10 Best Hawaii vacation tips

Dear Hawaii visitors,

Summer is coming to an end on the Mainland with cooler, rainier days announcing fall season for most of our 50 states. NOT so for Hawaii. Hawaii vacation in sunny warm weather all year round becomes again the top topic for family vacation plans for this fall and winter season. Our '10 Best Hawaii vacation tips' were put together to make sure you and your family will enjoy your best Hawaii vacation on your next trip to Hawaii.

When preparing our today's Hawaii travel and vacation tips and ideas, I became fully aware that this is actually what our 'Best Hawaii Vacation Blog' is all about: sharing our travel and vacation tips with all of you who are getting ready to visit Hawaii. It got me by surprise that we already listed 63 posts under 'Hawaii vacation tips' among them such interesting topics (randomly chosen) as:

How to find peace in Hawaii?

5 Things to pack for your Hawaii vacation

Hawaii Volcanoes Videos

How to visit Haleakala on Maui?

So, what's so different with our today's post from all the 'old' Hawaii vacation tips? I'd say Hawaii visitors will get basic, easy-to-follow Hawaii vacation tips at one glance. Here are our '10 Best Hawaii vacation tips' to make your Hawaii vacation easier, healthier, safer and cheaper:

1. Take snacks with you to the beach or on your island trips

Snacks like homemade sandwiches at your vacation home kitchen or granola bars, trail mix or fresh fruit. Don't count on finding restaurants or affordable food places on your island adventures. Bring your snacks, safe big, and of course, you won't go hungry!

2. Take plenty of bottled water with you

when going to the beach or on road trips around the Hawaiian islands. To buy a single bottle of water on the road will cost you much more than a 6-pack at WalMart or worse, you might not even find a place to buy water. The hot Hawaii sun can dehydrate you within 1/2 hr!

3. Stay away from soft drinks

With their high sugar content, soft drinks will make you actually make you thirstier, plus bottled water is generally healthier and cheaper.

4. Get a small cooler on your Hawaii vacation

Most Hawaii hosts offer small coolers to their guests anyways. If not, ask them. Otherwise when you stay at a hotel, we recommend to buy a small cooler at WalMart for about $5. It will keep your food and water cool + fresh, especially when on road trips or on a hidden beach.

5. Stay out of Hawaii sun between 11am - 2pm

When hanging out on our Hawaiian beaches, try to find a shady spot to settle down, especially during midday hours. You can even find at WalMart a cheap beach umbrella for sun protection. A hat (best with neck protection) and high SPF sunscreen are a must for Hawaii. Always reapply sunscreen after swimming, even when sunscreen says 'waterproof' on label. Make sure that your kids stay protected from strong Hawaiian sun. One can even get a sunburn in Hawaii from sun reflection!

6. Don't keep valuables in your car

I lot of Hawaii visitors think valuables are safe under their front seats when they go to the beach or for a hike. Unfortunately they are not. This is where thieves always look first. Carrying a backpack will help you keep your valuables safe.

7. Visit Hawaii restaurants at lunch time

Just like on the Mainland, visiting a restaurant in Hawaii at lunch is a great idea for vacation and can save you lots of money. The amount of food you will get is mostly the same as for a dinner entree at night but it's mostly 1/3 or even half the price of the dinner meal. No reservation is necessary and often you don't have to wait for your favorite ocean front table. If it's a very popular restaurant, you might want to show up before 12 noon to avoid the busy lunch crowd.

8. Carry your Hawaiian Island map

and your Hawaiian Island Revealed guidebook with you on road trips, so you will always know know where you are and what to see and to do in the area. Never go on a road trip without your bathing suit, a towel and a beach mat!

9. Talk to Locals

Talk to your Hawaii vacation rental hosts, shop assistants at markets or when you meet people. They happily share with you: best beaches in the area, affordable local restaurants, farmers markets for fresh fruits and more.

10. Hang loose, sit back and relax

Finally, relax and let go of your Mainland tension. No tight schedules in Hawaii! Give yourselves plenty of time to enjoy the ocean waves, the balmy breezes, a good book or just do NOTHING!

If you have more Hawaii vacation tips, please, share with our Hawaii blog visitors. The more, the better. Mahalo and aloha, Pua Hawaii vacacations

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A visit to Waikoloa Village

Hawaii Vacation with Kids

Have fun at Christmas in Hawaii
Hiking in Hawaii

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Best Hawaii Sunset Photos

Dear Best Hawaii Vacation visitors,

Our last post 'June is the month of Hawaii sunsets' and our call for your best Hawaii sunset photos triggered a nice response with beautiful Hawaii sunset photos. Without any further ado, here is our display of unique Hawaii sunset photos with information about the Hawaii location and the person who took the sunset photo:

Hawaii Sunset Photos in Kailua Kona Big Island Hawaii

These very unique Hawaii sunset photos were taken by Barbara the owner of Kona Ocean View.










Hawaii Sunset Photo Kealakekua

This sunset photo was taken by Viviane the owner of Bellevue Kona Bed and Breakfast


Hawaii Sunset Photo in North Kohala Hawaii Big Island

This sunset photo in Mahukona was taken by Bobi the owner of Kohala Coast Adventures


Hawaii Sunset Photos South Kohala Coast

These Hawaii sunset photos were taken by Kalia the owner of Hale O Pueo in Kohala Estates.






Hawaii Sunset photo Puako Beach

This photo was taken by Bruce the owner of Hale Hoaloha Puako condo



Hawaii Sunset photos Waikoloa South Kohala

These photos were taken by Andy and Diana from Hale O Malia in Waikoloa




Hawaii sunset photo Wood Valley East Coast

This photo was taken by Missie from Big Island cottage in Wood Valley

Hawaii Sunset Photo Maui

This photo was taken by Julie the owner of Ka Hale Ulu Wehi O'Maui


Hawaii Sunset Photo East Coast

This Hawaii sunset photo was taken by John the owner of Kohala Gallery

What a wonderful way to end our display of Best Hawaii Sunset Photos. Much mahalo again to everybody who submitted a Hawaii sunset photo.

We are certain that we are not the only people who love those sunset photos from Hawaii. If you are interested to use any of these photos on your Hawaii website, please, be aware that the Hawaii sunset photos are copyright material. In most cases when you ask the site owners for permission to use a certain photo, you will get it, especially when you mention your sunset photo source.

To everybody else who enjoyed the photos, let us know which of our Hawaii sunset photos gets your vote as 'My Best Hawaii Sunset Photo'. Looking forward to your comments. Mahalo and aloha, Pua Hawaii Vacations

Hawaii Photos related articles

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Get a Taste of your Big Island Vacation with Big Island Photos
June is the month for sunsets in Hawaii

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Why write guest post for Best Hawaii Vacation?

Hau'oli Makahiki Hou to all our Best Hawaii Vacation blog visitors,
The New Year 2010 is 7 days old. Not too late for plans and resolutions. for 2010. Make your dream of a Hawaii vacation come true. Our Planning a Hawaii Vacation 2010 got out in time for Christmas and New Year's when meeting with friends and family for making vacation plans for 2010.

Hawaii vacation rental hosts adjusted to the economic slowdown. We believe there will be again vacation rental bargains out there like our $70/nt. at a wonderful 1Bd/1Ba Maui condo, 1000 steps to beach, in September. Hawaii experienced a big revival for the winter season. We recommend to make Hawaii travel plans for spring 2010, starting April, to get the benefits from best Hawaii air fares, car rentals, hotel rooms or best Hawaii vacation rental rates.

Today's post is an invitation for all the Hawaii vacation and travel businesses to promote their Hawaii business without spending extra money. Yes, you can advertise with Best Hawaii Vacation blog at the lowest Hawaii advertising rates but there is even a way to get some extra attention and traffic to your Hawaii site for free by writing a guest author article for our Hawaii vacation blog. Pretty much anything about Hawaii, Hawaii vacation and Hawaii travel goes. No writer's skills are necessary. This is our personal blog about our love with Hawaii. Write a guest article about what you love in Hawaii, what our Hawaii visitors can do and see on their vacation on the Hawaiian Islands.

Benefits of writing a guest post on Best Hawaii Vacation blog

1. Increasing traffic to your Hawaii vacation related website

2. Talking to your target audience for 'Hawaii vacation'

3. Demonstrating your expertise in the field you write about

4. Online exposure before new groups of people

5. SEO benefits of your article in Google search

6. Free advertising and almost instant Internet promotion

Let us help you make writing a Hawaii article on Best Hawaii Vacation blog your FREE marketing tool for 2010. Please, email us your post. Best wishes for all Hawaii businesses. Aloha, Pua Hawaii Vacations

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Best Place for your Hawaii Ad

Our Best Hawaii Vacation blog offers affordable advertising options to Hawaii, Hawaii vacation or travel and vacation related businesses. The best ad place for your vacation business just opened up on top of our sidebar! Take advantage of our top search engine results in Google for Hawaii vacation + Hawaii travel related keywords (see below).

Advertising options on our Best Hawaii Vacation blog:

Blog Ad Option 1 - Text Link Ad on Sidebar at $15/mo. (3-mo. min.)

Best Hawaii Vacation blog offers Hawaii travel and vacation advertisers a unique opportunity to purchase a text link to their web site. Restrictions apply, “no-follow” is used for each paid link, and each link is subject to approval. You may advertise your Hawaii or other travel or vacation related business with a short 4-5 word text link ad at $15/mo. (3-mo. minimum). Save $30 when signing up for 1 year at our 'Economy' ad rate of $150/yr.

Blog Ad Option 2 - Logo Ad on Sidebar at $20/mo.(3-mo.min.)

Our Best Hawaii vacation blog visitors are mainly consisting of people who are planning a visit to Hawaii and are researching Hawaii accommodations, hotels, activities, events, travel, air fares and car rentals. This is a great opportunity to promote your Hawaii business. Your logo ad will be displayed in the top of the right sidebar above Feedburner links. It's a 3-mo. minimum for your logo link. Save $60 when signing up for 1 year at our ad 'Logo' rate of $180/yr.

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• Displayed on index page and every archive and blog post page


• Your link URL with logo - 'No-follow' tag applies
  

In addition to advertising here on our Best Hawaii Vacation blog, please, view advertising options for your Hawaii business on our well established Hawaii vacation sites KohalaCoastWeb and HawaiiAffordable Check out our very affordable Hawaii Economy and Premium ad listing offers.

Please, contact us for advertising your Hawaii vacation or travel business on our Hawaii blog. Mahalo, Pua Hawaii Vacations
p.s.
We appreciate your interest in writing a guest post on our blog about best Hawaii vacation themes. Write us an email and submit your Hawaii story for review. Sorry no advertising articles. If approved, we will publish your Hawaii article with your short bio and link to your Hawaii blog or website URL for FREE!

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Please, note that Google search results may vary from week to week.

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The Power of Twitter for Best Hawaii Vacation Blog

You want to know how our twittering is going? After our recent joining of Twitter and our call for 'Twitter about Hawaii Join us', we owe our visitors an update on our new Twitter career of Best Hawaii Vacation blog. Honestly, I had never expected to get on the Twitter track so fast. 

We are now following over 100 Twitter accounts, actually mostly Hawaii based Twitterers.  It could be many more, if we wouldn't be so selective. Remember as pointed out on 'Twitter about Hawaii', our main purpose is NOT the one of Ashton Kutcher or Britney Spears to accumulate the most Twitter followers. 

On the opposite, I'd like to follow relevant Hawaii related tweets which I consider of value for our Best Hawaii Vacation visitors. I am very happy to see such Hawaii travel related sites like Hawaiian Airlines, Alaskan Airlines, Beat of Hawaii, Honolulu Star Bulletin and so many other Hawaii sites as our Twitter followers.

This allows me to stay closely connected with Hawaii happenings, events and news through daily tweets from my followers and at the same time spread the word with my own Hawaii tweets beyond the 'What are you doing question?' Follow my daily tweets on the side bar in my Twitter window.

Last but not least, much mahalo to Evelyn from Homespun Honolulu blog, the hostess of the monthly Carnival of Aloha, who started an avalanche among the Hawaii twitterers by posting my Twitter article in the top of her 'Tweet Tweet Rocking Carnival'. If intersted in Hawaii, hop over, you will find lots of exciting Hawaii related articles. 

The following weeks will have to prove the power of Twitter for Best Hawaii Vacation blog. Looking forward to your tweet tweets. Aloha, Pua @PuaHawaii + Hawaii Vacations

Twitter about Hawaii Join Us

Dear Best Hawaii Vacation Blog visitors,

Yes, Twitter mania has reached us too. Who wants to miss out on its benefits? After decent reserach I noticed it's a great way to receive daily updates on Hawaii and share the valuable ones with you, our blog visitors interested in their best Hawaii vacation deals. The start is made. Within a short time of two days we got 27 followers, mainly from Hawaii related businesses like Hawaiian Airlines, which promise daily tweets about air line specials.

Admittedly, I don't intend with my Twitter account to compete with Ashton Kutcher and his record of over a million followers. To be honest I really don't see any sense in joining Britney Spears or Ashton Kutcher on Twitter like other blog visitors who proudly report when they receive their follow notice from Britney Spears or Ashton Kutcher. Guys, get down to earth again. Being followed by Ashton Kutcher on Twitter is not like winning the lottery neither is to twitter like Ashton Kutcher. Ashton probably pays somebody to do the twitter business for him anyways. Oh well that's the big difference of us to the celebrities.

Bottom line of this 'Twitter about Hawaii Join Us' post is that I'd like to invite anybody who has great Hawaii vacation and travel info to share with Best Hawaii Vacation blog to join me on twitter. I myself will not go overboard with tweets but you will find my daily Hawaii tweet on my side bar under the 'Follow me on Twitter' invitation. So, let's twitter! Aloha, Pua Hawaii Vacation

p.s.

FYI: We had to take steps to ensure the copyright of our 'Best Hawaii Vacation' blog after several attempts made by blog owners to 'steal' entire posts, index page and photos for top search results in Google. Google took immediate action after we reported the fraud and removed the blogs violating copyright. Now with our copyright notice on the blog, we are able to take legal action against blog fraud.

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Hau'oli Makahiki Hou

After a warm Mele Kalikimaka to all our Best Hawaii Vacation blog visitors on December 20 and the good news of the reopening of Mauna Kea Beach Hotel on the Kohala Coast of the Big Island a few days later, it's time for spreading 'Aloha' for the New Year 2009.

When you are in love with Hawaii and the islands, you pick up as many Hawaiian phrases as you can. As 'Mahalo' and 'Aloha' already come easily over your lips, let's practice a new, a little bit more complicated phrase: Hau'oli Makahiki Hou or Happy New Year. If you belong to the lucky ones who currently enjoy their Hawaii vacation on a warm white sand beach sipping a Mai Tai, why don't you share this total happiness with friends and people you meet in Hawaii by wishing them 'Hau'oli Makahiki Hou'!

Here are our Hau'oli Makahiki Hou wishes:

May Hawaii become your dream vacation for 2009, with the scents of tropical flowers caressing you and beautiful hula dancers telling their ancient Hawaiian stories for memories of a lifetime!

Warm aloha from Pua and Keoki Hawaii Vacations and Affordable Hawaii

p.s.

We thank Kawika and the beautiful Hawaiian girls from WahineStyle for their photo support of our Hawaii blog throughout the year 2008. Roxy, our today's Hawaii post girl keeps this nice tradition alive for the New Year 2009.

Tags: Hawaii, Hawaii vacation, Hawaiian girls

Hawaii Blogs

With holiday season of Thanksgiving and Christmas 2008 approaching fast, our highest season for Hawaii vacation and travel is coming up. No wonder that most Hawaii blogs are writing posts about the fun of celebrating holidays in warm, sunny Hawaii. A Christmas vacation in Hawaii is on many travelers' wish list for Christmas.

Well, Christmas is about giving and receiving gifts. Recently, our Best Hawaii Vacation blog received an early Christmas gift. Alene from True Aloha Blog nominated our 'Hawaii blog' for the 'I Love Your Blog award! What a nice surprise. We are truly honored! We thought this is the most wonderful idea to say mahalo to our Hawaii blog ohana for staying in touch through blog visits and comments. Last time we did that, it was at our 1st Hawaii Blog Carnival over a year ago.

So, here are our nominees of favorite Hawaii blogs, in alphabetical order to be fair to everybody:

Beat of Hawaii and Beyond: A travel Chronicle from Hawaii http://beatofhawaii.com/

Da Kine Hawaiian Aloha http://hawaiianalohashirts.blogspot.com/

Hawaiirama http://hawaiirama.com/

Hawaii Vacation Blog http://www.hawaii-aloha.com/blog/

Homespun Honolulu - A Honolulu Blog http://homespunhonolulu.com/

The Right Blue - Recounting a Lifetime of Ocean Devotion http://therightblue.com/

True Aloha - Everything about Hawaii and Aloha http://truealoha.com/blog/

Remember what goes around, comes around. Here are the 'rules' for the recipient:

* Display your award.
* Link back to the person who gave you the award.
* Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
* Put links to those blogs on yours.
* Leave a message on the blogs of the people you’ve nominated.
* Enjoy your award!

We decided for Hawaii blogs on our blog award. Now, we are curious about your blog choices for 'I love your blog' award! Let us know in a comment when your blog award is live. Mahalo, Pua and Keoki Hawaii Vacations and Affordable Hawaii

Tags: Hawaii blogs, Best Hawaii blogs, favorite Hawaii blogs

Hawaii Articles

Hoooray, hooray, it's our Blog Birthday!

I guess a 2nd blog birthday is reason enough to celebrate. All our fellow Hawaii bloggers know that it takes commitment and dedication to keep writing quality articles about Hawaii for tourists who plan their special Hawaii vacation. Thanks to all of you who visited our Best Hawaii Vacation blog in the past, made the blog more interesting with comments and guest posts and even followed our invitation to Vote for the Best Hawaii Article.

We could have had probably a bigger outcome by advertising our invitation to vote for the best article in each of our blog articles which followed the post on June 12. That's what marketing is all about. Looks like I was more concerned about writing more Hawaii content related articles like 'Big Island or Kaui?' and forgot to promote the vote article. Hey, nobody is perfect. Next year I will remember what to do for extra promotion to get more blog visitors involved in choosing the best article on our vacation blog.

Here is the result of our best Hawaii article vote:

-Mostly bloggers and vacation rental site owners from Hawaii Big Island joined the vote.

-We would have loved to see more of our Hawaii blogger friends from Oahu, Kauai and Maui.
-Most popular articles and favorites you voted for were related to Hawaii beaches.

-We posted the Hawaii Articles with double votes in the top.

Most popular articles chosen by Best Hawaii Vacation Blog visitors

Marie from Rainbow Cottage in Waimea voted for Best Big Island Beach.

Dean from Luxury Waiulaula Villa voted for Best Big Island Beach

Marianne from Kona Oceanfront Condo voted for Get a Taste of Big Island with Big Island Photos.

Ed from Modern Arts Blog voted for Get a Taste of Big Island with Big Island Photos.

Stretchguy from Healthy Living through Stretching voted for Waipio Valley Horseback Riding

Cheryl from 'Hawaii Vacation Gifts' voted for 'Waipio Valley Horseback Riding'

Bobbie from 'The Right Blue' voted for Big Island Secret Beach

Furk from 'GameFurk' voted for Big Island Secret Beach

Justin from Luxury Kona Vacation Home voted for '3 Tips for Thanksgiving in Hawaii'.

Sunset in Hawaii voted for 'Where can I find Hawaiian Music?'

Anele from 'True Aloha Blog' voted for '5Myths about Hawaii'

Brent from 'Living Aloha' voted for 'How to Save Money on Big Island Vacation'

Much mahalo to all of you. Hope many of our blog visitors will visit your blog or site, when they find it here. Please, stay in touch with our Best Hawaii Vacation Blog, so we can hopefully celebrate in a year another blog birthday again and together. Mahalo and aloha, Pua Hawaii Vacations

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Vote for your favorite Hawaii Story!

Can anybody believe that another year has passed since our 1st Hawaii Blog Anniversary in July 2007! Well, time flies by when you are having fun, Keoki likes to say. Well, the full year is not over yet but it's time to reflect and prepare our blog birthday celebration. In this post, we are taking a few moments to recount what we have achieved during the past year of blogging about Hawaii and what we intend to do for celebration.

First of all, we'd like to say 'Mahalo' to all our Best Hawaii Vacation Blog visitors, to those who were dropping in to read up on a certain post, but more so to those who visited our blog regularly and even left comments when they felt they had something to contribute to our article. We are happy to name a few right here: Bobbie from The Right Blue, Charles from WaveShoppe and Evelyn from HomespunHonolulu. Thanks for having your steady support in our Hawaii MyBloglog family.

We also owe big thanks to our Best Hawaii Vacation guest authors, Hawaii bloggers or visitors, who shared their Hawaii stories. With their article contributions, our Hawaii blog became more entertaining by talking about Hawaii from a different perspective and with a different style. We definitely encourage everybody who is in love with Hawaii to join our guest authors. If you have a nice Hawaii story to tell - no specials skills required! - please, let us know. We will publish it with a short bio and link to your website.

OK let's get to the point celebrating our Hawaii blog birthday with all of you. Last time when celebrating our 1st Blog Birthday we did not ask for presents. On the opposite, we gave everybody, who left a comment, a link to their site with a short description what their Hawaii blog is all about. This time we decided to write our birthday invitation early, so all those busy bloggers or Hawaii site owners or Hawaii visitors have enough time to join the fun.

How can you join our 2nd Best Hawaii Vacation Blog Birthday Bash?

It's very easy. You simply tell us which one of our Hawaii blog articles you like best. Finish the following sentence "My favorite article at Best Hawaii Vacation blog is ..."

What will you get?

Everybody who leaves a comment on this post or provides his vote for best article by email, will get a link on our Birthday Bash Post on July 27, 2008 (sorry no adult sites).

What will we get?

Hopefully we will get some good feedback which Hawaii stories our blog visitors liked best and want to hear more about in future blog posts.

Best way to find an interesting Hawaii blog story

With 165 posts and steadily growing, the best way to find an article you want to vote for, is by cruising the Best Hawaii Vacation Categories towards the bottom of right side bar. Find what Hawaii category is your favorite, click it and choose from a number of choices there. Our Best Hawaii Articles in the top is an option as well.

Vote for your favorite Hawaii Article by leaving a comment

Easiest way to submit your vote is to leave a comment right here on this post. Make sure not to sign in with Google but with name/URL (don't forget http://). With that method you actually double your chances to increase traffic to your blog or site. However, if you don't know how to leave a comment, send us an email and we will add your vote for you. Make sure to include your site or blog URL.

Let the fun begin and choose your favorite Hawaii story at Best Hawaii Vacation blog today. Don't forget to check your link on our Birthday Blog Post 7/27/08!

Mahalo and aloha, Pua Hawaii Vacations Summer Deals
p.s.
It was a tough decision this time which of the beautiful Hawaiian girls from WahineStyle
we wanted to have as our special Hawaii birthday girl. We chose Kahiau on the beach. What do you think?

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Best of Hawaii from Hawaii Blog Carnival

The Hawaii blog community is growing rapidly. It's fun to follow Hawaiian bloggers what they have to say about their subject of expertise and passion. Believe me keep the blogging alive and have something interesting and attractive to say can be challenging. This is where the love to Hawaii and to the Hawaiian people becomes a major motivation.

Evelyn from Homespun Honolulu shows this love with posting about Honolulu related topics plus she takes the challenge to host our Hawaii Aloha Blog Carnival on a regular basis. It's quite surprising what variety of blog posts got submitted by Hawaii bloggers for the latest Hawaii blog carnival 'Taking Time to Smell the Plumeria'. From watching the stars over Mauna Kea summit to the Meaning of Aloha, Thoughts on Fishing, Upcountry Maui, Best Hawaii Vacation Money Saving Tips and much more.

We joined with our blog post 'Maui is the Best More about Surfing'. So, if you are not only intersted in your Best Hawaii Vacation but would like to hear about Hawaii life style, traditions and culture, visit the Hawaiian blogs on this 9th Aloha Blog Carnival.
Aloha, Pua Hawaii Vacations
p.s.
Hope you did not miss our post about Mauna Kea beach - Best Beach of Big Island. You will find lots of plumerias there.

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Best Hawaii Vacation Blog Guest Authors

Aloha everybody,
Since the start of our Hawaii blog in July 2006, we have always been welcoming everybody who wanted to share his or her experience about Hawaii, Hawaii vacation and Hawaii travel. Today we'd like to renew this invitation to other Hawaii related blog owners or Hawaii visitors. Write an article about what you love in Hawaii (sorry no advertising!), submit it by email and upon approval, we will publish it on our Best Hawaii Vacation Blog with a short author 'bio' and link to your URL.


In addition, you and your URL will be added here, at our guest authors' page. We would like to say 'Mahalo' to all of our guest authors for their Hawaii article contributions, which showed their knowledge of and love for the Hawaiian Islands. To be fair to everybody, we list our guest writers in alphabetical order with link to their blog or site URL and in what categories you can find their article(s). Number of articles shows behind name. In the future, we consider listing our Hawaii Guest Authors according to the highest number of articles...the author with most Hawaii articles will show in the top of our list.

Best Hawaii Vacation Blog Guest Authors:

Bill Jardine (7 posts) from Big Island Buyers Brokers
Guest Post 'June is the month for sunsets'
Guest Post 'Hawaii Real Estate Market 2010'
Guest Post Hawaii Game Fishing A Hawaii Story
Guest Post 'April in Hawaii'
Guest Post Hawaii Real Estate Market 2009
Guest Post Hawaii Real Estate Market 2008
Guest Post Will falling Prices in Hawaii Real Estate attract new home buyers?
Guest Post Mele Kalikimaka

Jennifer Crites (3 posts) from Hawaii Stock Photography
Guest Post 5 Best Photo Tips for your Hawaii Vacation
Guest Post Get a Tour of Hawaii with Hawaii Photos
Guest Post Get a Taste of Your Big Island Vacation with Big Island Photos

Julie (2 posts) from Ideal Vacation Rentals Blog
Guest Post Maui Vacation Trip Reports
Guest Post 3 Best Things to do on Maui

Bobbie Sullivan (2 posts) from The Right Blue
Guest Post Tips for Watching Sea Turtles in Hawaii
Guest Post Tips for Snorkeling and Diving in Hawaii

Joanne (2 posts) Hawaii visitor from CA
Guest Post Horseback Riding in Hawaii on the Big Island
Guest Post Big Island Secret Beach

Brigitte (1) from BeBackHawaii
Guest Post Molokai Vacation Trip Report

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Get your name and your blog listed here. If you have something nice to say about Hawaii, Hawaii vacation and travel, don't be shy, let us know what you got. Hawaii articles with photos are most welcome! Everybody can write. Just let your heart speak.

Mahalo and aloha, Pua and Keoki Best Hawaii Vacation Blog

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Hawaii Blog Search

Dear Best Hawaii blog visitors,
As visits to our Hawaii blog are steadily increasing with the number of posts we are writing about how to spend your best Hawaii Vacation, we noticed that it's getting harder to find easily the answers to your Hawaii questions, like Horseback Riding in Hawaii.

You may use our Hawaii blog categories in the bottom of our sidebar to help you find the Hawaii vacation topic of your choice. It all depends on what category we added the post and where you are looking for your answer. Categories have to be limited to a certain number and certain Hawaii topics in order to make blog navigation possible for our visitors. Naturally, that implies we have to sacrifice some potential new categories.

Here is the solution. Go all the way to the very bottom of our Hawaii blog (footer!) where you find a Google blog search bar. Type in your Hawaii search keywords, click our blog for search (it's already set by default on the blog), and with one click, you will see all the blog posts on our Hawaii blog related to your Hawaii search term and also Google search results, if you'd be interested in those.

Have fun searching our Hawaii blog with your searches for Hawaii vacation and travel to the Hawaiian Islands. If you did not find what you were looking for, why don't you leave us a comment with your Hawaii vacation question. We will deal with it in one of our next Best Hawaii Vacation blog posts.

Mahalo for visiting our Hawaii Blog and spreading the word to friends who are planning a visit to Hawaii. Aloha, Pua Hawaii Vacations

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1st Best Hawaii Vacation Blog Carnival Hot Picks

***LET'S HAVE SOME FUN IN THE SUN!***

Alooooooooooooooha to all our Hawaii vacation blog readers.

Our 1st Best Hawaii Vacation Blog Carnival is here. We hope all of you find something of interest for planning their next trip to the Hawaiian islands to make it your Best Hawaii vacation.

We, Pua and Keoki, the blog owners and writers of Best Hawaii vacation, decided to start with posts of our Hawaiian blog ohana (family in Hawaiian) first. Family comes first! The blog posts are just selected randomly.

Let's start with Sheila from GoVisitHawaii. She told us actually that her posts might not be good enough for the carnival. Guess what the opposite is the way. So we thought if Sheila cannot decide, we do it for her. One of her most recent posts is about how to be a more welcomed visitor by accepting Hawaiian culture, understanding a little more Hawaiian and show respect to Hawaiian residents. Who wants to act like an elepphant in a china store? Cruise Sheila's blog and you will find vacation guides, hotels & air fare specials, Hawaii vacation recommendations...all great stuff to read for planning your trip to Hawaii.

Here is another dear member of our Hawaii blog 'ohana'. Visit Cheryl's blog HawaiiVacationGifts frequently and you will find an amazing variety of Hawaii vacation related posts. This one is for pet owners who go on vacation to Hawaii. What is a vacation without your closest friend? We found these great article by HawaiiVacationGifts Take your whole family on vacation - pets included about taking your pet on your Hawaii Vacation like Paris and Oprah do. Thanks HawaiiVacationGifts for thinking of all the pet owners.

Well, have you ever wondered where the origin of the Hawaiian Aloha Shirts is? Charles from WaveShoppe tells you all about in his post about the interesting history of the Hawaiian shirts. And if you look for a Hawaiian shirt for putting in your suitcase for your Hawaii vacation, you might just find the right Aloha Shirt right there. Don't miss the great shirt selection.

Each time when visitors go shopping in Hawaii, they visit what gifts to take home with them from their vacation in Hawaii. Evelyn from HomeSpunHonolulu comes up with all the good reasons why to buy Hawaiian Macademia Nuts as a Gift. Most of all, Mac nuts are good for your health! Evelyn's Honolulu blog is a huge resource for everybody who plans a visit to Honolulu and wants to know more about the town and its people.

Planning a visit to Honolulu or Oahu, HawaiiVacationHelp might have the answers to lots of your questions about your Hawaii Vacation whether it's about activities like Pearl Harbor Tours, nightlife in Waikiki, Hawaiian luaus, food, restaurants..Eivissu knows his way around Oahu and the Hawaiian islands. All the Hawaii Vacation Help answers are in categories. So, it's easy to find what you want to know.

Well, what is a Hawaii blog carnival without mentioning Celebrities in Hawaii. As we all know Hawaii is one of their favorite 'playground'. Who can blame them? We all love a vacation in Hawaii. As we are all a little tired of hearing about Paris Hilton or Oprah in Hawaii, how about this nice post from HawaiiRama.com about Robert Deniro paying a recent visit to one of Nobu Wailiki in honolulu, which he partly owns? Hawaiirama is a enrichment to Hawaii blogosphere with blogging about Nightlife, Where to stay in Hawaii, Eating in Hawaii and more.

Bruce Fisher from Hawaii-Aloha.com has been blogging about Hwaii air fares, Hawaiian Cruises, Hotel specials for a long time. If you look into planning your Hawaii vacation, you might want to check with his blog about current or future Hawaii travel specials or Hawaii vacation packages. Here is a blog post about Pricing a Hawaii Cruise which I found interesting to our Best Hawaii Vacation visitors. Check it out.

Let's visit another blog. Julie from IdealVacationRentals blogs about places and accommodations to stay around the world but Hawaii definitely plays a major role in her blogging themes. Maui has Julie's special attention as it is the Hawaiian island where she and her husband have been coming back for their Hawaii vacation on Maui for many years. That's why they are the most trusted source about Maui on a Budget.

The Aloha Insider We don't know anyone who has visited Hawaii who hasn't been enchanted by the beauty of this lush tropical paradise and charmed by the spirit of Aloha. Whether you seek the excitement of Oahu, the action on Maui, the beauty of Kauai, the diversity of the Big Island, or the privacy of Lanai, the islands of Hawaii offer an unforgettable experience that are sure to make you want to visit again and again.

A Hawaii vacation can be mind changing with memories of a tropical Paradise! Each year many visitors to the Hawaiian Islands contemplate their options about moving to Hawaii for good. Get away from the cold and wet Mainland winters sounds like the perfect decision. Our Best Hawaii vacation blog reviewed a few aspects about relocating and moving to Hawaii and what is involved. Read first before you move.

How better can we finish our 1st Hawaii Blog Carnival than with some entertaining Hawaii videos, one a commercial video about Hawaii vacation and the other one about Elvis in Hawaii with a song from his live concert in Honolulu. Let us know what you think about our 1st Best Hawaii Vacations blog Carnival. And if we missed a blog or exciting post. This is the great thing with blogging, we can still add it.

Mahalo for visiting. Stay curious for more ideas for your Hawaii vacation. Aloha, Pua Kohala Coast Vacation Guide

One Stop Guide to Hawaii on Youtube Hawaii Videos Click this link and enjoy Surf + Sun, Hawaii's rich culture, including the traditional hula, breathtaking scenery, the explosive volcanic forces in Hawaii Volcano National Park, stunning waterfalls and more.

Let's have some fun with Elvis in Hawaii!

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How to comment on Best Hawaii Vacation blog

How to leave a comment on Best Hawaii Vacation Blog

Mahalo to all our readers for following us on our blogging journey on how to make your trip to the Hawaiian Islands your Best Hawaii Vacation. We were proud when we were able to announce our Best Hawaii Vacation Blog1st Birthday in July. We told you in 'About Us' that ''we'd like to close the gap between visitors and vacation hosts. Our Hawaii blog is about people's experiences, ours and our blog visitors and Hawaii residents, and what it takes for your Best Hawaii Vacation. Little things contributing to the big picture of a unique Hawaii vacation."

Now, we would like to take the next step...evolving the blog from a good read to a great place to say your opinion and hear others about Hawaii and Hawaii vacation related topics by leaving comments. In the past, we noticed again and again that the biggest obstacle for readers is that they don't know how to leave a comment.

Here are Step by Step Instructions to 'Post a Comment'

1. How get to 'Post a comment' window

There are two ways to make it to Post A Comment window:
When you are on the blog index http://kohalacoastweb.blogspot.com/, you scroll down the posts till you find a post where you want to comment. Under the post you will find the number of comments. Just click the word 'Comments'. A new window for your comment will open.

When you are on an individual blog URL like this one http://kohalacoastweb.blogspot.com/2007/08/moving-to-hawaii-vacation-for-ever.html, go to the very bottom (if there are already comments, go past these comments!) where you see 'Post a comment'. Now click 'Post a comment'. A new window for your comment will open.

2. 'Leave a comment' text window

The new window shows a box where you can type in your text comment. When leaving a website in that box, it needs to be in html code in order to show as a link. If you cannot do html, it's still OK to leave the URL. Readers can copy and paste it into their browser. The better way to leave your URL will be with 'Choose Identity'.

Under the text box, is a note for you: "Comment moderation has been enabled. All comments must be approved by the blog author." That means you will not see you comment immediately. As a blog owner we have to protect our blog content from spam and not blog related comments.

3. Word verification

Retype the letters you see in the box you see. This is another way to prevent spam.

4. Choose Identity

This is the biggest tool for those who take advantage of commenting to get the word out about their site or blog. Most important, click the circle for or the words 'name/URL' (not Google/Blogger!). Now the display shows Name and Web Page URL. Add your name or your business name and your URL with http://. Your comment will be displayed with that name as a link to your homepage. Interested readers can visit your site or blog right then and there! This is a great free ad for your Hawaii business.

5. Publish your comment

After Publish Comment you will see in the top of your comment in green typing that the comment will be approved by the author. If you cannot see the green typing (very rare but happens, even Google is not perfect), do word verification a second time and publish. If we get your comment twice, not a problem we will only publish once.

Again, after you hit publish, you have to see on the very top of your commenting window "Your comment has been saved and will be visible after blog owner approval." If not, do word verification again.

We guarantee you after you commented once or twice, you will be an expert in 'Post a Comment.' Thanks to everybody for joining our Best Hawaii Vacation blog. We appreciate your opinion.

Mahalo, Pua and Keoki Kohala Coast Vacation Guide

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First Hawaii Blog Carnival from Best Hawaii Vacations Blog

***LET'S HAVE SOME FUN IN THE SUN!***

Best Hawaii Vacation blog will be hosting its first Hawaii blog carnival in 2 weeks. We invite all Hawaii blog owners or vacation or travel blogs to join the fun! As we are no big corporate blog but just a blog created by two Hawaii loving people, there is no form to fill out and 'rules' (if any) for your blog submission are very easy to follow.

Our First Hawaii blog carnival will be under the theme 'Best Hawaii Vacations Hot Picks'. So, if you have an exciting Hawaii article you want to share with everyone, this is the place and the time you can do it. It doesn’t matter what the topic is, as long as it’s about or related to Hawaii Vacations. We want to share it with the Hawaii vacation loving folks! Believe me there are lots who can't wait to visit Hawaii. We are sure you have some fantastic stories to tell them. So, come join our first Hawaii blog carnival and let's discover Hawaii together with our readers!

Deadline for your submission is 8/22/07. Our Hawaii vacation Blog carnival will be live on August 24. Check back here to see who has joined our virtual Hawaii carnival to share stories about their Best Hawaii Vacation Hot Picks.

Hawaii Article Submission Guidelines

- This is a 'blog only' carnival. Please, don't submit sites.
- Sorry but no advertisements articles will be accepted
- Any blog post that features aspects if Hawaii Vacations is welcome.
- One entry per blog. Pick your best article for Hawaii Vacation Hot Picks!
- Enticing articles have a better chance to be listed in the top of 'Hawaii Hot Picks'.
- More recent articles are preferred but not a must.
- Family friendly posts, please.
- Please, post about the carnival to send your blog readers to visit our Hawaii blog carnival.

If you agree with our Hawaii Carnival Guidelines, let's do things the easy way: Click the 'Post a Comment', write the blog post URL you want to submit to our Hawaii blog carnival + a short description (makes it easier for us when including it) in the comment window, sign in 'Other' with name and blog URL. Done! And don't forget to visit here again on 8/24/07.

Much mahalo for sharing this invitation with your blogger friends. We are looking forward to hearing from you. Mahalo and aloha, Pua and Keoki from Best Hawaii Vacations
p.s.
Almost forgot URLs for HawaiiYouTube videos are welcome too.

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