…Or get free First Class flights for staying at the Hilton
Are you feeling the leafy green shoots emerging from a post-lockdown world? As one of the oldest medical journals, The Lancet, puts it, “COVID-19 will continue but the end of the pandemic is near.” It says covid will become another recurrent disease that health systems and societies will have to manage, like a bad influenza season.
Then there’s the horrible situation in Eastern Europe. Just when you start looking to lands afar post-lockdown, lands afar suddenly become less attractive for some. Our hearts go out to those affected and are optimistic it will end soon.
Naturally, with the “pandemic” over, many of you are likely reading this with itchy feet, and want to get away from it all — but perhaps without having to go to a foreign land. One obvious answer is Hawaii. There’s never a bad time to go to the land of hula and pineapples. So this month we came up with a deal for the savvy premium traveler to stay at the Four Seasons while staying in the United States, as well. If you want a volcanic bang for your buck, we’ve found it. It involves United Vacations.
How to Save $10,940 / 40%
at the Four Seasons Hualalai
Let’s start with the fun one. If you book the lowest-category room at the Four Seasons Hualalai in Kona on the Big Island for seven nights, you’re looking at a price tag of $24,360, as you can see here:
Tack on a couple of First Class round-trip tickets on United from Los Angeles to Kona, and you’re looking at another $2,798.
So, for a total of $27,158, you get the Four Seasons and two First Class tickets when you buy them separately, as most people do. But (drumroll on coconuts, please), book them through United Vacations and the price tag is only $16,218, as you can see here:
How Kona This Be True?
You’re not the only one thinking about Hawaii right now. People want revenge on lockdowns (revenge travel, that is). They’re busting to get out. But, when booked directly, hotels are charging up to 50% more than normal given the limited supply and pent-up-demand. We remind you of this Hawaii strategy every so often, most recently here and here.
So, the savings you can get by packaging up a deal are worth mentioning again, with fresh samples shown in the chart below. These airline-hotel packages are negotiated way ahead of time so they don’t always reflect shifting events in the market.
How to Get 2 Free First Class Tickets to Hawaii
by Booking Hilton using United Vacations
Four Seasons isn’t the only example of a package deal. It costs $7,745 to stay seven nights at the Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Big Island. That is… the cost for this hotel ONLY is more than a United Vacations package that includes BOTH air and hotel.
So for $7,745, you get the hotel and only the hotel. But what if I told you that you could get that hotel (the same room), PLUS two First Class tickets from Los Angeles on United Airlines, for $6,297. That can be the case if you book using United Vacations. So you’re getting two First Class flights for free, right?
Or, “less than free,” actually.
Look at it this way: You can get paid around $1,500 to fly in First Class.
So, depending on your budget and how itchy you are to get out of town but not venture out of the country right now, FCF has you covered.
By the way, this doesn’t work everywhere all the time. It takes some time on the United Vacations site and comparing prices on other sites, like those of Hilton and Four Seasons. But so what… if it takes you an hour or two to save 10 grand or get two First Class tickets for free, then that’s volcanic bang for the buck.