Big Island Hawaii Self-Guided Driving Tour: Explore Coastline, Jungles and Hawaiian Culture

Embark on a self-guided driving tour of Hawaii’s Big Island, exploring its stunning coastline, lush jungles, and rich Hawaiian culture. Discover pristine beaches, hike dormant volcanoes, and learn about the island’s fascinating history and ancient burial grounds.

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Hilo - Hilo is a town on Hawaii, commonly called the Big Island, in the state of Hawaii. It’s known for Wailuku River State Park, featuring Waianuenue, or Rainbow Falls, with its colorful mist effects. The bubbling basalt-lava rock pools known as the Boiling Pots are nearby. To the south is Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, home to rainforests and…
What's Included
  • Great value: One purchase per car, not per person. More affordable than bus or guided tours!
  • Easy-to-use app: download Action’s Tour Guide App onto your phone
  • Perfect narrator: nothing can beat listening to a great voice. Proven with tons of rave reviews!
  • Offline maps: no signal, no problem! Works perfectly without cellular or wifi.
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What's Not Included
  • Attraction passes, entry tickets, or reservations
Additional Information

Purchase one tour per car, not per person. Everyone listens together!
Get a taste of paradise on Hawaii’s Big Island. This driving tour guides you along the island’s picturesque coast and through lush jungle scenery. Lounge on pristine beaches, hike atop dormant volcanoes, go snorkeling in crystal-clear water, and more—all while learning about the…

Location
Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Sally
May 23, 2024
Family vacation in Hawaii - We enjoyed the places we visited,interesting information along the way too. However we couldn’t complete in one days trip. Too much to see and weather conditions weren’t good.
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Gregorylb
May 13, 2024
Amazing Experience and A 'Must Have' for Appreciating the Big Island - The app was easy to use. It had many, many points of interest that were easy to find. The information was very informative & interesting. We has a MUCH better appreciation and understanding of the Big Island thanks to the self-driving guided tour. Highly recommend for an equally awarding experience.
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528mitzib
Jan 18, 2024
A Beautiful Experience - The views were awesome. I love that the big island has distinctive ecosystems and climates from arid, desert-like to rainforest. The views of the volcanos in the distance were astounding. We enjoyed our drive around the island. The weather was perfect at around 80 degrees each day we were there. So much to see on the big island and not as "touristy" as some of the other islands. Friendly people and the only downside is that everything is expensive, but that is to be expected on an island. If you can rent a car and drive around on your own time to circle the island, I highly recommend it. You can see all that Hawaii offers.
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J1827einatalier
Nov 19, 2023
Great self-paced tour - works really well and informative! - The self guided tour was fantastic - we followed the advise and found the small waterfall coming out of a lava tube and enjoyed the commentary and stories for the whole island. We learnt so much about history and culture, however we might’ve driven too quickly so sometimes the information would cut off and skip to the next insightful thing. I wish you could choose which direction to travel in but aside from that I thought it was brilliant 🤙🏽
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Dhummell1956
Nov 11, 2023
Relaxing tour at our pace - Very beautiful tour. Took lots of pics and the narration was great. Highly recommend this guided tour
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Kimberley_p
Apr 1, 2024
Kona coast - Traveling the Kona landscape was a great experience. The island has a very beautiful landscape and very relaxing. The guided tour made the drive fun and educational. Would definitely recommend.
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Deepak_m
Dec 26, 2023
Big island trip - Really good app to have on a trip or drive. The map did not show up on apple play but otherwise it was good narrative and useful to have on a drive.
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Alison_v
Apr 29, 2024
Disappointing - The app worked on the northern part of the Big Island, but not in the southern part. When it worked, it was great. However, we missed so much information when the app stopped working on the southern tour. It would not connect after trying over and over. It was a long drive and I know we missed so much!
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Gail
Jan 28, 2024
big island self guided driving tour. - Good things: enjoyed educational tidbits/history of the island while driving Not so good: -literally have to start at the designated local (not just the town, but the exact parking lot) or it won’t begin -every time you stop/restart, I had to start the program, tell it to resume where left off, and it catches up, but not until it goes through the same intro, over and over again… -it will mention a point of interest is coming up, but most of the time does not give you a specific place/road where to turn off at -randomly cuts off explanation early some times -many times I had already passed what is starting to be discussed - to make it better, it would also be nice if they go into more detail about suggestions where to park at each location, how long the walking path may be to get there (eg. Captain cook monument, we were not sure where to park or enter the trail, how long it was- we Google searched and found it was a 3.7 m hike and had only an hour, so knew there was no chance we could make it happen to get there and back in our time frame, but had no idea based on this guides description). That sort of info would be very helpful for the driver.
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Latoya_l
Dec 27, 2023
Unfortunately, we have no... - Unfortunately, we have no memories to share because we were unable to get the app to work. It would not connect even though we had good service and it also had us starting from the wrong starting point although I entered the correct starting point several times.
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