JeffW
TUG Member
Hi,
I sort of lucked out and got a Westin Princeville Ocean Resort exchange for Mar 1-8 2024 (using a not that good Westgate Kissimmee week). That's great! Now I'm trying to see if I can pair it with a Maui exchange, either the week (8) before, or week (10) after.
All of my previous exchanges (going back 2 decades) to Hawaii have been Fall ones (late Sept thru early Nov) - with most of them being booked two months or less out. When I did back to back weeks, I don't think it ever took a long time to get a second week to be available. But now being much more peak than off peak time, I'm not sure what availability for that time of the year will be like.
Complicating it the longer I wait to get an exchange, the more I'm worried that airfare will really jump. [It looks like for both paid and award tickets, there are no more change fees. But it's still whatever the ticket cost is at the time of the rebooking.]
Anyone who's traveled to Hawaii similar times have any input: on timeshare availability? airfare (I'm coming from PHL)? Can I afford to wait? Or should I try to firm up soon?
I'm evaluating whether I should pay for lodging, just to lock up plans now.
Oh I should mention that my desired Plan A trip would be a week on Kauai and a week on Maui, with flights of PHL-{OGG|LIH}, {LIH|OGG}-PHL, with a one way inter-island flight between Maui and Lihue. Plan B would be PHL-LIH, HNL-PHL, with inter-island LIH-HNL flight. My travel partner never has been to Hawaii. If we can't do Maui, then we'd take a long weekend on Honolulu, so she can see all the sights there.
Sorry this was long. Thanks for any advice you can provide.
Jeff
I sort of lucked out and got a Westin Princeville Ocean Resort exchange for Mar 1-8 2024 (using a not that good Westgate Kissimmee week). That's great! Now I'm trying to see if I can pair it with a Maui exchange, either the week (8) before, or week (10) after.
All of my previous exchanges (going back 2 decades) to Hawaii have been Fall ones (late Sept thru early Nov) - with most of them being booked two months or less out. When I did back to back weeks, I don't think it ever took a long time to get a second week to be available. But now being much more peak than off peak time, I'm not sure what availability for that time of the year will be like.
Complicating it the longer I wait to get an exchange, the more I'm worried that airfare will really jump. [It looks like for both paid and award tickets, there are no more change fees. But it's still whatever the ticket cost is at the time of the rebooking.]
Anyone who's traveled to Hawaii similar times have any input: on timeshare availability? airfare (I'm coming from PHL)? Can I afford to wait? Or should I try to firm up soon?
I'm evaluating whether I should pay for lodging, just to lock up plans now.
Oh I should mention that my desired Plan A trip would be a week on Kauai and a week on Maui, with flights of PHL-{OGG|LIH}, {LIH|OGG}-PHL, with a one way inter-island flight between Maui and Lihue. Plan B would be PHL-LIH, HNL-PHL, with inter-island LIH-HNL flight. My travel partner never has been to Hawaii. If we can't do Maui, then we'd take a long weekend on Honolulu, so she can see all the sights there.
Sorry this was long. Thanks for any advice you can provide.
Jeff