Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Nov 2021: Day 5 – Honolulu

By Nige on Mon 15 Nov 2021 at 08:02
Story: Tier Point Run to Hawaii in Nov 2021
Type: Post Category: Travel
Tags: Hilton | Honolulu | Trips | USA

Good quality sleep I did get, but just for about 4 hours or so.  I was wide awake at midnight and decided to do some covid tests and see whether I could check in for my flights back home.

By the time I had stopped messing around it was coming on for 4am and that meant the first Starbucks store was about to open, so I headed down that way.  I was super careful this morning about giving vehicles extra clearance, even when I was allowed to cross – I don’t want to have another near-impact experience!

It’s going to be a seriously long day today.  My first flight doesn’t leave Honolulu until 23:50 so that means I will have been up as good as 24 hours by the time I sat on board that flight to LA.  I need to do some negotiating with the hotel to see how much extra time I can get in my room.  I tried to move to an earlier flight, but AA wanted to charge me extra for the privilege.

The latest complimentary checkout I could get was 2pm.  I had to pay a small additional charge to extend my stay in my room until 6pm, which I thought was worth doing.

I filled in my Verifly flight from JFK back to LHR and got my green tick.  Printed a few docs out in the lobby including my test results, just in case anyone asked for them.  I couldn’t check in on line with AA for my flight back to LAX though, so I will have to do that at the airport.

The rest of the day was fairly uneventful – the rain largely stayed away and it remained warm and a little humid.

I decided to have breakfast in the onsite restaurant again.  Primarily because I got $15 food and beverage (F&B) credit per day and it doesn’t carry over, so that means you have to spend at least $15 each day to get the full benefit out of it.  Another breakfast burrito for me…

I walked down to the HHV again and picked up my second Starbucks of the day – minimal queue today.  It was still fairly business around the beach area.

After heading back to the hotel for a rest(!), I walked over to Ala Moana mall for opening, partly to see what shops were open and to get Panda Express for lunch.  I noticed that the Microsoft store seems to have closed down – just Apple left from that perspective.

With the extra hours I secured in my room, I decided I needed to try and get some sleep this afternoon.  The alarm woke me up at 5pm so I got some benefit from getting into bed!

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