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Originally Posted by LivingAlmostLarge
6 tickets to hawaii = $8k? No way. You can definitely get it cheaper than that. My mom, grandma, aunt all came from Hawaii to Boston for $422 ($475 including all taxes) May 1 to May 8th.
Where are you leaving from? You need to shop around and be flexible with dates for coming and going. The ONLY time of year when it's really expensive and impossible to buy to go home to hawaii is Christmas.
My cousin is military and OFTEN flies home to hawaii on military flights for free. The cargo, where you aren't sure if you are going. Why not go do that if money is really tight.
Even if you fly interisland in hawaii it's $60/one way so $120 x 6 = $720. It used to be $9/one way for some flights.
There is an easy way to go to hawaii for cheap. From the east coast it shouldn't cost more than $800 on a peak time (summer). So $4800 for a family of 6. Where is this $8k coming from? And like I said off peak like my mom got under $500.
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The $8K is the TOTAL trip... food, rental car, hotel, gas, and airfare. I'm only expecting between 4-5K for airfare. Hotel is $216 a night cause we have to have 2 hotel rooms. We priced rental cars with DH's gov't discount and my AAA discount for a minivan and its $530 for an 8 day stay. So $1460 for hotel, $5000 for airfare (I'm watching airfare prices now for when we are trying to go in April cause that is the girls' spring break and they can't miss anymore school or risk getting held back... right now they are between $858-$1058 pp plus $41 in ticket fees), $550 for rental car after additional taxes, $150 for gas for the rental car, and $1000 for food for 8 days for 6 people... thats about $6.94 meal per person.... which all totals to $8160. When we plan for trips we try to plan out the total cost, not just what it costs to get there.
All that said... I'm considering holding off on the Hawaii trip till October so we can be more flexible about the kids missing school and my college courses end last week of April soooo if we go to Hawaii in April there is a high likelihood I'd be missing finals or something important.