With avg. rates ranging from $210 to $1000, how to manage cost of Hawaii hotels and leave money in your pocket instead of at the front desk.
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West Maui’s Lahaina, Kaanapali, and Kapalua hotels had an average daily rate of $560, just over half the Wailea rates. That makes for another great opportunity for visitors to stay at the beach, on Maui, for less.
This is basically double what it was before at certain times of the year. I understand prices are up but this is gouging at this point. Sadly the money won’t stay in Hawaii and people will spend less at local Hawaiian businesses. Quite a few people I know have changed their summer travel plans and are just hanging out at home expecting a recession. The wealth effect is starting to take hold on the negative side. People look at housing slowing, 401k’s down and the increase in prices on everything and they are hunkering down.
When I speak to first timers to the islands I always ask, What are your goals?
If you’re planning a lot of day activities I suggest booking condo stay than moving to a resort for the remainder of your trip. There’s no reason spending $1,000 a night when you’re not taking advantage of resort amenities.
Ocean view room is very nice, but since we’ve been to the islands several times on our trip in May to BI we opted for garden view which was $500.00 a night cheaper.
Fall to Maui is running very high, so I booked a reasonable priced vacation to October to Oahu. Aulani for 4 nights than Outrigger Waikiki Beach resort 3 nights for under 3k.
Our Fall trip can be canceled if something comes available for reasonable on Maui I will re-book.
These greedy hotels etc will have their comeupance. Not only are they jacking up the customer they are also dragging their feet on bringing people back. Then blaming on labor shortage. Someone mentioned loans is shores. I stayed in room 425 a beautiful room there ocean front in July 4th weekend 2019 for $1600 for 7 days. Car entail was a few hundred dollars. This slowed me to stay at the kahala on Oahu for 5 days and buy about 10k in art etc to support the businesses. If I’m spending all my money on rental cars and hotels not much left for the locals. Gotta cut somewhere.
I would say that hotel rates are also up as they are trying to recover some of their losses from sitting empty for a year while continuing to pay their carrying costs. We own vacation rentals ourselves and based on our own personal experience during the pandemic, it will take us 5+ years to get back to even. The State still made us pay our hotel property taxes at x4 personal property taxes, even though we were empty. Our HOA and mortgage payments continued. It was brutal.
Ouch! BUT… I suppose those are just some of the risks of owning investment properties. Too stressful for me.
We didn’t see a big increase in rates for Kauai this spring. But, Maui late this fall is crazy pricey. Airfare for the islands has become very expensive too.
Aloha Guys
I know you mentioned that you didn’t think the resort fees were included but do these prices include all the taxes and fees that are tacked on?
Once you add ALL the costs involved in a room it gets VERY pricey even for mid-level accommodations.
Thank goodness for local relatives that I can stay with!
I canceled last year’s trip ($219/nt) due to Covid. I canceled this year’s trip (same room $529/nt) due to Price gouging. And that was only 1 hotel. Others canceled were at even higher rates.
Aloha,
With the hotels in Hawaii charging sky high rates (especially the luxury resorts) and their great revenue pouring in, I am really hoping they are taking good care of their hard working employees and are increasing their pay!
We miss being there and cannot wait to return to Hawaii, but will have to until hotel and resort rates are reasonable.
As always, thanks BOH for keeping us informed.