Dole plantation hawaii ice cream. Every time i visit i cant leave without getting some pineapple ice cream. You can also buy foods such as hawaiian coffee macadamia nuts and pineapple. Originally operated as a fruit stand beginning in 1950 dole plantation opened to the public as hawaiis pineapple experience in 1989.
On the island of oahu there is the dole plantation where you can see how pineapple is grown and harvested. I begged to go there every day that we were there and i was lucky enough to get to go there twice. When i was 10 i visited hawaii for the first time.
Three years ago i had the pleasure of going to hawaii again and got to taste that sweet treat on the island once more. Then lose yourself on the grounds intriguing with gardens the worlds largest maze and that dolewhip ice cream you keep hearing about. You have a huge building where you can buy all kinds of decoration and memorabilia that have to do with pineapples and the hawaiian islands.
Going and getting one of these is worth a trip to hawaii. Contact list for on site kiosk vendors. Soft serve creamy pineapple ice cream with pineapple juice surrounding it making it the best ice cream.
The dole plantation serves the famous dole whip as well as has a nice gift shop. What a fantastic place. Try the pineapple ice cream.
A brief history in 1899 james dole just 22 years old moved to honolulu from massachusetts and purchased 64 acres of land in the central plains of oahu. Today dole plantation is one of oahus most popular visitor attractions and welcomes more than one million visitors a year. On this day we of course had the dole whip amazing and tastes better in hawaii as well as got to ride the train the pineapple express.
This is by far my favorite thing to do at the dole plantation. There were plenty of times that i went to the dole plantation just to eat the ice cream. They also serve dole whip there.
This is very touristy.