CashEddie
TUG Member
Hello Folks,
I'm in the process of thinking through some options for our first trip to Hawaii. I know nothing about the island(s) and I see that Marriott has 5 timeshares in Hawaii. We would most likely want to do two weeks there since the trek for us living on the east coast would be about 12+ hours and think the longer stay would be worth the effort getting there.
I have a few questions below:
1. What is considered the "prime" season in Hawaii? I understand that its a year round destination but want to get an idea of the "ultra prime" times to either targer or avoid.
2. Out of the 5 Marriott TS resorts in Hawaii, which one is considered the best? I know this is a very subjective question and that each resort would provide a different experience depending on what you are looking for. I've been reading posts on this board and see a lot of discussions on the "Ko Olina" resort but don't see as much discussions on the other 4. is the Ko Olina resort the newest? Best overall experience? Just curious.
3. We are semi-flexibile in the times we can travel. This trip would take place in 2014 or afterwards. We would prefer to visiti during the summer months because of school schedules but could travel during other times if the summer months were times to avoid at all costs.
4. We have a gold Grande Vista week and a Grand Chateau platinum week. We would be using of these weeks to trade into Hawaii. Both are 2 BDR with lock offs. I was thinking of reserving Thanksgiving week of 2013 for Grand Vista and using that to trade for 2014 summer week. Is that a reasonible trade or should we be looking at another strategy?
5. Where do we fly into to get to the resort? Say we stay at Ko Olina, would we fly into Honolulu and then fly to the island where Ko Olina is? We live in Washington, DC Metro area so have access to 3 major airports.
Thanks for any advice.
I'm in the process of thinking through some options for our first trip to Hawaii. I know nothing about the island(s) and I see that Marriott has 5 timeshares in Hawaii. We would most likely want to do two weeks there since the trek for us living on the east coast would be about 12+ hours and think the longer stay would be worth the effort getting there.
I have a few questions below:
1. What is considered the "prime" season in Hawaii? I understand that its a year round destination but want to get an idea of the "ultra prime" times to either targer or avoid.
2. Out of the 5 Marriott TS resorts in Hawaii, which one is considered the best? I know this is a very subjective question and that each resort would provide a different experience depending on what you are looking for. I've been reading posts on this board and see a lot of discussions on the "Ko Olina" resort but don't see as much discussions on the other 4. is the Ko Olina resort the newest? Best overall experience? Just curious.
3. We are semi-flexibile in the times we can travel. This trip would take place in 2014 or afterwards. We would prefer to visiti during the summer months because of school schedules but could travel during other times if the summer months were times to avoid at all costs.
4. We have a gold Grande Vista week and a Grand Chateau platinum week. We would be using of these weeks to trade into Hawaii. Both are 2 BDR with lock offs. I was thinking of reserving Thanksgiving week of 2013 for Grand Vista and using that to trade for 2014 summer week. Is that a reasonible trade or should we be looking at another strategy?
5. Where do we fly into to get to the resort? Say we stay at Ko Olina, would we fly into Honolulu and then fly to the island where Ko Olina is? We live in Washington, DC Metro area so have access to 3 major airports.
Thanks for any advice.