Hilo Cruise Reviews

Had been raining when arrived. Beautiful rainbow over bay. Met up for our Princess excursion in pier building. In the past, there were singers greeting us and they had booths selling handmade island things. no more, just the cold building. Great tour to volcano, lava tube, and the surrounding area. One stop was the volcano Winery. only two in State of Hawaii. Wonderful meal and wine ...

We took the long day tour to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park plus Rainbow Falls. This was the one HAL tour we booked in advance which HAL did NOT cancel at the last minute. The guide brought us to an overlook at Crater Rim Drive to see the active lava fountain at Kilauea's summit, then we drove back to walk through the Thurston Lava Tube. The tour also made two shopping stops on the road between ...

Being with FIL, we took the scooter and stored it at the Hoppa on Hoppa off office (VERY close to the pier, the first business past the port gate. For $39 they took us to several tourist sites (Chocolate & coffee shop gives a commision to NCL and was not a bad stop, but Not worth a long visit, all the other stops were well worth the short time spent at them. Rainbow falls, beaches, Japanese ...

Hilo was the next port. No agency had six-passenger vehicles (according to their web sites), so we again had two cars reserved. Based on our experience in the previous port, we did not expect to see rental car shuttles taking people to airport to find their cars and we were correct. We also did not see a plethora of taxis at this port. Our group of six tried to find one or two Ubers to get to the ...

Again you are docked in an industrial area. Volcano National Park is very interesting. At the the last minute the local stop was changed. We stopped at Big Island Candy. Prices here were high. The quality of the food and coffee we bought was disappointing. ...

Hilo, we walked through the Japanese garden near the ship. We did not take any tours because we have been to Hawaii many times. ...

Rainy. Excellent HAL excursion to Volcanos ...

We were there on a Sunday. No taxis available, shops were 75% closed, no alternatives to ship excursions which were priced for a captive audience. ...

I choose this cruise because I wanted to travel to HI. Hilo was dirty aka trash cans overflowing along the main drag and homeless sleeping on the sidewalk in the tourist area. ...

I took the waterfall and volcano excursion. It was in a small minivan with several very big people that made it very crowded ...