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Dec 25, 2005 | 11:26 pm

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Mike Jacoubowsky

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Originally Posted by cfischer

Thanks so much, I am open to any suggestions. Walking distance is not an issue. A nice hotel for a FT friendly

price would be great. Can you do the volcano as a day trip from HNL?

Christian

Is this your first trip to Hawaii? If so, is there a reason you need to stay on Oahu? The reason I ask is that of the four Islands I've visited (Oahu, Maui, Kona & Kauai), Oahu was (for me) probably the least-interesting and most-crowded. For what it's worth, I could easily spend an entire week on Kona (the Big Island, with the Volcanos)... there are so many things to see & do, and the most-interesting things there are either free or pretty inexpensive.

Unfortunately, it's more expensive to fly to Kona... packages to Oahu tend to be the cheapest. But if I were rating the various Islands in terms of a relaxing, tropical, not-like-home experience, I'd go-

#1: Kauai
#2: Kona (the Big Island), very close behind Kauai
#3: Maui (nicely varied, but more crowded than Kauai or Kona, and seems designed to extract money from you)
#4: Oahu

Those are my preferences, strictly as an outsider. Slippahs is the expert though.

Last edited by Mike Jacoubowsky; Dec 25, 2005 at 11:33 pm Reason: Came out too harsh about Oahu (Sorry Slippah!)

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