flying wrote:
playguy wrote:
Without the race one can even actually travel to Kailua Kona. I'm sure glad I don't have rental property there as rates will plummet without the race. Long term, did the locals actually win?It's Hawaii
A limited quantity
Rentals rates plummet without a 1 or 2 days race???
Rents & pretty much everything else is expensive 365 days a year in Hawaii
Understood; but the cash cow may be gone, so rates back to normal. Also, you think just 1 or 2 day rentals? How many travel and train there for longer periods. Similar to IMWI here in Madison, there are many people who rent and travel to train on site. Kill the race, those are gone. Frankly, it's a tiny community with little other than coffee plantations up the hill. Better waves and tourist spots on other locales and other islands. The golden calf of Ironman brings quite a bump in the economy; not just on that day.
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