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My wife and I recently rode this tour w guide Kelly Beck and had a delicious and filling time.
Location: mainly Kapahulu Ave. and Monsarrat Ave., we often rode on the sidewalk which felt awkward to me but was safer than riding w busy traffic.
Parking: we met our guide in the parking lot of Kapiolani Park, near the zoo, along Kapahulu Ave.
Free parking and away from the crowds.
Our guide: Kelly Beck. He was great - friendly, enthusiastic, and informative. He used a wireless speaker system, he had the microphone on his shirt and each of us had a wireless speaker attached to the handlebars of our bikes. We've been on other bike tours that didn't use this tech, using it enabled us to easily hear what he was saying as he led us.
He's a former endurance athlete but the tour was easy - flat and low speed w frequent stops.
Gear:
- city bikes w multiple gears, fenders, good brakes, and clean. Each had a pouch in front to store stuff.
- he supplied us w 3 large bottles of water, more than enough.
- helmets: we previously told them I need an XL helmet for my big head and they remembered, it was a clean comfortably fitting helmet.
This is where we went:
-Diamond Head Market & Grill, Monsarrat Ave., *good, so good we returned for dinner:
- miso ginger salmon, wasabi ahi, good sauce
-South Shore Grill, was closed, fish tacos
-ARS Cafe, coffee shop/food, we took a look inside
-Rainbow Drive-In, just looked
-Bailey's Antiques and Aloha Shirts, literally thousands of Aloha shirts, the racks were stuffed!
-Da Ono: good lunch of lau lau, haupia, ube
-Ono Seafood: we shared a small portion of poke (we had high expectations for this place but the poke was so-so)
-Wailoa Shave Ice for a shave ice for each of us.
-Leonard's! We each had a malasada, freshly fried and warm, yum.
We rode through the the neighborhood on our return to the parking lot. Kelly gave us commentary on the houses, real estate, trees/plants, and the local customs and news.
We're glad we booked this tour.