Reviewed by: Mary
This was one of the highlights of our trip! Driver was a bit late but it in no way impacted our experience. Its very busy at Pearl Harbor but everything is handled efficiently and although we waited in a very long line, it moved quickly and we were off to the memorial building. Very moving and impressive ! Every visitor to the island should see!
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| Attended as: | Families with Young Children |
| Posted on: | 2008/10/13 |
Reviewed by: Frannie
This was my very first helicopter ride. From the beginning, I had confidence in the pilot and the helicopter.
Everyone was friendly and helpful.
I would do it again.
PS FYI - NOT PART OF MY COMMENT
You have a typo in your Board Writing Guides in the Comment Writing Standards. You typed "Be through," think you meant thorough.
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| Attended as: | Families with Young Children |
| Posted on: | 2008/10/11 |
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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| Attended as: | Friends |
| Posted on: | 2008/10/11 |
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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| Attended as: | Friends |
| Posted on: | 2008/10/11 |
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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| Attended as: | Couples |
| Posted on: | 2008/09/29 |
Reviewed by: Susie and Mike
I and my wife went to Waikiki night Flight on my wife's Birthday. The View was Unbelievably beautiful, so she excited very much! She said the flight was the most Beautiful birthday present She've ever had! Thank you for the greatest time.
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| Posted on: | 2008/09/29 |
Reviewed by: Mr. Anonymous
The trip was fantastic and i would definitely do it again. It was a brilliant way to see the island and the views were spectacular!
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| Attended as: | Friends |
| Posted on: | 2008/09/24 |
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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| Attended as: | Families with Young Children |
| Posted on: | 2008/09/10 |
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 |
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 |
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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| Posted on: | 2008/07/11 |
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 |
Reviewed by: Mr. Anonymous
The Arizona Memorial was 5 star!!! God bless the 1177 soldiers that gave their lives for our country!
The city tour was slow and boring. Recommend other transport to the AZ Memorial.
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| Posted on: | 2008/07/05 |
Reviewed by: Mr. Anonymous
The Helicopter Tour was a terrific experience for first time vistors to the island...also for someone who has never rode in a helicopter! Highly recommend the company and the helpful staff! We ordered the video from our ride and received within the week as stated...we were quite surprised they were so accurate in sending it to us...THANKS!!
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| Posted on: | 2008/07/05 |
Reviewed by: M & B
Just beware that the tour may last longer than the promised 12:30 return time. I was very worried when our tour guide told us that the previous day they hadn't even entered the AZ Memorial until 11:00 and that we may not get back until after 2pm. It turned out that it all worked out and, fortunately, we got in an early tour. The tour was nice and we really enjoyed the City Tour, which we weren't really expecting!
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| Posted on: | 2008/06/30 |
Reviewed by: Mary
Cousin Carl was great ! He did a wonderful job informing us of Pearl Harbor, and the City tour. Full of information. Everyone should take this tour.
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| Posted on: | 2008/06/25 |
Reviewed by: Janice B.
My family and I enjoyed the tour very much. Our tour guide, Cousin James, was great. After the Pearl Harbour tour, we went around the city, but like one of the comments said we only had 15 mins to roam around. If you have a car you can go back to those places anyway, or just get off at one of the stops and not continue with the tour, then take "The Bus" back to your hotel. I would recommend this tour to everyone especially first timers.
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| Attended as: | Families with Young Children |
| Posted on: | 2008/06/24 |
Reviewed by: Linus
Absolutely loved it! It was a great way to get a fast introduction to Oahu, and thereafter help us plan the rest of our stay on where to go and what to see. The video was delivered even before we arrived home!
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| Posted on: | 2008/06/12 |
Reviewed by: David
It was an awesome experience. i was hesitating to get this tour, but i'm glad i decided to do it.
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| Posted on: | 2008/06/10 |
Reviewed by: Mr. Anonymous
My husband and I went to Oahu for the first time. We booked several tours through Robert Hawaii. The service staffs were excellence. Everyone is very funny, friendly, and helpful to us. We enjoyed our time at the Sunset Cruise, I recommended for all couples out there to try it out. We also get to do several luaus during our stays: Sea Life Park Luau and Polynesian Cultural Center Luau. They both were excellence. Food were delicious, and the show is fantastic! Although we like PPC a lot, our guide for that particular tour was not helpful and not knowledgeable. It was not as much fun as we would like it to be. I rather spend time on my own and explore the place. You definitely need a whole day to see all the cultures in this center. Regardless, we have lots of fun and enjoyed our time there. Definitely we will come for another trip and look to use Robert Hawaii service again. Thanks for your service.
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| Posted on: | 2008/06/03 |
Reviewed by: Mr. Anonymous
We really enjoyed this event. It was a great history lesson and a wonderful tribute to those who lost their lives.
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| Posted on: | 2008/05/31 |
Reviewed by: Birdie
Very educational and at the same time interesting. Every American needs to experience this at least once. Gives you a different perspective than most other tours. There was a Scenic drive around the city, too, but the driver didn't stop for us to get out and explore the sights along the way: Iolani Palace, State Capitol, etc. I wanted to go in and see the inside or at least walk around the outside, but it was just a disappointing point and drive show that lasted 3 minutes. You are better off saving your money on this tour and renting a car to go see these places.
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| Posted on: | 2008/05/26 |
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 |
Reviewed by: Mr. Anonymous
Fantastic time. Views were one of a kind, and the staff was very enjoyable.
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| Attended as: | Couples |
| Posted on: | 2008/05/12 |
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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| Posted on: | 2008/05/11 |
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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| Attended as: | Couples |
| Posted on: | 2008/05/11 |
Reviewed by: paultje_007
This activity was well worth spending money for.
In one hour you have seen the entire island from a bird's eye view.
Way better than any island tour from the ground in uncomfortable tourbusses.
The heli is great, peacefull and very safy & smooth. Also because of a great pilot / tour guide. He knows the island well, just as much how he knows his aircraft.
As a to-become heli-pilot myself, it's been great seeing one pilot entertaining 6 people while keeping the heli as smooth & steady as possible and forfilling a safe flight in constant contact with the tower all by himself.
Cheers for that,mate!
And to the entire team of Makani Kai Heli Tours for having had a wonderfull morning!
Regards,
Paul
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| Posted on: | 2008/05/09 |
Reviewed by: Arianna and Bill
My boyfriend and I had a great time on the helicopter tour. The staff was wonderful and the pilot was amazing! He was very detailed about everything we saw, and pointed out so many things we would of never noticed! We got tons of amazing pictures and video of this unforgetable experience. Definitely something we would do again!
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| Posted on: | 2008/05/05 |
Reviewed by: Mr. Anonymous
This was a great experience! I would recommend it to anyone!
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| Posted on: | 2008/05/05 |
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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| Attended as: | Couples |
| Posted on: | 2008/04/26 |
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