Hukilau 2005 - Details Announced! - Other Events

I ikitnrev Tiki Socialite D.C. / Virginia Joined: Jul 27, 2002 Posts: 1325	I ikitnrev Posted posted on Tue, May 17, 2005 6:55 PM I can vouch for Swanky's advice, about buying flight insurance when you buy your airline ticket. I did this for the Hukilau weekend last year - it cost perhaps $10-15 extra, and it paid off when my return flight was delayed by one day. All it took was to check one extra box when I made my reservations through Orbitz. This was the first time I ever purchased the extra insurance. The insurance reimbursed me for the night of lodging away from the Bahia Mar (when we were evacuated), the extra night at the Bahia Mar one day later (I returned after the storm passed), the rental car we got for 2 days, and they even reimbursed for my extra meal and drinks at the Mai Kai too. It was a bit bizarre then, that while chewing on a ice cube in my drink on my flight home, my crown broke, and I ended up spending all of that insurance money and a bit more on dentist bills. You never can tell - all the news and media hype and I survived the hurricane OK, only to be felled by a little old ice cube. My tooth probably would have broken anyway - but my memories of that weekend are not of my broken tooth, but my memories of the Mai Kai and Hukilau. And that is the way it should be. Vern [ Edited by: ikitnrev on 2005-05-17 18:56 ]

I can vouch for Swanky's advice, about buying flight insurance when you buy your airline ticket.

I did this for the Hukilau weekend last year - it cost perhaps $10-15 extra, and it paid off when my return flight was delayed by one day. All it took was to check one extra box when I made my reservations through Orbitz. This was the first time I ever purchased the extra insurance.

The insurance reimbursed me for the night of lodging away from the Bahia Mar (when we were evacuated), the extra night at the Bahia Mar one day later (I returned after the storm passed), the rental car we got for 2 days, and they even reimbursed for my extra meal and drinks at the Mai Kai too.

It was a bit bizarre then, that while chewing on a ice cube in my drink on my flight home, my crown broke, and I ended up spending all of that insurance money and a bit more on dentist bills.

You never can tell - all the news and media hype and I survived the hurricane OK, only to be felled by a little old ice cube.

My tooth probably would have broken anyway - but my memories of that weekend are not of my broken tooth, but my memories of the Mai Kai and Hukilau. And that is the way it should be.

Vern

[ Edited by: ikitnrev on 2005-05-17 18:56 ]

Post #159734 by ikitnrev on Tue, May 17, 2005 6:55 PM