Hawaii all-inclusive?
My boyfriend and I want to travel to hawaii next summer. We were thinking maybe Waikiki, since we want to check out Pearl Harbor, but besides that we just want to do a lot of relaxing. We thought about all-inclusive type resort might be the way to go, but the ones i have seen so far have lots tour type stuff and we don't want that. We don't want our days planned for us, want to just kinda forget time while we are there! Any ideas or suggestions? Neither of us have been to hawaii.
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All-inclusive resorts are usually wonderful places to stay in third world locations where you need safe water and security, and driving around on your own is not a great idea. None of this applies in Hawaii, nor do you need passports or foreign currency if you're from the US.
Just stay at a nice hotel (or a nice rental of a time-share condo with a kitchen and laundry), and plan your own meals and activities. If you're in Honolulu, you can choose whether you want to rent a car and explore or just hang around locally. If you choose a hotel on or near Waikiki Beach, you can easily walk to lots of places to eat outside the hotel.
If you want a relaxing time you probably want to stay out of Waikiki. I suggest you spend a couple of nights on O'ahu– maybe at Turtle Bay on the north shore or the Ko'olina Marriott near Kapolei and take some of the group tours to see Pearl Harbor and a circle island trip. Then fly over to one of the neighbor islands for more RELAXING time the rest of your trip. You can beach it on Maui in Wailea or Lahaina for some nice resorts.
As others have mentioned, all inclusive resorts are usually only found either in places where the local water and food is unsanitary or in remote locations where there are no restaurant options nearby. Since the water and food in Hawaii has the same high standards as any other US state and there are numerous great restaurants everywhere, most people wouldn't want to buy into an "all-inclusive" resort and pay extra to have meals at the resort included and lose the freedom to try different places.
I would just look around for a hotel in your budget and do what you want. Personally I prefer condos because they are usually no more expensive, more spacious and have a kitchen that can be used to heat up leftovers from restaurant meals or prepare my own snacks, meals, coffee and other beverages. Aston is one of the companies that has several condo resorts in Hawaii. If that interests you look for hotel names that begin with "Aston". They usually have free cocktail parties every week and some other amenities, too.
I like to read ratings, reviews, comments and compare prices on several different booking engines (including the hotel website) to help me pick a hotel on trip advisor: http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-3894326-107â¦
I would also recommend borrowing or buying a copy of "Oahu Revealed" http://www.amazon.com/Oahu-Revealed-Ulti⦠It is the best book for helping you plan your trip. We like to keep our vacations relaxed with only a basic plan of going to some "must see" places and leaving lots of time spontaneous, so it was great to have our copy of the book with us to look up restaurants near wherever we happened to be at lunch or dinner time.
Hawaii's only all-inclusive resort was in Kona and is now closed after the tsunami.