Moving to Honolulu for the summer, any advice? (Kailua: sublets, rental)
OahuIncludes Honolulu
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My 11 year old daughter and I are moving to Honolulu for the summer. We have to move and I am sick of everything I have so we have to start over anyways, so we are getting a furnished summer rental from June to August to explore, chill and replenish before we come back and decide what we are going to do.
I know nothing about Honolulu other than what I have been able to research on the web, so I am very interested in other points of view or other ways of doing things. Well any advice about the move would be helpful.
We are going to buy bicycles and a bus pass when we get there. I am hoping to have nailed down our rental before we go and I don't think we really need anything other than sunblock and an underwater camera.
Have you been there before? Are you familiar with the neighborhood in which your vacation rental is located? (please tell me the answers are yes)
Other than the sunblock and camera you will need some documents such as your birth certificates, marriage license, divorce decree, possibly school records for your daughter and your last 2 or 3 years tax returns - all these in case you decide to stay permanently. Any prescriptions? Get an extra month's worth if possible until you can find a new family doctor to take over any routine health concerns that you might have. If you know you're not going to stay, just the prescriptions and birth certifcates should be enough.
Don't nail down your rental from long distance. You really will have absolutely no idea at all what it is like and some places that look like a dream online are a nightmare when you get there. Get several weeks' worth of vacation rental or stay in a hotel for a week or two, you'll then be able to find a place to rent for the rest of your stay and see it in person before renting it.
WOW, you all where really helpful. I hadn't thought about the paperwork and thank you KonaKat for the word sabbatical. I had cancer almost exactly 7 years ago and this trip really is about hitting the reset button and going forward with my life. I have set the date we are leaving in two months, I'm so excited but at the same time nervous. I'm looking at sublets in Honolulu. Some are reasonable and some are crazy expensive. I see that it would be the smarter thing to get there and then pick a place but I'm not sure I feel comfortable showing up with no place because I cannot afford to stay in a hotel for 2.5 months.
Every time I search the housing I discover something new, I was hoping for tips on how best to acquire housing any any other locals tips. For instance do you have to be a student to stay in student housing over the summer? I don't want to be in the middle of partiers or where we don't feel safe. All the suggestions are good, keep them coming.
Have you been there before? Are you familiar with the neighborhood in which your vacation rental is located? (please tell me the answers are yes)
Other than the sunblock and camera you will need some documents such as your birth certificates, marriage license, divorce decree, possibly school records for your daughter and your last 2 or 3 years tax returns - all these in case you decide to stay permanently. Any prescriptions? Get an extra month's worth if possible until you can find a new family doctor to take over any routine health concerns that you might have. If you know you're not going to stay, just the prescriptions and birth certifcates should be enough.
Best wishes on your sabbatical.
I'd suggest an original soc. sec. card, passport, any marriage and /or divorce papers, a birth certificate and your drivers license.
Soon after you get settled file and A-6 (takes about 20 minutes) take that and get a Hawaii ID card.
Perscriptions is an excellent recomendation. Your doctor's perscription wont work here. Or him calling it in.
Other than that, get yourself a used board at a place in Kailua.
(Trust me, I've been on a sabatical here for 2 months now
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you will need some documents such as your birth certificates, marriage license, divorce decree, possibly school records for your daughter and your last 2 or 3 years tax returns - all these in case you decide to stay permanently. Any prescriptions? Get an extra month's worth if possible until you can find a new family doctor to take over any routine health concerns that you might have. If you know you're not going to stay, just the prescriptions and birth certifcates should be enough.
