In early 2006 we flew to the Big Island (a.k.a. Hawaii) and paid nearly $140 a person for our tickets. That's quite a chunk of change for a family of four.
Then the price war started. Go!airline underbid everyone else, and we flew to Kauai for only $39 a person. Recently, we flew to the Big Island again for even less, $29 a ticket. (These are one way tickets, btw. And it doesn't matter what island you fly to, the price is the same.)
Just now I heard on the radio that our price war has reached a new low: Go!, Aloha and Hawaiian now offer tickets for a measly $9. That's awesome. $9 means we could fly to Maui just to hang out on a beach for a weekend afternoon. We could fly in early in the morning, do some swimming and snorkeling, and fly back in the early evening. Heck, $9 means we could afford a (pricey, this is Maui after all) hotelroom and stay the entire weekend.
Sweet.
Oh, I also found a few more things I'd miss if we moved:
1. plumeria, tuberose, hibiscus and all the other flowering trees and shrubs
2. malasadas (yummy!)
3. Pizza Bob's
4. geckos
(It's semi-official, btw, that we are staying for now. Yay.)
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Nadja Gassert
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2 comments:
What's a malasada? I've only been to Hawaii a couple of times and I never heard of them.
Congratulations on being able to stay for this while!
Malasadas are fried dough and ever so yummy. They come with a regular sugar coating or cinnamon sugar. They can be plain or filled with custard or haupia (coconut). You buy them warm and eat them by the half-dozen.
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