• Waipi'o Valley

    19 Ways We Saved Money on Our Hawaiian Vacation

    Traveling to Hawaii can be a once in a lifetime trip. And if you take your whole family there, it can be a trip that you end up paying for many years after you get home. As a matter of fact, a family of 5 (like mine) could easily spend $15,000 or more to go to Hawaii. I knew that we wouldn't want to spend this much money to travel anywhere besides space or maybe Antarctica, so I worked hard to save a lot of money on this trip. I even wrote about how we saved $7,264 on the trip, before we even went. While we were on this trip,…

  • Saving Money in Hawaii

    We Saved $7,264 on Our Trip to Hawaii: Here’s How!

    Hawaii! For many of us, especially people who live in the United States, going to Hawaii is a once in a lifetime, bucket list type of experience. Many people really want to go to Hawaii for the beautiful beaches, tropical scenery, and amazing diversity of climates. For my family and I, Hawaii was definitely on our bucket list. Not necessarily as a once in a lifetime experience, but as one of the many great vacations that we want to take. However, Hawaii is extremely expensive! For two people like my wife and I who make middle-class, teacher salaries, going to Hawaii can almost be prohibitively expensive. I suppose that we…