A few comments on only a couple of subjects:
#2 - car rentals: Be aware that some car rental agencies at HNL have their cars directly across the road from baggage claim. Others require a shuttle bus to their facility. Not usually a long ride but still a hassle with your luggage.
#5.8 - restaurants: Roy's and Monkey Pod are pretty much right across the street. Easy walk and good food. Assigao is a good Italian restaurant a short drive way. In that same are are several fast food and fast family food type restaurants. When doing some of your driving around the island, the shrimp trucks are considered a must do by many. But the real must-do is malasada from Leonards. They have a mobile truck in a permanent location along H1, and their regular store in Honolulu. Best to simply google them and see the locations.
We are flying out on the 20th for our first trip, so I can't comment about all of the above questions, but I did want to let you know that I used autoslash.com for my car rental and saved hundreds of dollars over what I was able to find on my own. We are there over Christmas and New Years, so the rates we were looking at were really high. Most of the quotes I had looked at for a full size car were around $1000-1200, I booked for $690 with autoslash. Have fun on your trip!
A few comments on only a couple of subjects:
#2 - car rentals: Be aware that some car rental agencies at HNL have their cars directly across the road from baggage claim. Others require a shuttle bus to their facility. Not usually a long ride but still a hassle with your luggage.
#5.8 - restaurants: Roy's and Monkey Pod are pretty much right across the street. Easy walk and good food. Assigao is a good Italian restaurant a short drive way. In that same are are several fast food and fast family food type restaurants. When doing some of your driving around the island, the shrimp trucks are considered a must do by many. But the real must-do is malasada from Leonards. They have a mobile truck in a permanent location along H1, and their regular store in Honolulu. Best to simply google them and see the locations.
We are flying out on the 20th for our first trip, so I can't comment about all of the above questions, but I did want to let you know that I used autoslash.com for my car rental and saved hundreds of dollars over what I was able to find on my own. We are there over Christmas and New Years, so the rates we were looking at were really high. Most of the quotes I had looked at for a full size car were around $1000-1200, I booked for $690 with autoslash. Have fun on your trip!
We are flying out on the 20th for our first trip, so I can't comment about all of the above questions, but I did want to let you know that I used autoslash.com for my car rental and saved hundreds of dollars over what I was able to find on my own. We are there over Christmas and New Years, so the rates we were looking at were really high. Most of the quotes I had looked at for a full size car were around $1000-1200, I booked for $690 with autoslash. Have fun on your trip!
I thought I had the best rate around till I head of Auto Slash. We are island hopping and it is saving me $300 additional on top of the already awesome rates I had.
We are flying out on the 20th for our first trip, so I can't comment about all of the above questions, but I did want to let you know that I used autoslash.com for my car rental and saved hundreds of dollars over what I was able to find on my own. We are there over Christmas and New Years, so the rates we were looking at were really high. Most of the quotes I had looked at for a full size car were around $1000-1200, I booked for $690 with autoslash. Have fun on your trip!
I, too, just used Autoslash and saved hundreds!! I originally booked with Discount Hawaii (very good pricing) but Autoslash beat them!! We booked a full size car for 12 days in July for around $560!
Wherever you decide to book a luau (we did the one on site at Aulani, and while it is run by a third party, we very much enjoyed it), do so early in the trip. We were there for a week, and there were three luau performances. We reserved the first and the second and third both ended up being rained out.
If it rains even a little, they might cancel the show.
I hear they are good about making space available at the next luau if that happens, but in the case of our trip, if we hadn't gone to the first one, we wouldn't have been able to see one at all since the next two were both canceled.
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