Hawaii anyone??

jemmini6

BF found a great deal to Kona in September.  $77/night at the #1 rated hotel, airfare is a little pricey right now, but still...it'd only be like $700 pp total for 7 nights.

We just did a week-long vacation in Puerto Rico in May (which I still owe BF for) but it it's a pretty cheap trip, for Hawaii anyways...  What would you do, would you book it? 

run21

Read your signature again. Then DO IT!!!

desertsun

YES! Do it!

jemmini6

very true. LOL.  BF is actually on the phone as i type with a dive op there

run21

Good work jem!

nefariousmango

DO IT!!  My cousin was a dive master in Kona for a year, just moved back the the mainland this month.  What dive op are you talking with?

jemmini6

wow...can anyone say impluse buy?  he just booked our trip, 9/10 - 9/17....I LOVE my BF :-)

He called Big Island Divers.  We definitely want to do the night manta dive, but they also have a muli-day dive rate since that's pretty much all we want to do while we are there.  what dive op did your cousin work for?

MidniteRae

DO IT!!!

oceana919

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[QUOTE]wow...can anyone say impluse buy?  he just booked our trip, 9/10 - 9/17....I LOVE my BF :-) He called Big Island Divers.  We definitely want to do the night manta dive, but they also have a muli-day dive rate since that's pretty much all we want to do while we are there.  what dive op did your cousin work for?
Posted by jemmini6[/QUOTE]

Oooooooh sooooooooooo jealous :)

mysticl

and in theme with your signature don't do the same old Hawaii trip.  I know 3 people who did their honeymoons there and their pics were practically interchangable.  They basically took the same trip.

ekathleen684

I was going to say DO EETTT last night but I see I'm late to the party.

Have fun! I would love to do that trip.

KD+BC

Jealous! I wanna go!

PaigeMcC

Awwwwww! Take me tooooooooo!!

Wait, I want to go to Disney in Jan/Feb *looks at Oceana* anyone else in? =P

noelle24

Awesome! So jealous.  Go visit Volcanoes National Park, see if you can get a glimpse of lava.  If you're lucky, you can watch it as it enters the ocean.  It's pretty cool. There's also lots of fun hikes, if you're into that sort of thing.  Going up Mauna Kea is also cool. 

leia1979

Which hotel, Jemmini? We stayed at the Royal Kona back in Feb. It was decent.

Here's a tip for you. There is a gorgeous white sand beach a couple miles north of the airport. We even saw a sea turtle swimming around. The road there is not for the faint of heart. I thought our little rental car wasn't going to make it (think of a once-paved road destroyed by lava). The name is Kekaha Kai Beach Park, and there's a small sign on the highway to point out the turnoff.

jemmini6

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[QUOTE]Which hotel, Jemmini? We stayed at the Royal Kona back in Feb. It was decent. Here's a tip for you. There is a gorgeous white sand beach a couple miles north of the airport. We even saw a sea turtle swimming around. The road there is not for the faint of heart. I thought our little rental car wasn't going to make it (think of a once-paved road destroyed by lava). The name is Kekaha Kai Beach Park, and there's a small sign on the highway to point out the turnoff.
Posted by leia1979[/QUOTE]


we will be staying at the Holua Resort at the Mauna Loa Village (it's the #1 rated hotel for Kona on tripadvisor).  We just might have to check out that beach because even though our hotel is right on the water, it's not near an actual usable beach, which is fine because neither of us are "lay on the beach" type people anyways.  i'm excited :)

leia1979

I should also mention, if you want awesome food, go to Rapanui Island Cafe.

It's a nice hole-in-the wall with fantastic food! We went twice.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/rapanui-island-cafe-kailua-kona

noelle24

There's an awesome green sand beach on that island, a short drive from Kona.  It's a short hike down a dirt trail, but it's usually less crowded.  Also, it had lots of fun waves.  Also fun: it's near the southernmost tip of the United States, and at that point, there is nothing but ocean straight south all the way to Antarctica.  Yes, I'm a nerd.

noelle24

noelle24

desertsun

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[QUOTE]and in theme with your signature don't do the same old Hawaii trip.  I know 3 people who did their honeymoons there and their pics were practically interchangable.  They basically took the same trip.
Posted by mysticl[/QUOTE]

Who cares? As long as those couples enjoyed their trips, that is what matters, not how "unique" their trips were.

nefariousmango

My cousin worked for Big Island Divers, actually!  She loved the manta dive :-)