Travel Fees For Locations Outside Honolulu/Waikiki

Some of our most scenic locations are outside of Honolulu/Waikiki which is the "homebase" used for job time calculation for all professionals and transportation companies. Because of this, we have to charge a travel fee for each vendor for locations outside of Honolulu/Waikiki.

Travel to locations outside of Honolulu/Waikiki can take anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours of just travel time one way, not including getting there early to be ready you or just to beat the traffic. For many vendors, that's the equivalent of a couple of full paying jobs! East Oahu and Windward locations aren't that bad though, West Oahu and North Shore locations are especially time consuming and make a simple 1/2 hour wedding into a 4-5 hour job. We know this because we do a lot! Finally, there's the extra miles and the extra gas to consider.

Consequently, we have to pay our vendors extra, it's only fair and we are thankful. We try to be fair to you too by not also applying the service rate to travel time rates. If we actually applied the service cost to the time for travel, you'd be looking at hundreds of dollars per vendor!

FYI: Transportation services do not require travel fees... they are getting paid for doing the traveling :)


These are our vendor travel fees for locations outside of Honolulu/Waikiki.

• Portlock Beach: $50 per vendor. Allow 30-45 minutes for travel.

• Waimanalo Beach and Makapuu Beach: $50 per vendor. Allow 45-60 minutes for travel.
  

• Lanikai Beach and Kailua Beach: $75 per vendor. Allow 45-60 minutes for travel.
  

• Kualoa: $150 per vendor. Allow 60-90 minutes for travel. Weddings after 4 pm will need more.
  

• Ko Olina: $175 per vendor. Allow 90 minutes for travel. Weddings after 4 pm will need more.
  

• North Shore beaches: $200 per vendor. Allow 90-120 minutes for travel. Weddings after 4 pm will need more.
  
  

FYI: if you will be using these times to guage your own travel, use the higher time as an approximation for your travel time to account for traffic mostly, parking, and the fact that you may not know exactly where to go (even though we give you precise instructions. Better to be early than late. :)

FYI: Travel times are usually not reflected correctly in map websites and GPS units as they calculate based upon distance and average speed. They do not account for traffic and we have the worst traffic in the United States (Los Angeles is 2nd) consequently, if you will not be using our transportation, please do not use the travel times these websites suggest.