Miso Stupid

I’m going to Hawaii soon and I need to book two different hotels. I already got the flight a while ago. It was a sweet deal to the tune of $280 round trip from CA to Honolulu. I was like, cool, Hawaii is cheap! And then I need to book a hotel and of course it needs to be on the beach. Friggin’ $$.

I’m going to spend the second half of the trip on the Big Island so I need a flight over there and a new hotel/car. I was told of a site called Panda Online that creates hotel/air/car packages for Hawaii. The name of that site is dumb because Panda’s have nothing to do with Hawaii, but hey, they seem to have decent deals.

After spending like 3 hours searching all over the web to find the “perfect” deal I was all ready to buy and then suddenly it jumped up by $100! WTF! Since it was around midnight I assume something changed due to the next day rolling over, but that was really annoying. I just had to purchase it though as I didn’t want to loose any more of my perceived good deal.

So on to the point here that the internet has created so many damn travel searches/packages/etc. that a poor (ex)engineer like me is forced to spend an untold amount of time massaging every knob to try to squeeze out the last bit of savings when the reality is that I’d be better off just picking something and spending the rest of that time finding a way to make more money then what I might have saved through the effort. Hehe, I said “massaging knobs”…

Tags: hawaii, hotel

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