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The Priceline Deal... go for it Mainland People!
#1
Buy it now... while the offer is still hot!

Guaranteeing no rain in Hilo sounds like a sucker bet if you ask me! If I was a gambler... and was on the mainland.... I would take them up on this offer for sure...

If you look at the people who have claimed their winnings.... often times Hotel and other expenses also ended up being paid for if they booked them through priceline.

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#2
Interesting!
"a half inch or more of rain on more than half of the days"
I'm not sure if that's such a sucker bet, even in Hilo. Assuming a week-long holiday (reasonable, for a destination so far from the mainland) this only would've only happened in December, January and February in the last year - if I'm reading the graphs correctly. And then only in one week or two of each of those months. All you need is just one day with less than half an inch and you miss out. But if you're going anyway...
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#3
Thanks for posting the deal, Damon. There is, of course, a rub. All flights involved in the Hilo packages arrive in/depart from Kona. The rain fall is measured at the airport connected to the package... the Kona airport! Hmmmph. The prices are fairly "reasonable" for these crazy times, so it is worth a look and --hey-- it does rain in Kona...

aloha!
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#4
Kona airport rarely gets rain. It's a long shot at best for a refund but November would be my pick for the best time for rain.
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Originally posted by Haole

Thanks for posting the deal, Damon. There is, of course, a rub. All flights involved in the Hilo packages arrive in/depart from Kona. The rain fall is measured at the airport connected to the package... the Kona airport! Hmmmph. The prices are fairly "reasonable" for these crazy times, so it is worth a look and --hey-- it does rain in Kona...

aloha!


Thanks for the update....

I didn't go as far as to try to book a flight, I only noticed the cities listed.[Wink]

*edit* PRICELINE MANAGER RESPONDS

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#6
exactly, none in Hawai'i. Just for kicks I looked at the rainfall totals at the airports used, and the only time it would have worked is February '06 in Kaua'i, when the dams broke.

You might tell Priceline that booking Hilo packages with KOA arrivals and Hilo hotels is asinine. When there's an international airport 5 minutes from the hotel, you bring people in from more than 2 hours drive away?
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#7
Priceline Manager just clarified and did say the flights went into Hilo.

I linked his response as well as the actual offer for flights into Hilo on my latest blog.

As I said initially people.... GO FOR IT!

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#8
I'd buy for late October...early November. Pretty good odds for rain at that time if you look at the rainfall records for previous years.
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#9
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Originally posted by Damon

Priceline Manager just clarified and did say the flights went into Hilo.


Now I know I'm asking alot, but how about instead of just repeating some pitchman's non answer as if it was an answer, you do a bit of investigating and try and book a "vacation package" under the guarantee with an arrival airport on the Big Island that does not say KOA. That is what Haole was trying to tell you way back on the 23rd.
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#10
Yep, and after Haole posted I went to the site myself and every single Hilo hotel stay flew into KOA and it rejected when I put in ITO.

So what's the deal with this? Did you check it, Damon?
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