Joan’s brother and wife (Dave and
Linda) were going to be in Kona for Christmas this year so we thought we would
be able to join them. It was actually
pretty easy to get four timeshare weeks, especially the first three weeks of
December, one of the slowest travel times. We had been wanting to go to HGVC’s Bay Club ever since we had read the good reviews,
and we got the first week of December there from RCI. The second week we will be at Sea Mountain, one
of our favorite places, from Platinum
Interchange, and the third week, our favorite 2 BD unit at Wyndham Mauna Loa (with an ocean view!) from SFX, (which
is a 5 minute walk from Joan’s brother’s condo) and with a 2 BD, we have
invited friends to join us. We were also
able to get Christmas week in a 1 BD at Mauna Loa from RCI. We got
the weeks and then had to get the airline tickets: that was more difficult
because of the Christmas season. We had to wait until January 4th to return, otherwise the cost was too high.
We have rented a car for 4 weeks,
but again, that meant we had 4 extra days after Dec 30th with no
transportation as during Christmas week, the prices for cars went into the
$1000’s (other people arriving that week
were also shocked.) What to do?
We found a condo unit on www.vrbo.com
in the same condo complex as Joan’s brother so we rented it for the four days and hoping Dave could return us to the airport.
We arrived in the afternoon, got our rental car (and were upgraded one level since they had none of the smaller ones we had rented --Alamo) and checked into the Bay Club.
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The Bay Club unit is very nice and sooooo large,
but we're not sure it is the "classical Hawaiian" decore they say it is.
