Whoops. My husband would scold me for not realizing it was military time.
New plan: Book a cheap room near the airport. The hotels around the airport are not anything to write home about, but will be okay for the time your daughter has to spend there. As a treat, she can hop on a bus down the Nimitz highway and have breakfast at Sam Choy's Breakfast, Lunch and Crab before her flight.
As for priceline, I heard that if you get the paypal debit/credit card, you can use it on priceline even if you live in Canada. Something for the next time!
My first post on this forum regarding our first trip to Hawaii !
Our SFO-OGG is a direct flight. But my return flight from
OGG-SFO has a stopover at HNL for 3 hours (9:30 AM - 12:30 PM).
I'm wondering if we can visit any places during this time ?
I have no idea what to do during this transit time. Suggestions pls.
My first post on this forum regarding our first trip to Hawaii !
Our SFO-OGG is a direct flight. But my return flight from
OGG-SFO has a stopover at HNL for 3 hours (9:30 AM - 12:30 PM).
I'm wondering if we can visit any places during this time ?
I have no idea what to do during this transit time. Suggestions pls.
Welcome to Flyertalk!
I don't think three hours would allow you much time to actually visit any attractions; however, you may be able to grab a quick lunch at Sam Choy's Breakfast Lunch and Crab, provided you take a cab. Again, you'll be cutting it really close, especially since 11:30 a.m. (the time I presume you'd arrive back into HNL) is when most of the later international flights depart to Asia, backing up the security lines a bit.
Otherwise, I would just enjoy the airport--it's rather nice, and you could always pick up a day pass at an Airline club (pick one with free Wifi) and browse the internet, or walk over to the L&L/Byron's Drive-in locations which is about a block away from the terminal for a quick lunch. Information on L&L can be found here: http://www.hawaiianbarbecue.com/index.html
At the airport is a restaurant called Stingray, or something like that. Tropical tiki exterior. I DO NOT recommend it. We went there for lunch on a layover in November and regretted it.
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Originally Posted by Acura03
Thanks Slippahs: We will probably hang out at the airport
and have a quick lunch there. Thanks for the wifi day pass tip.
I will come back again with questions about maui sooner !
If you don't want to do the day pass thing, but do want the wifi, if you sit adjacent to either the Aloha lounge (in the interisland terminal) or the Continental Presidents Club (in the main terminal) you can glom on to their free wifi.
There is a decent-enough asian/chinese restaurant in the food court in the interisland terminal. Not spectacular, or worth going out of your way for, but decent for airport food. Topped off with a Lapperts ice cream next door
Thanks for the help. From reading some of the other posts I was a bit worried, they made it sound much longer.
Is there anything that would be particularly good to see at night? Any place for a great sunset?
Thanks
BJ
Well it can be longer, given the security wait times. Note that the estimates I gave you from security checkpoint to security checkpoint are if you walk at a decent pace.
Given your 7 hour layover, you might consider having dinner in Waikiki somewhere, especially with a nice beach view (Golden Dragon at the HHV comes to mind--with a nice sunset view as well) and taxiing it back to the airport after you're complete. You can also spend some time walking on the beach (though, you may want to skip this, given the current polutant levels still lingering around the Waikiki area) before heading back. You might also take TheBus from the airport to Waikiki if on a tight budget and vice-versa depending on your time constraints.
Cool, thanks...no need to worry about the pace. My family walks very quickly! As for me while I'm alone on the layover, I'm planning to go cheap, so I think I will look into the bus as I'm still in school, and saving money for my back packing trip to Europe this summer as well. We'll be there starting Memorial Day weekend, so I'm really hoping the weather and beach situation clears up by then! Have things gotten better, I've stopped hearing anything on the news...I guess the Danube has replaced the HI islands...
Thanks again for everything...this forum and you in particular make travel to paradise all the more comfortable and worry-free!
Cool, thanks...no need to worry about the pace. My family walks very quickly! As for me while I'm alone on the layover, I'm planning to go cheap, so I think I will look into the bus as I'm still in school, and saving money for my back packing trip to Europe this summer as well. We'll be there starting Memorial Day weekend, so I'm really hoping the weather and beach situation clears up by then! Have things gotten better, I've stopped hearing anything on the news...I guess the Danube has replaced the HI islands...
Thanks again for everything...this forum and you in particular make travel to paradise all the more comfortable and worry-free!
Sure. You might want to check out http://www.thebus.org for more info. Also, if you find yourself short on time for the return, you might also consider taking the Robert's Airport-Waikiki Express.
Keep a close eye on the situation in the waters off Waikiki; in the past week or so, things have still not looked too good.
I'm also planning to do a layover in HNL this Saturday. My flight gets in around 7pm and I leave the next morning at 9am for Osaka. Our plan is to bus it out to Waikiki (traffic should be better than my 3pm arrival last time ) and go to dinner somewhere along the strip, romantic walk on the beach etc.
Our plan is to bus back or taxi it if necessary back to HNL at about 4:45am so that we can lounge around in the RCC after it opens at 5:15am before our flight to Osaka.
From going to Waikiki last time, it was pretty dead after about midnight. Any suggestions for things to do from 12am-4:30am? My back up if all else fails is to stay at the Waikiki Beachside Hostel: http://www.waikikibeachsidehostel.com/ but I'd rather spend the 4 hours not sleeping
Given that Island Air lists the hours of Ag Inspection as:
Hours of agricultural inspection:
Hilo, Big Island of Hawaii (ITO) 6:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Honolulu, Oahu (HNL) open 24 hours
Ho’olehua, Moloka’i (MKK) 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Kahului, Maui (OGG) 5:00 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Kapalua, West Maui (JHM) 7:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Kona, Big Island of Hawaii (KOA) 6:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Lihue, Kauai (LIH) 5:30 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Lana'i (LNY) 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
...does this mean that it is not possible to take a 7:15p Island Air flight from LNY to HNL, connect to a mainland flight departing around 10p, and have your bags checked all the way through? Ideally, I would like to book LNY-HNL-LAX (etc etc), arrive at LNY 90 min prior to my departure, check the bags all the way through, etc etc but it looks like the AgInspection would be closed by then, and I really don't want to show up before 4:30 for my 7:15 departure from LNY. Thoughts?
...does this mean that it is not possible to take a 7:15p Island Air flight from LNY to HNL, connect to a mainland flight departing around 10p, and have your bags checked all the way through? Ideally, I would like to book LNY-HNL-LAX (etc etc), arrive at LNY 90 min prior to my departure, check the bags all the way through, etc etc but it looks like the AgInspection would be closed by then, and I really don't want to show up before 4:30 for my 7:15 departure from LNY. Thoughts?
I understood it to mean that if you have a HNL connection to the US mainland, then your bags will be checked to HNL where you go through agricultural inspection and then check the bags to their final destination.
If you miss you flight, Aloha and Hawaiian do allow standby (unless your flight is the last of the day) but depending on the fare you ticket is booked in, they may impose a penalty ranging from $15-$30.
The classifyer word "may" there is outdated those days are gone. They now always charge you a fee, which for Hawaiian Airlines is at least $25 ($40 is the most common fee). This applies to missed flights (even if you get to the airport before the plane left; 30 minutes is the cut-off point, unless you pre-printed your boarding pass by checking in on the web) as well as if you get to the airport early and try to get on an earlier flight.
) and go to dinner somewhere along the strip, romantic walk on the beach etc.
those days are gone. They now always charge you a fee, which for Hawaiian Airlines is at least $25 ($40 is the most common fee). This applies to missed flights (even if you get to the airport before the plane left; 30 minutes is the cut-off point, unless you pre-printed your boarding pass by checking in on the web) as well as if you get to the airport early and try to get on an earlier flight.
