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If you are organizing your summer vacation and you are searching for somewhere where you can strip down to your bathing costume and swim all day and merely worry about it becoming overly hot, not too cold, then you ought to add a holiday in Hawaii to your short list.

A vacation in Hawaii is thought to be very costly because of the high profile it has in films and TV series like 'Hawaii 5-0', but it is possible to find fairly reasonable holidays in Hawaii, if you do a little research. Search the Internet for last minute package deals and if that fails, try putting together your own holiday from various cut-price components.

You may be pleasantly surprised how much it costs to have a holiday in Hawaii compared to a equivalent one in say, St. Croix, Barbados or even Florida. Look for actual hotels or guest houses in regions that are just outside the tourist traps and you will almost certainly get a better price. Lots of these hotels have their own web site and so offer seasonal or last minute discounts directly to private patrons.

Hawaii is one of the most beautiful regions in the locality and indeed in the world. The coast is famous for its natural beauty - the swimming and diving are renowned, but the land off the coast is beautiful as well, if you like hiking, riding or driving by jeep. There are spectacular volcanoes, waterfalls and forests.

Hawaii has been turned into a paradise for sports enthusiasts of all types. There is very little that you could choose to do and cannot on Hawaii. There is ample chance for most land, sea and air sports ranging from mountaineering, to diving to hang-gliding. You can rent Jeeps, mountain bicycles, yachts and even a helicopter.

Most visitors take a vacation in Hawaii for water sports such as swimming, diving, snorkeling, fishing and water skiing, but power boating and yachting or just sailing a dinghy is common enough too.

There are also lots of natural and man-made historical sights to see on all the islands, but the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on Big Island is just about the most well-known although most of the smaller island such as Kauai, Lanai, Maui, Molokai and Oahu all have their attractions as well. It is merely a case of reading up on Hawaii before you go and attempting to choose a hotel in a spot that makes your interests easily available.

There are lots of web sites and books on Hawaii to help you with your investigation, but you can also travel around easily once you get there, so that you could have a week on one island and a week on another offering different hobbies as a specialty.

This can all be arranged quite easily if you put your tour together yourself, but it may be more tricky if you try to patch two package vacations together. You will not regret your vacation in Hawaii whether you go alone, with the family or as part of a group.