Travel time: From Christmas to Easter and summer come most of the year some seven million tourists to Hawaii . Quiet and nice is the low season: In spring and autumn, prices fall and the warm Aloha welcome comes from.

Visa, passport: German, Austrian and Swiss sufficient for a stay of up to 90 days of a valid passport. If you want to stay longer must obtain a visa before at the U.S. consulate. Upon entry, all passport formalities and customs on the first airport in the United States does. Sometimes the presentation of a return ticket and proof of sufficient finances travel is required. The flight to Hawaii is a domestic flight.

Time difference: Throughout the archipelago, the time difference to Central Europe minus 11 hours, during the European summer time 12 hours.

Public Transportation: Only on Oahu is a good bus network. The focus of the system of "The Bus" is in the Honolulu metropolitan area, but also runs a line (number 52) in four hours around the island. Schedule information: Phone 848-5555. One way: a dollar. On all other islands, it runs better with a rental car.

Tips: The restaurant is the service charge not included. It can therefore be about 15 percent of the bill as a "tip" on the table. The porter in the hotel gets about a dollar per piece of luggage for the maid to leave on departure each day spent about two dollars.

Tourist traps: First of all the tourists in Waikiki will Luaus and Polynesian Shows "offered". These are usually pretty cheesy spectacle, which emit black performers (in) war cry and shake their hips. The Americans seem to love this type of entertainment, as well as to offer buffet dinners with overcooked commodity. There are very few authentic shows such as the free Kodak Hula Show, "since the 80's on Tuesdays and Thursdays will be held in Waikiki.