The standard advice has always been: land at OGG, pick up your rental car, and don't let it go until you're back at the airport. For decades, that was correct.
It may no longer be.
Between 2021 and 2023, Maui rental car prices hit numbers that genuinely shocked visitors, regularly above $150 per day, sometimes far higher during peak weeks. Resort parking added another $50 to $65 per night on top of that. A two-week trip could cost $2,000 or more just for a car that mostly sat in a parking