Originally Posted by
birdiedouble
Wow. That's a pretty crappy start to a nice trip. We have flown to HI from the east coast 3x. Each time seems to get easier, but I also came to realize why you meet so many people from the west coast there. On this last trip we flew YOW/ORD/HNL/KOA and arrived in KOA at 3:30 local time. Departed YOW at 6:05am, so I know about a long first day, but I don't think I would have been able to make the walk to the room you did. Aloha
You're quite right. Ugly start to an awesome vacation. We would have landed on the big island much earlier, but the airline we were booked on from HNL to KOA went out of business two weeks before our trip, so we were stuck trying to find a way to get to the big island on very short notice.