Hawaii Travel News

Visitors keep asking if Chinatown is safe after dark. We walked the blocks around 9 p.m. and found a neighborhood more comfortable than some areas of Waikiki.

A Hawaii visitor lost her plans to bad weather and $316 to a taxi company that would not refund it. Here’s part of Hawaii travel most people don’t think about.

What comes next after a Hawaii storm is something most visitors never prepare for, and this week it is already starting to take shape.

Kauai’s only north shore road closed today, splitting the island in two and stranding visitors on both sides. This is what serious Hawaii weather looks like when the usual backup plan fails.

Kona Airport is being reshaped for the next 20 years, and most Big Island travelers likely do not realize the decisions are being made right now. A second runway, a hotel on airport land, terminal upgrades, and unresolved questions about helicopter activity are all still on the table.

Hawaii travelers may pay the most in bag fees of any domestic destination, and the hit keeps growing. Airline baggage fees were sold as a fuel-driven surcharge in 2008, but fuel has crashed repeatedly since and the fees never came down.

For more than a half-century, Hawaii has had a travel bug that kept repeat visitors coming back almost on instinct. Something is changing now, and it goes far beyond cost.

Flying to Hawaii means choosing between a cramped economy seat and first class fare. One airline has a solution. Now the question is who brings it to Hawaii first.

Tours are set to resume April 18, but the NTSB preliminary report is still weeks away and the flight data does not yet explain why this flight ended differently.