Maui Flight Costs

Am off to Maui for a week or so in October and currently pricing flights $2K, which seems pretty pricey cheapest is Air Pacific $1.6K through Fiji but connections are crap. Haven't flown there from Oz before so was hoping to get an idea of whether this is normal price or wait it out in hope of some discount fares being released.

someone at work got flights for about $600 and she books everything herself. I'm assuming one-way but I'll find out more. she has been to hawaii at least 10 times & she doesn't surf or windsurf!

depending on the season (school holidays) peak will see return flights bris - syd - honolulu for about the 1700-2000 pp mark. Go outside of these dates and you can get flights for 1300-1700 return. Honolulu to kahalui (maui) with hawaiian airlines is about 160 USD return.

All airlines apart from air pacific go through sydney - qantas, hawaiian and bogstar.

Hawaiian will do connections with virgin - but you would have to book through a travel agent i would think. don't know what the service is like - will find out in 3 weeks

Qantas has a really bad wait on the return flight - you will sit in sydney for 3-4 hours for the 9pm flight back to brissie. Cool part is you can bring gear back free of charge and there is a baggage transfer and free shuttle in sydney - everyone else you have to carry luggae from intl to domestic. oh yeah old planes, old cabin crew, old service

bogstar is bogstar- cheap ticket, then once you pay for everything else costs more than full fare - piece of shiiite airline. Do have convenient connections though.

Air pacific have a few hour stop over in fiji going over - but there is a cool massage place that costs 1 fiji dollar per minute. If you return with them you will have to spend a night in fiji. There is also a stop and feel in apia (samoa) that they don't really advertise. Basically land, get off plane get frisked by security and then get back on plane and leave.....yes even children. Really nice service - nothing flash....bula

Air australia......... direct form brissy to honolulu, why could't you idiots get it right

tim, sorry about the delay. girl at work got $750 return to honolulu!! admittedly it was a 'super' special and with cr@pstar. that means NO food and that is a 10 hour flight. of course you can take or buy food. prob $1500 now?

I don't think their baggage allowance is anything great but you can always pay in advance by the kg. I did this for a WA flight with Qantas a couple of years ago - boom/mast/2 sails. for a week prob in Maui not worth taking a board as you can usually have unlimited swap(s) at the rental places. there have been earlier posts about taking gear V hire.

I was hoping for a maui trip before my third child is 2 (she is 7 months) but just flights will be $5000-$6000.

if you can handle jetstar hang out for the specials, is October classified as shoulder season?

oh yeah - if you end up hawaiian for flights then angle for a discount for the maui flight. around the $100-$120 return I believe. not sure about the other airlines.

Has anyone any experience with Air New Zealand for Perth - Auckland - Honolulu ?
I am looking into flights for July atm and it is around 2K.

Not sure about Perth -> Honolulu but I did LA -> HNL -> Samoa -> Tonga -> Auckland -> Sydney many years ago.

The trip LA to HNL was a nightmare. The checkin staff in LA were complete bitches. Sorry just can't say it any other way. Followed by rude gate staff. Then were told bags didn't make it onto flight. To top it all off I had a cockroach in my inflight meal.

The HNL -> Auckland stretch became an HNL -> Samoa -> Tonga -> Auckland flight because they first had to pick up some passengers from a cancelled flight. They then had to land in Tonga because they didn't have enough fuel.

The whole experience was a complete joke. Don't know. Maybe I was unlucky but these days I'd rather do a direct flight and pay a few dollars more.