• Akaka Falls State Park - This is an easy stop if you choose the northern route to the volcano.
• Hawaii Volcanoes National Park - Your guide will take you to the insider’s best selection depending on what you want to see. Narrated exclusive hikes are recommended. This is the best place to spend your tour time.
• Punalu’u Black Sand Beach - This is a great stop if you take the South Route on your way to the volcano. It’s also a great spot for lunch, and your guide can arrange it.
• Kilauea Iki Trail - This is the most recommended hike in the park, and your guide will describe local legends, botany, and history.
• Holualoa - Your guide can take you to one or several of Hawaii Island’s best coffee farms for tasting and tours. The recommendation is to include one Kona Coffee farm, take the south route, and try the even more trendy Ka’u Coffee on the way around the island.
• Pololu Valley Lookout - We can take you to the lookout point of Pololu, or if you are up for a 2-hour hike, we can do that as well.
• Hawaii Volcanoes National Park - One can spend a whole day here. How about bringing a picnic lunch and eating it on the lava? That’s our most popular option!
• Greenwell Farms - Great rest stop if we take the South route. Excellent Kona Coffee. Either a quick tasting and explanation or a full detailed coffee tour - your choice.
• Kaumana Caves Park - There are a number of lava tubes on the island. This is one of the best. Either just peek in or venture up to 2 miles (advance planning required).
• South Point Complex - We can take you to the southernmost point of the USA. This is an amazing spot!
• Green Sand Beach (Papakolea) - Hike 2 hours to the most uniquely colored sand in Hawaii. We can set you up with the needed gear and escort you either hiking or catching a local truck for a small additional fee.
• Punalu’u Black Sand Beach - We can take you to this beach, or a number of other less famous black sand beaches including the most recent flows in Puna.
• Hapuna Beach State Recreation Area - Hapuna is one of our destinations, but there are numerous other great beaches less famous. Tell us your preference and we can take you there.
• Paradise Meadows - This is our favorite place to try Mac nuts, Kau Coffee, chocolate, honey, and cookies. No place better. How about picking up a lunch and eating it here on our way to Volcanoes National Park or South Point?
• Keauhou - This quaint boat harbor is the jumping-off point for manta dives, fishing boats, and snorkeling tours. Time it right and we can give you a west-side tour of coffee farms and historical sites, ending here just in time for your manta dive!
• Rainbow Falls - Any tour that passes through Hilo in the daytime can include a stop at Rainbow Falls! It’s usually part of our historical Hilo town drive-through or lunch.

• Bottled water

• For all charter tours, meals, snacks, and entrance fees (when applicable) are at your own expense.

Charter a Mercedes Tour van and an experienced guide to see the best of the Big Island on your own schedule. Choose from a variety of sample tours or design your own based on what you’d like to see on your own private tour. Our professional and volcano-certified guides can provide guided commentary while you visit either famous or off-the-beaten path volcano sights, waterfalls, beaches, valley excursions, coffee or macadamia nut tours, or a selection of them all!

• The Big Island of Hawaii has 11 of the world’s 13 climatic zones with a very wide range of elevations, temperatures, rainfall, wind and water. The Island is also home to numerous active volcanoes in daily-changing levels of activity that make tour planning very dynamic. Charter tours require making sure that the plan can accommodate everyone involved, so careful coordination is necessary for groups that might include guests with restrictions in mobility, children, or physical conditions by tour type. Volcano area activities often involve exposure to steam or dangerous volcanic gases and are not recommended for people with any kind of breathing impairment or risk.
• Rates apply to the entire van, for up to 10 people maximum, with any combination of children or adults, however all children must be accompanied. Child seats are available upon advance request.
• Minimum age: On charters that include EXTREME Lava hiking or hikes to Mauna Ulu or Kilauea Iki Crater.
• Customers on any activities that require walking across uneven lava, such as hiking tours, or beach activities will be asked to sign a liability waiver.
• Requires the ability to hike across lava included sometimes steep or uneven surfaces and often uphill.
• Children must be accompanied by an adult. Adults responsible for ensuring children can meet the strenuous conditions of this long hike.
• Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
• Subject to favorable weather conditions and HVN Park rules, regulations and restrictions.
• All guests will be required to sign liability waiver and take this tour at their own risk.

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