Originally Posted by WindWalker999

Do not listen to people who do not actually live in Ewa Beach when they talk about traffic. Back in the day when there was only one road in and out of town it was terrible. Now we have two roads that are both six lanes all the way, and it really does make a difference.

Barring a few "carmageddon" multi-accident hell days a year, it is not that bad. If you have ever lived in ANY large Mainland city, you will not find it in any way abnormal. Our bus ride from JFK to our hotel takes longer than normal rush hour traffic from Ewa Beach to the airport.

Rent-wise, $2200 - $2400 ish gets you a townhouse with a yard and garage, central AC, 10 minutes from a beach and right down the street from tons of restaurants (Applebee's even), a Safeway with everything a mainland supermarket has, and 10 minutes from a new mall with Macy's (just opened), 24 Hour Fitness, etc. $2500 or more gets you a house. Older apartments with less amenities may be less. You can still find decent properties for sale in the $400,000 - $700,000 range, with some smaller apartments still significantly less. Or you could get a million-dollar luxury home at Hoakalei. Really a little bit of everything out here. Some older areas with a lot of "character" (read "ghetto") sprinkled around, kind of like Kailua before it got nice. You will learn to love all that. Give it 10 years for all the high-end development to really get going and it will turn into another Kaneohe with newer houses. Good investment area, last one left on Oahu really. And when the Kailua and Hawaii Kai boys bleat and whinny and moo about how "that rail will never make it out here so why should I pay the tax for it?" remind them how many, MANY years took to build H-3, how much federal tax money THAT cost, and how it doesn't do a damn thing for us down here in the Dirty South and never will so THERE! The rail system, love it or hate it, is well into its construction and will be completed. May take a while, but those 10,000 new houses the other guy was talking about are planned to be built out over 20 years so they have some time.

Between 3:30 and 6:00 ish in the afternoon traffic from the airport to Ewa gets bad on the weekdays, expect about 1:00 to 1:15 travel time on a normal day during that period. A bunch of accidents makes it worse. Heading towards the airport from Ewa between 5:00 and 7:30 - 8:00 in the morning is about the same on a normal day, an hour to hour and fifteen.

Couple good accidents bump that up to 1:30 sometime and make it last longer.

Interisland and junior, you will either fly till midnight or start at 4:45 AM so won't matter either way. Reserve I would say in a year I only got called during peak traffic maybe 3 times, and as long as you have your stuff ready to go is a PITA but really no big deal. If you have a 7:30 show just leave early before traffic and take a nap in the "quiet room". Or just fly weekends, when there is no traffic. You won't be able to hold them off anyway so there ya go.

Transpac, REALLY not an issue at all. Miss the traffic most of the time, and if you get back in the "rush hour" either go to Ruby Tuesday and have a beer, or just deal with your 3 or 4 monthly H-1 traffic experiences and realize that 80% of the thousands of cars creeping along with you do this every day, and have an even longer drive than you do.

Normal driving time with no traffic at all from down in Ewa to the airport parking entrance is :35 minutes, and that is NOT speeding.

Now the HNL parking situation is another animal entirely, but where you live won't matter at all for that.

Welcome.