Hilo, Hawaii Port Reviews

The family booked an excursion to Akaka Falls, Hilo Garden & Zoo, and the Macadamia Nut Factory. Very nice outing. Considerable walking at both Akaka Falls and the Zoo. Tony, the bus driver, covered the history of Hilo. At the Nut Factory we loaded up on macadamia nuts for the folks back home on the mainland.

Booked a Volcano Adventure with Mauka Makai Adventures. It was excellent

GREAT we rented a car saw alot !! Loved that

Visit the National Park. Less crowded and more "country".

Enjoyed visiting the Volcanoes

We took a shuttle into downtown. Have been on this itinerary 4 other times. Would recommend a rental car.

We did private tours. NCL stated that volcano national park tour did not include the lava tubes and that transportation was a 50 passenger tour bus. When we questioned NCL via phone why they did not do the lava tubes, we were told by NCL representative that no tours did lava tubes because it was too dangerous. We researched private tours, most of which did do lava tubes and we chose one that offered a 22 passenger van which included lave tubes, a more in depth experience, and noticed that their lava tube parking lot had no buses parked, therefore we believe it was a tour bus parking issue, not because it was dangerous, and it was cheaper than NCL's cruise tour.

We did a Volcanic cave, hike and waterfall excursion that showed many sights with Viator.

We booked an independent excursion to Volcanoes National Park. Awesome! We spoke with folks who took the comparable Princess excursion. Ours was 2-hours longer, went to more interesting places, and cost significantly less.

We went to rainbow falls, beautiful falls unfortunately it rained so we couldn’t see the rainbow.