The price to include Maui in this itinerary shoots the cost up dramatically. Booking just Chicago/Perth roundtrip would cost about $3,500 US. Adding Maui turns that into about a $9,000 trip - unless I'm missing something.
Talking with a United rep, the circle Pacific(?) tickets would only get us from San Francisco on - we'd have to book an add'l. flight from Chicago to San Fran. And then, when traveling from Perth to Maui, we'd have to travel back to either LAX or San Fran and THEN BACK to Maui.
I'm getting ready to let Maui go - seems adding $5,500 to our costs JUST TO GET THERE makes little sense. (Right now we could book Chicago/Maui for about $1,600 for both of us)
HELP?