What You Can Do About Soaring Hawaii hotel prices.
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We have completely changed from staying in Hotels to VRBO. Hotels have priced themselves out of the game for families based on several factors.
1 – Room prices are too high even for those rooms without a “view”.
2 – Hotels now impose a “Resort Fee” which is just another way to double charge for something you have already paid for with the room rate
3 – Hotels add an additional Daily or Valet Parking Charge, yet again, another double charge.
4 – Hotel restaurants are ridiculously priced for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It is much more affordable for a family to rent a condo/home/time share and prepare most of their own meals.
Too many other great options than to lock into a Hotel that charges you for every little thing in addition to the room rate. We have had tremendous success and excellent values for the VRBO we have used for the past 9 years. Hotels have missed out for sure and will continue to miss out as Airfare, Car Rentals and entertainment costs keep rising.
We’ve always stayed in condos, usually in the Waimanalo Beach area. Last trip we stayed again in condos, a bit further north for half and the other half over on the west side by Makaha Beach. Much prefer them to hotels.
We have stayed in timeshares for the last 20 years or so and our cost is only about $70 per night. We have four condo like weeks at the Waikiki Banyan which we got almost for free and can trade for two bedroom places on the other islands. We have gone three or four weeks at a time and sometimes go twice in a year. We have military retirement benefits and can often fly over and back on a space available basis for free and also can fly free on Some airlines. With the inexpensive military golf courses and shopping at Costco and the commissary a month in Hawaii is very reasonable. We have stayed. Several times for a few days at owner condos and hotels but prefer our own very small one bedroom timeshare condo.
My husband and I don’t stay at any of the big resorts anymore.
Refuse to pay “resort fee” and $30-40 to park your car(crazy) per night. We like Kona Tiki on big island!
The first time I visited Hawaii (2009), we stayed in a hotel in Honolulu and we had a bed, a chair, a tv, and a small table, a tiny “closet” area, and a dresser, and we paid about $180 a night for that.
The next time we went (2014) we stayed in a 1 bedroom condo at Turtle Bay (by the golf course), with a living room (couch, chairs, and tv), a dining room (w/table and chairs for 4), a full kitchen with a full size refrigerator (and all the pots, pans, dishes, etc, one could ever need if you wanted to eat in), a separate bedroom, onsite laundry facilities, barbeque facilities, and the owner also had beach chairs, an umbrella, and more all included…for $135 per night (including the cleaning fee).
So, as you can see there really isn’t any comparison, and I’ll never rent another hotel room nearly anywhere for a vacation (we got an excellent place in Chicago on AIRBNB too) and hopefully in the next 20 years we can start seeing some of the high rise monstrosities in Honolulu beginning to be torn down and letting the sun in.
We tried a villa last yr down in Florida and now know that is the way to go! When we booked this vaca we booked a condo in Maui and the bottom of a house in Oahu. Much cheaper and quiter. No walls paper thin and no-one running down the halls at 2am or 6am.
Plus some come w/ your OWN PRIVATE hot tub or pool.
I’ve been going for 3 weeks every year for about 7 years now and we only did the resort thing the very first time. The next time we went with AirBnb and have never looked back. The resorts are nice but I like feeling like a local, not having to fight over parking, and being able to cook my own meals. Eating out every meal for 3 weeks can become tiresome and expensive, esp with kids.
if i want to stay on waikiki, i stay at the sheraton moana in the old building. on the other islands, rentals, rentals, rantls, ability to cook, cheaper, i usuallys tay on kauai and like the north shore,princeville area. have found both VRBO and AIRBNB rentals. and yes, remember to stop at costco on the way. i personally travel alone much of the time. so a hotel package is not my deal. but…the sheraton moana, can’t do better, i love it. so it just depends. but mostly rentals.
We always book a condo on VRBO.
Have been travelling to Hawaii for the past 20 years almost every year and have never used a hotel always rented a condo. Larger rooms, ability to cook and much cheaper.