Cheap Big Island Accommodations?

by Jeanie
(Boston)

HELP !!! We are from Boston and have never been to Hawaii - we will be staying on Oahu for a week at the military hotel there - we would like to fit in a trip to your island and see the Mauna Kea observatory/telescope at night - we now realize this means staying overnight on your island - what do you recommend? One tour group said we could take a flight out of Honolulu to Waimea Airport and they would meet us there .. take us on the tour - but we would have to stay overnight - where do you recommend we stay? We do not have the means to stay at an expensive resort - are there reasonable hotels in Waimea or Kohala? Do you recommend doing this a different way? Is there a tour group you recommend that do the whole package? thank you for any help you can give us,

Jeanie

Aloha Jeanie,

I don't really know of a tour group that does the whole package. As far as cheaper places to stay, you definitely should be able to find something for about 50-60 a night, whether it is a vacation rental, or I think that is about what the Kamuela Inn in Waimea charges. Vacation rentals are nice though, there are a couple listed on our site for 75 a night, Craigslist is good also. Finally there is a hostel in Kona that runs like 25 a night per person, again. So any way you look at it you are spending about 50-60 dollars.

Here is some links

Kamuela Inn http://www.hawaii-inns.com/hi/wai/kin/index.html

Vacation Rental http://www.bigisland-bigisland.com/Big-Island-condos.html

http://honolulu.craigslist.org/big/vac/

Hostel http://www.alternative-hawaii.com/affordable/kona.htm




Let me know how this works out, and any other help I can give. Also can I make a page out of this question to help others?

Aloha David