daventrina
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- Big Island, HI
- Resorts Owned
- HVC (Diamond) Platinum HI/US HGV Max
For us .... the biggest significant cost is the rental car....
Anyone, HI veterans, care to share their typical expenses to Hawaii?
Our room is timeshare so its paid in advance.
We generally eat in. Especially for breakfast. Many Times we'll make a picnic for lunch.
If we eat out we don't eat at the fancy places that everyone's raving about.
We do pick Maui Tacos or L&L (or one of the other island style eateries)
If we plan to eat out many times we'll make it a lunch then have snacks on the lanai for dinner.
When we shop for food, we shop for what's on sale. We have a Safeway/Von's card as well as a Makai card from Foodland.
We did go to Mama's a LONG time ago for lunch way back when the prices were reasonable. We'd never dump $300 for dinner there.
Don't care how great everyone says the food is.
So we don't tend to spend significantly more on food that we do at home (but that is currently in central California).
If we buy activities, we usually package them with a timeshare presentation to significantly reduce the cost.
Usually the biggest bill that we have is for air from the dive shop.
YMMV