Hawaii
Poipu and Koloa Driving Tour

We did three tours on Kauai - The Waimea Canyon, Wailua Valley, and Poipu & Koloa tours. Each was very well done, informative and worked well as an orientation to Kauai. They really helped us find all the sights we wanted to see. The application worked great as well. I would highly recommend these to anyone!

Shaka made our trip the best trip to Kuai

The value of $30 for 4 trips along Kuai is an incredible value. The content is interesting, entertaining, and many times just pure comedy. I wish the navigation could be displayed on the car screen so I don’t have to look at my iPhone screen. There is a bug in the program. We will reach a mile stone on the route, a point on the map and the Shaka guide voice will come on, suddenly it will stop and then Shaka guide will start all over the same instructions. That happened on the Poipu trip and the Wailua Valley.

Different Audio Tour

I love GPS driving tours! For this trip, I purchased the Kauai Shaka Tour package, which is 4 different tours that you pick up and follow. We have used the Gypsy Guide app in the past in the Canadian Rockies, and I didn’t realize they also have one for Kauai. Technology comparison: The main difference is that the Shaka Tours are individual tours that you pick up and follow along from a set point. They tell you stories and give you directions. It’s all entertaining and good. The Gypsy Guide Tours are one big island tour that you pick up wherever you are, forwards or backwards. That technology was little more flexible to me, but that’s just the format I’m used to. Music: The Gypsy Tours work like WAZE or Google Maps where the audio info interrupts your music. The Shaka Tour stays on the whole way so you hear Hawaiian music between stops. That sort of immerses you in the experience? Narrator: The tour narrator with the Shaka Tour, which we named “Kauai Keith” has a little more of a surfer dude vibe, bruh. The Gypsy Guide we named “Bobbert”. He’s like an older straight-laced Mike Rowe. Sites: I’m sure they are pretty similar. We loved the Shaka Tour of Waimea Canyon/Koke’e State Park. We didn’t love the Poipu Tour as much after being sent to see a pile of historic rocks in the middle of a subdivision. A Heiau or something. The swinging bridge was a little sketch too. But overall, it was all good. We wouldn’t have visited the coffee plantation if it weren’t for the tour and that was a hidden gem!