マウイ島ツアー：カフルイ島からハナ日帰りツアーへの道ランチ、水、チップ

Exploring the Road to Hāna was incredible, and hands down, Malia was the best guide. She’s a natural storyteller, and as a local, she made every stop meaningful and informative for us bus. We saw tons of turtles, dipped our feet in the black sand beach, watched a local catch (and release) an octopus, explored a cave, swam in a waterfall, and picked up amazing goodies — butter lotion, coffee, star fruit, macnut brittle, banana bread, coconut candy and chocolate. I highly recommend booking this experience instead of renting a car so everyone can relax and fully immerse themselves in the rainforest. The education and insight Malia provides is the perfect bonus.

The road is windy and narrow and had a lot if traffic. Our driver and guide John made it seem easy and safe. He researched all the places, plants, shells and music and made it very informative and also enjoyable. He was obliging and caring of our safety .

So first the things I liked: the tour was breathtaking. When we didn't get out, the driver slowed down or stopped so we got to take pictures, which I really appreciated. The tour guide was nice (I'm sorry I couldn't remember his name, long curly/wave dark hair) and gave a lot of fun facts, history and insightful information about Maui and the places we saw. He even took pictures of us at some of the stops which was really nice. We stopped at many gorgeous, stunning locations and had plenty of time to explore and take pictures. We got to stop for delicious ice cream as well as a sweets stand! Overall definitely recommend, we got to see A LOT in just one day. Didn't have to worry about parking, driving, getting lost, it's a really good deal! Now the things I didn't like and hope they improve going forward: so as a solo traveler, whenever I do these tours, since the whole bus is filled with families and couples, they always have me sit up front. It just makes sense.. well for some reason that left me truly baffled, the tour guide split up a married couple, had the husband sit in the front seat and had me sit in the very back.. I was very, very confused. In addition, it's rather difficult to hear the tour guide in the very back, as the speaker is not very loud. At times, you couldn't hear him at all because some people were talking to each other. Anyway.. another complaint is that during the 9-ish hour trip, we were only offered water ONCE at lunch time. When we asked if anyone wanted water, I loudly stated yes please and raised my hand, but he apparently did not hear me so I recieved no water until then next stop when I had to explicitly ask him for a water. I found this to be very odd and I ended up with a headache from the dehydration. I had to dry swallow an excedrin before it turned into a migraine. Not fun.. Another thing was when we stopped at a state park for 1 hour, he told us we'd be having lunch and then we could go explore. I was excited because I was quite hungry. However, a few minutes after walking to the site, the tour guide changed his mind and said actually we'll have lunch at the next stop but we'll keep this stop at an hour still. I was disappointed but what can you do? So I went off exploring. We were told to meet back at the van at 11:30. I, along with two other couples arrived back at the bus at 11:27 to find everyone else had finished their lunch??? So because they didn't want to explore for the full hour, they wanted to sit in the bus and wait, he decided to give them their lunch early? Well if I had known that, I'd have been back earlier. So we had to eat our lunch in a very bumpy, unsteady bus while driving to the next stop. YOU try putting sauce on a wrap in those conditions without making a total mess... it's a bit frustrating, especially having to again eat a meal with no water. It's quite literally in the booking title "lunch, water, chips". It's laughable but honestly it was worrisome because the hot , humid Hawaiian weather really dries you out, especially walking/ hiking around. And my one final gripe: the drop off process. So we finished the tour around 3 and began dropping off people at their hotels. My problem is that he passed by me and a few other guests hotels to get to the other guests hotels first.. listen, I totally understand the logic, first in, first out. HOWEVER, almost 1.5 hours was added onto our trip because he chose to drive all the way to their hotels instead of just dropping people off at which ever hotels are on the way/ come first.. it just didn't make any sense at all to me to drive all the way to one area, just to have to drive all the way back to the first area to drop off other guests. In the future, maybe figure out a way to end the trip closer to the people you pick up first. Why keep multiple guests in the van for almost 90 more minutes instead of just dropping them off..? I struggle to understand. So hopefully these things can be fixed/improved, otherwise it was a great trip.

Well worth it we did a lot more than other people on the cruise because we booked with this tour group. Fantastic tour and Justin D. was great. His local knowledge and fun style were amazing.

Colby was a great driver and tour guide that made the road to Hana most enjoyable! We enjoyed all the stops and sights along the way.

I really did not enjoy this tour at all, primarily because of our guide. The driver spent the entire duration of the trip making relentless jokes, to the point where it became genuinely frustrating; you simply never knew if he was actually being serious about the tour or just messing around. As for the itinerary itself, he just drove us to a couple of random beaches without any real purpose. He offered absolutely no interesting historical facts, cultural background, or meaningful explanations about the places we were supposedly visiting. Even worse was his blatant disrespect for local rules: at one point, he stopped to feed a horse that was kept inside a fenced, private property. There was a highly visible sign explicitly stating *not* to feed the animal, yet he completely ignored the warning and proceeded to feed the horse ultra-processed junk food anyway. Furthermore, he spent the entire drive hyping us up, repeatedly claiming that we were going to go on a proper nature hike. However, when it finally came time to get out of the vehicle, he literally just made us stand on the shoulder of the highway to look at a single tree. That was the complete extent of our promised "hike." I noticed that the rest of the passengers seemed perfectly happy with this, but I can only assume that it was their very first time visiting Maui. Naturally, when everything is entirely new to you, even the bare minimum seems amazing. But for me, this entire experience was nothing short of an absolute scam. The tour description promised a wide variety of activities and sights that were simply never delivered. It became painfully obvious that the driver was basically just too lazy to do any actual walking, and because of his sheer lack of effort, he deliberately skipped taking us to all the designated spots on our itinerary. I absolutely cannot recommend this tour to anyone. The price they charge is ridiculously excessive for what essentially amounts to a lazy, glorified joyride. Sure, if you have absolutely no prior experience with Maui, you might think it's a decent trip simply because the natural island views are inherently beautiful. But speaking completely objectively, this tour is an absolute mockery. The driver is fully aware of the low expectations of first-time tourists, and he shamelessly takes full advantage of that to do the bare minimum. I am leaving feeling incredibly scammed and deeply frustrated. This was supposed to be my very last day enjoying Maui, and instead, the entire experience felt like a massive rip-off from start to finish.

As a tourist, don’t attempt this trip in a rental car by yourself. The road is a challenge. There is no cell service in case of an emergency.

John is an excellent driver, the tour was very informative and fun! John is fun and really made the tour

We had THEE best time ever! Colby kept us laughing with his comedy. He kept us hydrated and moving. I enjoyed all the stops and his knowledge of the different areas. I'm glad we got to have this experience. Mahalo

Extremely dissatisfied. Driver was rude, wouldn’t let older handicapped people sit up front, instead let young man sit there. My friend with a cane had to climb in back. Driver complained about low tip. Bu s was dirty and stunk.