Traveling on Hawaiian Airlines feels more like a bus ride than a flight. The seats are hard, don't recline and tightly packed. However, they do a magnificent job of keeping on schedule, and unloading and loading passengers with little fuss. We were served juice on all our flights, even the short ones. Our flight arrived in O'ahu on time, and our bags were on the carousel, so we had no complaints.
This time our Jeep was a upgrade from the one in Kaua'i which had been a tired, no frills, soft top Jeep with hand crank windows. This Sahara version seemed bigger, had a hard top with more options (and more likely to guzzle fuel - we've been getting 20-22mpg including the 4WD trips). Our 4 pm departure dumped us into the middle of the Honolulu rush hour - 6 lanes of creeping traffic on the 'H1'. What a wake up to reality since we'd encountered relatively little traffic congestion on either the Big Island or Kauai..
A few comments about the highways on Oahu. The morning TV news had updates every 10 minutes regarding Honolulu traffic, but we hadn't paid much attention. We should have as the traffic affected our daily plans on Oahu
H1 is a 28 mile long interstate highway that runs east and west through Honolulu on the south coast of Oahu. H2 is is 8 miles long running from H1 at Pearl City west of Honolulu up the central valley to the Army's Schofield Barracks at Wahiawa. H3 is 16 miles running from H1 from the Pearl Harbor Area to East side of Oahu with a tunnel through the mountains H201 is a 5 mile bypass of H1 before reaching Honolulu. During rush hours, traffic is stop and go where these highway merge.
We use a map app on the cell phone for directions which is a great help until the nice lady throws in an erroneous direction telling you to make an immediate 'U turn', overriding the previous (correct) instruction to continue for 8M! I have to question why the app opted to use a female voice since men notoriously tend to ignore instructions from a woman. It was a relief to finally arrive at our last 'home' of the trip on the north shore after another long day.
Our place in O'ahu was a disappointment after the others which had been 'above and beyond all expectations'. The online photos depicted a nice kitchen/eating arrangement and bathroom, but the rest of the unit didn't live up to its potential - 2 sliding doors, but only 1 with a screen and curtain. The bedroom, a rather dark, cramped space, had ventilation via a cutout at the top of one wall that joined a small, unused space with a couple of windows. What the photos hadn't shown was the almost empty the kitchen cupboards and drawers - 1 7" well scratched Teflon skillet, ditto a 2 qt sauce pan and a pasta pot, minimal dishes and cutlery, and a rice paddle and a spatula for utensils. Our complaint about having only 1 mug did supply 4 more in the morning, and perhaps I should have complained about the condition and lack of kitchenware, but solved the problem by buying an inexpensive non-stick pan at the store. Perhaps most people on vacation eat out. We should have done more research before booking, although all the reviews were 4-5 stars.
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