Hawaii Bound

For the past two years I've been using my Alaska Air charge card for travel. I have a different travel credit card that I use to rack up miles by purchasing groceries and such, but the Alaska card with the companion fare beats the alternate for travel every time. With the Alaska card, it's like getting buy one, get one free. I can't recommend a better way to get good fares on non-stop flights to Hawaii - or anyplace Alaska Airlines flies for that matter.

I mean, do people really rack up the needed 80,000 miles it takes for a free round trip flight to Maui? I think not.

Here is how we got our great deal to Kona and Maui and then home again...

First we selected a flight that applied the companion fare directly into the itinerary on Alaska Air's easy to use member website. We chose to fly to Kona first. Next I dusted off the other travel credit card, and booked two free flights to island hop from the Big Island to Maui. We booked a return flight from Kahului, Maui using a companion fare as well.

What was the total for all flights? A little less than $900 - including taxes.

Snorkeling with the turtles? Priceless.