Maui Car Rental Blog

June 14, 2026. This week, if you were hoping to rent a minivan or a large 7-seater SUV to move the entire family around for your Maui summer vacation, you're out of luck. These vehicles are completely sold out at Maui's Kahului Airport (OGG), and at all other off-airport locations listed in the online travel agent (OTA) systems. And the rental rates on all other vehicles have taken another upward leap. Worse yet, off-airport locations served by shuttle from the airport are co

June 7, 2026. This week, movement in Maui car rental prices seems to be driven primarily by pressure from safety recalls that idle fleet vehicles. The price of compact cars, Jeeps, and convertibles are down by small percentages. But prices for mid-size cars, SUV's, and minivans, all three categories directly or indirectly seeing lasting pressure caused by safety recalls, are up. Stay with us as we do the numbers... Fig. 1. Prices for Maui car rental at Kahului Airport (OGG) f

May 31, 2026. This week's Maui car rental prices were mostly up overall, with rates in various vehicle classes surging between 10% and 55% higher in just one week. This is an expected seasonal adjustment as Maui enters the busy summer travel season. But there was one outlier: convertibles were the only vehicles down from the week before, at $523/week from Dollar at Maui's Kahului Airport (OGG). The lowest prices at OGG were for compact cars from Hertz, for $351/week with all

May 25, 2026. Maui car rental prices moved mostly sideways this week, with nearly no significant movement from last week's levels. In a repeat of last year's Memorial Day price action, the holiday did not produce any price bump, confirming that this holiday is a non-event when it comes to rental car pricing in Maui. With prices now recorded for the final week of May, we can compare this year's average price for the month with the average price from May 2025. The result: price

May 17, 2026. Maui car rental prices seem to be slowly rising from their lowest shoulder season levels and headed in the direction of their mid-summer high season levels. For the coming week, the cheapest car from Maui's Kahului Airport (OGG) is $272 for a one week rental, with all taxes and fees included. In a stunning alignment that could be just coincidence, prices in most vehicle categories this week are almost exactly at the level of their median for the last 52 weeks. N

May 10, 2026. Maui car rental prices have settled into a lower range that is typical for the May shoulder season. Prices are near their lowest levels since the beginning of 2026. However these levels remain significantly higher than they were at the same time (i.e. early May) one year ago in 2025The cheapest 4-door sedan cars from Maui's Kahului airport are between $272 for compacts and $322 for full-size for a one week rental, with all taxes and fees included. Premium vehicl

May 3, 2026. Maui car rental prices are usually near their lowest point of the year in early May. This is a seasonal trend that held true in both 2024 and 2025. And in fact, going into this May, prices have been steadily coming down from a seasonal peak for Easter in early April. In light of this, we expected prices this week to drop even further from last week's levels, to reach rock bottom, as they did last year, in the first week of May. But instead, this week prices rev

Apr. 26, 2026. Maui car rental prices follow seasonal patterns that repeat from year to year. In 2024 and 2025, the end of April or beginning of May was the point where prices fell to their lowest level of the year, and where the price floor was set for the next year. Will this year follow the same pattern? Are we now at rock bottom? Or will Maui car rental prices go even lower? We take a look at this week's prices and evaluate the factors that could influence future prices.

Apr. 19, 2026 . Maui car rental prices are continuing their shift from this winter's extraordinary high levels to more affordable spring shoulder levels. The biggest move this week was for the price of minivans, that dropped by more than half, to just a notch above the $50/day level. The trend of savings for last minute bookings compared to advance bookings continued this week, as it has since the middle of March. This week, the cheapest car from Kahului Airport (OGG) is just

Apr. 12, 2026 . With Easter in the rearview mirror, the picture for Maui car rental has flipped from winter high season to spring shoulder season. Prices for various vehicles have dropped between 40% to 60% from last week's holiday rate. And, going forward, expect big rewards for waiting until the last minute to book your car rental. This flip vis-a-vis of the conventional wisdom of booking as far in advance as possible is a marker of seasonal transition from over-demand to o

Apr. 5, 2026 . Maui car rental prices have gone up for the second week in a row, and may be reaching their seasonal Easter holiday peak. In normal years, prices will be coming down from this level as we proceed into the shoulder season that stretches from now until early summer. But there has been nothing normal about this year. The last nine months have been marked by extreme price volatility, with multiple tipping points that lead to short-lived but very significant price

Mar. 30, 2026 . Maui car rental prices have bounced back up from a temporary dip caused by extreme weather and violent storms hitting Hawaii and disrupting weather. With good weather ahead for the Easter Holiday, prices in all vehicle categories have increased from last week. The cheapest car available from Kahului Airport (OGG) is $302/week with all taxes and fees - a modest 15% increase from last week. But prices for minivans and 7-seat SUV's are more than $1,000/week - nea

Mar. 22, 2026 . Maui car rental prices just fell to a new low for 2026. Two powerful storms, one week apart, have spread destruction across the Hawaiian islands and disrupted travel. As visitor cancellations have mounted, the back lots of Kahului Airport (OGG) have gone in just days from completely empty to completely full of idle rental cars. This is happening at what is normally the peak of the busy Spring Break travel season that usually pushes prices up to a temporary pea

Mar. 9, 2026. Maui car rental prices rose from last week. Across most vehicle categories, prices are up between 50% and double of last week. If they follow the expected seasonal pattern, they will rise again next week - possibly another 50% - to hit the seasonal mid-March peak for Spring Break. The cheapest car from Kahului Airport (OGG) was more then $900 for a one week rental starting Monday March 9. Prices for most vehicles are between $1,000 to $1,500 per week. Taking a

Mar. 2, 2026. Maui car rental prices saw an overall decline for the second week in a row. Prices in most vehicle categories are roughly half (50%) of what they were one week ago, and in the range of 10% to 20% (one-tenth to one-fifth) of what they were at the February peak just three weeks ago. But prices remain high compared to one year ago - for most vehicles they are in the range of 50% higher, while for Jeeps and minivans, still affected by safety recalls that limits ava

Feb. 23, 2026. Maui car rental prices appear to have peaked in mid-February and they are now on their way down to a high season level that they will hold through March until after Spring Break. This is a repeatable seasonal pattern of price movement that we see every year. The difference this year is the peak prices in Mid-February were more elevated than last year or any previous year on record. The record-setting high prices were due to a severe shortage in rental vehicles

Feb. 15, 2026. Rental cars for Maui are completely sold out from Kahului Airport (OGG) for one-week rentals beginning Monday Feb. 16, 2026. No vehicles of any kind are available to rent for a full week from the providers listed in the Online Travel Agent (OTA) systems like Expedia, Travelocity, Kayak, and so on. The listed companies serving Maui are Ace, Alamo, All-Save, Avis, Budget, Enterprise, Fox, National, Nu, Payless, Sixt, and Thrifty. WHAT ABOUT OFF-AIRPORT RENTALS?

Feb. 8, 2026 - Last week, we wrote that we expected February prices to rise even higher from the record high levels they had already reached. This week, they did so, dramatically. In fact, prices are at a levels that reflect a near-complete sell-out of vehicles from Maui's Kahului Airport (OGG). Of the nine car rental companies with operations at the airport, Alamo, Avis, Budget, Dollar, Enterprise, Hertz, National, Payless, SiXT, Thrifty, only four of these - Avis, Budget,

Feb. 1, 2026 - Prices for Maui rental cars from Kahului Airport (OGG) are following their annual pattern that takes them to a seasonal peak in mid-February. After dropping last week from the MLK Jr. holiday seasonal peak, this week's rates are back on the rise, and are on track to go even higher by the middle of the month, as they do every year. The difference with previous years is that rates are higher than they've every been. Last week we reported that average rates for t

Jan. 30, 2026. A proposal to impose an additional $3/day tax on Maui Car rentals has returned to the Hawaii State Legislature. If passed, the new tax would be added to the existing daily Rental Motor Vehicle Surcharge Tax, and would bring the daily flat tax on Maui's car rentals to a total of $11/day beginning in January 2027. This would be in addition to other existing Maui car rental taxes and fees , and would apply to all car rental and car-sharing operations, including