BecBennett
Statistically, 6 out of 7 dwarves are not happy.
- Joined
- Aug 21, 2007
After a lot of going back and forth, fluffing around with Qantas trying to book flights using points. I finally worked out that for what I wanted to do, it would only cost me $600 extra to book pretty much everything with Hawaiian Airlines, and keep my points for something else.
So here's my itinerary for now;
October 4th - Sydney to Maui (with a 2 hour, 40 minute stop over in Honolulu) Hawaiian Airlines
4th - 11th - Hopefully staying in a friend's holiday unit at Eldorado Maui.
October 11th - Maui to LAX Hawaiian Airlines
11th - 17th - Will be booking a hotel near Disneyland - we usually stay at the Park Vue Inn and I was looking at the Best Western Park Place Inn, because location obviously. This time though the Howard Johnson has a pretty good price at the moment, and I'm very tempted to book it. However it's non refundable and I just know that every time I walk past PVI or BWPPI I will regret not booking there instead. So I'm holding off until I panic book something.
We have 4 days with Genie+ in the parks, but skipped adding the hopper option. Tickets are so expensive these days! One and a half days are non park days for shopping and hanging by the pool. My birthday is on the 13th!!
17th - 18th Holiday Inn LAX. We have a 7am flight to JFK, so I decided staying near by the night before is definitely a good idea.
October 18th - LAX - JFK American Airlines (booked with points through Qantas)
I think we'll be staying with my in laws on the 18th, and then moving into an airbnb
19th - 26th - Staying at this AirBNB with the extended in laws - My sister in law is getting married in Connecticut on October 26th. So a bunch of us have booked this house for our time in Connecticut. Other than the wedding we don't really have much planned for this time, but are considering a night in NYC to hit up some restaurants that we're always talking about. Nothing concrete yet.
October 26th - JFK to Honolulu Hawaiian Airlines
26th - 29th - Fingers crossed for Aulani! I'm going to rent points for this. At the moment the standard hotel room has availability, but I think I'd prefer the studio room (has a fridge and microwave, but the hotel room doesn't) the studio room doesn't have full availability at the moment, but the Island Gardens view studio room is available for more points, so who I rent the points from will probably decide this.
October 29th - Honolulu - Sydney Hawaiian Airlines
We're going to rent a car in Connecticut and probably Maui too. We want to see Pearl Harbour while in Honolulu, and some of the Road to Hana while in Maui. So that's what I'm researching now.
I'll keep this thread updated with my planning and hopefully turn it into a Trip Report when the time comes, but FYI, it takes me a long time to complete trip reports. So a lot of it might just be photos
So here's my itinerary for now;
October 4th - Sydney to Maui (with a 2 hour, 40 minute stop over in Honolulu) Hawaiian Airlines
4th - 11th - Hopefully staying in a friend's holiday unit at Eldorado Maui.
October 11th - Maui to LAX Hawaiian Airlines
11th - 17th - Will be booking a hotel near Disneyland - we usually stay at the Park Vue Inn and I was looking at the Best Western Park Place Inn, because location obviously. This time though the Howard Johnson has a pretty good price at the moment, and I'm very tempted to book it. However it's non refundable and I just know that every time I walk past PVI or BWPPI I will regret not booking there instead. So I'm holding off until I panic book something.
We have 4 days with Genie+ in the parks, but skipped adding the hopper option. Tickets are so expensive these days! One and a half days are non park days for shopping and hanging by the pool. My birthday is on the 13th!!
17th - 18th Holiday Inn LAX. We have a 7am flight to JFK, so I decided staying near by the night before is definitely a good idea.
October 18th - LAX - JFK American Airlines (booked with points through Qantas)
I think we'll be staying with my in laws on the 18th, and then moving into an airbnb
19th - 26th - Staying at this AirBNB with the extended in laws - My sister in law is getting married in Connecticut on October 26th. So a bunch of us have booked this house for our time in Connecticut. Other than the wedding we don't really have much planned for this time, but are considering a night in NYC to hit up some restaurants that we're always talking about. Nothing concrete yet.
October 26th - JFK to Honolulu Hawaiian Airlines
26th - 29th - Fingers crossed for Aulani! I'm going to rent points for this. At the moment the standard hotel room has availability, but I think I'd prefer the studio room (has a fridge and microwave, but the hotel room doesn't) the studio room doesn't have full availability at the moment, but the Island Gardens view studio room is available for more points, so who I rent the points from will probably decide this.
October 29th - Honolulu - Sydney Hawaiian Airlines
We're going to rent a car in Connecticut and probably Maui too. We want to see Pearl Harbour while in Honolulu, and some of the Road to Hana while in Maui. So that's what I'm researching now.
I'll keep this thread updated with my planning and hopefully turn it into a Trip Report when the time comes, but FYI, it takes me a long time to complete trip reports. So a lot of it might just be photos