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So I'm planning a trip to hawaii...

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Originally posted by: rh71
^ thinking Maui --> Renaissance Wailea (coworker of my fiancee is from HI so he recommended Wailea). I think we're hitting Maui, Oahu, and the big island for a few... not exactly sure how much we can get done in ~10-12 days... do you think we can hit all 3 ?

Haven't booked a single thing.. was hoping Liberty Travel can help us out since they should be passing on the cost to the hotel, etc. instead of us... right ?

The worst part of planning a trip to HI is that we have no idea when we should book the hotel UP TO... since we are likely island-hopping... :| How do you guys deal with island hopping and booking around it ?
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one thing... dont island hop too much, you'll get burnt out. there is so much to do on each island, its hard to get more than 2 in in 2 wks. plus, if you dont do everything you want, thats a perfect excuse to go back for your first anniversary!
 
Island hopping is pretty expensive. It is now $200 a round trip ticket, makes it kinda expensive to get home to the big island.
 
well we hit liberty travel yesterday and a trip to Kauai (4 days) --> Maui (7 days) including car, hotel, airfare is about $4500. This was with $250+/night hotel prices at 4 star hotels like Sheraton. The 5-star Hyatt went up to $6k.

I'm thinking we can hit a 3-star hotel via Priceline and do < $200 per night and book everything else individually... think it'll save us some cash ? Think 3-star hotels are sufficient ?

EDIT>>> 5 star resorts reportedly being had on priceline for < $200/day.
 
Those who've been there... can you state approx. how much you spent total and how many days ? I'm starting to wonder if saving $500 or so by doing individual deals is even worth the effort. I mean... if 10 days will cost approx $4k anyway... I may as well take the packages...
 
Originally posted by: rh71
^ last ditch effort for more info (above) before booking...
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to me, yes. we look at it as saving that money we can use it somewhere else in our vacation.
i dont know if i would go with a travel agent though. so many great internet deals!
 
man I spent practically all day piecing together parts of our trip... and I'm glad I did cause I'm saving a ton of cash compared to liberty travel...

$120/day for Radisson Kauai (4 nights)
$170/day for Hyatt Maui (7 nights) (liberty wanted $355/day - thanks Priceline)
~$1400 American Airlines (2 people)
~$200 inter-island flight (ouch)
$50/day convertible (as recommended by others)

comes out to under $4k and we even got nicer hotels. Saweeeet... but I never worked so hard for a vacation before. 😉 Can't wait to get there.
 
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