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Ring in 2011 in Honolulu with the Kahala's First Pineapple Drop

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 5000 Kahala Ave. [map], Honolulu, HI, United States, 96816
December 27, 2010 at 9:03 AM | by | Comments (0)

The ball drop in Times Square is so last decade—you know it's true when it's all about gimmicks like putting Jersey Shore guidette Snooki inside of the lit-up ball, hamster-style. The New Year's Eve tradition that's fistpump-free for 2011 is the first-time pineapple drop at the Kahala Hotel & Resort in Honolulu.

The only celeb who might make an appearance is President Obama, who is vacationing in Hawaii with his family.

It won't be a giant fresh pineapple falling from the sky, with chunks of sweet fruit dropping all over the city. Instead, an LED-lit pineapple made of papier-mâché and chicken wire will plummet 10 stories at midnight from the Kahala's rooftop. The fruit—a replica of Hawaii's most popular pineapple variety, the Smooth Cayenne—will be more than eight feet tall and three feet in circumference. It will weigh about 200 pounds and have 150 LED lights in the divets of the pineapple's skin.

The hotel wants the pineapple drop to become a state tradition and its signature event. If glasses of pineapple wine were handed out to revelers, that would make it an even sweeter NYE pineapple drop.

[Photo: Kahala Facebook]

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