When to buy airline tickets for September 2002 Hawaiian vacation? How much to pay?

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Jun 16th, 2002, 02:46 PM

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chuck

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Will you need a car? Try a air/car package . I saw someone else suggest the same thing earlier. If you are that hung up on just air, does priceline or hotwire work out?

Jun 17th, 2002, 09:47 AM

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Tonya

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WildBill
Flying from Detroit, MI.
Even with the car rental and stuff, you think this is high? Any advice?
This is my first trip to Hawaii.

Jun 17th, 2002, 10:18 AM

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Sounds about right for that time of year and that side of island (less expensive). Enjoy Tanya! You can usually find the best deals without a travel agent (just have to look for tricks like AAA membership, Starwood or other hotel membership, calling the hotel directly make sure the cheapest room does not mean least desirable room. But if you don't care about them having full control of flight schedules and hotels than no worries for you. It really does not matter to everyone. Sometime people like to forgo personal choice for the freedom of not planning.

Kauai is pretty small and you do need to travel about 30 minutes to hour to get to the most dramatic landscape (from Lihui) on the island (North Shore)(Waimea Canyon, Kokee State Park). That is the only heads up I see do to you.
Otherwise HAPPY TRAILS!!!

Jun 17th, 2002, 02:14 PM

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thanks!
I'll let you know how it goes.

Jun 17th, 2002, 02:23 PM

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marcy

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I have a 9 day stay in Honolulu and Kauai in September for 1010.00 per person using 4 star hotels, car rental and air from Dallas. I think thats a good deal!

Jun 17th, 2002, 03:06 PM

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all depends on location Marcy. There are four star hotels in Waikiki but that is not for me. Kauai you can be a distance from a lot of places. I watch carefully the hotels that travel agents offer on packages in cities that I know throughout the world, deals are consistently in bad areas, run down hotels, or some area that would not be attractive to someone booking on their own, be it a problem with distance,location or appearance. I tell you this never fails. And logic would hold that if hotels could attract vacationers at rack rates they would not need to offer travel agents deals to bring in guests.

Don't believe me watch the deals in your own hometown that come over your hometown you will see what I am saying.

Jun 18th, 2002, 06:47 AM

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Update: Today I booked September airfare on Orbitz. I've been watching since January, this is the best deal I've seen: $894 per person inludes: Tampa to Maui, Maui to Kauai midtrip, Kauai to Tampa, all taxes. Great times: I leave Tpa at 8 am and arrive Maui 1:30 PM! Also, don't leave Kauai on our last day til 8 PM. Aaah. Paper ticket delivery fee (mandatory - but I would've wanted it anyway) of $15 was added as I booked. The interesting thing was that Orbitz combines airlines within a leg, getting us there 2 hours earlier, which most searches don't do.

83 days and counting!!!!

Jun 18th, 2002, 06:54 AM

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Joan I booked tickets through Orbitz (PHL-SFO)+(JFK-SFO)and they did not have a mandatory paper ticket fee. One thing to remember is that paper tickets are only easier to exhange with other airlines (in the event of flight cancellations) if they are full fare tickets, you still have the same headaches if they are the discount deals. I am talking about the pay the difference problem that co-carriers accepting your ticket would ask.

This is what an American Airlines ticket manager told me at JFK. It really only pays for business class managers to pay for paper tickets instead of an eticket.

Jun 18th, 2002, 08:55 AM

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I think that any route involving Kauai requires paper tickets. I ran into that when I made our reservations for August.
Joan, you were probably right to grab that fare - not bad!
I ended up getting $1000 per person Newark to Kauai for August. I have been checking since Feb and your price seems to be the best I have seen from the East Coast.

Jun 18th, 2002, 02:45 PM

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Thanks, Iza! It was your post back in April that had me checking the multi-city on Orbitz...just sorry you couldn't have benefitted also. But two years from now, we'll have those great Hawaiian memories, and won't even remember what we paid, right?

As far as paper tix, I thought it might have something to do with either Kauai being a rather remote airport, or the interisland flights, or the fact that I'm combining 3 airlines...

Now, to find the perfect cottage in Hana...