Minion Monies: How much did my 2022 Maui Trip Cost?

The following will be an accounting of the Maui Trip I took with several friends in March and April of 2022. If you've not read the blog, you can do so here. Or if you want a summary of the entire trip you can check that out here. It might provide some extra context to the costs below! The Transportation ($1279.12 & 6 eUpgrade Credits) The Flights ($401.11 & 6 eUpgrade Credits) Booking a...

Wrapping up our trip to Maui

Now that blogging about Maui is done. It's time to wrap it up with a few thoughts. This being the first "real" international trip I've taken since the pandemic, I'm glad it went as planned without much disruption! If you've spent the time to read through the trip, I appreciate it! If not and you want to, you can find the whole trip here. Here we go! Top 3 Highlights Highlight #1: Learning to Surf...

Last Days in Maui

a'a Roots Health Cafe Our first stop for today is new spot for our daily acai bowl at a'a Roots Health Cafe.  This is spot is purported to have a pretty good one. However, either they were too busy, or its just normal they forgot to add honey on all of our bowls. So while it still looks nice, it did lack a fair bit of flavour. Maybe its intentional or maybe they simply forgot because it was...

More Road Tripping and Relaxing

Breakfast and Coffee Right across the street from our airBnB is a cool little coffee shop called Hawaiian Village Coffee. It seems fairly popular because in the morning there is a line right out the door. We end up waiting a little before ordering and getting our coffees. In the same plaza is a McDonald's and who could pass up an opportunity to get a Hawaiian McDonald's breakfast of rice, eggs...

Surfing, Chilling and Eating

Learning to Surf One of the things that all of us were excited to do on this trip is learn a bit of surfing! After a little research, Antetokounmpo booked lessons for us with the Royal Hawain Surf Academy. While we are all eager to do this, it is an early 7:45AM lesson so its another early start for all of us. We get ourselves checked in, wet suited up and hit the waves! Unfortunately, I don't...

Road To Hana

Today we drive the Road to Hana! When we first decided to visit Maui, the Road to Hana was at the top of our lists as something to do! Because you need a reservation to get into the state park, ours are for today at around noon. The thought process being that Cactoose and I are still on "west coast" time, getting up early wouldn't be that difficult. The drive from our AirBnB to the park is about...