when will be a low season for Hawaii cruise?

[kGCAL]

Our vacation schedule is flexible. We are planning to do a 7 day cruise, then stay on the islands for another week. Knowing the low season might help us save us on the hotel and cruise fare.

[MFG Cruise Lady]

Contact the Chamber Of Commerce, this way you will get first hand information.:)

[BruceMuzz]

I worked on Cruise Ships and in Hotels in Hawaii for years.

There really isn't a "low season" there. The weather is nearly always great.

There is a short rainy season in late January or early February, so rates do drop a bit then. But I wouldn't recommend going to Hawaii to sit on a cruise ship or in a hotel for 7 days of torrential rains.

 

There is a small dip in tourism when other warm places have "low seasons"; the weeks just before American Thanksgiving and Christmas are generally a bit slower.

 

Bear in mind that Hawaii is always very expensive. To make it worse, the Japanese and Chinese are willing to spend about 10 times more for the same vacation than Americans are. Since Honolulu is only a 4 hour flight from Tokyo, and less than 6 hours from Beijing, the Hawaiiians are far more willing to sell their hotel rooms and cruises to Asians than to you.

[Addictedtwo]

Our vacation schedule is flexible. We are planning to do a 7 day cruise, then stay on the islands for another week. Knowing the low season might help us save us on the hotel and cruise fare.

 

There is no real slow season price wise when you start factoring in summer holidays, spring breaks, christmas, easter etc.

 

Your best bet is find a cruise site that will give you the pricing for a whole year such as NCL.

 

But more importantly you should look at rainy verses dry season and what do you want to do when you get there ie: whale watching.

 

Dry season the waterfalls would be down to a trickle, whale season is mid November onwards.

 

When your spending this amt of money you really need to do some homework before setting dates.

 

You also need to look at flight and hotel costs.

[kapoho2]

Last time I checked, the flight time between Honolulu and Tokyo was closer to 8 hours.

 

A good rule of thumb is that prices tend to be a bit lower during the times when schools are in session.

[KazinSD]

We have a vacation ownership there and when you buy those anywhere else, they talk about high time or red seasons and they give what weeks those are. Our Hawaii purchase was 52 weeks red or high time. There really isn't a significantly slower time there.

[sceptic]

Can't speak about cruises, but the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas, or late May, have both been periods when we've found the islands far less crowded than just a few weeks' later in both cases. For example, on our last trip to Maui our condo complex at Napili was about 35% occupancy when we arrived (early June) but 85% full when we left two weeks later.

 

It's not that you will save a lot of money during the "slow times," but rather you might have more options and opportunities to find accommodations - and places like Lahaina at night are a bit less crowded then.