Mainland friends planning Hawaii vacations frequently ask me to recommend hotels here. My first suggestion is to advise against any of the several elegant and pricey “resorts”. Their whole marketing...

The trend continues. By that, I mean the trend toward more and more of those maddening fees that squeeze more and more out of the unsuspecting public. This time around,...

It’s really quite an amazing phenomenon: the travel industry continues to find ways to extract more revenue from their customers in unfair and outrageous ways. For instance, whacking you with...