Ko’a Kea Hotel and Resort, opening on August 29, is the shining new star on the Poipu Beach scene. General Manager, Chris Steuri, invited us behind the construction screen this week for an exclusive look at this exciting property. Frequent guests to Kauai’s South Shore will remember Ko’a Kea as the former Poipu Beach Resort. [...]

Things are topsy turvy in the travel biz and it has hit us yet again this morning.  Just overnight, things have deteriorated significantly in the Hawaii airline market. Yesterday we mentioned Go! as an alternative, given Hawaiian’s fare increases.  We had reason to believe that Go! would continue operating, especially given their equity in aircraft, [...]