The Beachcomber is right in the middle of everything in Waikiki. It’s directly across the street from an Apple store, a Ferrari store, and there’s a Macy’s on the first floor. I say again: a Macy’s. On the first floor.
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That’s some back yard. We flew from Kauai to Oahu this morning and checked into our next vacation rental. Here’s the view from our back porch. Pretty amazing, isn’t it? (And I don’t even play golf.)
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Archie Wong and his family found themselves stranded in Hawaii after American Airlines canceled their flight from Kona to Los Angeles recently.
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What do you mean, everything will probably be alright,” Kari snapped at the person on the other end of the line.
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She didn’t expect to get a different condo than the one she’d reserved – but that’s exactly what she says happened.
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Tania Rieben thought she’d scored a bargain on a one-bedroom condominium in Maui for spring break. She’d found the vacation rental through a popular Web site called VRBO.com and then negotiated directly with the owner.
But after she wired $4,300 for a six-week rental, the person claiming to represent the property stopped answering her e-mails, and she soon made a stunning discovery: The “owner” was actually a scam artist who had obtained the real owner’s e-mail password and assumed his identity.
“Now the money’s gone,” Rieben says. “And I don’t have a condo.”
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