Don’t be fooled about getting a last-minute deal during peak season

June 26th, 2009

Ever since the economy has taken a nosedive you’ve probably been hearing how that has affected the travel industry.  If you have been following what’s happening in the Hawaii travel market, it gets even more complicated. In addition to the economic woes, fears about swine flu and Korea missile firings have added to the tourism slump fears. While there’s no question that we have seen the downturn, there is still high demand for Hawaii vacations and if you’re traveling during peak times you have to still have to plan in advance.

Here at Hawaii-Aloha.com, we had a much better May and June than we had anticipated and the recent numbers from the Hawaii visitors Bureau support the trending we see. May was the first time Hawaii did not see double-digit declines all year so this may mean that the decline is slowing.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that you’ll be able to get a last-minute deal because of the poor economy if you plan to vacation during peak travel times.  For example, we’ve been receiving many calls for July and there are just no deals to be had.  Airfares from the West Coast are $500-$600 which is almost twice what the airfare wars just a few months back for dates in July.  The reason for this is mostly because of the air lift and just supply and demand. The airlines can only guesstimate how much airlift they need. Its been very hard to predict what would happen because of the economy so I think they were very prudent with their inventory.  Additionally, keep in mind there are only so many seats on each airplane that have a cheaper airfares.

In some cases hotels are getting sold out in all categories for last-minute bookings. Two days ago (June 24th) a customer called me to book the Outrigger Waikiki on the Beach (one day before they were arriving) and it was sold out in all categories. That being said there are still very good deals to be had off peak.  We have seen some unbelievable airfares for October and blow out deals all over the place for other times during the year when folks are not traveling as much.  I urge you to  book in advance as the cheap deals won’t be there when you go back to look a few weeks  before your travel.

If you want to save yourself time, just give me a call at 1-800-843-8771. I specialize in  finding those deals for you and at the same time deliver the customer service that you  deserve.

Just say Aloha Bruce, and I’ll hook you up whit the best deal possible.
 

Posted by: AlohaBruce

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