Oahu Driving Tours & Walking

Name: Oahu Driving Tours & Walking
Rating: 4.8719 (2904 reviews)

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Oahu Driving Tours & Walking

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Shaka Guide LLC

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User Reviews for Oahu Driving Tours & Walking

Best Investment ever

We highly recommend this to any, and everyone. A few years ago when we came to the island we took a bus tour around the island and it was nice, but we were on everyone else’s time. With this tour, you hear the guy guiding you, giving you directions, and it’s so easy and fun. They tell you stories and give you history while you’re driving. They play music for you while you’re driving and you feel like you have your own tour guide in your backseat. The great thing is, you do it on your own time. If you wanna stop at a destination, you can. If you don’t want to stop, you don’t have to. It tells you places to eat, it shows you all the beautiful beaches and the directions it gives you is so precise. I highly, highly recommend this and for the amount you pay, it’s soo worth it. Here’s the major bonus, you don’t have to leave a tip at the end. This has by far been one of the best tours/days we’ve had on the island!

David & Yolanda, Feb 18, 2021

Exceeded expectations in every way!

I’ve never left a review before, but since this app made our first trip to Oahu so much better than it would have been without it, I felt guilty not sharing the praise publicly. Pros: 1. absolutely great app design, with one small nit-picky exception I’ll share below. 2. The most comprehensive list of sites, activities and everything you’d ever want to do or see on the island that I could find online anywhere. 3. Really cool GPS based guidance and narration, with cool historical facts, island music, and a few jokes mixed in here and there to liven up the day a little. 4. The price is a great value for what you get!Cons:1. Well, there really weren’t any major issues, but if I were to offer one suggestion to improve the experience, it would be to better integrate food stops into the tour and/or make it easier to find and navigate to your comprehensive food guide that’s kind of hidden in a link in the FAQ page. Even better yet, just pick one or two great options and build them in as stops on the route. We spent 15-30 minutes parked on the sid wig the road trying to find your food guide and then figure out when and where to stop to eat lunch on each route. When the whole family is hangry, it can be a vacation killer. With that said, this really is just a minor complaint and overall, I gave it 5 stars and couldn’t recommend an app more strongly!

GoCougs06, Apr 15, 2021

Great tour! Skip the tour bus, rent a car for the day, and get this app!

We had decided to tour the island of Oahu, and were looking at various tour companies. The prices were at least $89 and upward of $120+ per person. Instead we rented a car for the day in Waikiki, set out on our own and followed the Oahu Circle Tour. It was more than we hoped for. The guide was informative and fun. We saw things I’d never seen before on island. And we loved the historical information. The music was wonderful. We sang a lot of the songs, people in our car were 18-75 years old, and we all loved it. In fact we were sad when it was over. We all feel like we made a friend with the narrator. Of note, we avoided the Polynesian Cultural Center (not my cup of tea), and it was still a full day, from 8am-6pm. We did a detour at KoHana Rum Distillery for a tasting and that should be included, because it was amazing. The distillery talks about history of the area, the importance of sugar cane to the Hawaii, and the types of rum. Plus they gave us samples of chocolate, sugar cane juice, honey, and of course rum. Just a recommendation.

Jujus Beans, Nov 26, 2018

Great guide! Will definitely buy another island in the future!

Shaka OAHU was a great guide. This was my 7th trip to Oahu in the last 12 months, but since my wife was coming along this time, we decided to grab the app to learn more about the island. The tour was great (very similar to what I did myself previously using the rental car map books), but the narration and GPS guidance was really worth the extra few dollars I spent on the app.Haven't been here many times, I knew most of the "big ticket" items to see, but the app took us to a couple "off-the-path" places that we really loved (like the waterfall off Pali in the Southern Island tour). The only complain I had was that there are parts where there are "blanks" (no narration and no music). Would be great if they had a simple "Hawaiian music" loop that plays when you are between tour spots for a little driving music. Since it uses my iPhone while driving, I couldn't play my own music, either. Otherwise, a great app and I hope they make a few more, maybe some walking tours through Waikiki or Honolulu?

Konsoledesigns, Mar 06, 2017

We named him "Shaka"

Just listen to Shaka (even if it is a hand signal), he'll tell you where to go!! We loved the large circle tour and we'll likely get the south tour tomorrow before we go to the airport. We're on the main island for a wedding that was on the north shore in Laie. Since we wanted to hit the dole plantation on the way back, it made sense to buy the tour for $5. While at the wedding, it was pretty fun sharing all the cool information that Shaka had told us up to that point. We met back with our group at Waimea and told them that we had visited the ceremonial grounds where human sacrafices had taken place, others finally asked, "where are you getting this information?" (Shaka!). I have the same complaint of the odd no sound spots, but the views certainly compensate for the silence. Also, it may have just been the USB connectivity in the car, but the last 1 or 2 seconds of the directions seemed to cut out, which at some points, included critical driving directions. Fortunately, we didn't get lost, and the map is easy to follow in case you somehow miss a turn.

lfee86, Jul 09, 2017

Best app ever!

I purchased both the North Shore and the Circle Island tours in Oahu and 2 of the Hana Tours and the Haleakala tour in Maui. In would have given them 5 stars just on customer service, I had some questions and send them an email before we came to Hawaii and I was impressed by how Andrew replied to all my emails and how helpful he was. So 5 stars before I even used the app. Now that I actually did the tours I would give them 10 stars if it was available. This was our second time in Hawaii last time we used Gipsy Guide, it was ok but Shaka blew them out of the water. “Eddie” as we call it took us to places that you don't read about on blogs or find in Pinterest, there were a couple of places we went to that we were the only tourists, in some we were the only ones there. There was a lookout point at Haleakala (this is our second time there) that Eddie told us to stop at, again we were the only car in the parking lot, and this was the best look out in history, the view were breathtaking, and the pictures.. WOW, It was awesome! We keep saying, Hey, Eddie would go LOL. Thank you Shaka Guide 🤙🏻🤙🏻

Prittyer than you!, Jul 11, 2018

Amazing app for Hawaii touring!!

This is one of the coolest apps my wife and I have ever used! We spent 5 days on Oahu (our first trip to Hawaii), and we were able to explore so much of this island with our Jeep rental thanks to this app. It is incredibly well designed, with the app linking to our phone's GPS to both navigate our routes and provide fascinating information about each site seen as well as history of the island and Hawaiian culture. The app senses when you enter a designated area and automatically starts narrating and/or providing directions. It is incredibly well-timed -- on more than one occasion the guide would say something like "turn right and head uphill, but watch out for cyclists" and almost on cue a biker would immediately turn the corner in front of us. Clearly the app creators are intensely familiar with the areas covered in their tours. We saw and learned so much touring the island with this app (that we never would have discovered on our own) and highly recommend it for any new travelers to the island!

slford00, Jun 10, 2021

Amazing tours, great service

We love the tours - have done them for several years across all islands. They are fun, informative, and easy to follow! Our now 10yo enjoys it, and even the 6yo listens to it! Lots of great pointers and interesting information - but not so much as to be overwhelming. We’ve never had an issue until this last tour downloaded, but then seemed stuck “processing”. The issue may have been spotty cellular coverage when I was getting it setup, who knows. Of course this was 10mins before we wanted to take it and I tried calling support. It was Saturday, when they are closed - so I hung up…to my surprise they called me back 2mins later and helped me! Outside of business hours on a weekend! The tour worked great - we loved it (as we did the many others we took from Shaka on different islands). What an awesome company and a great product!! If you are still thinking - get it!! (Also I tried a couple competitors and we like Shaka best).

Surf Swim Travel, Feb 13, 2022

Saved Oahu for us

We spent most of a month on the Hawaiian islands and Oahu was our last island and definitely our least favorite. Since my Husband permanently uses a wheelchair, regular tours and beaches are mostly unavailable to us, so we really rely on exploring on our own. The north shore circle tour was our favorite day on Oahu. You think of Oahu as just mostly Waikiki and Honolulu, which was too much city for us. This tour showed us that more natural side of Oahu and was,like every other Shaka app we’ve used, absolutely flawless. We also enjoyed the Honolulu city walking tour. We got a lot of great historical information. Interestingly, we had a private guided tour of the Missouri and Pearl Harbor and on the drive there and back, she was talking about Hawaiian history and culture and in my head, I kept saying, Shaka already told us that. So I will say, the information is spot on to what you would receive from even a highly rated tour. The Shaka apps are maybe my favorite apps ever in terms of how useful, interesting and easy to use. Worth every penny and then some. We used it on 4 islands and it greatly enhanced our trip. Now that we’re home, we find ourselves missing Shaka and his corny jokes and laugh.

Traveler327, Jul 12, 2022

“Uncle Shaka” was an Amazing guide!!

I don’t usually leave reviews (or buy apps) but this one is amazing. Our first time to Oahu and we purchased both. Perfect guidance and loved the little tidbits of info, suggestions and humor as we passed areas. (No constant talking though). We were so impressed by the easy to follow directions and I lost track how many times we said we loved the app and what a great purchase it was. We would never have been able to plan out the routes as well on our own. We usually take hop on/off buses in new cities and this was similar with the narration and ability to see all the hot spots (and some secret ones!) in a nice loop without a bunch of backtracking. We did the tours in 3 VERY full days but had we stopped and actually swam at the beaches and did the full tours at Dole etc. it easily could have been a week or more worth of activities. We would have spent $500+ on a couple days of tour buses to see the places we were able to go to on our own with this app plus we could do it in our own time. The app literally guided us from the road in front of our hotel to the destinations and back. Buy it- you won’t regret it.

zoey222222222, Feb 11, 2020

Description

Change the way you see Hawaii with Shaka Guide. You’ll get the comfort of a guided tour with the freedom to explore at your own pace. The app features six GPS audio tours of the island.

Each tour visits popular attractions, beaches, hikes, scenic spots, and cultural sites. Along the way you’ll hear stories about the places you’re visiting, get important travel tips and listen to Hawaiian music. All tours are made locally, in Hawaii. You’ll get hours of audio narration that plays automatically as your drive or walk. The app works completely offline. This means that even in remote parts of the island without wifi or data, we’ll still get you where you need to go! Shaka Guide tours never expire - use them more than once or break them up into multiple days. Change the way you see Hawaii with Shaka Guide! Check out the Oahu tours below. BUY THE ISLAND BUNDLE, GET ALL 6 OAHU TOURS When you buy the island bundle you’ll get ALL SIX Oahu tours for more than half off the retail price. GRAND CIRCLE ISLAND TOUR, 6 hours, 23 stops Popular Stops: * Oahu’s North Shore * Waimea Bay * Sunset Beach * Haleiwa * Shark’s Cove EAST OAHU SHORELINE DRIVE, 6 hours, 19 stops Popular Stops: * Kailua Beach * Lanikai Beach * Ho’omaluhia Botanical Garden * Diamond Head Crater & Hike * Hanauma Bay HONOLULU’S BACKYARD RAINFOREST TOUR, 3 hours, 11 stops Popular Stops: * Tantalus Lookout * National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific * Chinatown * Manoa Falls * Lyon Arboretum LEGENDARY NORTH SHORE LOOP, 6 hours, 24 stops Popular Stops: * Dole Plantation * Kawela Bay * Haleiwa * Oahu’s North Shore * Kahuku Shrimp Trucks & Food Trucks HEART OF WAIKIKI WALKING TOUR, 1 hours Popular Stops: * Waikiki Beach * International Marketplace * The Royal Hawaiian Hotel HISTORIC DOWNTOWN HONOLULU WALKING TOUR, 1 hours Popular Stops: * Iolani Palace Grounds * Kawaiaha’o Church * Honolulu Hale Check out a complete list of stops for each tour in the app! WHAT CUSTOMERS ARE SAYING - “Great way to see Oahu!” - “Your own private bus tour!” - “Forget pouring through guidebooks!” - “Shaka won't steer you wrong!!” - “Wonderful customer support” - “Worth every penny!” DOWNLOADING THE TOURS It’s important that you download the tours (preferably in wifi) before you go. Make sure the tour is completely downloaded and you’ll have no problem using the tours offline. BATTERY USAGE The app uses your GPS only when necessary. Please remember that continual use of your GPS can dramatically deplete your battery. Be sure to pack a car charger for your tour. IPAD NOTICE You can use an iPad to take the tour, however, wifi-only iPads without GPS capability will not work. ABOUT SHAKA GUIDE At Shaka Guide our goal is to connect people with places. We love Hawaii. Not just for its beauty, but also for its rich history and culture. We believe that every destination has a story and we want to tell it. In Hawaii, we have over 20 audio tours that do just that - share the stories of the islands.