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Deals Designed to Lure Travelers Off Their Couches
For better or for worse, travel companies are trying hard to get people, especially those who are vaccinated, back on the road (or on a plane) again.
The breakwater at Samoset Resort in Rockport, Me. The resort, along with other properties in the Opal Collection of hotels, is offering 20 percent off rooms through the end of May.Credit.Ocean Properties
By Elaine Glusac
April 1, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
For a low-season trip to Honolulu in 2019, I scoured the internet for cheap, cheerful lodgings and the best I could come up with in Waikiki started around $300 a night. Looking ahead to this summer, 18 months and one pandemic later, the Ewa Hotel Waikiki has a condo suite with a kitchen and terrace for $129 a night, and the retro White Sands Hotel nearby has rooms from $179.