How to find the best deals.
The best place to find a hotel or flight deal to Hawaii is on the internet. To clear up one huge misconception, let it be known that booking your flight, hotel and car together doesn’t necessary guarantee a better deal. The key to finding a cheap flight to Hawaii lies in simply doing your homework prior to purchasing your ticket. Your homework, simply, is to search around until you find the ideal bargain your want, more than often you will look in the right place and will find it.
Search different combinations and different deals and do the math. Spend the time to check out as many of the offered deals as possible, this doesn’t hurt but could potentially be very rewarding. Keep a list of all the offers you locate and rank them in order of best price, best dates and best value. If you are good at creating spreadsheets then a simple spreadsheet will help.
Flexibility in regards to your travel plans usually saves you money. Try to be flexible with the many deals offered from many different sites on the internet. When you visit a website in search of a flight or vacation package to Hawaii, check through their deals and offers pages first prior to entering any dates. There is usually “always” a deal to Hawaii if tickets are purchased within a certain time period for travel within a specific time period. If your vacation schedule is flexible then these offers are ideal for you.
Based on years of traveling back and forth from Hawaii, and in researching and collecting some data over the years, we’ve noticed that many flight from the continental US “main land” traveling to Hawaii usually leave from California. Given that this is closest in proximity, this may not really be much of a surprise to anyone. We’ve also noticed that there are usually many flight deals and offers to Hawaii from the state of California. Finding a flight deal from your location to California, then a separate flight deal from California to Hawaii is usually significantly cheaper than booking it from your location to Hawaii. Most times your connecting flight to Hawaii will still either be in California or somewhere on the west coast, you might as well save on it the bargain hunting way.
An important tip to remember is to continue to search for deals and don’t just give up after the first unsuccessful day. Deals come and go by the hours at times. When you do eventually find a deal worth it, book or reserve it as soon as you can as it may not be available for long. We periodically research, collect and post third party flights, hotels and car deals in the Hawaii Coupons section of the site. You may inquire about several of these offers and add them to your potential list. Though we’ve received many thank you emails from past visitors who have successfully located great deals through our Coupons page, please note that these are from third party sites and we do not endorse any of these offers, they are simply there for your research purposes.
While researching on different booking sites, remember that different sites will be better on given dates and times. Deals also come and go on different sites at different times. One option is to find a few sites and check them repeatedly, at least once or so per day for fluctuations in price. Always, always check the “Deals” sections of these sites before you start booking or searching for dates.
Hawaii airport codes:
- HNL – Honolulu, Oahu
- ITO – Hilo, Hawaii
- KOA – Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
- LIH – Lihue, Kauai
- OGG – Kahului, Maui