Shipman House Bed & Breakfast Inn, Hilo, Hawaii. Click thumbnails on the right to see more photos of this bed and breakfast inn.

Auntie Clara's Shell Room looks across a rainforest to Hilo Bay.

 

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Shipman House Bed & Breakfast Inn Bed and Breakfast
Shipman House Bed & Breakfast Inn
131 Ka`iulani Street
Hilo HI 96720
USA
Phone: +1-808-934-8002
Fax: +1-808-934-8002
Toll-free: +1-800-627-8447
Innkeeper(s)
Gary and Barbara Andersen
Rates:
$219 - $249
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As Hilo Bay sparkles beyond the bamboo and palms, a tropical still-life of homegrown fruits welcomes you to breakfast on the lanai. Tart, juicy limes and passion fruit complement sweet, succulent papayas, rounded out by apple bananas, starfruit, and assorted local favorites. What will it be this morning? Smoothies? Muffins? Try them all, and don't miss the macadamia granola!After a full day of rocking on the verandah or hiking in the jungle, fall asleep to the pitter-patter of rain or the nocturnal sounds of the rainforest. Decorated in island woods and fabrics, your large guest room evokes the airy simplicity of Old Hawaii.
If these walls could talk, they would tell of visits by Queen Liliuokalani, author Jack London, even Cecil B. DeMille, who filmed "Four Frightened People" on the property. The Shipman House is like a museum, but you may touch, sit, sleep on, and play the keys of history.Discover an Ikebana arrangement of anthuriums, a 1912 Steinway Parlor Grand "B" piano, hand-rolled curved glass windows, and more on your self-guided tour of the house. Guests who play are invited to tickle the same ivories played by Hawaii's last monarch, Queen Lili`uokalani, as well as by many of the Islands' other well-known musicians.
Auntie Clara's Shell Room looks across a rainforest to Hilo Bay.Lili`uokalani Garden, a beautiful place to walk, is 5 minutes from Shipman House.
Reflections from an early morning stroll. The two geese are Hawaii's state bird, the endangered nene, saved from extinction by Herbert C. Shipman.