A visitor surcharge for parking on Kauai is set to be implemented.
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A visitor surcharge for parking on Kauai is set to be implemented.
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Please do not charge for parking…tourists are already paying way too much to visit Kauai!
I agree. I absolutely love Kauai. It is my favorite place to visit, but I come from Nashville. Although our airport says “international”, we just got flights to the UK 1 year ago. We are not a hub for anything, so just flying there with my husband in economy is 3k. If I bring the kids, it costs a fortune! Paying for parking would just add another nail in our coffin.
My family has a timeshare since aniki parking at most of the beaches is poor at best. I’d sell the timeshareand never come back if I could get a decent price. Not ten cents on the dollar. We have pumped a lot of money into the local economy over the years. Pepe we have.made friends with have moved to my home state. You are losing people to the high cost of living. You should encourage people to come and not try to nickel and dime Everyone paid parking for tourist will soon be fees for everyone
Dear tourists,
Please go someplace else.
Sincerely,
Kauai Hawaii
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Dear Kauai,
Don’t worry, we and our money will go elsewhere. Enjoy your poverty. Maybe you can farm pineapples as a subsistence crop.
Sincerely,
Everybody from everywhere else
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FYI: You’re Biting The Hands That Feed You! If you are going to put a fee for parking it should be for All!
Why not! i go california i pay parking at the beaches up and down the coast. So does when i go snow boarding. So why not!!!
You raise good points about all the fees. Is tourism something Kauai wishes to foster or extinguish? We have visited Kauai in the past and planned to return during this very week. We had to cancel our trip due to Covid-19. Still, we were hoping to reschedule the vacation as soon as possible. The new rules and steep fees make it an interesting question for our family.
We were on Kauai a year and a half ago for our grandson’s high school graduation trip and we all loved it. Now for the parking fees for island guests. No one likes to pay more for anything but as long as it’s a reasonable fee if we can afford to pay for a trip to HI then I think we can pay for a couple parking fees especially if it includes lifeguards and maintained lots. As for the tax, well here in AZ we pay over 10% for just about everything we buy, we think buying gifts for the next Christmas is a bargain not buying food or gas but jewelry or things at Sam’s Club or Costco, phones, computers, cameras, etc. We come to HI for a month a year, we love all the islands but The Big Island is our favorite, hope to be able to make it there in May. Mahalo Nui Loa
Hawaii has the perfect time to bring in and start new industries and change the landscape of the state for years to come. Unfortunately they don’t have the leadership to see this thru. They keep going back to the same old tax tax tax the tourists. How about some leadership and using this time to expand into tech and bring in people with incentives. But that will never happen because the government culture won’t allow it. Having lived in Hawaii for over 15 years one thing you can count on is lack of change. One proposal I saw was a 40% GET tax on tourists which would be an effect rate of 67%. This proposal would reduce over tourism and bring in the people they want to visits not my words but theirs.
They have told me with this policy and a few others – go elsewhere. Don’t come here. I’ll grant them their wish – I will not return to Kauai.
Unfortunately this type of policy is just another mail in the coffin for Kauai’s tourism industry. Maybe that is the point—weed out the overage. As a frequent visitor, the fees charged are already hefty. We have always supported small businesses while there and if there wasn’t parking available at our beach choice for the day, we moved on. For the price of a parking fee, will the bathrooms and garbage cans at Salt Pond be maintained? The lack of maintenance and overuse certainly isn’t the fault of tourists alone.