Entries tagged 'deals'
Hawaii Hotel Rates: Big Island Fire Sale
Apparently hoteliers are a little worried over on the Big Island. According to Pacific Business News, "Big Island occupancy dipped 1.3 percentage points to 57.1 percent, whole room rates plunged 10.1 percent to $156." I thought that must be a...
Hawaii Hotel Execs Expect Visitor Decline of 10-30% - Luxe Hotels Going Hat in Hand to State
This reported in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin today:. Local hoteliers, who expect to see a 10 percent to 30 percent year-over-year drop in fall bookings for the industry's bread-and-butter hotels, plan to ask the Hawaii Tourism Authority for emergency action, including...
Hawaii Hotels: Aqua Waikiki Wave, A Relative Bargain
Aloha, Bruce here form Hawaii Aloha Travel, I am a local based travel agent who specializes in helping people plan Hawaii Vacations. I contribute reviews to Hawaiirama and also have my own blog, podcast and vodcast with lots of information...
President's Day Getaway to Hawaii? Honolulu Picks from Farecast
Love Farecast. Want to come to Honolulu for a sweet P-Day long weekend? Da picks for hotel deals, according to the wizardry of Farecast, are the Moana Surfrider, recently renovated, lovely old style, and dirt cheap at $209 per night....
Cheapo Fares on Hawaiian -- Book by 11/27
Hawaiian Air flying from Phoenix to Hawaii for $278. That's pretty dang rockbottom. Wide travel window, from Nov. 26, 2007 – Mar. 14, 2008. Book before Nov. 27. Cheap wings, friends....
Hawaii Hotel Deals: Farecast on Waikiki Bargains
I am a huge fan of Farecast.com, a sight that predicts airfare trends (and can help you save a lot of money by timing your buys). Farecast also is doing hotels and they are comparing past rates to current offerings...
Hawaii Travel Prices Starting to Creep Up: Kayak.com
Summer travel for 2008 is starting to look pretty pricey so don't book early -- they should drop. Otherwise, Hawaii fares out of SFO to Honolulu tracked by travel supersite Kayak.com seem pretty cheap. Still a good time to go...
Maui Travel Deals -- Or Not: Travel Zoo Snooze
I have not really been loving the travel deals for Hawaii posted on Travel Zoo of late. They've been pretty much same old, second-tier properties, or, worse, not really great deals. Here's an example. Pay $148 per night for a...
Hawaii Vacation Rentals: Off the Grid, Still In Style
Get Al Gore off your case for taking that private jet to Hawaii and stay at the AHU POHAKU HO'OMALUHIA. This is a spa/retreat/vacation home rental on the North Kohala Coast of the Big Island. The main rental house has...
Hawaii Travel: Camping in Paradise, VW-Style
In college, my good friend Max had a VW camper that was perfect for surf trips up and down the California Coast. So I was pleased to hear about a relatively new service operated by GB Adventures that rents out...
Hawaii Travel Tips: Little Plane, Big Payoff
If you want to visit multiple islands in Hawaii, you generally take the plane. You can take a pretty big plane, a Boeing-type that flies above the clouds. Or you can take the little planes. Which really give you a...
Hawaii Hotels $100 Per Night Club: Cheap Deals on Paradise
This is fairly clever. Voyager Travel is offering a promo on a handful of Hawaii hotels with rates running below $100 per night. Most people can't conceive that hotels in such an expensive place could be so cheap but they...
Maui Travel Tip: More Vacation Rental Chaos, Check Your Permit Folks!
Earlier this month Maui County authorities announced a crackdown with hefty fines on vacation rental owners who were letting their properties out without county approval. This caused most vacation rentals and the majority of B&Bs to stop taking visitors and...
Kayak Fare Buzz: Good Fares from SFO to HNL
Looks like the usual holiday fare spike will be negligible. And if you want to fly to Hawaii for Labor Day, flights are below $300 according to my weekly Buzz report from Kayak.com. Check it out. These fares from from...
Haute Dog, Honolulu! A Five-Star Wiener Joint in Kakaako
Legendary Chicagoland restaurateur Hank Adaniya, the owner of the celeb chef factory and noted Mobil Five-Star Joint Trio, has returned to his dog eat dog roots -- in Honolulu, no less. Before his birth, Hank's mom and dad ran a...
Hawaii Hotel Deals: Royal Hawaiian On Sale
With occupancy rates continuing to fall in Hawaii and the summer travel season sleepier than normal, lots of deals to be had out there. The Sheraton Royal Hawaiian is offering a pretty good one -- $289 for an ocean view...
Hawaii Hotels: Deal of the Week, Kauai Hardhat Special
Grantham Resorts is running a $79 construction Garden Isle. The offers warns about noise and construction inconvenience during the day but notes that evenings and Sundays are quiet. This is more an offer for people who want a rack to...
Superferry Arrives in Hawaii: Da Boat, Da Boat!
I've been blogging about the Superferry for some time now, a boat that will take cars and small trucks -- and people, though that's less interesting -- around the islands on short hop, short duration trips. This means, you can...
Hawaii Hotels: More Resort Fees Breakdown from Travel-Hawaii
I've blogged on Travel-Hawaii.com before. It's an online/offline travel agency that really knows the islands and the various hotel properties and isn't afraid to tick off hotels by telling them that their product stinks (when warranted). Travel-Hawaii has started doing...
Alaska Airlines Opens Direct Flights to Hawaii -- Brrr!
You can now fly non-stop from Anchorage to Honolulu on a scheduled, regular route. This used to be the domain only of charter flights run on Hawaiian Air jets. Now Alaska Airlines, one of the smartest companies in the sky,...
Hawaii Travel: All Out Interisland Airfare War - Insanely Cheap $9 O/W Tix
So I've periodically blogged about the ongoing fare war between upstart interisland carrier go! and incumbents Aloha and Hawaiian. The war just got a it more bloodier this week as go! dropped the one-way price of an interisland ticket running...
Hawaii Travel: Kayak Airfare Tracker
I love the Kayak Buzz, a nifty feature that automatically ships via email you a range of prices broken down by month for any city you want to track. I've started tracking flights from top mainland cities with links to...
Hawaii Vacation Deal of the Day: Wailea Ekahi Village, $179 per night
Want to stay in Wailea? Prepare to pay. The big, luxe hotels charge $400 per night and up. There are a number of condo options in Wailea, though. The Wailea Ekahi Village is one of the better ones (this offer...
Hawaii Nature: Free Forest Tours at Volcano Arts Center
Volcano is an amazing place place. A quiet town on the slopes of Kilauea Volcano and a soaring place of thousands of acres of lava fields and remnant forest, it's lovely, quiet, and eerily spiritual. Sandwiched between a smoking volcano...
Hawaiirama Dealorama of the Day: Grand Hyatt Kauai from NYC for $1800
Offered by packager Pleasant Hawaiian, this one includes r/t airfare from Newark, daily breakfast and 6 nights stay at one of Hawaii's most iconic resorts. The Hyatt in Poipu is airy, sprawling, and has an amazing pool. Total runs $3600...
Hawaiirama Dealorama of the Day: Hawaii Prince in Waikiki
Via Travelocity, $784 for r/t air and four-night stay at a top-notch Waikiki hotel with ocean view room in every room. Dinner for 2 at Hakone, an excellent Japanese restaurant in the hotel. Rooms alone usually run for over $200.....
Hawaii Hotel Deals: Four Seaons on Lanai: 4th Night Free, Killer Promo
The Four Seasons group took over the only two resorts on Lanai last year and sunk big bucks into renovations. The resorts -- one located on stunning Hulupoe Bay, the other in the crisp, green upcountry above Lanai City --...
To Do Tonite: Hops & Grindz
Suds fiends, take note. Chef Jay Matsukawa at the Wiilows is mixing up another bodacious pupu menu for his monthly "Suds & Grindz" shindigs tonite (Marcy 30). It's a beergasm bargain -- $25 gets you a tasting flight of six...
Visitor Industry Clouds Darken -- Which Means Great Hotel Deals!
On the heels of the recent Hawaii Visitors Bureau survey results showing visitors growing disenchanted with Hawaii comes news that January visitor numbers were well below those from the same period in 2006. Couple this with the news from Norwegian...
Hawaii Tourism On the Skids? Good News for Visitors!
Sure looks like its slowing down, at the very least. Japanese tourism is cratering, down nearly 10% last year. In the last week of January, Hawaii hotel occupancy fell below 70%. Word is out that Hawaii hotels are already slashing...
Tip #4: How To Save Big Bucks on Hawaiian Vacations -- VRBO
I'm always amazed when people tell me they have never heard of VRBO.com. The letters stand for "Vacation Rental By Owner" and the site is a compendium of vacation properties for rent by their owners rather than agencies. In most...
How to Save Big Bucks on a Hawaiian Vacation: Tip #3 -- Stay Away from Big Name Resort Towns
This tip is closely related to a previous post on staying at off-brand hotel. The big name resort towns in Hawaii do sit astride some of the islands' best beaches. Which is why they can charge a premium on rooms....
How to Save Big Bucks on a Hawaii Vacation: Tip #2 - Off-Brand Hotels Rule
Most travelers (and locals, for that matter) prefer to stay at branded hotel properties. It's like eating at Mickey D's instead of some unknown, untested local burger joint. Except its a lot more expensive so why risk it? Enter the...
How To Save Big Bucks on a Hawaii Vacation: Tip # 1
So how pricey is a visit to Hawaii? That depends on how pricey you want to make it but, in a nutshell, the answer is not as pricey as you think. In particular if you follow a few of these...
Hawaii Hotels: Last Minute 2006 Xmas Deals
Just tracked a bunch of excellent last minute deals for Hawaii trips at Hawaii.com. This site, while full of semi-canned content, puts out emails that are perhaps the best sources of discount Hawaii package vacation listings. Here's a few picks...
Cheapest Time to Visit Hawaii Is May '07 - Sez Cheap Tickets
Well, they ought to know. Cheap Tickets is all about cheap travel. Cheap Tickets was founded in Hawaii. And if the Cheap Ticket's 2007 Value Travel Forecast Cheapometer predicts hotels in Hawaii will be at their cheapest in May, you...
Off the Rock: Kayak Airfare Snapshot from Honolulu to World
I picked off the Top 15 most-searched destinations from Honolulu to the rest of the world according to Kayak.com. While your mileage may vary depending on travel dates, it appears to be a pretty good time to get off the...
$12 Return Tickets on Island Air -- As Low As You Can Go
Island Air now offering low, low $12 return fares for travel during holiday season. Of course, many restrictions. This is the latest in the ongoing and increasingly insane interisland fare wares between Island, Aloha, Hawaiian and Go!....
Aloha-Mex at Newark International -- Food to Fly By
Here's my post on Jaunted.com, a site where I am a contributing editor. I like it. It's a fun site. I write about Maui Tacos in Newark International, where its a total godsend for the long flights back to Hawaii....
Fares to Honolulu from Newark International -- January Snapshot
My favorite way to travel to and from New York is on the non-stop Continental flight from Newark International to Honolulu. It's a daily departure. In fact, I've found Newark to be the most convenient way in and out of...
Oaks Hawaii Holiday Trunk Sale @ Global Village
Hippy chic designer Roberta Oaks opens her closets for a trunk sales this Sunday at one my favorite stores on Oahu, Global Village, in Kailua. This sale is worth a road trip with side stops at the beach and Maui...
For the Kama'aina Traveler: Cheap Fares Off Da Rock
If you live in Hawaii, you know that feeling. Traffic jams all over Oahu? Too many office parties and neighborhood parades? Time to get out. One thing I love about Kayak is it makes it SO easy to look for...
Travel Deals: Ridiculously Low Fares to/from West Coast, AZ
Hawaiian Air unleashed some really low fares for the pre-Xmas hump season. As follows. Price includes travel to Honolulu, Kauai, Maui or the Big Island of Hawaii. Good from 11/14-12/14 in 2006. Ideal for quick and dirty pre-Xmas crowdbeater getaway....
Hawaii Hotel Deals: Turtle Bay on Sale, $199
Credit to Hapa Hale for spotting a killer deal at Turtle Bay, $199 per night. Not sure what this exactly buys you in terms of views, but most of the rooms at the resort have an ocean view of...
Book Excerpt: 50 Thrifty Eats on Maui
This is part of a series of five excerpts from a book I like very much by Jessica Ferracane and Yvonne Biegel, "50 Thrifty Maui Restaurants". Foodies trolling for blue collar grubs should dig in. And a hat tip to...
Book Excerpt: 50 Thrifty Eats on Maui
This is the first in a series of five excerpts from a book I like very much by Jessica Ferracane and Yvonne Biegel, "50 Thrifty Maui Restaurants". Foodies trolling for blue collar grubs should dig in. And a hat tip...
Deal of the Week: $699, 5 nts + Air from Chicago
A total steal. The Ohana Maile Sky Court is not on the beach and its not luxurious. In fact, the building is non-descript at best. But its clean and functional and Ohana hotels are reliable. The property is two blocks...
Deal of the Week: AA Cheap Flights
Getting to Hawaii from smaller cities is usually a costly affair. The extra leg of travel from a non-hub city can really ding you on the trip. American Airlines has some great fares running for out-of-the-way places. Chattanooga to Honolulu...
Airfare Deal: Aloha Cheap to Mainland / Hawaii
Always good to travel too and from Hawaii in September. For mainlanders, great time for good hotel rates. For kama'aina seeking to get off the rock, good air fares. Today's pick. Aloha running a deal to rt Oakland-to-Honolulu or rt...
Deal of the Week
With the kids heading back to school and summer travel mostly done, we're entering "hump" season for Hawaii. This lasts, roughly from September through the Christmas Holiday Season. And it usually means great deals. Here's our pick for this...
Hawaii Hotel Deal-of-the-Day -- Ritz-Carlton Kapalua Package
$1111 Maui Ritz Carlton - 5 nts, Air, Car, from LAX Travel dates: Sept 6 thru Dec 7 on Tue, Wed, Thu. This is a total steal, even if you are in the lamest garden view room. The Ritz...
Hawaii Deal-of-The-Day
Note: We're going to try to bring your attention to what we consider to be a truly good deal for flights, hotels, restaurants or other things once per day. We'll spot 'em so you can suck 'em up, as Don...
