BEAT OF HAWAII AND BEYOND

If you’re looking to spend Valentine’s Day in Hawaii, here’s a deal from Pleasant Holidays that’s too good to pass up to Honolulu, Maui or Kauai.

• $189 per person, fly round-trip to Hawaii, including Hertz rental car for 3 days (hotel not included).
• $225 per person, fly round-trip to Hawaii and stay 3 nights at one of their partner hotels (car rental not included).
• Valid for travel between San Francisco/ Los Angeles and Honolulu/Maui, and between San Francisco and Kauai.
• Travel can also commence in Hawaii for California bound locals.

Otherwise, Hawaii airfare deals aren’t as plentiful as we’d like to see. For a vacation of a week or longer, the amazingly cheap hotel deals you can find will likely more than make up for expensive airfares.

Pleasant Holidays continues to stand out in this lull between deals.

They are selling their seats purchased in bulk from United Airlines.  When they aren’t able to sell all of them, and departure time is fast approaching, they successfully use Social Media (Facebook and Twitter) to push those seats into our willing hands.

I do expect to see more airfare deals announced soon, for the mid-April through mid-June shoulder season.

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If you didn’t hear the live broadcast, we were featured on Frommers Travel show Sunday. You can listen to the interview here or on the show’s site. It’s at the beginning of the broadcast.  Arthur and Pauline produce a savvy two-hour national weekly radio show heard in 100 markets.

Arthur and I discussed:

• Summer and Christmas vacation strategies.
• Finding the cheapest airfares.
• Getting the best accommodation deals.
• Where car rentals fit into your planning.

Extended interview on Frommers website:

After recording the interview, Arthur asked me to provide their listeners and readers with our best Hawaii tips which we did not have time to cover on the show.  This can be viewed on Arthur’s blog and includes:

• Negotiating your hotel deal.
• Ancillary accommodation fees.  These can quickly ruin your good deal, so make sure you check in advance about things like resort and gym fees, late check-out charges, wi-fi, cleaning fees (vacation rentals), and more. One Hawaii 4-star hotel told me they charged higher fees for Priceline guests.
• Important car rental tips.  Be careful about lack of availability at peak times.
• Packing to save money.

Lastly, Arthur’s recent book, Ask Arthur Frommer: And Travel Better, Cheaper, Smarter, is one I thoroughly enjoyed. It covers multiple destinations and reflects his 50+ years as the travel guru.  Here’s the Amazon link.

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