Maui Vacation Packages: The Benefits of Combining Air, Car, and Lodging

Are you dreaming of the perfect Maui vacation but the reality of travel expenses has set in? If you want to experience magical Maui and are trying to figure out the best way to make the trip a reality, this article is intended for you.

Choosing one of the available Maui vacation packages is one way to ensure that you can afford a trip to paradise which will allow you to avoid stress about money continually while on the island.

What are the advantages of booking Maui vacation packages?

You can do it all with one booking. Cars, hotels or condos, and flights can be wrapped into one package which saves you time and stress of booking each separately.

There are built in savings from booking all the components at the same time.

Most have online booking engines allowing you to price check the entire package before booking. There also choices of which components you want and don't want.

You can get flights from your city with the most convenient connections all built into the price.

With some of the companies, you can lock in a rate with a low down payment and not have to pay the remainder of the balance until 45 days out from the departure date.

You can add discounted activities to your package from the same booking source.

You can still get frequent flier miles with most packages.

Most Maui travel packages have ranges of hotels and condos from moderate to luxury (at a great savings).

I recently did a comparison between a la carte pricing and that of a United Vacations package containing a Denver to Maui coach roundtrip air ticket, Alamo SUV rental and Fairmont Kea Lani (luxury all-suite hotel) for a basic moderate suite. Here are my findings:

United Vacations: $4,256.84 (including all taxes except car, which is approx $50 extra)

Separately: United Flight $1,429.84 ($714.90 per tkt), Alamo SUV $414.68, and Fairmont Kea Lani Resort $3,793 for a total of $5,637.52

Price difference (even when adding car tax in) = $1,331 savings on Maui vacation packages option. The savings can feed you during your trip or finance some other activities.

After utilizing several package companies over the years, I have found United Vacations to be the best at meeting my needs. United Vacations offers specials to Hawaii continually and has a good amount of daily flights to choose from many connection points. You can also use their real-time booking engine to get current prices and options. Be sure to customize flight options as the least expensive (with more connections) come up first in the listings, but less stops are also available.

Any reputable online booking engine will allow you to get real time pricing on Maui vacation packages. When you visit provider websites be sure to try several sets of dates as pricing can fluctuate greatly depending on travel month (avoid summers for best rates), day of the week (mid week is better) and alternate flight times.

To price your own Maui vacation packages through United Vacations or to see their latest specials, visit www.unitedvacations.com Be sure to check for specials before booking online as they will ask for a promo code at the time of booking.