Seriously. My first thought was you would think you would just get a car, drive an hour and a half to SF, then jump on any of the flights heading to HI. Many of the HI-bound flights make a stop in LA or SF first, and there are several coming through each day. Even if you had to wait overnight before getting on a new flight, it would still be much faster than 27.5 hours. Hell, one could drive down to LAX and find another flight in that time. And the money used on new plane tickets might not have been that much more than what they got reimbursed for the lost lodging. It's all what the added stress, lost time, and lost vacation is worth to you, I guess. At least they gave themselves five days to get things right.