THE FLIGHT.
Search, and keep searching.
First of all, search for your flight well advance of your departure date, the prices, except for on rare occasions, increase the closer you get. As soon as you know the dates you can travel, start looking. Do it! Switch on your PC and give yourself the chance to go to paradise!
I bought my last flights on Delta and Jetcost / Gotogate websites. Try to use a page that shows you all the possible combinations of dates. Keep checking for it few days or weeks…and keep trying different combinations of dates and airports. Maui Airport is called Kahului (OGG), not Honolulu.
Normally, the prices from Europe vary from 1.000€ to 1.800€ but I paid 850€ for my last flight and soon after, I found a flight for 712€! I immediately called my brother now he will be coming to Maui in a few weeks. Commitment rewards, I know some friends that found tickets for less than 600€.
Don’t forget to get the ESTA, it is the Visa Europeans need to enter the USA, but it takes only 5 minutes to get it online and cost around 15$.
THE SEASON.
Whenever, always amazing.
If you want some wave action on the North Shore, I recommend the winter season because after April it can be too windy. But if you are not so flexible on dates and want to travel out of winter, just get in early before the wind picks up. For SUPers that also windsurf or kite, those are great months.
If you just want to cruise around and surf small waves, then you can come pretty much in any season. In summer you will find some swells on the south shore and in winter, nice swell on the north with a relax atmosphere and accessible beginner waves on the south.
