My Croatia itinerary is ATL-CDG, CDG-SPU. Stayed in Trigor, then took the ferry from Split to Hvar. We loved Hvar. Stayed at the Hvar Adriana Hotel and Spa, which is right on the harbour. We drove to the other ferry dock and went to Korcula, which took all day and 3 ferries. I would probably not go back there (home of Marco Polo, interesting but huge pain to get there). Then went to Dubrovnik and stayed at the Hotel Bellvue which was fantastic. Either hotel is not cheap but totally worth it. There are several other places I would also add on and we plan to go again in September which says a lot as we don't generally repeat. We were to drive to Mostar, Bosnia and then continue on to Split and fly to Zagreb, then Amsterdam but went out of Dubronik instead for the more sure bet MAD flight.

On HNL, two options: I have a ton of FF miles (over 400K) and I made a res and have 2 days to pull the trigger. It will cost me 280K miles and $300. Not too bad for not having to sweat my vacation. That said, I just talked to my friend who has the mother that lives in Hawaii and she says she's never been stuck- 1996 ASA hire date so now S3C and DH with a 1999 DL hire date, and her mother has only had to wait once ?? She's done weekends and in the summer so she 'thinks' I would be fine when I told her the loads. What to do, what to do...

Totally get that seat counts change and have been the lucky recipient as well as steamed non rev-er when someone doesn't bother to list until the last minute. That's a lot of seats to play with though (2 listed and 20+ in the back).