Haleakala, Iao Valley and Central Maui Day Tour with Pickup

Haleakala is stunning and well worth a visit. It is quite cool at that altitude so a good idea to take a light jacket. I hiked from where the tour bus stopped to the summit and it gave a better view of the crater. Iao Valley was also great. This tour takes up most of the day and you really only see two attractions being Haleakala and Iao Valley but because both are so beautiful it is worth booking this tour.

This tour was okay, but not great. Haleakala itself was outstanding and the scenery at Iao valley was very nice, too. However, the length of the tour could have been much shorter -- transfers took a lot of time. No food or drink was provided (unlike some other tours in Maui). There was a lunch stop, but everyone had to pay for his or her food.

Well organized tour in small group to visit central Maui away from the beaches. Our guide was very knowledgeable and made everything possible to make the day trip enjoyable.

Our tour guide was informative! She made our trip enjoyable.

Perfect tour. Definitely wear very warm clothing. The wait in the cold, the very early rise....all worth the incredible view.

The Day Trip was great! Uncle Charlie, the driver/tour guide is local and very knowledgeable.

This was a wonderful tour and really worth the money. There was hotel pickup and drop off with food, snacks and drinks also provided. Our tour guide was excellent and stopped at all the viewing places on the way and also explained to us in detail all the roadside views too while driving with full attention. This tour should absolutely be a part of every Maui vacation....!!

Our main goal was to see Haleakala and we were not disappointed by the beautiful scenery. We were lucky to have weather on our side when we visited Nov 9 2017. Our tour bus only took us up to the visitor's center as we were informed that the summit which was 0.5 miles away up a slope is not accessible to tour buses, only people in cars or on foot. Truth is if we could have 20 more minutes, we could have walked up to the summit. That is a pity, particularly in light of how much we spent stuffing around elsewhere see below! But what is quite a negative for us is the organization of the tour. Our party of 3 were picked up from our hotel at Kaanapali at 6.15am and, along with 4 other people picked up along the way, taken to a car park at Maalaea. We arrived at Maalaea at around 6.45am. Then the driver said something about having to wait because our driver had not arrived. He did not explain further. Eventually the real tour bus and driver arrived at around 7.20am and told us that we had to wait till 7.45am to leave to go to the airport at Kahului to pick up some others arriving from Waikiki. By the time everyone was assembled it was 8.30am before we actually started the tour. We had wasted 2 whole hours of our time and rather frustrated because that arrangement was not made clear to us from the start. Had we been clearly told upfront, we could at least have gone and checked out Maalaea while we were idly waiting around at the car park. After Haleakala, the tour guide announced that we were going to a restaurant at Makawao for lunch where tables had been booked for us. We all knew that the tour did not include lunch but nothing was said in the tour info about being taken to a designated restaurant. We ate at the restaurant anyway as we were too embarrassed not to, particularly since the restaurant staff came out to meet us at the parking lot. The food quality was good but we were not happy we were not told of this arrangement upfront and did not feel like we had a choice not to eat there. A couple of fellow travelers did choose not to eat at the restaurant because they had packed their own lunch - they were also annoyed by the lack of communication in this regard. All in all - the scenery was great but there is much room for improvement in terms of managing customer expectations with better communication.