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The Honolulu Advertiser
Updated at 8:16 p.m., Thursday, November 20, 2008

Starwood kamaaina program to benefit Hawaii Food Bank

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Hawai'i today launched an online auction that can offer deals on hotels and spa treatments for kama'aina and help benefit the Hawai'i Food Bank.

The "Big Give Hawai'i," an online auction of spa treatment and hotel deals — with hotel room rates starting as low as $80 a night — throughout O'ahu, Maui, Kaua'i and the Big Island that offers a slice of the proceeds to benefit the Hawai'i Food Bank and Neighbor Island Food Banks

It opened on the Web — at www.biggivehawaii.com — at 12:01 a.m. and runs until midnight on Nov. 30 for travel from Dec. 8 through Jan. 31.

Winning bidders must show proof of Hawai'i residency.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts in Hawai'i is offering 1,000 room packages with as much as 80 percent off hotel room rates with 20 percent of the proceeds to benefit the Hawai'i Food Bank and neighbor island Food Banks.

Starwood hopes to raise $40,000 for the Hawai'i Food Banks from deal that include: Sheraton Waikiki, Sheraton Princess Ka'iulani, Moana Surfrider, A Westin Resort & Spa, W Honolulu Diamond Head, Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa, The Westin Maui Resort & Spa, Westin Ka'anapali Ocean Resort Villas, Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort & Spa, Sheraton Kaua'i Resort and the Westin Princeville Ocean Resort Villas.