Comments on: Real questions tourists ask about Hawaii

By: Jennie

Jennie — Mon, 02 May 2011 09:36:41 +0000

Does anyone know if there are any all inclusive resorts on the hawaii islands?

By: real estate

real estate — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:22:36 +0000

Real questions. Thanks for the share. Hawaii is a nice place to go…So lets enjoy going there.

By: Brion Kanda

Brion Kanda — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:32:45 +0000

How about internet merchants that do not sell / ship merchandise to addresses in Guam or Hawaii because “…it’s not in the U. S.”! I’ve had this experience with sears.com, target.com, walmart.com, to name just a few.

By: DT

DT — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:37:25 +0000

@ Michael: What’s wrong with that question? Hawaii does have interstate highways, as do Alaska and Puerto Rico. It’s not just a stupid question to be quickly dismissed, but there is a (tiny) bit of trivia behind it.

By: MarkieA

MarkieA — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:11:54 +0000

@The man who notices things

At what point in this article does Ms. Hough indicate that Americans – or only Americans – were the ones asking these questions? Or are you just ASSUMING?

By: Louise

Louise — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:47:09 +0000

There was the couple who went to a travel agent and said they wanted to go to Europe but they didn’t want to fly.

“Well, there is no scheduled transatlantic service anymore, but maybe I can get you onto a cruise on that route.”

“Oh, no, we don’t want to go by ship.”

“Well, how do you expect to get there?”

“We plan to drive.”

By: SJ

SJ — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:22:08 +0000

My sister’s friend was getting ready to go to Hawaii, but she was fretting about having to bring an entire suitcase of Diet Coke because she had been told that Hawaii only sold fruity drink.

By: Alan

Alan — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:01:38 +0000

I’ve been to Hawaii and it’s beautiful. ANd it’s not the only place that elicits strange and uninformed questions. New mexico is another state that people actually forget, or don’t realize, that it is part of the USA. As a matter of fact, a humorous book was published about 15 years ago called “One of our 50 is missing” and contained all kinds of funny anectdotes about how people from New Mexico are asked things like “Do I need a passport to go there?”, or, “So you’re from New Mexico? When did you come to this country?”.
Finally, I was going to San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1994. A curbside baggage handler actually said we had to go to the international terminal! This was at LAX and we had to correct him, letting him know that Puerto Rico is a US territory.

By: Allen

Allen — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:57:54 +0000

When my wife and I moved to the Big Island, my insurance agent’s secretary in California informed me very firmly that I could not transfer my insurance out of the United States.

By: jonathan

jonathan — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:35:27 +0000

In 1980, before our first real estate purchase on Kauai’i, my brother asked the Realtor if there was any difficulty in Americans purchasing land in Hawai’i, and could we use American dollars.

The agent and I groaned in unison.