Whale Watching Package

The Kaanapali Beach Hotel in Kaanapali, Hawaii is offering its 2009 Whale Encounter travel special through 04/04/2009.

Maui’s humpback whale season is right around the corner, and Kaanapali Beach Hotel’s 5-Night Whale Encounter Package is priced just right for two people!

This travel package includes:

• 5 nights in Partial Ocean View accommodations
• Daily buffet breakfast at the Kaanapali Mixed Plate Restaurant
• Compact rental car
• $50 dinner credit at the Tiki Terrace Restaurant
• One 12″ pizza
• Whale Watch Cruise for two
• Admission for two to the Maui Ocean Center
• KBH logo cooler bag with two bottles of water per day
• A disposable camera and two beach towels

The 2009 Whale Encounter is priced at $1585 for five nights and two people. Valid travel dates run through April 4, 2009.

Learn more on their website here.

Honeymoon In Hawaii

Maui’s white sand beaches and exotic flowers are among the most beautiful in the world.

The Kaanapali Beach Hotel is a prime destination for couples seeking to get married or to go on a honeymoon vacation.

The Kaanapali Beach Hotel has a nice oceanfront garden for the wedding ceremony. They also provide a caring, knowledgeable experts to assist with all the event planning details. The staff at the Kaanapali Beach Hotel are committed to helping their guests achieve the most memorable wedding experience possible.

Wedding and honeymoon packages start from just $950 complete for a truly affordable and Hawaiian wedding experience.

Learn more here.

Hawaii’s Volcanoes

While you are in Maui, Hawaii, enjoying the natural beauty of the beaches and the whales, a trip to a nearby volcano will add to the excitement of your vacation.

Maui is the second largest of Hawaii’s islands, behind the Big Island, and both islands are mostly inaccessible from land. When it comes to touring the islands, one of the best ways to take in the full experience is to take one of the available flying tours, by aircraft or helicopter.

Flights leave Maui daily, taking visitors for an aerial tour of Maui and the Big Island of Hawaii. These flights take visitors over rain forests, spectacular beaches including black sand beaches, scenic coastline views, dramatic cliffs, and cascading waterfalls. Tour operators also overfly the world’s largest dormant volcano (Haleakala), located on Maui, and lava flows in an active volcano area (Kilauea) on the Big Island of Hawaii.

If you are traveling to Hawaii for the Whale Encounter, chances are that you will also be able to see the whales as you are flying over Hawaiian waters.

Learn more about Maui’s Flying Tours at the following URLs:

• http://www.volcanoairtours.com/
• http://bigislandvolcanotours.com/hawaiivolcanotour32m.php
• http://www.allhawaiitours.com/

If you decide that you would like to hike Kilauea volcano’s lava flows, there are also tour operators who help make this possible too.

• http://www.hawaiiactivities.com/us/hawaii/maui/sg/2122/ag/9986/
• http://www.hawaiiactive.com/activities/maui-volcano-adventure.html
• http://www.ahawaii.com/tours/oahu/pat/maui/maui%20to%20volcano.htm

Once In A Lifetime

If you only get once chance to go to Hawaii in your lifetime, you should take the opportunity to soak in all that Hawaii has to offer. Take in the whales, the exotic birds and sea life, the beautiful beaches, the Pacific Ocean and Hawaii’s volcanoes, all in the same action packed week.

When people go on vacation, they tend to believe they are getting their best deal, when they have shopped different hotels, vacation homes, and other venues and found the best advertised price. If you think this way, let me tell you now – in no uncertain terms – you are spending more money than you should have to spend.

Three Questions Designed To Save You Money

1. What is the best price you can give me on this room, or whatever?
2. Is that the best you can do?
3. If the answer is No, repeat questions one and two.

Hotels Need To Fill Rooms

More so in a time of recession, like we are in right now, hotels are desperate to fill rooms. If you are at a hotel with a nearly-packed parking lot, the chances of getting a reduced rate on your hotel room is low. However, if the parking lot at the hotel is less than half full, hotel proprietors are more inclined to jump through hoops to get your business.

Be prepared for the hotel proprietor who is willing to call your bluff. If you tell the person behind the desk that you “will go elsewhere” if they do not cut the price, be prepared to walk out the door if the answer is “No.” More often than not, if your request is met with a “No” at a hotel with few cars in the parking lot, and you start moving towards the door to leave, the hotel proprietor will call you back to the desk, before you reach the front door.

If the parking lot is full, chances are good that the hotel proprietor will not give you a better deal, even if you ask and threaten to leave.

The truth is that you don’t even need to threaten to leave, in order to secure a better deal. All you need to do is to simply ask. What is the best price you can give me on that room? And, is that the best you can do?

Is that the best you can do, is a very important question. This is the question that determines what the lowest price really is. The worst that can happen is that you don’t get a discount price… That is why you should never threaten to leave, unless you have every intention of carrying out that threat.

Better Deals Do Not Always Mean Lower Prices

Suppose your hotel proprietor is willing to give you a free breakfast, if you pay the full price on the room. Breakfast for five at McDonald’s generally costs me $15-$20. So a free breakfast meal for staying at one particular hotel still adds up to money saved, so sometimes, full price for a hotel room will save me money.

One of the best lines in my book of tricks is to wait until the transaction is done, then ask for my “breakfast ticket”. Almost universally, the hotel clerk will ask me “what breakfast ticket?” When I respond, I tell the clerk that I always get tickets for a free breakfast when I stay at other hotels. Nine times out of ten, the desk clerk will say “Oh, okay,” and pull a breakfast ticket from under their desk. Free breakfast is good enough for me.

If you are on vacation, as opposed to a business trip, your hotel may have discount coupons available for local attractions. If you are looking to visit a specific attraction, don’t be afraid to ask if your hotel has discount tickets available for that attraction. You might be surprised what you hotel might be able to offer to you.

Vacation Homes

Vacation Home owners are also feeling the pinch of the recession. As such, you should not be afraid or intimidated at having to ask a vacation home owner if you can get a discount or better rental rate.

Personally, after I discovered vacation home rentals, I decided that if I could afford to go on a vacation, I could also afford to rent a vacation home instead of renting a hotel room. Hands down, the vacation home rental industry offers far more value than any hotel chain could think to offer their customers.

God Gave You The Ability To Speak And Ask Questions – Don’t Be Afraid To Ask

On March 4, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States was inaugurated into office. He entered the presidency during the midst of a banking panic. In his inaugural speech, he spoke the words he is most famous for today, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

FDR’s words of wisdom are as relevant today, as they were when they were spoken in 1933. The only thing you have to fear from asking questions of hotel proprietors or other attraction venue operators is fear itself. So long as you don’t make the mistake of trying to strengthen your question with a threat, you have nothing to fear and money to gain, simply by asking three really easy and simple questions.

I cannot reiterate this point enough… Don’t be afraid to ask for a better price or a better deal. As Ben Franklin was so fond of saying, “A penny saved is a penny earned.”