We did a Road to Hana private tour with Brian as our guide. In short: Stop looking for a Road to Hana tour and just book with Maui's Private Guide. Our guide, the owner Brian, IS AWESOME! Our whole family cannot stop talking about our trip and how much fun it was!
While we were scheduled to take the tour shortly after we arrived on Maui, Brian called and let us know that he had a close contact with Covid and allowed us to reschedule to a later day to ensure he did not also have Covid (he did not). According to him, their guides test every day. We appreciated the notice and flexibility in rescheduling. We had to reschedule to our final day on Maui and Brian was very accommodating to us by allowing us to stash our luggage in his shop (our check-out time for the hotel was 11 a.m. and our flight was 10 pm).
For COVID precautions, Brian wears a high-quality mask almost religiously and all of us did too. Again, this is very important to us as parents.
Along with the beautiful sights of the road to Hana, Brian absolutely enthralled everyone, including our children (ages 6, 8, 11, and 13) with fascinating stories about Hawaii's history. At one point we had stopped at a roadside fruit stand and my wife and I got out of the car and went looking at the fruit. We came back to the van to find Brian sitting in the back seat with the kids telling them stories about Hawaii's history. The kids were enthralled. My 6 year old son, who normally might be bored with sight-seeing, kept asking questions and wanted more!
In addition to the great Hawaiin history lesson, we visited a number of great attractions. Brian was incredibly flexible and offered us the choice of what to see and how to see it, while still offering some guidance so we could make an informed choice.
We ended up choosing to do a reverse tour where we went counter-clockwise on the road to Hana and saw the lava cones where the volcanos erupted, saw the most recent lava flows, and got great views of the other islands!
The highlight of the trip was a waterfall Brian discovered off the beaten path that we swam in. The water was amazing! Brian even carried my son on his back through the water pool over to the falls when my son was a bit scared to swim (it's a deep pool!).
Brian was super well prepared - he brought towels for us to dry off with, beverages, first aid kits, and so on.
Our whole family really cannot say enough good things about this trip. We would 100% recommend him and if we are in Maui again, we will 100% book another trip!
Ответ от хоста
Jan 2022
Aloha awesome customers! You guys/gals were the stars on this tour. I appreciate your accolades, it means a lot to me as I set very high standards for my company. But, you all were the real stars. I enjoyed meeting you all and spending the day with you so much! I can't stress how well behaved, polite and just really nice your children are and Mom and Dad, if I lived in your home town, I'm sure we'd be friends for life. Love you all and best wishes, Bryan.