Mystery Diners · S8 E11
Hawaii Yacht Club
Honolulu, Hawaii
Yes. This one is still open.
The short answer
Historic yacht club (est. 1901) still active; recent regatta announcement confirms ongoing operations.
What happened on the show
Madeleine Noa, the general manager of a historic Honolulu yacht club, was fielding complaints that non-members kept slipping into members-only events, driving some longtime members to cancel over it. Charles Stiles sent mystery diners Kylie and Jamie in as a hired dancer and a would-be gate-crasher. As aired, two of the waitstaff had been sneaking their own friends into private luaus, feeding them the members' food and drink and even stealing gift-shop clothes to disguise them, while a loyal waiter and a doorwoman kept turning genuine crashers away. The confrontation has Madeleine firing the two waiters, and Stiles closes with the loyal pair promoted. Because Mystery Diners was later accused of scripting its confrontations, this club-crashing sting is best read as broadcast rather than as documented event.
After the cameras left
The Hawaii Yacht Club is still afloat, an institution the episode never threatened. Founded in 1901 at the Ala Wai Harbor, it remains active, a 2025 regatta announcement the freshest sign of ongoing operations in our 2026 pass, at medium confidence. A club more than a century old was never the fragile business a sting implies. It kept running on its long membership tradition, not on anything a camera crew did in one night, which is the quiet story behind the show's survivors.
Location
Honolulu, Hawaii
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Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.