Trip to Maui and Big Island
Trip - 14-Dec-2022 to 20-Dec-2022 For Mrudula, Yash and me, this was our second trip to Hawaii. The previous trip was in Oahu island. This trip was with our close friends Prasad, Aditi and their sweet children Soumya and Sid. Flights from Austin - there is no direct flight from Austin, Dallas or Houston to Maui Island (OGG airport). Its important to search through different travel sites before getting reasonable flight tickets. We were used to searching from expedia or costco. Luckily, got cheaper tickets through Kayak - $417 per person with Delta airlines. Ticket from Austin to Maui was having a stop in Atlanta, but it was still less than half the price that we could get through any means. Still a great deal for the time. Flights within the Hawaii island - we had reserved a day to see active volcano region in Big island. Big island has 2 airports - KONA (at west) and HILO or ITO (on east side). The tickets to Kona were cheaper, but it 2-3 hrs drive for the volcano private t...