Day Trip to the Big Island from Oahu or Maui
Take a hassle free trip to the Big Island, even if you’re staying on Maui or Oahu. On the tour, visit Hawaii’s only active volcano as well as sights like Hilo Town and Rainbow falls. The package includes roundtrip airfare to and from the Big Island plus ground transportation and a guide. So all you have to do is relax and enjoy the tour.
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Activity Overview
Tour Highlights
- Roundtrip airfare from Oahu or Maui to the Big Island
- Friendly, expert volcano tour guide
- Hilo Town & Rainbow Falls
- Volcanoes National Park including the visitor’s center, steam vents, and chain of craters road
- Black sand beach
Tour Details
Are you staying on Oahu or Maui but you really want to see the Big Island and Volcanoes National Park? Hawaii Tours offers a done-for-you guided trip so you can make the most of your time. On the tour, visit Hawaii’s only active volcano as well as sights like Hilo Town and Rainbow falls. The package includes roundtrip airfare to and from the Big Island plus ground transportation and a guide. So all you have to do is relax and enjoy the tour.
Tour Description
This tour starts with pickup from your Waikiki hotel and transport to HNL airport. If you are on Maui you will be picked up from your hotel in South or West Maui and transported to the airport in Kahului. There you’ll catch a flight over to Hilo where your tour guide will meet you at the airport around 8:00 am. From here you’ll journey through Hilo, seeing and stopping at various places until the tour reaches the famed Rainbow Falls State Park on the edge of town.
The highlight of this tour is the many stops within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park to see an active volcano and craters of the past along Chain of Craters Road. See the steam vents, check out the destruction of the crater due to the last eruption. See how the landscape changes and get other great information in the learning center or the Visitor Center.
This tour also includes stops at a black sand beach, a lunch stop, scenic viewpoints, gardens, and more. Your guide will return you back to the airport in Hilo for your flight back to Oahu, where your driver will meet you at the airport to transport you back to your hotel. In all an 8 hour day on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Your guide may change some stops depending on weather and availability*
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