Actually, if you book early, and avoid the busy touist time of the year, you can get a flight from the west coast, a hotel on Wikaki, with kitchenette (preparing a lot of your own food saves a bundle) you can go there for very little money. One year ago today we send my daugher and her brand new husband there on their honeymoon. I don't remember the cost, but it was much less than when the ex and I went there on ours in 1975!!!

Retirement is worth working for, trust me on this!!!