Hawaii Travel News

The New York Times promised Kauai’s north shore in 36 hours. The photos were stunning and the places real, but the timeline is the problem. After nearly 20 years covering Hawaii travel from Kauai, we know how this usually ends: less beach, more traffic, and a weekend spent chasing a schedule the island was never built to follow.

Most visitors never notice that Hawaii has no billboards. That’s exactly why this year’s failed bill to bring digital signs back matters.

Hawaii has a national park the public can no longer tour. The question now is not just how tours stopped, but why no public plan exists for what replaces a system built around the last patients.

Hawaii says it can’t close Maui’s only jet runway to rebuild it, but the runway is wearing out after 12 repair projects since World War II. What the state may do instead is bigger than most travelers realize.

Five more coconut rhinoceros beetles were found on Maui. A Baldwin lifeguard’s warning now feels harder to dismiss, even if the island is not infested.

While Hawaiian rolls out three Moana planes this summer, the deeper story is Hawaiian’s biggest identity moment of the year, arriving through this Disney partnership.

Two programs, two very different answers. Atmos has the most flexibility behind a $395 card, while United just made family mile pooling free. Which one works best depends on where you’re trying to fly.

Cirque du Soleil built its first show around Hawaii and just released music sung entirely in Hawaiian. We saw ‘Auana, and the question of whether a global spectacle can carry a culture this well is more interesting than we expected.

A Kauai community used years of Haena visitor fees to build a finished state park restroom, then handed it over complete. As Hawaii breaks ground on its own taxpayer-funded version on Maui, the contrast reveals who is really building the parks visitors pay to enter.