back aloha vibe, ukuleles playing, malasadas, shave ice and all.

FREE ADMISSION means loading the car up with everyone and driving down to downtown Henderson for the Ho'olaule'a Pacific Island Festival. It also means no lines and no real entrances, you can enter/exit any where, and if you want bring in your own food, drinks, fold up chairs, basically anything you wanted. That's awesome. I always try to make it out to these less main stream festivals. That's what I'm more use to being from a "country" style island. I think this is probably one of the more enjoyable and family friendly ones. They have hula dancing and various artist and entertainers from across the valley. It's more of what represents the Pacific Islands community here. Yes you can probably buy food at the actual vendors' restaurants but if you came here you can hang out, chillax, and converse with random people just wanting a good time.Pure Aloha is good but crowded, entry fee, at a casino, in a parking lot, jammed with unnecessary vendors selling the same stuff, and I did't care for the fair rides and games. Also seeing that after the last Pure Aloha event a few weeks ago there was a bunch of fights. Yea not the best thing.So back to the Ho'olaule'a Pacific Island Festival. I will definitely be back to support this festival. Keep up the awesome work and thanks for the 20+ years. That's go for 30.

Clueless, this what the Las Vegas Hawaiian civic club is all about. I'm starting to get a little sick on how the organizers are setting up this festival, and I hope they're reading this, because they need to start getting a clue.First of all, why schedule a festival on the same weekend as the Fiesta Latin fest, and San Gennaro Festival? Next, why not reschedule the festival to the same weekend, when the University of Hawaii warrior football team comes to town? I'm very sure, UH is apart of Mountain West conference, and will be coming every other year to Las Vegas. The last time, UH football team and festival was on the same weekend, the area was packed with braddhas and sistas from the surrounding states who came to watch the game. Come on, LVHCC, you need to get on this, and remember Kuhio day is March 26, so it doesn't matter what weekend this can take place.Finally, whoever going to make Madasada at these festival. Please stop using Pillsbury dough! You're representing Hawaii, and stop making shortcuts that doesn't work! Think about it, a lot of people go to the Punahou carnival just for the Madasada! Get a clue, and you might see a hour waiting line for our Island greatest doughnut, if you make it correct. Sorry, Las Vegas Hawaiian civic club, but Las Vegas is THE NINTH ISLAND!!!! you need to start planing this festival better, or less Hawaiians will think about coming back....and I believe this is already happening. Stop the bleeding LVHCC, and make it happen.

This is a great place to listen to some good Hawaiian music eat some good Hawaiian food and learn a little about their culture and it's free not like the rip off they have at Silverton where you gotta pay so enjoy yourself this weekend I will that's it