Kilauea Volcano
- Address:Crater Rim Drive, Volcano
- Hours:Open daily
- Admission:US$10 per vehicle or US$5 per individual for a seven day pass
Kilauea Volcano Reviews
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Excellent day. Our guide April 23 2012 was Taj, whose knowledge of the island and volcanoes was amazing. He took us to "not the usual tourist areas" which made the tour even better. Definitely recommend this tour.
What a wonderful tour! Our guide Matt was excellent and so knowledgeable! I would highly recommend this tour to anyone fortunate enough to be making a visit to the Big Island of Hawaii!
This tour wasn't really what I expected. The tour starts in the morning with a stop at Rainbow Falls, which is nice. You get a quick tour of the city of Hilo. Then you make a stop in the Mauna Loa macadamia nut factory. You will not leave here without buying something in the gift shop. They give you free samples and that is enough to make you start looking in the store for these items. The Hershey Kisses with the macadamia nut are excellent! Then, you go to a Orchid green house which I could have skipped. Then lunch. This consumes half your day. Then you finally get to the Volcano National Park. I expected to see lava with everything I read and seeing an active volcano. The only thing you see is steam coming from the crator. At night this steam glows red. Most people flew in for the day, but I stayed on the Big Island. The city of Hilo (pronounced HE-lo) is one of the wettest cities in the world so expect rain. My recommendation is to stay on the Big Island for a couple of days and do this tour as a self guided tour. It is interesting to see. You will want to go to the Mauna Loa. I would have spent more time there than the tour allowed. The Big Island is beautiful with white sand, black sand and even a green sand beaches.
We had a fantastic 2-hr Big Island helicopter trip from Kona. My husband, my parents and I all enjoyed seeing the spectacular scenery of the volcanoes, waterfalls and coastline from the air. My mum wanted to come to Hawaii just to spend time looking at volcanoes and the best view of them was from the air.
Our safety was very important for the crew.
All passengers got the opportunity to take photographs and our pilot was well informed and very generous with his time and our questions.
I would recommend this trip unreservedly to anybody wanting a complete overview of the Big Island of Hawaii - helicopter is the best way to see all there is to see!
Thanks for a great trip (Viator and Paradise Helicopters).
Great tour. Matt was one of the best tour guides we ever had. Would recommend the tour, a definite must do.
Eugene was a great tour guide. Very energetic and knowledgable of the park and surrounding areas. Great tour!
Awesome! Would recommend to everyone to see the volcanoes by air as well as visit the National Park and see it by foot also.
Really enjoyable tour, overall. My only complaint was that it is not explicitly stated on here that they only pick up at select hotels. This made it very difficult for me since I did not have a car. Otherwise, Taj was awesome and, even though we didn't see any active lava, it was a really enjoyable tour!
fantastic one of the best tours ive taken
Excellent from pickup at hotel to organisation of taxi on departure the staff were friendly and competent.The trip itself was spectacular and made even better by the extremely competent pilot who was both informative about the places seen and considerate of the passengers by preparing them in advance for maneuvers made by the helicoptor.
Our experience was excellent .Our Tour guide
named Taj was very knowledgable and gave us a lot of information about the Kona Volcanoes and all living things around it.It was a trip of a lifetime!!!
Very disappointed. There were too many people in the helicopter. I was the person in the middle, I couldn't see much of the scenery or take any pictures. The middle seat needs to be eliminated. I paid full price to see very little and be squished. My husband had a window seat but couldn't take proper pictures since he was so tight that he couldn't view through his camera the picture he wanted to take. Our main focus for taking this flight was to get pictures of the volcano but we didn't spend much time at the lava sights but spent a lot more time at the waterfalls (which were beautiful) If we would have had a great experience we would have recommended to our family to take this. We did mention to the Paradise helicopter representative not to use the middle seat and everyone would have been much happier, but he wasn't receptive to this idea. If you are planning a helicopter trip, check to see if you will be overcrowded, otherwise you will be wasting your money.
This is by far the easiest and best way to see the Volcano National Park on the Big Island. Our guide knew the best places to visit at the best times during the day. He also was extremely knowledgeable on the area and history. One of the best tours I have ever taken!
This is by far the easiest and best way to see the Volcano National Park on the Big Island. Our guide knew the best places to visit at the best times during the day. He also was extremely knowledgeable on the area and history. One of the best tours I have ever taken!
It was an adventure worth a lifetime thanks a million
