This is a Private Custom tour of the island of Oahu. You can tell us in your reservation what you would like to do, and then discuss it with your driver when they pick you up. Each van has a cooler with ice and water. You have the van and tour guide for up to 8 hours to do what you'd like to do. The driver will narrate during the tour and at the stops about the history and culture of Hawaii.
We provide Private, Custom, tours of the island of Oahu. You can set the itinerary or leave it up to our expert guides, or a mix of both. We've been giving tours since 2012. Check out our TripAdvisor reviews to see what people enjoyed doing. We pick you up right from your hotel, we recommend 8:30am. Look for a tour van with white letters on the side that says our name. Please contact us to let us know your start time.
Posted By : RhondaOG
Our Private Circle Island 9 hour tour of the area was very good. Our driver/guide was Tiho, and he was very knowledgeable about all the areas we saw. Always offering to take pictures and was very good with the camera - even taking pano pics on my camera!
We went to the Byodo-In Temple, which was beautiful. He bought food and had us feeding the birds from our hands and also the fish, who came up with their mouths open waiting for food. We stopped along the route for beautiful scenic photos, also at Macadamia nut farm for tasting, Kualoa Regional Park, which was gorgeous and not busy, stopped in front of the mountain range from Jurassic Park and took photos and then to the Dole Plantation where we had Dole Whip.... delicious.
We had stopped for lunch in a place of his choice. That was disappointing, as we usually are given a choice of where to eat on our private tours. Unfortunately, it was all fried food, and really not that good. For the non-fish eaters like me, there was a chicken option. But is was just like chicken strips and rice (all dishes came with rice).
As we were driving to the Dole Plantation, things got strange. He proceeded to chat about tipping, which I understand is important to talk about as not everyone considers tipping. What was strange was the length of the talk about tipping and the details he provided were un-necessary. I pointed out that the pandemic happened world wide and may people's incomes and lives were effected. He even told us how much to tip, 30% since he was the driver and the guide. He even told us if we didn't have enough cash that there was a bank machine at the next stop. This left everyone very disappointed and angry. We've had private excursions all over the world, and this was the first time we encountered this. At the end of the tour, many of us did decide to tip (some had decided not to tip based on his tipping lecture). However, our tip was lower than what we usually would tip. One of our group members did have a private discussion with him when the tour was completed and told him that we were not happy with our long tipping lecture and he would have received much more money if he just lightly mentioned tipping would be appreciated.
While the tour itself was fantastic and he was a fantastic tour guide, the end was still disappointing. I hope Tiho, that you leave out the lengthy lecture on tipping as you are a fantastic tour guide.
Don't let this stop you from booking this tour, if Tiho is your guide, you will get a great tour.
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Posted On : 2023-10-27 14:32:05 
Posted By : Marcia_D
Our tour guide-driver, JP, was fantastic! Very knowledgeable and so accommodating to our family of 8. He made additional recommendations that were spot on for our group of 7 adults and a 10 year old! Beautiful scenery, stopped at food truck that served freshly baked malasadas, stopped at blow holes, saw a monk seal on one of beautiful beaches; giant sea turtle laying in the sand on another beach; stopped at a shrimp farm, and had delicious food; stopped at rum distillery for a quick tasting (daiquiri tastings also available for those who didnt want straight rum); and saw many other cool things! What a totally wonderful day!!!
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Posted On : 2023-07-10 17:52:01 
Posted By : DOROTHY_S
Driver was well informed and provided information over different things such as plants , climate, animals etc. He had a great personality and went along with my wishes to assist in making our vacation as comfortable as possible. I have done this twice and will do it again on another visit. It is the best way to sight see the places you want to visit longer.
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Posted On : 2023-06-30 20:51:46
Posted By : LATRISHA_I
This was an awesome tour. We learned a lot of history about the island and got some amazing pictures. Being a private tour allowed us to spend as much time as we wanted at each stop.
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Posted On : 2023-06-11 14:31:44
Posted By : marksS9371ZZ
Dave was amazing. We had 2 elderly, 1 wheelchair bound and a 5 month old along with my wife and myself. Dave made stops for diaper changes and kept in stride. He has a keen insight on the island and very knowledgeable with the history of the people and culture. We will look for Dave on our next journey!
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Posted On : 2023-06-07 14:21:56
Posted By : Belinda_P
We had such an amazing day travelling around Oahu! Our guide Dave was incredible! He knew so much about the island and was incredibly entertaining - he took lots of great photos of us too!! Initially we didn’t have a plan for our day but Dave had so many great recommendations and we got to see and learn so much!! Dave was extremely patient and accommodating, we can’t recommend this tour and Dave enough!!
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Posted On : 2023-05-22 20:19:52
Posted By : Pioneer34571462353
JP, our guide was amazing, easy to understand and had a wealth of knowledge about the islands and their history.
Well chosen places to stop to maximise the exceptional unhindered views and the pace well thought out especially as we had a 9 and 11 y/o with us. They particularly enjoyed having their own window seats and we enjoyed the quiet.
A tour which was so enjoyable I'm returning in 2 weeks and re-booking with the same driver.
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Posted On : 2023-04-25 16:45:56
Posted By : victoriarJ4376RP
My children and I had the most maxing day with uncle Shaun , he was full of history and knowledge of the islands and took us to some incredible places . I highly recommend having a private full day tour with him, if we had more time I would have done another full day . He was so much fun , cehoo .
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Posted On : 2023-04-25 02:54:00
Posted By : Randtor
We had a full day customized as we went along, doing what we really wanted to get out of the tour. JP, our driver, was informative and accommodating. A great way to see the island and enjoy the sights. The North side with all the huge surf was incredible!
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Posted On : 2023-03-12 16:37:07
Posted By : Rand_T
We had a great all day experience, JP our driver was informative and accommodating. Highly recommend this company as they customized our day according to our wishes. it was a full day!
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Posted On : 2023-03-12 16:26:23
