4. That is, if I hadn't hated Waikiki - over-crowded, over-commercialized and brash; but then that's one advantage of the Coconut Waikiki - it sits 3 blocks back from the main drag, looking over the rowers practising on the huge canal to the residential area and mountains beyond, well away from the hell that is Kalakaua Avenue and the beach, but close enough if that's what you like and you really want to go their.