I had just finished writing the famed hotel in Waikiki Beach might never reopen when I saw a story saying the owners announced the hotel would reopen with a new management team. New York-based iStar Financial paid $51 million for the hotel in a foreclosure auction before shutting it down last week. This story suggested reopening as a hotel was unlikely. For Hawaii Five-0 fans and the workers recently laid off, thankfully it appears to be wrong.

Couple of interesting and odd stories making the news of late…
• Saw this one in my local sports section: Baseball players are scared to stay at the posh Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee because it’s haunted.
• And even stranger: A polish woman claims her 13-year-old daughter was impregnated by stray sperm in an Egyptian Hotel pool. (I did not find that one in the sports section)