Good tour guide and taking the bus saves you the effort of driving the twisty sometimes single lane road to Hana.
We took the Hana small group tour on 8/20. We were fortunate to be the only people touring that day. Al was our tour guide for the day. He arrived at our condo right on time. Al was friendly and very knowledgable about Hana and the history of Maui and really made everything we saw so much more meaningful. We made frequent stops for photos and saw everything we had hoped to see. After driving on our own up to the Haleakala summit, it was really enjoyable and relaxing to have someone else do the difficult driving to Hana, and we could focus just on the beautiful scenery. Our two teenagers really liked stopping to swim at the black sand beach by Hana. All in all, it was a great tour and we would highly recommend it!
great tour ... the right size and out tour guide was very knowledgeable. I would recommend eating breakfast before you go though...we thought breakfast was included so we were pretty hungry when we stopped for juice/was and coffee cake at about 10. everything else was wonderful...