Holiday to Hawaii in Nov 2026: Prep

It’s a classic trip out to Hawaii. Long gone are the days when we need to do ex-EU B2B same plane turnarounds in Dublin to get a good number of TPs at a half-decent price. If don’t pay a reasonable amount for your flights now, you don’t earn anything close to reasonable amounts of TPs.

Luckily for Vick, we start our trip at Heathrow and we have about a three hour connection at JFK, before we head down to Los Angeles. For a change we arrive in LA at a very reasonable time of just shy of 8pm.

The Vickster couldn’t believe that I had booked the LAX Hilton, which is a mile and a half walk down World Way, so I had to rebook that as a BA Holiday (so I could earn more TPs) at a Hilton much closer to the airport.

We have booked a VRBO place overlooking the sea near to Poipu Beach for 4 nights. The sea turtles apparently come on to the beach in the evening close to where we are staying, so that’s something to look forward to (assuming we can stay awake that late).

Then it’s an internal flight to Honolulu, where we have a Hilton Hawaiian Village Rainbow Tower Diamondhead corner room booked for 4 nights. I have asked whether they can fit us in on the top floor (31st floor) because we will be celebrating my big birthday. It’s where my Hawaiian adventures really started over 10 years ago. It’s one of my favourite places in the world to be.

Then another internal flight to Big Island and another VRBO ocean front apartment for our final 4 nights.

Can’t wait…