Big island travel is not all tropical fruit drinks and sandy beaches.  In Lahaina, Maui, residents from all over come to the city to take part in the Halloween festivities each year.  There are the usual costume contests, but such contests will instead be put on in restaurants, pubs, and the like.  In recent years, the costume judging took place outside.  Anywhere from twenty thousand to thirty thousand people will show up to the events held in Lahaina.  It is the treason Maui vacation packages are quite popular around this time of the year.

No charges or fees of any kind apply to the celebrations, but there are fees should you go to any of the pubs in the area or eateries.  The majority of the Halloween hijinks take place in the streets thought there are some wild things to see in the pubs.  Front street is perhaps the biggest part of the celebration.   It is also a little more dangerous due to the alcohol use that inevitably progresses throughout the night.  While there are kid friendly activities, most of those occur in the earlier parts of evening.  Don’t plan on parking anywhere on Front Street either as it will be closed from three thirty to eleven thirty.  The massive traffic of pedestrians and revelers require it.

Lanai travel deals also provide travelers to Hawaii with more Halloween fun but perhaps on a quieter scale.  It has its very own ghost town.  The town of Keomuku has long since been deserted, but when it was a thriving town, the island had never seen anything quite like it before.  Its sugar plantations made it a thriving economy, primarily with the Maunalei Sugar Company trying to grow sugar on the fertile coast.  However, the company made a huge error when it harmed a sacred temple, which people thought made the gods wrathful, and thusly caused the H20 for the mill to grow ridden with salt.  Furthering the belief that the gods were mad was a huge disease that killed most of the people in the village.  The company shut up shop in 1901.