{"id":29195,"date":"2021-02-03T08:29:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T16:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=29195"},"modified":"2021-02-09T07:01:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T15:01:15","slug":"hawaiians-avoid-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/hawaiians-avoid-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaiians avoid Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Main-Street-Station-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Main-Street-Station-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Main-Street-Station-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Main-Street-Station-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Main-Street-Station-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Main-Street-Station-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Main-Street-Station.jpg 1820w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\" class=\"has-drop-cap\">Pent-up demand, huh? Not in <strong>Hawaii<\/strong>, according to <strong>KHON-TV<\/strong> in <strong>Honolulu<\/strong>. It reveals that <strong>Hawaiian Vacations<\/strong> had been planning to resume charter flights to Sin City (<strong>Boyd Gaming<\/strong>&#8216;s bread and butter) in December but called it off due to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.khon2.com\/coronavirus\/vacations-hawaii-optimistic-about-summer-travel\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">a lack of traction<\/a> with customers. \u201cWe just didn\u2019t have enough people comfortable and ready to book to send 767 aircrafts, 218-passenger planes to Vegas,\u201d said Sales &amp; Promotions Director <strong>Kevin Kaneshiro<\/strong>. The company has retrenched and is now planning a June 1 relaunch. Reports KHON, &#8220;The plan is to have three flights a week with departures on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Fridays. With considerably more people getting vaccinated and some restrictions likely to be lifted, Kaneshiro says people will be ready for a true vacation.&#8221; That includes air, hotel and meals all in one value-oriented package. &#8220;[I]t&#8217;s pretty much everything except the baggage handling,&#8221; Kaneshiro explains. Customers will be put up at the <strong>California Hotel<\/strong> or <strong>Fremont Hotel<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">As for <strong>Main Street Station<\/strong>, no reopening has been announced and we don&#8217;t expect one before summer. Boyd is using its in the meantime as a <strong>Covid-19<\/strong> testing facility, so that travelers returning to the 50th state don&#8217;t have to go through 10-day quarantines upon arrival home. According to Hawaiian Vacations, whatever uptick in demand exists is coming from the younger clientele, with senior citizens understandably fighting shy until they&#8217;ve had their shots. We expect <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> to be back in a big way at some point but if <strong>Las Vegas Sands<\/strong> CEO <strong>Rob Goldstein<\/strong> says it won&#8217;t be until next year we&#8217;re prepared to take him at his word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pent-up demand, huh? Not in Hawaii, according to KHON-TV in Honolulu. It reveals that Hawaiian Vacations had been planning to resume charter flights to Sin City (Boyd Gaming&#8216;s bread and butter) in December but called it off due to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/hawaiians-avoid-las-vegas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,51,144,283,241,19,100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29197,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29195\/revisions\/29197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}