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Home of the Brave Pearl Harbor & Military Base Tour

A Day To Remember

Reviewed by: Joanne

We took the "Home Of The Brave" tour and it is a day that will live in infamy for us. If you are a history buff, you will think you have died and gone to heaven. We spent our time with Brandon (the world's greatest and most informed tour guide) as he took us through the events leading up to and and including the attack on Pearl Harbor and ending at Punchbowl National Cemetery. If you do no other tour when you are on Oahu, this is the one to do. Brandon provided unique insight into the historical events leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Because of his enthusiasm, we have since started to do our own research into the whole history that is available and not just the bits and pieces that we have seen through movies.This is just a bit if the info that we have found.

http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v11/v11p431_Lutton.html

This is an exceptional tour and the best bang for your buck-so to speak. Thank you Brandon and Hawaii Activities.

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Posted on:	2009/02/14

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Reviewed by: K Harris

Very informative and sobering experience.

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Posted on:	2009/01/27

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Must see for everyone

Reviewed by: L.Mills

We really enjoyed this tour!! Our guide was very knowlegable and experienced. Everyone visiting Oahu should visit the Arizona at least once. The Missouri was also very interesting, as was the Punchbowl.

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Posted on:	2009/01/01

Home of the Brave Pearl Harbor & Military Base Tour

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Reviewed by: Mr. Anonymous

Our guide was extremely knowledgable and quite entertaining. I learned a lot and enjoyed my self

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Posted on:	2008/12/14

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Pear Harbour tour

Reviewed by: Don

Wonderful tour. Very moving. Something everyone from the United States should see and respect the memory of those that died there.

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Posted on:	2008/12/01

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A must

Reviewed by: Bobby

A very touching and meaningful experience.
Regardless of what Island you may stay at it is very easy to Island hop.

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Posted on:	2008/11/03

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Reviewed by: Mr. Anonymous

Our guide was coughing into the mike as he talked and we thought if he was sick, he should have stayed home. He could have at least removed the mike when he was coughing.

The tour itself was wonderful!

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Posted on:	2008/10/14

Pearl Harbor Battleship Missouri General Admission Tickets & Guided Tours

Nice Tour with a Workout

Reviewed by: Val

Nice tour - interesting tidbits along the way. I think the Explorer's Tour is worth the extra. You get to venture where the ropes are. You do some bending and ducking as you enter the various door entry areas on the ship. I think you get more out of the ship tour with the guide than just visiting without a tour guide.
ps - I selected good for families but that is also a judgment call depending on how mindful the children are in dealing with tight quarters and time-constraints to visit various areas of the ship.

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Posted on:	2008/10/11

Home of the Brave Pearl Harbor & Military Base Tour

Great Tour

Reviewed by: Val

I was impressed by the audio visuals used and the visuals used for USS Arizona tour and the Home of Brave portion of the tour.
The tour guide gave us some highlights of the USS Arizona attack as we waited in line for the Memorial to open.
Everything worked well: the extra tidbits, pictures in the van/shuttle, audio visuals; and the stops we made were interesting that also related with the audio visuals.
At the end of the tour, we stopped at a little museum and we were presented with a free post card that showed the areas that we had visited.

Oh - the meal on base that was all you can eat (not included in the price) but very good and less than $10. Great tour - it was a great way to start the vacation off in spite of the rain we experienced in the morning as we waited for the Memorial to open. I now have a $2 poncho that I purchased outside the Memorial and never had to use for the 12 days of my Hawaii stay. It's more of a conversation piece now :)

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Posted on:	2008/10/11

Pearl Harbor Battleship Missouri General Admission Tickets & Guided Tours

nice tour

Reviewed by: Mr. Anonymous

The explorer's tour is worth the extra money. Instead of just wandering around on a few decks you get a personally guided tour of about 4 secluded decks including one of the BIG 16 inch gun turrets. Very interesting to see how a battleship works.

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Posted on:	2008/09/29

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Reviewed by: M Pedraza

Wonderful tour. Guide on the Missouri - "Toby" was great. He served on Mighty Mo and was very knowledgeable of every detail of the ship. Will do it again.

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Posted on:	2008/09/10

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Explorer Tour Missouri

Reviewed by: Beth Gartman

Our guide, Dave, was excellent - so well informed and interesting to listen to. He obviously has a passion for what he does, and we found the two our experience to be one of the highlights of our Hawaii trip!

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Posted on:	2008/07/31

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Arizona, Missouri and Punchbowl

Reviewed by: Mr. Anonymous

The driver was great! He shared all kinds of information with us about both the USS Arizona and the USS Missouri as well as Pearl Harbor. He was also able to give detailed information about each historical location we passes as well as Punchbowl Cemetary. It was a great trip worth taking!!!

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Posted on:	2008/07/18

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Reviewed by: John Keane

Don't miss the tour of the USS Missouri
The memorial symbolises the start of WW2 and the USS Missouri the end

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A tough one to judge.

Reviewed by: Scott Perkins

After all, this tour is primarily based around a trip to a cemetary. There really isn't that much to see of the Arizona itself, just some shadows underwater really. As I mentioned though, this is a little different to your average tourism spot, no "ooooh's and ahhhh's for the spectacular at the Arizona Monument.

The battleship Missouri is quite impressive though, the tour around the boat itself is quite interesting and is very much worth a look.

The city and punchbowl tour really isn't much at all. You basically drive in and out through the city, that's the tour pretty much. The Punchbowl Cemetary is a three minute detour and probably really isn't woth the bother for what you see there.

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Posted on:	2008/07/06

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Reviewed by: Gerald Conrad

Thoroughly enjoyed this tour. The Driver (from Samoa) was very knowledgeable and entertaining about the Islands and the Arizone /Missouri. He made it well worth the time and money.

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Posted on:	2008/05/17

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Great Trip...

Reviewed by: TCD

I would recommend this trip to anyone visiting the island for the first time. As long as the pick-up bus gets started, the tour is a fun and enjoyable one while learning a great deal about the history of Pearl Harbor. Tour guide was excellent.

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Reviewed by: Geraldine Robinson

An outstanding tour. We did the "Explorers' Tour" which was fascinating and John, our guide, was brilliant. A once in a lifetime opportunity to see the workings of a battleship and see what our brave men had to endure with 'life on board'.

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Viewing the USS Missouri

Reviewed by: Cruzin

I just want to say this was one of the most enjoyable, educational tours we've taken. 'Mr. Bill' our guide was very informative and had a sense of humor. I would recommend the full Explorer tour to everyone, you learn so much. As my father was on the USS Colorado for twenty years and I always wanted to know what life was really like during the war on one of these beautiful ships. It is really hard to imagine what our boys went through during WWII and have great admiration for all those that served.

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Posted on:	2008/04/26

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Good Tour

Reviewed by: Janie

The tour can't be called fun, but i can say "don't miss it". It's very informative, quite solemn (the Arizona portion) and something i think every visitor should take in. It was well organized, good timing, and did everything we hoped it would.

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Posted on:	2008/04/23

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Reviewed by: Audrey

We were very happy with our experience and the staff was very friendly and knowledgeable.

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Posted on:	2008/04/22

Home of the Brave Pearl Harbor & Military Base Tour

long day..but well worth it!

Reviewed by: amazing tour

This tour was the highlight of my entire trip. Despite the early start time I was very impressed with all of the activities and sights we were able to see. From waterfalls to rainforests to incredible lava rock fields this tour offered everything imaginable on the Big Island of Hawaii. The tour guide could have given us some down time from the non-stop chatting but he gave a lot of very informative information and was highly knowledgeable. I would highly recommend this tour to everyone.

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Posted on:	2008/03/29

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Great Tour

Reviewed by: David

This was a great tour. I am planning on doing it again in 2009. Our tour guide/driver, Art, was great. Great deal and very informative.

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Posted on:	2008/03/25

Home of the Brave Pearl Harbor & Military Base Tour

Missouri Explorers

Reviewed by: Mr. Anonymous

enjoyed our explorer tour of the missiouri - tour guide Dom was amazing! Her inside knowledge was incredible! We were a little confused as to the inclusion or not of the general audio tour as well, as there was alot of things not covered on the explorers tour. Also were not aware of the proximity of the bowfin, museums... and did not have enough time to do all we would have liked at Pearl Harbour. Also, transportation would've been nice as the bus made us late for our tour even though we allowed 1 and 1/2 hours.

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Posted on:	2008/03/23

Home of the Brave Pearl Harbor & Military Base Tour

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Reviewed by: Mr. Anonymous

enjoyed tour and inside info, amazed at the knowledge level of our tour guide Higgins - he really made it an educational and fun experience.

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Posted on:	2008/03/23

Pearl Harbor Battleship Missouri General Admission Tickets & Guided Tours

Tour of the MO

Reviewed by: Pat Vannoy Family

Your tour guide was Ron. He was the best tour guide anyone would want. He was very knowledgeable and took time to show us everything. Thank you very much. The MO is magnificent.

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Posted on:	2008/03/16

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Reviewed by: Rolf

Great tour and guide

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Posted on:	2008/03/12

Pearl Harbor Battleship Missouri General Admission Tickets & Guided Tours

It Was Excellent!

Reviewed by: Mr. Anonymous

Pearl Harbor-Battleship Missouri Tour. I had randomly chosen this tour as a last-minute activity before we visited Honolulu. It was a wonderful surprise to have a very knowledgeable individual tour guide. The additional spaces we we able to visit on the ship were awesome and it was indeed worth price of admission.

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Posted on:	2008/03/10

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Pearl Harbour Tour

Reviewed by: Trisha C

It was the highlight of our Vacation! If anybody is interested in history then you need to go and do the tour ! We loved it!!!

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Posted on:	2008/02/27

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USS Missouri/Pearl Harbor

Reviewed by: Rena Adkins

My father fought in WWII in Italy, my brother was stationed off the coast of Vietnam for two tours, and my son is now serving in Iraq. To say the least the tour of the USS Missouri and the viewing of Pearl Harbor was emotional...just thinking about all who fought for our freedom and all who gave their life. Thank you for preserving history.

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Posted on:	2008/02/25

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A Day To Remember

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Must see for everyone

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Pear Harbour tour

A must

Bus Driver

Nice Tour with a Workout

Great Tour

nice tour

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Explorer Tour Missouri

Arizona, Missouri and Punchbowl

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A tough one to judge.

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Great Trip...

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Viewing the USS Missouri

Good Tour

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long day..but well worth it!

Great Tour

Missouri Explorers

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Tour of the MO

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It Was Excellent!

Pearl Harbour Tour

USS Missouri/Pearl Harbor

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