Beat of Hawaii (www.beatofhawaii.com) has an interesting — and totally unexpected — tactic for taking advantage of extremely low air-and-land packages to Hawaii during the next two months. It points out that Pleasant Holidays (www.pleasantholidays.com), the largest tour operator to Hawaii, is offering two remarkably cheap sales of Hawaiian vacations to persons who phone their reservations department. The same sales can be found, but only with difficulty, and sometimes not at all, on Pleasant Holidays’ website.
The first sale, for traveler during the short period from December 1 to 16, is also the most remarkable. It sends you from Los Angeles or San Francisco for a three-night stay at the Castle Ocean Resort in Waikiki, on Hawaii’s main island of Oahu, including round-trip airfare there, for the amazing total of only $279 per person (plus various, fairly-minor taxes and fees). For $375, you can fly instead to the popular island of Maui, staying for three nights at the Aston Kaanapali Shores resort, again including round-trip airfare from either Los Angeles or San Francisco.
On both programs you can extend your stay for several extra days for slightly more, and you can also go for additional money to Kauai or the Big Island.
Ever seen an air-and-land package from the U.S. west coast to Honolulu for $279? You haven’t — this is a rub-your-eyes wonder, for the short period from December 1 to 16.
The second sale is for an extended length of time, from now until January 28, and charges a still-low $399 to either Oahu or Maui, $449 to Kauai, staying for three nights at Starwood Resorts on all islands, and again including round-trip air from Los Angeles or San Francisco to Hawaii.
But both sales are available — as is often the case nowadays in offers for such stunning air-and-land bargains — not on every day of the week or on every conceivable flight, but only for certain flights on certain days. And it is difficult to determine, according to the Hawaii specialists, when exactly those miracle prices are available, without punching dozens of dates into your computer over a fair length of time.
So what do you? You phone the Pleasant Holidays reservations number — tel. 800/742-9244 — without extra charge, and then easily obtain the information you’re seeking: when, and at what times of the day, are flights available at the $279 or $399 price. (Pleasant Holidays is presently working on a more efficient website, it is said, that will enable you in the future to find such bargains more easily, but for the time being, contacting a human being by phone is the best procedure). The old way is thus the best way.
Original post by Travel Robot