When is the best time of the year to visit Kauai? Or is there no bad time?

-- Cathy Smith (cathys@interchange.ubc.ca), January 24, 1999

Answers

There really is no best time of the year to visit. The weather makes it great all year round. When it is supposedly our cold and rainy winter, it's rains for a short while with the sun popping through and our cold is mid 60's for a night time low.

With this in mind, hotels have a very small window of "off season" prices if any. Best way to plan is to check out the hotel and air fare sites to get an idea of prices, then ask your tour agent for their packages. If it's your first trip, you may want to take a tour to get a taste of the variety.

If you can spend 2-3 weeks here, that'd be the best. That way you'd get to stay on all the major islands.

What to do depends on what activities you're looking to do. Hawaii pretty much got it all. Activities for family, kids, singles, seniors, solo, couples, romantics, and any other group you can think of. Examples of activities?...hang gliding, biking, hiking, dancing, movies, surfing, skin or scuba diving, concerts, theater, learning about other cultures---over 50 ethnicites represented in Hawaii, sight seeing, or watching the sun rise then cruise to the other side of the island and watch the sun set.

Hope this gives you a start 8))))

-- Roy Inouye (roy@bothi.com), January 24, 1999.

There really is no "bad time" to visit Kauai. The west and south shore sees sunshine most of the year. The rainfall in the mountains tends to fall mostly in the fall/winter. I really enjoy April, May, and June, when everything seems to be in bloom, it's the end of the high season, and before the summer crowds!

-- C K Stephenson (mcstephe@gte.net), January 25, 1999.