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Sunday, July 27, 2008

Hawaii Articles

Happy Birthday to Best Hawaii Vacation Blog!Hoooray, hooray, it's our Blog Birthday!

I guess a 2nd blog birthday is reason enough to celebrate. All our fellow Hawaii bloggers know that it takes commitment and dedication to keep writing quality articles about Hawaii for tourists who plan their special Hawaii vacation. Thanks to all of you who visited our Best Hawaii Vacation blog in the past, made the blog more interesting with comments and guest posts and even followed our invitation to Vote for the Best Hawaii Article.

We could have had probably a bigger outcome by advertising our invitation to vote for the best article in each of our blog articles which followed the post on June 12. That's what marketing is all about. Looks like I was more concerned about writing more Hawaii content related articles like 'Big Island or Kaui?' and forgot to promote the vote article. Hey, nobody is perfect. Next year I will remember what to do for extra promotion to get more blog visitors involved in choosing the best article on our vacation blog.

Here is the result of our best Hawaii article vote:

-Mostly bloggers and vacation rental site owners from Hawaii Big Island joined the vote.
-We would have loved to see more of our Hawaii blogger friends from Oahu, Kauai and Maui.
-Most popular articles and favorites you voted for were related to Hawaii beaches.
-We posted the Hawaii Articles with double votes in the top.

Most popular articles chosen by Best Hawaii Vacation Blog visitors

Furk from 'GameFurk' voted for Big Island Secret Beach
Brent from 'Living Aloha' voted for 'How to Save Money on Big Island Vacation'

Much mahalo to all of you. Hope many of our blog visitors will visit your blog or site, when they find it here. Please, stay in touch with our Best Hawaii Vacation Blog, so we can hopefully celebrate in a year another blog birthday again and together. Mahalo and aloha, Pua Hawaii Vacations

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Saturday, July 19, 2008

Big Island or Kauai

Aloha Hawaii travelers,

After we recently answered the question 'Is November a good time to visit Kona Hawaii?', we are about to talk about choosing the Hawaiian Island best suiting for your vacation in Hawaii. With Aloha Airlines not being available anymore for flying to Hawaii or for Interisland flights and rising gas prices, cheap airline tickets to Hawaii or between the islands are hard to get for your Hawaii vacation, especially for high seasons like summer or winter season.

In the past, Hawaii traveler loved to do some island hopping on their Hawaii vacation, especially when it was their first time visit to Hawaii. This allowed them a few days on each Hawaii island, get a first impression of best beaches, things to do and to see and find out which island they will come back for a longer vacation. As Hawaii hosts, we always recommended to 'just' visit two islands in order not to be rushed and enjoy each of the island as much as possible.

Big Island or Kauai Vacation?Now, this recommendation of limiting your Hawaii visit to two islands or even just one, becomes even more a necessity when you are a budget traveler and don't have unlimited funds available for your Hawaii vacation. Extra Interisland flights can be quite expensive. If you have to choose for one, the early and late flights are offering the best rates. Here are a few Hawaii travel tips:

Yes, the Superferry can help Hawaii visitors somewhat but it's really limited to island hopping between Oahu and Maui and vice versa. Rates are affordable, tourists don't have to deal with early check-in at Airports in Honolulu and Kahului and you can enjoy a voyage with lovely Hawaiian island scenery. Ocean conditions are very calm in summer.

Try to book direct flights into Maui or Kona or Hilo Big Island in order to avoid having to pay for an extra Interisland flight. When you have a direct Hawaii flight into Maui, you might want to plan your Maui vacation and forget about visiting other islands, except maybe a family outing to Oahu with the Superferry. You've got some really nice beaches right there, on Maui. It's a little touristy and not that easy to find that private corner on a beach but definitely beautiful. Maui is the paradise for surfers, windsurfers or board surfers.

Quite a number of Hawaii visitors cannot make up their mind whether it will be a Big Island vacation or a visit to Kauai. Well, making a decision between Kauai and the Big Island is like deciding between oranges and apples.

What are major differences? Kauai is the Garden Island, meaning it's green and lush because it has frequent rain showers but they don't last long. You can walk on stretches of white sand beaches for ever, at lot of the times even without meeting any people! Meaning no Maitai or restaurant either. Pack yourself a picnic and you will be happy as could be. Kauai hiking is great as well. We loved to kayak the Wailua River and combined it with a hike to a spectacular waterfall. It's definitely a laid back island and when getting away from the tourist places like Poipu, you will still find old Hawaii at many Kauai locations.

The Big Island is the island of adventure. Beaches are not as endless as on Kauai but the West Coast spoils visitors with white sand beaches and sunny dry weather all year round. Even if you are not into activities, at least you have lots of options to choose from. Big Island things to do include many beyond the ordinary: Stargazing on Mauna Kea Summit, watching a live volcano at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, visiting Waipio Valley on the Hamakua Coast and Pololu Valley Lookouts on North Kohala (even the walk into the valley is easy and the most amazing ocean and cliff scenery awaits you), or attend one of the Hawaiian luaus (I like the one at the Marriott at Waikoloa Beach Resort) .

If you decide for a Big Island vacation, the big question is where to stay on the Big Island. The West coast, the Kohala and Kona Coast, is the sunny side with lots of white sand beaches (most famous Hapuna und Mauna Kea Beach). Hotels on this coast can be expensive. If you are on a budget, I recommend a vacation rental with a short drive to the beaches. When deciding for a rental on the East Coast (Hilo side, Hamakua Coast, Puna), anticipate more rain but beautiful tropical rainforest will reward you. Hawaii vacation rental rates are considerably cheaper on the East coast of the Big Island.

Hope this helps planning your Hawaii trip. Have a wonderful stay in Paradise. Aloha, Pua Hawaii Vacations
p.s.
Which Hawaiian Island, Big Island or Kauai, did you spend your vacation on? Amber, our today's beautiful Hawaii post girl from Wahinstyle, is from Hawaii the Big Island.

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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Vote for your favorite Hawaii Story!

Can anybody believe that another year has passed since our 1st Hawaii Blog Anniversary in July 2007! Well, time flies by when you are having fun, Keoki likes to say. Well, the full year is not over yet but it's time to reflect and prepare our blog birthday celebration. In this post, we are taking a few moments to recount what we have achieved during the past year of blogging about Hawaii and what we intend to do for celebration.

First of all, we'd like to say 'Mahalo' to all our Best Hawaii Vacation Blog visitors, to those who were dropping in to read up on a certain post, but more so to those who visited our blog regularly and even left comments when they felt they had something to contribute to our article. We are happy to name a few right here: Bobbie from The Right Blue, Charles from WaveShoppe and Evelyn from HomespunHonolulu. Thanks for having your steady support in our Hawaii MyBloglog family.

We also owe big thanks to our Best Hawaii Vacation guest authors, Hawaii bloggers or visitors, who shared their Hawaii stories. With their article contributions, our Hawaii blog became more entertaining by talking about Hawaii from a different perspective and with a different style. We definitely encourage everybody who is in love with Hawaii to join our guest authors. If you have a nice Hawaii story to tell - no specials skills required! - please, let us know. We will publish it with a short bio and link to your website.

OK let's get to the point celebrating our Hawaii blog birthday with all of you. Last time when celebrating our 1st Blog Birthday we did not ask for presents. On the opposite, we gave everybody, who left a comment, a link to their site with a short description what their Hawaii blog is all about. This time we decided to write our birthday invitation early, so all those busy bloggers or Hawaii site owners or Hawaii visitors have enough time to join the fun.

Hawaii and what we love about it. Join our Birthday bash and vote for the best Hawaii article.
How can you join our 2nd Best Hawaii Vacation Blog Birthday Bash?

It's very easy. You simply tell us which one of our Hawaii blog articles you like best. Finish the following sentence "My favorite article at Best Hawaii Vacation blog is ..."

What will you get?

Everybody who leaves a comment on this post or provides his vote for best article by email, will get a link on our Birthday Bash Post on July 27, 2008 (sorry no adult sites).

What will we get?

Hopefully we will get some good feedback which Hawaii stories our blog visitors liked best and want to hear more about in future blog posts.

Best way to find an interesting Hawaii blog story

With 165 posts and steadily growing, the best way to find an article you want to vote for, is by cruising the Best Hawaii Vacation Categories towards the bottom of right side bar. Find what Hawaii category is your favorite, click it and choose from a number of choices there. Our Best Hawaii Articles in the top is an option as well.

Vote for your favorite Hawaii Article by leaving a comment

Easiest way to submit your vote is to leave a comment right here on this post. Make sure not to sign in with Google but with name/URL (don't forget http://). With that method you actually double your chances to increase traffic to your blog or site. However, if you don't know how to leave a comment, send us an email and we will add your vote for you. Make sure to include your site or blog URL.

Let the fun begin and choose your favorite Hawaii story at Best Hawaii Vacation blog today. Don't forget to check your link on our Birthday Blog Post 7/27/08!

Mahalo and aloha, Pua Hawaii Vacations Summer Deals
p.s.
It was a tough decision this time which of the beautiful Hawaiian girls from WahineStyle
we wanted to have as our special Hawaii birthday girl. We chose Kahiau on the beach. What do you think?

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Best Time to Visit Hawaii

Welcome to the Hawaiian Islands in Spring 2008 Hooray, I won another time 10 points at Yahoo for 'Best Answer' in the Hawaii section! Well, big deal but to tell you the truth it's really quite interesting how many people are planning trips to the islands and are totally overwhelmed by the complex nature what it implies to prepare their Hawaii vacation.


Most of them already get stuck with the question 'Which Hawaiian Island to visit on first vacation in Hawaii', next seemingly hard to answer 'Should they book a hotel or a vacation rental in Hawaii' and again the most reoccurring question, at least in Hawaii Yahoo Answers over the time I have been answering questions about Hawaii vacation is 'When is the best time to visit Hawaii?'.

I noticed when coming across this favorite question 'When is the best time to travel to Hawaii?', it actually entails two parts, namely 'When is the best weather for a Hawaii vacation?' and equally important to Hawaii visitors 'When is the cheapest time to visit Hawaii?'. There are quite a number of misconceptions out there among Hawaii lovers who plan their first visit to the islands. Let's be as clear as possible and provide some straight forward information for ensuring your best Hawaii Vacation, at least what you can do on your part.

'When is the best weather for a Hawaii vacation?'

There is no denying Hawaii weather, which ever island, is generally very nice and warm all year around - exceptions can happen. Believe it or not, it can even rain in Hawaii, bigger probability is during winter months, but definitely beats ice, snow and frost on the Mainland! Summer months July and August can be very hot but if your are traveling to Hawaii with kids who still attend school, you really don't have much of a choice. You have to travel to the islands during school vacation!

'When is the cheapest time to visit Hawaii?'

Cheapest air travel tickets to Hawaii, Maui, Kauai, Big Island or Oahu, and car rentals on the islands are during Hawaii's low season months:
April - mid June (except Easter if it falls into April)
Sept - Nov (except Thanksgiving)
Plan your Hawaii for after Labor Day and you will be having an wonderful vacation in Hawaii at a decent price.

And don't let yourself fool...the winter months Dec - March are our high season, when Hawaii beaches + restaurants are crowded, air fares to Hawaii and car rentals are extremely expensive, vacation rentals and hotels are booked way ahead at high rates.

If you are not independently wealthy, best to stay away from a Hawaii Christmas Vacation, when hotels and resorts are booked in advance at 100% occupancy. Air fares to Maui Lihue Airport or Kona International Airport can take a big chunk out of your vacation money. Not to mention outrageous car rental fees during Hawaii vacation at Christmas. When you visit Hawaii, you visit an island, and a limited number of cars for rents are available.

After having read our entire post about best time for Hawaii travel and learned by now that the cheapest time to visit Hawaii is between April and May, it's time to book your Hawaii vacation rental for Spring 2008 now!

Good luck for finding your best rental deal! Aloha, Pua Hawaii Vacations
p.s.
Mahalo to WahineStyle for our Hawaiian post girl. It's beautiful Amber!

Thursday, July 5, 2007

Best Hawaii Youtube videos from Hawaii Vacation Blog

Watch Hawaii Youtube VideosDear Best Hawaii Vacation blog visitors,
We try to make this Hawaii Blog as easy to navigate as possible for you to find the Hawaii information you are looking for.

As we include Hawaii Youtube Videos in our blog posts - helps to get a taste of Hawaii before your get on your actual vacation and gives you something to look forward to - we decided to display these Hawaii Youtube video articles in one post.

This allows you to choose easily which Hawaii video you want to watch before you go on your Hawaii vacation or email to your friends. Here is our current list of Best Hawaii Youtube Videos. If you know of really good other ones, please, share with us and our Best Hawaii vacation blog visitors by leaving a comment.

2011 Hawaii YouTube Videos on Best Hawaii Vacation


Hawaii Hula Festival Videos Best
Big Island Beaches YouTube Videos

2010 Hawaii Youtube Videos on Best Hawaii Vacation

2010 Kona Hawaii Ironman Youtube Preview Video

2009 Hawaii Youtube Videos on Best Hawaii Vacation


Planning a Hawaii Vacation 2010
Share your love for Hawaii with your Friends
Sharks, Rays, Whales on the Most watched Travel Video
Secrets of Hawaii - Hawaii Blow Hole Diver
Hawaii Special Tweets with Monster Wave Surf Video
Humpback Whales are still in Hawaii
Tips to Visit Haleakala Hawaii Stretch DVD

2008 Hawaii Youtube Videos On Best Hawaii Vacation


Hawaii Volcano Videos 2008
Hawaiian Slackkey Guitar
Kona Ironman Accommodations
Maui Surfing Video
Maui is the Best Windsurfing Video
Kayaking in Hawaii

2007 Best Hawaii Videos


Maui is the Best More about Surfing
Maui Surfing Video Biggest Waves in Hawaii
Take a Kauai Helicopter Ride
Best Hawaiian Luau Show
Surfing the Big Waves on Maui
Enjoy Poipu Beach on Kauai Video
Hawaii Ironman Triathlon
2006 Big Island Ironman Video
Whale Watch in Hawaii
Kayaking in Hawaii

Enjoy these Hawaii vacation videos. Have a great Hawaii Vacation. Aloha, Pua Best Hawaii Vacation p.s. Thanks WahineStyle for one of your new pretty Hawaiian calendar girls. Kawika don't forget to let our Hawaii blog visitors know when the new Hawaii calendar for 2008 is available.

Saturday, June 9, 2007

How to have a great Maui vacation and Save Money!

Save Money on your Maui VacationHave a great Maui Vacation and Save Money

Our Best Hawaii Vacation Blog provides you with comprehensive information about all the Hawaiian Islands to make it easier for Hawaii travelers to decide which island they want to visit for their Hawaii vacation, whether they were looking for a cheap Hawaii vacation, coast inexpensive vacation condo Kona Hawaii, family Maui vacation rental Hawaii or a Kailua Oahu Hawaii private home.

Hawaii vacation means to most visitors relaxing on white sand beaches and swimming in the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean when the Mainland is haunted by cold or rainy weather. The best Maui beaches are located on the West Coast from Kapalua to the historic port of Lahaina with lots of Maui resorts. South Maui is another beach attraction area. Kaanapali is the big family oriented resort area with about 3 miles of white sandy beaches. Whalers Village, a seaside mall with about 48 shops and restaurants is very popular among all Maui visitors. For budget accommodations, Maui condos in Honokowai, Kahana and Napili (built in the 70s), offer excellent bargains at a great location, in a short distance from Kapalua and Kaanapali resort areas.

South Maui can be considered the driest and hottest area on Maui. So, it’s very popular with sun lovers. Kihei on a 7-mile stretch of white sand beaches provides Maui’s best vacation bargain. It’s just the opposite of a Maui vacation at Wailea 5-star resort hotels like the Four Seasons and the Grand Wailea Resort Hotel & Spa. Wailea is the ‘playground’ for the celebrities. Wailea has warm, clear water with lots of tropical fish and year-round sunshine and clear blue skies.

If you want to get away from the hustle and bustle, then Makena might be right for you. You can spend a quiet, relaxing vacation on Makena beach. It’s long ways to drive though to any kind of Maui activities. So make sure serenity is what you want for your Maui beach vacation.

As most everybody rents a car for their Maui vacation (there is no public transportation on Maui!), except from the few visitors who take a shuttle to their Maui resort and don’t move from the beach, unless they get a Mai Tai at the beach bar, a trip to famous Haleakala Volcano in Haleakala National Park is a must.

When arriving at Maui Airports Kahului Airport or Kapalua Airport for your Maui vacation, pick up vacation brochures for Hawaii right there. If you want to be better prepared for your best Hawaii vacation, order your free vacation brochures for Maui ahead of your trip or buy the ‘Maui Revealed’ book as your travel companion for your Maui travel.

You want to know what the weather is like right now on Maui, check here:
Kahului Weather Maui See current local weather in Kahalui and weather forecast.
Lahaina Weather Maui See current local weather in Lahaina and weather forecast.
Hana Weather Maui See current local weather in Hana and weather forecast.

Bookmark this page. We will include links on "How to have a great Maui vacation & Save Money". Aloha Pua Hawaii Vacation Guide
p.s.
Toshua from WahineStyle is our Maui Post girl.

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Saturday, May 5, 2007

Hawaiian calendar girls

Hawaiian calendar girlsThis post is sponsored by Hawaii Spring Break Specials

Have you ever wondered where we got those beautiful photos of Hawaiian ladies from?

When we started our Best Hawaii Vacation Blog July last year, we originally had no photos with our Hawaii vacation posts. Oops, that did not work well. Soon visitors to our blog told us to include Hawaii photos because the beauty of Hawaii, the Hawaiian beaches and the Pacific Ocean make people want to come for a vacation to Hawaii.

Well, we contemplated our options and decided for a combination of photos showing the beauty of the Hawaiian Islands and the Hawaiian girls. Having lived in Hawaii ourselves for so long, we had no shortage of photos of Hawaii and tropical images. And we were lucky with the Hawaiian girls photos too. Our good friend Kawika had started his WahineStyle.com website where he has been posting his photos of Hawaiian girls for about two years. We liked his Hawaiian girls calendars a lot and so the idea was born to promote his site by publishing WahineStyle girls as post girls on our Best Hawaii Vacation Blog.

Well, coincidence or not but all the posts with the Wahine Hawaiian girls as post girls are doing great and show up in Google's search engine results. It must be the perfect combination of interesting Hawaiian topic presented by a beautiful Hawaiian girl. This post is meant as a big mahalo to Kawika and the girls from Hawaii. The 2008 calendar is under production. Banners and wallpapers are available as well. Good luck Kawika for your WahineStyle success.

For all those who missed our Hawaiian post girls, see our top posts from Best Hawaii Vacation Blog. Please, vote for the best post and post girl!

Korri for post 'Best Big Island Shopping'
Amber for post 'Hawaii Vacation Insurance'
Kai Tera for post 'How about a Massage in Hawaii'?
Lovia for post Get a taste of Hawaii
We would love to hear from you which Best Hawaii vacation post and Hawaiian post girl you liked best. Mahalo and aloha, Pua Kohala Coast Vacation Guide

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

How to find best Hawaii car rental discount?

May Day is Lei Day in HawaiiAloha to anybody who plans a Last Minute visit to Hawaii.

To cut back on your research time to find your best Hawaii car rental discount for your Hawaii vacation, we include some useful Hawaii car rental links for Hawaii Spring Break Specials:

Discount Hawaii Car Rental Book a discounted Hawaii car rental on-line. Bargain rates on jeeps, convertibles, SUV's, vans and cars through Avis, Budget, Enterprise, Dollar and Thrifty ...

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Which Hawaiian Island is your Favorite Vacation Spot?

Which Hawaiian island is your favorite vacation spot?

After our recent contemplation on the
Kohala Coast weather, we think it’s time to talk about which of the Hawaiian Islands do you like best and why. Obviously, we decided that the Kohala Coast on the Big Island is our favorite. Otherwise we would not write this Big Island vacation blog about it, would we?

However, most of the regular Hawaii travelers have their own special
Hawaiian island they prefer as their tropical getaway. Lots of you love Kauai, the garden island, as it is lush and green, Maui attracts with its surfing beaches and Oahu’s Waikiki Beach Hotels did not lose any of their tourist attraction to Hawaii travelers from around the world, especially from Japan. So, what island is your favorite and why?

We are looking forward to hearing from Hawaii travelers which island they love best for their Hawaii vacation. A hui hou (till next time).
Mahalo and aloha, Pua Kohala Coast Vacation Homes
p.s.
Thanks for taking your time to drop a comment in our Hawaii blog. Just click ‘other’ (no need to sign in with Google), which allows you to add your name and URL (if you have one) or you can even choose ‘anonymous’. Our today's blog post girl from the Kohala Coast is Melanie. How do you like her?

 
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