Here are a couple of airfares worth mentioning.  They just happen to be from two of my favorite places.  I took advantage of a similar deal last year to NYC. Newark to Honolulu (Available both directions) Price: $465 round trip (all-inclusive) United Airlines Travel dates: August 18 through November (Thanksgiving Week $100 more) Advance purchase: [...]

Yet another good deal on a Big Island property.  We’ve stayed at Outrigger Keauhou ourselves before and like it.  If you’re lucky enough to score an oceanfront room, you’ll be directly over water.  Their rooms have recently been refurbished and include refrigerator and complimentary high speed Internet. Here’s the deal: $130 a night for their [...]

Alaska Airlines has great “Hawaii On Sale” pricing to get you from the Pacific Northwest to Hawaii this summer: Seattle to Honolulu $169 Portland to Maui $169 As I mentioned last month, Alaska is expanding with service from Oakland to Hawaii starting early November.  While the sale has official ended, I still find some seats [...]

Updated:  I got up before 5am to try this.  There were flights available, just nothing that worked for me for same day travel. Go! Airlines is celebrating its third anniversary.  Gosh the time went fast.   To celebrate, they are offering one thousand $3 (plus tax/fees) inter-island tickets starting today at 5:00am (Hawaii time).  Tickets will [...]

1.  King’s Hawaiian Bread Co. is offering the chance for three families (up to 4 people each) to win a 7 day, 6 night vacations on the Big Island at Hilton Waikoloa Village. Even if you’re not one of the Big Island vacation winners, there will be 25 first place winners who will receive a [...]

Here are two hot summer and fall hotel deals available from Starwood on Kauai. Westin Princeville Ocean Villas $189 (August 23 to December 24) Sheraton Kauai $169 (stay June 3 to December 24) Garden views Book by June 13 using the Starwood link above Rate plan HOTLTO We wrote about the Westin Princeville soon after [...]

This is another super deal from Pleasant Holidays. I checked with them and they told me there is good availability. What makes this offer so good, is that you’re using blocks of seats purchased by Pleasant Holidays.  We’ve talked about that before.  Airfare alone during August is now starting at $425 from LA or $542 [...]

Updated 6/30: This deal seems to be ending as the available seats are fast diminishing.  I’m no longer finding any $99 seats ($235 all-inclusive), but still a few in the $285-305 (all-inclusive) range.  These dates are mostly in October through early December.  I found the seats best using flexible date search on Kayak.  Because of [...]

I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read the WSJ article yesterday, indicating that American, Continental and Delta’s 737′s are being reconfigured with 160 seats.  That’s an additional 10-12 seats in economy depending on airline.  While this may not make big news on a one or two hour flight, it’s noteworthy on the long haul [...]

Updated June 23:  This article has been picked up and written about by Travel Weekly, WalletPop, Hotel Chatter, Chris Elliott, Arthur Frommer and others. The conversation continues. Thank you. Updated June 4:  I was asked on Twitter how many other such warnings exist on the TripAdvisor site.  As of this morning I find a total [...]