With a Hawaii price-to-value equation out-of-wack and emerging trends, there are changes ahead for 2023 travel.
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With a Hawaii price-to-value equation out-of-wack and emerging trends, there are changes ahead for 2023 travel.
Aloha! My family and I are visiting the Islands for the first time in February and have one inter island flight (Oahu to Maui). Was it discussed at the conference if the numerous flight delays are expected to continue into next year?
Mahalo!
Doug
Hi Doug.
The conference wasn’t Hawaii-specific, and the flight delay situation largely is. We have not heard word on when the HNL runway will reopen, which is a big contributing factor. Our guess is that it won’t happen by February and that you can expect delays to continue until your trip.
Aloha.
Fortunately, My parents and relatives still lives and owns a property in Hawaii. It is expensive to really rent or book hotels with rental cars.
I currently work in the mainland but I have noticed the drastic changes through the years of what my Island home has become. Yes I do agree that the Aloha spirit is slowly slipping away. Gone are the days when I was a kid playing on the shore and making friends with other kids visiting from the mainland or international. Hawaii does a have a great track record of voting bad regulators and politicians. I feel more welcome in San Diego when I visited and feel more at home in Portland Oregon where I am at now.
My family and I have been traveling to Hawaii since the early eighties. The prices were always high but nothing like today. The 1st disappointment in Hawaii was the beginning of the pandemic I had booked a condo and paid full price in December of 2019. I waited for the airlines to stop flying before I canceled my condoreservation. The owner of the condo did not refund my money which was thousands of dollars because My reservation was for 3 months. I had rented that condo for 9 years every year and she refused a refund because she already paid taxes on it, what? We have reservations for one month in March And that is up in the air because of the 90 day rule for a condo. Aloha Hawaii
The comments about not getting workers are getting too much publicity. HI employers, at least on Kauai, are obstinate to the max. I am a qualified front desk clerk/auditor, yet no hotel on Kauai will hite me as my last position in this role was 2007. Since then I have been sole proprietor of my wedding business as an officiant. They imagine I cannot function in a hotel job now since I did not do it for 15 years. So what? It doesn’t matter, I do not forget how to do the job and each hotel is different, requiring training anew.They are dismissive of a qualified applicant ready to work now, holding out for someone with current experience, or experience from just before Covid. Dream on. Hotels cannot be picky now.
Issue number 8 you didn’t mention is the great reset. Fossil fuels are no longer legal and everything will be more expensive and everyone except the uber wealthy will have less freedom.
What are we doing wrong?
For the first time ever we’ll be in Hawaii for the third time within a year this April. Prior being May on BI then Maui October.
May’s trip to Fairmont Orchid to BI was a steal that I booked thru Costco, paid a bit over for GW October Maui, but just made another steal thru Costco at Marriott Wailea Beach for April on Maui.
I do confuse I travel shop till I drop….But there’s deals to be had.
All flights are booked with points thru SW or Hawaiian.
We’ve been going to Hawaii every winter since 2009. We’re going to the Big Island in January and this may be our last hurrah. It doesn’t feel the same anymore. We keep going back as we’re longing for that aloha but it’s just not there like it used to be sadly. This is partially due to price hikes but the service hasn’t been as great and people just seem more stressed all around. I think we may be sunsetting our Hawaii trips for something more affordable and on the mainland. Florida was pretty great last year!
Hawaii after many years traveling to Hawaii you are longer a consideration,your attitude is greed to bad. James V
We will not return to Maui after our 3 week trip Jan. 22. We love it but we will not pay the super high prices and then the extra charges on top of that. In April we discovered San Diego. We felt so welcome and it is a destination that is a much shorter and cheaper flight. California is pricy but so much more reasonable than Maui. And, no talk of not wanting tourists in California.
I live in San Diego. My out of state friends ask ” why would you want to go to Hawaii?” I do love the islands, however, they have changed. Very expensive and the “aloha” is almost gone. . .
Vacation rental prices may have risen to be near hotel prices But having a kitchen can save a whole lot. Restaurant food – even stuff like tacos and burgers – are outrageously priced compared to California. I wish all types of visitor acommations were forced to include all fevers/taxes in their posted rate, like the airlines have too, Show the Actual final price. Hotels can look a lot cheaper on a web site without these. Even as owners of a time share, we have to pay a daily fee + taxes. And valet parking is $30.
Good point by Jennifer regarding posted prices and “hidden” fees. This is a typical 10-day VRBO rental in Kaanapali.
$322 a night = $3224
Admin Fee 149
Management Fee 119
Cleaning Fee 180
Service(VRBO)fee 402
Tax 619
Total = $4693