So you qualified. How much is the:
Entry Fee:
Flight:
Accomodations:
Getting around/car rental:
Pretty much your total cost.
I think you should include the cost of qualifying.
Qualifying Race total cost:
Pre-Qualifying Race Half IM total cost:
Hawaii Entry Fee:
Flight:
Accomodations:
Getting around/car rental:
So you qualified. How much is the:
Entry Fee:
Flight:
Accomodations:
Getting around/car rental:
Pretty much your total cost.
You should add Divorce Settlement to the list.
So you qualified. How much is the:
Entry Fee:
Flight:
Accomodations:
Getting around/car rental:
Pretty much your total cost.
Depends on how well you live in Kona and how long you want to stay and if you have family with you. Ballpark between $6,000 and $12,000 I guess.
So you qualified. How much is the:
Entry Fee:
Flight:
Accomodations:
Getting around/car rental:
Pretty much your total cost.
Entry fee (including Active.com extortion) $875
Airfare (best I could do from SE US) $4400 for family of 4
House rental, $500 for 9 days (Thank you generous parents and in-laws!)
Getting absolutely crushed by the heat and infinitely faster triathletes? Priceless.
Depends on the details.
If you flew in a few days before the race, stayed at uncle billys and didn’t rent a car I bet you could do it for 2500 solo from the lower 48.
It scales semi-exponentially as you add additional people and days 
Airfare - Denver to Kona $1,000 per person plus $250 to take bike on united round trip plus $25 per checked bag.
Lodging - 2 bedroom condo $265/per night (13% tax, cleaning fee, etc.) - nothing fancy nice ocean view on Alii drive for a few nights then we move up the coast out of Kona.
Small SUV - $67/day based on weekly rate
Costco - at least $400 upon landing for food, drinks, etc. but over the course of the stay it saves us lots of money with two kids - eat breakfast at condo, pack cooler for beach and lunch, grill a couple of dinners at the condo - tuna steaks ,etc. Love Costco when in Kona!
Over the past few years, airfare to Kona seems to have really increased, mostly as a function of having to take United from Denver to get decent flight times. Can’t wait until Soutwest goes to Hawaii.
If you are fortunate, your spouse will qualify at IMWI giving you plenty of time to secure a free ticket(s) with all those frequent flyer miles you’ve accumulated over the years. When my wife qualified at IMWI I bagged 4 free seats for the family on American. The key is to know what day reservations for flights first post. It’s like waiting by the computer to enter an IM race.
For those of you planning to go to Kona in the future, get the Hawaiian Airlines mileage card now. Right off the bat, you’ll get a free companion ticket and somewhere around 35,000 miles (enough to fly from the west coast to Honolulu). Then you can build up miles, but the best part is that now that you are in the system, they will be sending you offers for cheap flights. My wife and I go back and forth from New York to Oahu a couple of times a year. One time we went only because the offered a fare of $440 round trip. It was too good to pass up!
Flights for 3= $3K
Hotel=$220 + tax x 6 nights
Car/SUV=$357
Bike=$$??? will find out later
Parking/food??? Will find out later when I get there at hotel.
Just be glad you can find a hotel or place to stay if you make it. OR book a year in advance for a room & hope you KQ. If not, you can always resell it to someone here on ST who is looking for a last minute room.
As others have noted the actual hard costs can be wildly variable.
Accommodations in Kona are all over the map - from modestly dumpy, to 5 star.
Airfares from the US west coast can be relatively cheap, but from many other places, the cost just starts to ramp quickly. I just paid $1,000 from Toronto. The good news on that, is it’s been pretty steady and consistent at that level for a few years. A year ago last, when we were last there we paid $850 - so up a bit.
Car rentals are ALWAYS expensive in Kona for race week. All the rental companies have to ship cars over to the island for that week to accommodate everyone. Thus, if you can sort out accommodation without a car, then there are big savings there.
Are you going solo, or bringing family - obviously that’s going to factor costs one way or the other.
Food costs there, I find are modest. Lot’s of choices for eating out and range. We find grocery prices high, but if you shop smart, and shop the farmers market on Alii for fruits and veg you can keep costs in line.
All in, Kona is not an inexpensive place to travel to for many. It’s always been an unspoken limiter for the people that actually do go and race there. I qualified, many times myself, when I was younger and had fewer dollars at my disposal, and I only raced there twice!