Hawaii Vacation Specialist-Chris

As in one of my recent blogs I mentioned that I have moved from Hawaii to New Hampshire.  While we are trying to take in the sights here during our time as my husband is in the military so we could be moving around more and we have gone to maine and connecticut and other towns in New Hampshire itself and stayed in about 3 hotels since we have been here.  I have to say I was shocked at the prices.  Just from dealing with people day in and day out from all over the country and how many have said why are hawaii hotel prices so expensive?  Well truthfully they are not very expensive at all.  I had this big fantasy of a cheap weekend getaway , paying somewhere between $80-$90 a night at the most for a pretty nice hotel.  Boy was I wrong.  I am finding that even the hotel prices up in this area are running about $135-$150 a night for a best western type hotel that don’t even have all the amenties of the hotels in hawaii that offer those same prices.  Mind you also that we also qualify for military rates on some of these and are still paying over $100 a night. I also checked some high end brand name hotels and guess what?  Same price, for instance the hilton for a standard room was $200.00 + tax a night.  So why is it that people repeatedly say hawaii hotel prices are so high and expect the hotels to be a lower rate than their own home town?  I’m still yet to figure that out.  Since my husband always does the hotel bills when we go out of town normally I hadn’t paid much attention, but this time we extended a night and when the desk girl told me how much I started to do a little research on hotels in the area and to my surprise it was much higher than I would have thought.  Not that these hotels are not nice and are not worth the price, but not being from the area and just going off of what I am getting from people around the country I talk to I would have expected them to be a lot lower than what they are.
I’m sure we may be able to find some motel for cheaper and you can still sometimes get a hotel for about $100 a night on Oahu and some outer island hotels for just over $100 a night, but of course you get what you pay for.
This was just a observation I had from our recent stays and then some on the side research into hotel prices in this area (New England area).   So really if you research a "tourist" area as we visited groton and mystic connecticut and hampton new hampshire which are considered I guess "tourist" areas, you will probably find that the hotel prices for a decent place to stay are not much different than hawaii and you have to understand that hawaii is a vacation destination.  Usually in a vacation destination the prices may be a little higher but that is across the board not just hawaii.

~Chris~
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