Kauai Hotels

My husband and I decided on a whim to go to Hawaii after coming across a deal to go on a 7 day cruise including airfare for $999.00 each. We were going to be in San Francisco, so instead of spending 8 days driving the PCH, we decided to go to Hawaii. This was our first trip to Hawaii and I think cruising is a great way to see paradise. We sailed on NCL, the Pride of America, Freestyle cruising. I want to speak a little about Freestyle cruising in case you would consider taking this trip. If you have never cruised before, you might never cruise again. Freestyle is kind of a way of saying we ...

We flew in from LAX on Aug 14 (thurs) and arrived in Honolulu at around 9PM. Retrieved our luggage from baggage claim and was soon on our way to our hotel for the night before jumping on another plane to Kauai the next day (friday). We stayed at the Aqua Island Colony which is centrally located and close to Waikiki strip and beach. We got a pretty decent deal of $ 77/night which I booked through hotels.com. The room was okay - just good enough for a night's stay. I wouldn't recommend it though if you are staying more than a day or two. (The photos on the left is our view from our hotel room.) ...

Today our journey began at 5:15am in Jacksonville, FL. Everything went smoothly getting onto the plane and we were on our 3 hour flight to Houston. Started to get a little hungry on near the end of the flight but didn't quite have enough time to get anything to eat before boarding our next 8 hr flight to Honolulu. Make sure you bring some snacks and/or sleeping pills for any flight over 3 hours. The in-flight movies occupied some of our time though. We finally landed in Honolulu at about 4pm local time. I had a car reserved with Enterprise and it didn't take us long before we were on the ...