Hawaii Sold Out for Spring Break?
Mar 8, 2007, 9:47 pm
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Hawaii Sold Out for Spring Break?
Try booking a flight from the mainland to HNL departing/arriving on a Saturday and you will find it nigh impossible. For those of you living on the islands, how busy does it get during Spring Break? I know that my friends along with probably half of the high school and college students of America and Canada are going to Cancun/Playa Del Carmen/Cozumel and those places are JAM PACKED. How bad is it on Oahu? I'm going there in two weeks and will be spending a lot of time at our beach house on the North Shore, and I'd really like a relaxing spring break. Plus I can't drink yet.
Mar 9, 2007, 2:33 am
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Try booking a flight from the mainland to HNL departing/arriving on a Saturday and you will find it nigh impossible. For those of you living on the islands, how busy does it get during Spring Break? I know that my friends along with probably half of the high school and college students of America and Canada are going to Cancun/Playa Del Carmen/Cozumel and those places are JAM PACKED. How bad is it on Oahu? I'm going there in two weeks and will be spending a lot of time at our beach house on the North Shore, and I'd really like a relaxing spring break. Plus I can't drink yet.
Mar 10, 2007, 1:15 pm
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If you're after a ticket that close to your departure you will have problems. My wife and I just returned last Wednesday to the mainland. We used award tickets at about 2 weeks out and the flights were limited and finding good seats quite challenging but we expected that. Oahu is alway busy even when it's not spring break but if you're looking to kick back and avoid most of the traffic hassles the North Shore is an excellent choice especially if you have a private beach house. Have fun and enjoy.
Mar 10, 2007, 2:52 pm
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If you're after a ticket that close to your departure you will have problems. My wife and I just returned last Wednesday to the mainland. We used award tickets at about 2 weeks out and the flights were limited and finding good seats quite challenging but we expected that. Oahu is alway busy even when it's not spring break but if you're looking to kick back and avoid most of the traffic hassles the North Shore is an excellent choice especially if you have a private beach house. Have fun and enjoy.
Mar 11, 2007, 12:41 pm
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Seriously, if you have a beach house of your own you will be fine. It's the people crowding the hotels/bars/beaches in Waikiki and Maui hotspots that will suffer.
Somewhat o/t:
I wonder if Girls Gone Wild will be there this year? I'd like to run that guy over. The brakes on my Jeep fail sometimes...
Mar 11, 2007, 4:07 pm
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