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Polynesian Adventure

3.7 (10 reviews)
Open • 7:00 am - 5:00 pm
Updated 2 weeks ago

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Ruben P.

We use this company several year ago in Big Island and we had a excellent experience for that reason we book afán with them to do ours tour in Maui We did route to Hana. We recibe what they promised and more I like to recommend this tour company if you are in Hawaii. Our tour guide was Sales , no word to describe this gentleman, he went above and beyond to be sure that you had a great time, and he is like open book describing each place , generous, friendly , courteous and more....he deserves 10and more Book tour to Hana with Polynesian Adventure and ask for SALES be your driver and tour guide you will not regret that.

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Polynesian Adventure Road to Hana with lunch Oct 17. Salesi was the best tour guide we had on our two-week stay in Hawaii, during which we went on a lot of tours. We booked his Road to Hana with Lunch tour through our NCL cruise. I rate this particular tour a 5, but I rate Polynesian Adventure tours a 3 overall because they did a poor job on our tour of Pearl Harbor. Salesi was well-informed, and had researched the sites he was showing us. He had lived on Maui and in the area a long time and filled us in with historical and family anecdotes. He gave us a full-length extensive tour, without trying to cut the tour short so he could end his work day earlier. My sister-in-law went on the deluxe small-van Polynesian Adventure tour of the Road to Hana, and her tour shorter than ours, and she did not get to see and photograph all the sites we got to see. Salesi knows how to keep a tour on schedule, and will show you as much as possible while getting you back to the cruise ship on time. Salesi is an excellent driver, and I was confident in his ability to drive the treacherous narrow road to Hana. We saw many Maui sites on Salesi's Road to Hana with Lunch tour. They included a water collection site for the island's irrigation system, many waterfalls, a famous church, the delicious banana bread at the Halfway to Hana snack shop, various native and exotic plants that Salesi was able to identify, various Hana community buildings, the pier in Hana, a black sand beach at a state park, green sea turtles at the state park, a family cemetery at the state park. We ate a boxed lunch at picnic tables in the state park. We saw rainbow eucalyptus trees up close. He took us to a sufficient number of bathroom rest-stops. Salesi took us to spots with good views worth photographing. (This isn't to say that all Polynesian Adventure tours are good. We had a horrible, uninformed, unhelpful, inarticulate Polynesian Adventure tour guide at Pearl Harbor.)

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Kane was an excellent driver and tour guide. Very personable throughout the 4 hour tour.

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4.7(169 reviews)
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Just Do It! First rate service and tour of Road to Hana! We…read morewere picked up promptly at our resort and our Driver/ Tour guide Tom was personable, fun and extremely knowledgeable about the islands history and the people of Maui. Food and drink were provided which was better than expected and plenty of it, along with plenty of bathroom breaks. The van was comfortable and limited to 8 guests and we had a good group. We were so glad we didn't drive it ourselves because Tom showed us sooooooo many things we would have driven right by. If you're not sure about taking the tour or driving yourself...do yourself a favor and take the tour and enjoy the Road to Hana!!!

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It was our first time in Hawaii and this was a great way to learn about the island, we highly…read morerecommend the Road to Hana tour! We created tons of cool memories and had new experiences thanks to our tour guide Keone. It's a smaller mom and pop type tour company, which we liked. The tour groups r smaller; we were supposed to have a group of 3 joining our group of 3 but they cancelled so we had the tour all to ourselves! Be ready for a full day; they picked us up from our hotel around 9am and got back to our hotel in the evening. They provide lunch and snacks. Also be ready to get your shoes dirty! Bring layers for the ever-changing rainforest weather and bug spray if mosquitoes like you. It seems like they will customize the tour according to the group and likes/dislikes. My group consisted of three 29 year old adventurous active ladies but i think it would be good for families too. We went to a local market, Buddhist temple-like place. We went on a hike through a bamboo forest, saw rainbow eucalyptus, banyan trees, ate guava and flowers (that's right, we ate ginger flowers!) that were growing in the fields. We saw beautiful colorful tropical birds. We did a short hike to a waterfall and then went swimming in the waterfall. We went to a black sand beach which we had all to ourselves. We went to a beach full of turtles on the sand. We tried lilikoi and fresh homemade banana bread. We moved at our own pace; if we wanted to stay at one place longer, we could. We spent quite a bit of time in the car (I took Meclizine to avoid motion sickness from the windy road) but Keone spent that time to educate us on... EVERYTHING Hawaii! We learned tons from Keone and he made us feel taken care of. We thought about driving Hana Road on our own but I'm SO glad we decided to take this tour. Take the tour to make some awesome memories, be safe (the road has many one way parts and u want to be able to enjoy the beautiful view), and learn all about the rich Hawaiian history and land. It's SO worth the money, I don't think you'll be sorry :)

When our cruise ship arrived in Maui I stumbled upon the guy selling this tour company in a mall…read more He was very personable and certainly a great sales person. He showed us large colorful photos of the six or seven places we would see on our reasonably priced tour. With our group of six he told us we would have our own private van and tour guide. The flyer stated we would have a healthy organic snack and beverage included although the salesman said the van would stop at the Mano Market and we would purchase our own snack. He also said he would have a table and chairs for us to sit on at the scenic lunch stop. We went for it at $65 per person for the Half-way to Hana Tour. When we met up with our tour guide the next morning she was very friendly and personable and on time. The van was new, seat belted and she was a very good driver. The rub was we though we would be stopping every ten or 15 minutes for some sort of tour site. We stopped briefly at an overlook of the beach where the seal turtles come in and the guide said we would return to that spot later at the end of the tour to see the turtles. soon we stopped at the Mano Market to pick up our food and drinks. There was no ice chest or any other means to keep our food and drink cool. I was concerned about possible food poisoning with the food in a hot storage area with out a means to cool it. Then we continued on up the road to Hana. It is an endless serious of very sharp turns that go on forever. We made no stops for at least 45 minutes and by that time two out of the six in our group had motion sickness and did not want to go on. Consequently we went no further than that one stop. This wasn't the fault of the tour company but had we known we would be driving around such a windy road without a stop every 15 minutes or so we probably would not have signed up for it. We opted to eat lunch at this stop but there were no tables and chairs. There were a couple of park benches but only one was in the shade and it was occupied. We ended up sitting on wet grass in the shade eating our now warm drinks and sandwiches. Not a comfortable situation for senior citizens. When we finished eating we headed back to the sea turtle area and took a long break there and saw the sea turtles. It it hadn't been for that the tour would have been a complete bust. Although all of us liked the young friendly girl who was our guide, she was not able to offer up the kind of informative, educational information about the things along our route that other tour guides offer up in a more professionally operated tour. She was just a very nice friendly young girl who was a good driver. The bottom line is we payed $65 each for a drive up a windy road to eat warm sandwiches, drink warm sodas, and set on wet grass, see several sea turtles, and spend some time in a bar drinking a beer to use up the extra time that we had because we couldn't take the drive half-way up to Hana. With a guide with more information on local history and lore it might have been okay but that was not the case. My recommendation is pay a bit more and get a "real" tour.

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4.0(4 reviews)
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