A visitor surcharge for parking on Kauai is set to be implemented.
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We have friends that live over in Hana and we are thinking we will not be back to see them again and the major reason will be the extra charges that are being inflected on out of state visitors. We really do understand that your economy is 90% based on people that do not live on Hawaii and I get that, so as uninformed as I am and for the most part it seems as though Maui county needs more capital for rebuilding parks and beaches, hopefully I can throw in my two cents. When you rent a car you put down that you will be visiting beaches and you will be given a “hanger”( and charged a fee.) which you put on your rear view mirror while at the beach. No tag, a nice healthy ticket There has to be a better way that is what is happening.
I know people hate to pay fo park for any recreational purpose or for entertainment but 90 plus percent off the mainland cities charge for parking in a lot of areas such as for the beach n the anywhere in the city , I say if u don’t like paying for prime beach parking or any extracurricular activity I say walk or take a cab, what I would like to know is if zuckerberg has to pay for the beach use by his compound , or did he donate enough for the county to overlook this nonresident , if visitors have to pay a fee to park n use the beach n parks what about the rich n beautiful from California with their second n third weekend homes on Kauai that aren’t full time residents until there charged vactioars shouldn’t .
Aren’t tourists taxed enough? Just for the night’s stay there are $50+ in hotel taxes, rental taxes add up to making a tourist think to go elsewhere. Parking fees are why we don’t go to the big Island anymore. Plus the selective enforcement of traffic laws.
We just paid a $20 parking fee in the beach parking lot at the Mauna Kea hotel on the Big Island. Tourists pay, locals don’t. I’m not sure it’s legal.
Another thing that causes animosity between malihini and kamaaina…Hawaii is losing the aloha spirit in MHO
If you put more taxes on visitors going to beach parks, we will stop coming to Kauai for 6 weeks as we have done for years. You already almost double the charge for rental cars and I suggest you put a fee on that. If you add $10 to each parks, you will need to spend extra to monitor and collect the fee. Very bad idea for your county and may result in many renters like us deciding to go elseware. We visitors spend lots of money on food, goods and lodging and those sellers will suffer
“We” didn’t double rental car fees; that was a result of all of you flocking back in mass, and the rental company is having limited inventory.
The damage done to our state parks due to high volume tourism is a real problem. So, if paying a mere $10 (earmarked for counteracting said damage) is the straw that broke your back, then yes, please go elsewhere.
Just because you don’t live in Hawaii doesnt absolve you of kuleana.
From what I have read, what the state parks on Kauai need are more funds for onsite super vision. I have read that Polihale is become a nightmare from misuse and that it is not tourists that are causing problems there. This is very unfortunate because I camped there many years ago and to this day consider it one of the world’s great beaches. It would be great if there was fuming to get the trucks off the beach and make it safe to visit there again. What about shuttles?
Do you guys know if these fees are waived for residents of another island?
Visitors know when they are being taken advantage of. One more nail in the coffin to cause
visitors to travel to new destinations, not Hawaii.