Our focus turns to Hawaii hotels and vacation rentals where we found some extraordinary prices and surprises. Here’s what is happening and what you can do to control the cost of a Hawaii vacation.
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The inflation the US consumer is facing is worse than anything in our lifetime.
If the government will not cut back on spending the value of the dollar will continue to plummet. Who will travel if food and housing consumes most of our income. We are in a fight for our very existence.
We are frequent visitors to Maui and have always stayed at the Fairmont Kea Lani in Wailea. We get one of the more expensive rooms that had ran about $1k per night. When we were booking for this year the same room was over $2k per night…way too rich for our blood so we pivoted to Kauai.
We are fortunate enough to not have to worry about dining costs and compared to Maui the restaurants seemed much cheaper.
At the end of the day paradise isn’t cheap!
Planned a big trip to Hawaii including NCL cruise for my 50th bday…that was almost three years ago! With the exorbitant prices of everything from airfare to beach wear it doesn’t look like we will be visiting any time soon, many others I’ve discussed this with are in agreement. Living in northeastern Canada with a weak dollar and vast distances in between means spending $50,000 on a family vacation!!! Who has that kind of money for a two week vacation? Hawaii is closed to Canadians😔
Just got back to the mainland after spending 70 days on Maui. Weather was absolutely perfect! Traffic usually a nightmare! Restaurants required reservations if you could get thru on the phone. We found the best thing to do was stop in person at your favorite restaurant and beg for a reservation. Grocery prices were high, and a lot of shelves were bare. Gas and rental vehicles were out of sight. Beaches and points of interest were very busy. Unless we hit the lottery, this is last trip.
Booked my car rental months ago and was surprised by how high it was. Checked back a month later and it had dropped by over $300. Checked back last week and it d dropped another 150 of both Maui and the Big Island. Just the way I plan and pay for trips and I’m sure that I’ll be checking back again.
After over 30 years of travel to Hawaii there is nothing in your articles that has surprised me. If you stay in a hotel instead of a condo then your costs will be much higher.
Thank you for your continued up to date info! We love Hawaii and have been visiting the Big Island every year for about 15 years including the Covid years. The price for the condo we always stay in has been increased by $350 per night for Jan. 2023. That means for a 2 bed/2 ba.over $750 per night before taxes. We feel this is price gouging and we are not going to return until this all calms down. We will go to Baja or Costa Rica next Year and we will wait and see about 2024.
Hi Ebosco.
Thanks. Enjoy your time in Baja or CR, and we look forward to your return.
Aloha.
Sure glad I got to go when working for Island Holidays. At least the folks who are pushing for limited tourism will get their wish pretty soon.
As with most Hawaii businesses, our employees travel for work on other Islands. The accommodation taxes and rental vehicle taxes are unfair to local business
On Oahu we stayed on Wakiki beach and I would say main thing about eating out is to be flexible. Do you really want to wait 3 hours to eat at Marugame or be disappointed because you can’t go to a luau. We used open table and also kept our eyes open. Even though we wanted to go to Basalt for dinner- we had a great breakfast there. We ate twice at Seoul Korean House. We at Dukes two times-
We had many great meals, many shaved ice-even had a shrimp lunch on our tour around the island.
I own an oceanfront condo in Poipu, and the best restaurant I know is my Lanai eating grilled fish and watching the sun set. Food from Costco and Big save.