As you’ve undoubtedly heard, we’ve just had another extremely soggy week here in Hawaii.  I’ve been hold up at home, with fireplace burning and most all doors and windows shut tight.  This is most unusual, as we’ve already had between two and three weeks of very stormy weather, since our rainy season began just last [...]

Updated 12/22/08:  Deal gone for now, with best price $157 each way. Subscribe to our deal email (or feed) in order to get it timely when it returns. Updated 12/15/08:  Delta/Northwest has joined this deal, but so far the other airlines have not. For you economic contrarians, the great deals to Hawaii will continue to [...]

Updated 12/19/08:  This deal is now gone. I was talking yesterday with Laura Bly, travel reporter at USA Today.  She’s coming to Hawaii next month and wanted to know what great deals are out there starting in January.  It got me looking at one of her destinations, Maui. Here’s what I found: ResortQuest Kaanapali Shores [...]

Off the beaten track, on the rural island of Lanai, sits a small hotel that’s undergone big changes lately. When I stayed at Hotel Lanai two years ago, it needed a good touch up both inside and out. Hawaii travel icon, Mary Charles, came to its rescue as the new owner.  She went to work [...]

One thing seems to stay the same.  That is that the state of Hawaii’s inter-island transportation is in constant flux. 1.  Superferry. Today, I’m reminded that Superferry will be in court next week.  The Hawaii Supreme Court is to decide on whether the service can continue to operate. Many believe that Governor Linda Lingle and [...]

We were sorry to hear that yesterday, Advantage car rental filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and closed their Hawaii locations. This means less competition which can result in higher prices for locals and visitors. A total of nineteen locations have been closed nationwide. Advantage is also laying off nearly half of its 900 person work-force. [...]

This won’t come as any surprise, with hardly a carrier serving free food in coach nowadays.  Hawaiian has remained a standout by offering a free choice of meals on all of their trans-Pacific flights. I’ve just learned from several people who flew in trans-Pacific coach last week, that something new is cooking at Hawaiian Airlines. [...]

Finally a good deal for Beat of Hawaii’s United Kingdom readers: This offer includes most of next year, and even goes until March 2010.  The taxes will unfortunately double the fare.  Even so, with the airlines getting less than $400 for a round-trip of 15,000 miles, this is a great opportunity for British visitors to [...]

I had a question from a reader over the weekend that I thought might be of interest: “Basically, I am trying to plan a honeymoon for June — June 14th-28th.  And, we want to hit the Big Island and Maui. For just getting to Maui (OGG) and back (SFO), the tickets are $800+ everywhere I [...]

I read with great interest last week’s LA Times article on twenty meal deals on Kauai for under $20.  Having lived here a long time, I know that I can’t find twenty places to eat for under $20, so how exactly could they? To start out, I’ll cover three on which I can concur, and [...]