{"id":3447,"date":"2024-06-26T10:41:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T17:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2024-07-16T10:28:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T17:28:56","slug":"yes-has-hawaii-tourism-become-too-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/06\/26\/yes-has-hawaii-tourism-become-too-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes: Has Hawaii tourism become too expensive?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/hawaii\/article\/hawaii-hotel-rates-rising-19532069.php\">Has Hawaii become too expensive? (sfgate.com)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to high nightly hotel prices, many throw in parking fees, Wi-Fi fees, &#8220;resort fees&#8221;. Plus Hawaii has tacked on its own taxes and surcharges &#8211; to the point that &#8220;fees&#8221; and taxes exceed the base price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The State has been proposing and discussing adding visitor fees and other charges, too &#8211; primarily with a goal of doing something about &#8220;too many tourists&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides high hotel prices, Hawaii has tacked on its own taxes and surcharges &#8211; to the point that &#8220;fees&#8221; and taxes exceed the base price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accommodations","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}