How much to Hawaii for Xmas?
 

Traveling on XMas day is usually a bit lower and/or has ff miles availability too

The closer in the more expensive it will get, never can tell when /if there may be a sale.

Have you considered getting the AlaskaAir credit card (there is a Cdn card). You get a US$99 (+tax) companion fare that will help bring down the cost.

You may have to to overnight in SEA on return if you want to avoid the red-eye though.

Fights to Kauai
 

Hello all! I live in Alberta, and our family of 4 would love to go to Kauai for Christmas this year. Been watching flights since January and they haven't budged! I never book flights this far out from our trips. Usually 3-4 months is when I find the sales. I just don't know how it works for Christmas in Hawaii though. Will there likely be a seat sale in the summer or fall, or no way?

Thanks for any advice! It's hard to know when to pull the trigger! I hate getting ripped off! The best I can find without having 2-3 stops is about $1500 from Calgary or $1300 from Vancouver with West Jet.

IMHO, Christmas flights are only going to get more expensive the closer you get.

Having booked Christmas flights to Maui for 20 years I would recommend buying at those fares. Indeed I bought our tickets this year in February at 1500 each from Ohio to Maui. These tickets seldom go on sale, especially in recent years.

Looking to book 2 RT direct flights from DFW to OGG or DFW to HNL for either end of August -September (Labor day week) or later through Oct for 7 nights. I've been monitoring prices since early April. Seems it dipped as low as $839 but it is back up to $879. I know I should have bought when it was $839 but was holding out for a better deal. Do you think the prices will only climb as we approach end of August?

Suggestions for making our Hawaii airline tickets cheaper?
 

My wife and I are planning a trip to Kauai and Big Island, with maybe a few days on Oahu if it's financially worth stopping (big enough discount on the flight). My plan is the following:

- Fly out of Detroit in the morning of Friday October 10th, into Kauai
- Use Delta skymiles for inter-island flight to Kona (she and I each have about 22,000 miles we can use, it's showing 15,000 for the flight)
- Fly home from Kona late Sunday night October 26, arriving home on the 27th

Any suggestions on ways to make that cheaper? I'm showing rates around $940 per person for the flight to Kauai plus the flight home. Rates were showing around $825 last week - hope they drop back down.

I do have a Delta companion certificate, but it only allows flight within the contiguous US. I suppose I could fly to California with that and then make my own connection on to Hawaii, but would be concerned with missing a flight, and the savings might not be that big in the end.

Looking for any suggestions. We thought about adding a day or two on Oahu if that would make the flights cheap enough to justify.

Thanks everyone!

Welcome to FT. I would spend 2 or 3 days on Oahu to see the main sites and abt. 6 days each on Kauai and the Big island. AA and UA 5K or 6K miles for a one way interisland flt. On United's main page you'll see an ad for a cr. card that will give you 30K miles. That would cover 5 one way trips.

As an Oahu resident, I wouldn't spend any time here if your time is limited. Big Island and Kauai are much better if your main goal is getting away from the crowds and just having a nice vacation. Unless you want something more urban and more nightlife, of course.

Other than Pearl Harbor, urban nightlife and dining, and big wave surfing on the north shore, Oahu doesn't offer much that Big Island and Kauai don't offer better from the standpoint of a vacation.

hi, just a quick budget question. I found roundtrip flights going from lax to hnl end of september (27th) till 15th of october for 766$ for two. that is using allegiant air with two additional bags. is that a good price or is it likely that hawaiian, alaska or delta will get near that price range?

$766 for two? I'd say that's a great price. My concern would be where my legs would go. :)

that said i am 6.5... guess you get what you pay for. thanks guys! :D

I looked up that flight on Seatguru.com - 30" pitch. :eek:

LAX-OGG?
 

Does anyone have experience on what rt LAX-OGG tickets in July usually cost? As of now all carriers charge about $800 for one ticket.

That is peak season....

So I shouldnt wait for $500-600 rt tickets?

From LAX, there's a good chance they will go lower. That's the rate I would expect from EWR.