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April 23rd, 2009
I have some family that will be visiting from the Mainland and they asked my if I thought they should get Hawaii travel insurance. First of all, I’ve never heard of travel insurance, but the folks over at Hawaii Destinations have and they’ve got the best explanation I’ve found on the web which you can read here. To make a long story short, The Hawaii vacations company explains,
“Travel insurance covers the costs associated with travel interruption and cancellation, medical expenses, lost or damaged property and travel delay costs.”
Now this is something I can relate to from 2 experiences I’ve had in the past.
- Once, while on vacation in Miami Beach, Florida, my friends and I had all our luggage (including a majority of our cash) stolen from the back of our rental car within 15 minutes of leaving the airport.
- On another occasion, while traveling for business, my flight was overbooked and I was not allowed on the plane. While the airlines did offer to put me up in a hotel and arrange a flight with their company the next day, I was on my way to a very important meeting that I could not miss and was forced to buy another ticket from one of their competitors.
I wish I would of known about this travel service earlier, it would have saved me a lot of money and grief.
Since my relatives aren’t traveling for business, and they’ll be visiting one of the lowest crime areas on earth, I didn’t recommend the insurance (but if you’re traveling to Honolulu you may consider it). However, they did book their Hawaii accommodation and a Hawaii cruise through Hawaii Destinations.
I can’t wait to see them!
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April 23rd, 2009
For anyone insterested in sustainability here in the islands, I recommend Sustainability in Hawaii, a blog by Ken Stokes. He talks about everything green, from invassive species to conservation. And Ken knows what he’s talking about. He’s a sustainability consultant for some of the largest businesses here in Hawaii. Check him out.
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April 10th, 2009
I guess its time I talked about my own business, Sunset Cinema. I coordinate movie events on a huge inflatable outdoor movie screen. Imagine watching your favorite movie under the stars or having a presentation displaying your slideshow at the beach.
I come to your location and inflate the movie screen as well as provide sound and projection equipment.
If you would like to know more, please contact me.
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March 31st, 2009
While browsing the web to find a rental car for a trip to Hawaii’s Big Island, I came across Summit Pacific’s Hawaii car rental page. I am familiar with Summit Pacific, but I knew them as a Kauai vacation rental company. I was not aware they also provided Hawaii car rentals, nor did I know you could get a car so inexpensively.
At the time I’m writing this post, Summit is offering automobile rentals for as low as $27/day. The lowest rate I could find on other travel agency website, including Expedia and Travelocity was $40/day. That’s a huge difference.
Another great thing is that Summit offered a free upgrade to the next level car. This means I wasn’t stuck driving a compact car, but I still got to pay the compact rate.
To be honest, because the rate was so low and I was booking last minute, I was a little weary that my reservation was going to get lost in cyberspace. But all happened as expected, my experience was just like booking through any big brand company. I showed up at the rental car agency and they had my car waiting for me.
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February 12th, 2009
While browsing the web late last night, I came across an interesing Hawaii business called Beat of Hawaii. It appears they give a bit of travel information, but the most interesting thing on their website are the Hawaii travel deals they find and post on their site. For instance, they have an interesting post regarding inter-island airline fare war. Yes its on again, with flights as low as $29 one way - I’ll be booking a flight to Oahu shortly!
For someone like me who travels a lot, this site could come in quite useful. It saves me a lot of time from having to search for the deals myself.
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February 2nd, 2009
The very first business we will review is what we believe to be the premier Hawaii web design company around - Wasabi Marketing Elemements. Wasabi creates amazing websites and is most renowned for their search engine marketing services. They have a proven track record for securing top placement in Google for Hawaii’s most competitive keyword searches. Read the rest of this entry »
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