Award travel to Maui on Alaska Airlines starts at 20,000 miles each way for Super Saver Coach awards

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san diego luxury car rental Even with all these direct flights, several passengers must still connect though Honolulu Airport located on the island of Oahu (which is about a 30 minute flight). In fact, the HNL-OGG route is one of the busiest routes in the U.S. (more passengers fly HNL-OGG than LAX-JFK annually!).  Speaking of JFK, Hawaiian Airlines is launching their new service to Honolulu June 4th.
Award travel to Maui on Alaska Airlines starts at 20,000 miles each way for Super Saver Coach awards, while Choice Awards begin at 27,500 miles each way. American offers their MileSAAver Off-peak award for only 17,500 miles each way as well as their MileSAAver Peak Awards for 22,500 miles each way. Delta still does not offer one-way awards so their redemption options start at 40,000 miles roundtrip for low availability. Hawaiian Airlines offers Coach SuperSaver awards at 20,000 miles each, Coach Saver awards at 30,000 miles and Coach Flex for 40,000 miles. san diego luxury car rental United starts at 20,000 miles each way and US Airways san diego luxury car rental offers Off Peak awards starting at 35,000 miles roundtrip. Basically, you can use miles on any of the alliances to get to Maui. Be sure to check out this post on ways to maximize off-peak award travel on American san diego luxury car rental and US Airways in order to determine if you can take advantage of these lower redemptions to Hawaii.
Fairmont Kea Lani Maui : The Fairmont Kea Lani recently underwent a multi-million dollar renovation and covers 22 beachfront acres near Wailea. All accommodations are either suites or villas, and the smallest rooms are 840 square-foot san diego luxury car rental one-bedrooms (including private lanais). Suites include sofa beds, marble bathrooms with double vanities and soaking tubs. The resort's 37 private villas are two-story three-bedrooms and come with luxury car rentals from the airport and daily breakfast. Other fun amenities include a 140-foot waterslide, three swimming pools (one is adults only), a children's activities center, and four restaurants plus a bakery-deli. The hotel also has the Spa Kealani and access to the Wailea Golf Club. Only Fairmont President's san diego luxury car rental Club Platinum members qualify for free nights (and only one per 10 paid nights). However Fairmont President's Club members receive complimentary in-room internet and local calls, use of Fairmont Fit workout gear and airline san diego luxury car rental mile bonuses on partners which include American, Alaska, Cathay, san diego luxury car rental Etihad, san diego luxury car rental Lufthansa, Singapore and United. Two great perks: san diego luxury car rental no resort fees and complimentary self-parking, so no hidden costs there. Rates start at $499 in March .
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Hyatt Regency Maui Resort Spa : Located on family-friendly Ka'nnapali Beach, the Hyatt Regency has 806 guest rooms and suites with private lanais including some new Respire-by-Hyatt hypo-allergenic guest rooms. The resort has 9 restaurants and bars including Japengo for Asian-Hawaiian fusion, the oceanfront Spa Moana, and activities like the "Drums of the Pacific" sunset luau, and a nightly stargazing class with a resident stargazing expert. The lowest rates we could find in March were $389 for a Resort View Room .  This is a Category 6 hotel , so free night redemptions require a minimum of 22,000 Gold Passport points for standard rooms, 27,000 for club rooms, and 33,000 for suites. The Chase Hyatt Visa gives two free award nights your first year (one for approval and one when you spend $1,000 in the first three months if you're just a new or basic Gold Passport member), and Platinum status san diego luxury car rental as long as you're a cardholder. If you're already a Platinum member when you sign up, you get two free night awards san diego luxury car rental and two suite upgrade awards after your first purchase, and Diamond members receive two suite upgrade free night awards after first purchase.
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Westin Maui Resort and Spa, Kaanapali : This hotel's got 731 rooms and 27 suites with standard Westin amenities like the Heavenly Bed and Heavenly Shower. It's got one of Westin's signature Heavenly Spas and the Westin Kids Club in which kids can participate in water slide races, koi fish feeding and lei-making lessons. The resort has five swimming pools and two water slides, five restaurants and lounges which include their upscale restaurant Tropica Restaurant Bar, and the Wailele Polynesian Luau