The Perils of Booking your Hawaii Vacation Online

March 25th, 2009

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Booking your Hawaii Vacation on Expedia? Buyer beware
On today’s show we talk about the perils of booking your Hawaii vacation online with some of the major players like Orbitz and Expedia. We explain why sometimes a price quote you get on these sites are either not available or higher when you actually go to try and book it. We also talk about how these sites may be using cookies to present prices that are higher depending on your buying habits wiht teh use of browser cookies.

Listener questions
We answer a couple of podcast listener questions today; one from Zak in Arkansas who wants to know how far in advance he can book his Hawaii vacation and we also have a question from Alan who is planning a trip next year and wants to know if he’s on the right track.

Hawaii Packages
As usual we go over packages that have been booked in the last 24 to 48 hours to take this opportunity to welcome new customers to our Ohana and also congratulate and give kudos to define agents at Hawaii aloha travel notebook these packages. We also had a surprise visitor in our studio and flowers for one of our top agents Kalei.