Room-service breakfast with toaster sets the tone in Hawaii hotel heaven

HONOLULU "Good morning, Ms. Ball," said the room-service waiter,setting eggs and bacon - as well as flowers - on a table on ourbalcony overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Diamond Head.

"And here's the toaster, Ms. Ball."

Toaster? Silly me. Of course, the only way to get hot toastthat isn't limp is to toast it in your room.

This is the way they do things at the 456-room Halekulani("house befitting heaven"), a decade-old hotel built on the site ofpre-war bungalows that were retreats for quietly wealthy guests.After a few days in Waikiki, my husband and I - who will scrimp onfood to spend an occasional night or two in a wonderful hotel -decided the Halekulani and …