Oahu's Cheapest Circle Island Tour

This tour showed you half of the island already. Our tour guide Matt had a great sense of humour. We had lots of fun. Highly recommend!

It was a great experience. We saw lots of places, learned about the history and culture of Hawaii. Had great food. The pineapple was so delicious 😋

Well worth doing, you will see and experience do much, top notch tour guide, with a genuine passion for the island.

Tour guide “uncle D” was great. This was an abbreviated tour of the island and also included uncle D’s vast knowledge about Oahu and the Hawaiian culture. We saw beautiful look out points, a stunning beach cove, macadamia nut farm and the Dole plantation. We also stopped for lunch and had some amazing shrimp. The tour was a great experience.

Our driver’s name was Maya. He was very informative and funny. Made everyone in the group feel welcomed. Loved the places we visited. Would definitely do this again.

Booking through Viator was one of the best decisions we made for our trip to Hawaii. As a trusted third-party company that partners with reputable local tour operators, Viator made the entire process smooth and stress-free. Their website was easy to use, communication was excellent from the moment we booked until the day of the tour, and all confirmations and instructions were clear and timely. We appreciated how organized and reliable everything was, which gave us confidence that we were in good hands. The tour itself exceeded our expectations, and the seamless coordination between Viator and the local company made the experience even better. I highly recommend booking through Viator if you’re looking for convenience, dependability, great customer service, and unforgettable travel experiences. We will definitely use Viator again for future trips!

Great tour, some pick up anxiety but got it together & no one left behind. May not go to ALL places mentioned on itinerary.

Felt like I was invisible except at the time of a tip. The air conditioning wasn’t working and it was miserable on it. I got moved because I was a single and wasn’t asked politely even though I was willing it was still the way it was done.

Great experience so many interesting places to see. The itinerary was a good mix of scenic views and townships. Rob the tour guide was phenomenal. He knew so much about every attraction and how to make it fun.

Our day began with a disgraceful display of customer service. After arriving on time and waiting 50 minutes, the attendant deliberately ignored us to board people from the back of the line. When we politely questioned this, he became hostile, threatened to cancel our tour, and lectured us. We were forced to beg for seats on a bus, starting our day feeling completely disrespected. The tour's quality was abysmal. The first guide was unintelligible. The second bus had a sound system plagued by constant, loud static, making it impossible to hear the guide over the noise. The commentary itself was disappointing, filled with shallow gossip about celebrity homes rather than meaningful information about Hawaii. Most importantly, this company does not deliver the tour it advertises. While we did make the advertised stops at places like the Macadamia Nut Farm and Kualoa Park, several key components of the itinerary were either downgraded or skipped entirely: SKIPPED: The 30-minute stop at the Green World Coffee Farm never happened. MISREPRESENTED: "Bob's Tropical Fruits Hut" was not a separate stop but a small, poorly stocked counter at the shrimp shack. DOWNGRADED: The Laie Hawaii Temple, promised as a 20-minute photo stop, was reduced to a 30-second drive-by U-turn. SHORTENED: The Dole Plantation stop was cut down to 30 minutes from the advertised 45. All the stops other than the photo spots which were cut short or skipped gave commission to the tour company. So we were the product and yet they still charge us full price. After failing to provide the advertised service, operating with faulty equipment, and starting the day with inexcusable hostility, the driver still expected a 15-20% tip. This tour is a case study in broken promises and unprofessionalism. Do not waste your money.

It was an OK great Circle Island tour! Too many visits to shops instead of sightseeing! Wish there was more time to explore the Dole Plantation! We did not get to see a waterfalls! Great price!

The tour was happy, fun, and entertaining! Our tour guide Johnny is the best, making sure he provided lots of information and Aloha! I highly recommend this tour!

Was good to do this tour so you can see the island’s different places that you wouldn’t see from staying in Waikiki! Lots of different places to see and explore and well worth the money as it was cheap for a full day tour

Absolutely the best tour around. He lucked out and got the same driver as we had in 2019 and he is the very best.

This tour was fun, informative and value for money. Our guide, Johnny Cage rocked a pair of pineapple sunglasses - a good indication this guy has a sense of humour. He was very knowledgeable, passionate and funny. He picked music that aligned with the sites we saw, which created a relaxed and fun environment. He shared great recommendations and insights into Oahu and Hawaii. Despite poor visibility at Turtle Island we still saw 3 turtles during our visit. I did the tour with a teenager and would highly recommend it. Go hungry and bring cash.

Johnny was our tour guide. He was very knowledgeable and really made it an enjoyable and blessed day. Everyone on the bus relaxed and had a great time. Love meeting new people and this group and Johnny will remain a memory for a very long time. This is our first trip to Hawaii and this was our first planned activity and it was really great!!!!

Great value for money. Fantastic guide. The morning ventral pick up location was awful but once we were on our bus it was fabulous. We had a great driver who showed us so much of the island.

Great experience! Enjoyed every minute. Our tour guide cousin Matt was awesome. He took his time answering all questions. Even took us by 7Eleven for a snack.

We booked via Viator with Ultimate Circle Island Tours. We were scheduled to be picked up at Kai Lai Waikiki Beach at 7:30 AM on 223 Saratoga Rd. They delegated our tour to AllStar Tours. We arrived at 223 Saratoga early to ensure we didn’t miss the bus. Shortly after 7:30 am, an AllStar bus pulled up. Finally a guy got out of the bus named Kentucky. We told him we were part of his group, showed him our info but he told us he had no idea what I was talking about, it’s not his reservation and he left without us. What!!! Another tour operator saw us standing there and asked us if we needed any help. He looked at my info and said ‘well, that guy from Allstar was your driver and left! He offered to take us to the Hyatt Regency. I saw the Kentucky guy there when we got off the other guys bus and said we were on his tour and what was up with leaving us there. He hardly looked at us and said go stand under the green awning until I call your name. No ‘I’m sorry’ - nothing. He called off names for a half hour and never called us. I finally went up to him and said here is my reservation, it was with him and why did he leave us there. He adamantly stated I went to the wrong place, and said I should read my emails better. When I shoved my phone in his face showing him in fact I got a text from HIS COMPANY telling me to meet at the other location, all he could say was to get on the Aloha Sunshine Tour bus. Such an arrogant, insulting person. I can’t believe he is successful in a customer service position. Our day got completely better when we got into the Aloha Sunshine Tour bus and had a 5-star day. I will not review Aloha here because this is about the terrible service AllStar provided. I recommend no one uses them. Horrible person and company.

Please stop your tie up with Ultimate circle island tours. I booked through them and they gave different itinerary which included temple and bakery and few others stop. When I confirmed with you, you said ultimate tours is scam company. If you know they are scamming then why you take booking from them. I had discussion with them and they are saying you took to wrong places. We were told we will see shrimp farms, not eat from place which gives you commission. Same with macadamia farms, it was more of shopping from stores which gives you commission.

We had a super time on this tour. Our driver/ guide-MUA was fantastic. He took the time to point out & explain the cultural significance of the sites we visited& throughout the trip provided a detailed & interesting commentary. He was kind & considerate & even though unexpected traffic jams threw the timing into disarray he did not miss any of the scheduled stops nor reduce our free time at them Highly recommend this tour to all visitors

Consider doing this tour early on ypur trip to get a good overview of Oahu. It is a fast phased tour of the northside not a leisurely tour. This will also give you a good glimpse of the places you want to return to to spend a day.

Sometimes it is important to look at the name of something- in this case, having the name Oahu's Cheapest Circle tour is true, and not a good thing. I have booked several excursions with Viator and we've been very happy. This one was the first we were unhappy with. It started at the beginning. We got our text reminder and good instructions on where to go for pick up- at the Hyatt Regency, in the back under the green awning. We were asked to be there by 7:20 for a 7:30 pick up. We were there at 7 to be sure. When we got there, it was a very chaotic scene. There were multiple tours picking up there. There was also construction going on across the street adding to the noise and chaos. There were multiple vans and buses with no indication on them what tour they were. Most of the tour hosts were coming out- no signage or calling out the tour, just yelling out names. One of the tour guides told us that it was best for us to just sit back and wait for a tour guide to call our name. 7:30 came and went, 7:40 came and went, 7:50 came and went. A couple next to us - their tour was also last but they were getting regular text updates. Us - nothing. The text I had said to contact "Kentucky" with any issues. I tried to call several times, it went straight to voicemail and the mailbox was full so I couldn't leave a message. So I texted saying no one had shown up and could I get an update. Nothing. Finally, like 8:10- a gentleman yells out our last name but pronounces it wrong. My husband asked to confirm if it was out last name, and the guy said get in the van. My husband asked again and spelled out our last name and the guy replied M O U S E- and told us again to get on the bus. It was rude and unhelpful. We got on the van hoping we were boarding the right tour. The van was completely full. I understand the company needing to be cost efficient but it was tight. Although the tour is advertised as air conditioned van, there was air - extremely loud in the back where we were sitting but not cool- just enough air to keep it circulating. The seats were torn and uncared for. Our driver tried to be nice and gave some background and info on Oahu, but we had long periods of silence, and the speaker that put out what he was saying on his headset was crackly and you couldn't hear him well. He made an offensive inquiry asking my husband if I was his mother. The description on Viator said it would be a 6 hour tour. Just about all the tours we have booked on Viator have been on time as the description, but this tour picked us up late, started late, and although the description said 6 hours- it was 9 1/2 hours from start to drop off (not including the 45 min late pick up). Normally I would not complain about getting extra time on an excursion, but this one did not offer anything "extra" to make up for that. It subsequently made us miss our next excursion, which I planned plenty of time in between to allow for any issues. Because of most vendors strict no refund policies, we were out $110 for the excursion we missed and it was our last night in Oahu, so no time to make it up. We were not the only ones on the van that this happened to. I didn't get a response from "Kentucky" until much later and it was a simple "the buses were there behind the building." sort of intimating that they were on time and I was wrong. That was frustrating. Not once was there an apology, no kind aloha or mahalo. I read the reviews and saw this seems to be an issue with this tour. I understand it is hard working in a customer service indusry- I do as well, and sometimes customers/tourists can get irritating asking the same questions, being late, etc. but this tour group seems to have lost their love for customer service. My advice, pay a little more and go with a tour group who is a little more committed to customer service.

Tor guide was great BUT asked who wanted more time to snorkel at turtle cove 5 of the 24 pax said yes so instead of having a hot lunch at the shrimp shop he said to get our lunch and eat it at turtle bay so more time was spent for the snorkelers. Instead of eating a hot lunch at tables with a clean restroom to wash after meal we were taken to a resort with no tables so 19 of us had cold lunch sitting on a wet lawn and waited over an hour for the snorkelers, hard to find restrooms to wash hands and it started to rain. Not fair to the 19 who would have liked a hot lunch. I am sure on a circle island tour snorkeling should not be offered, there are a lot of snorkeling tours available. The age group on the tour were 19 passengers OVER 60 plus who would not need snorkeling option, get rid of the option the tour would have been excellent without it.

It was an awesome experience. Our driver Derek was great and informative. Would definitely recommend it and would take it again myself.

Arrived at pick up 20 minutes before the requested time, pick up area was chaotic with construction going on directly across the road from pick up spot. Though tere was a gentleman calling out names, not once did I hear my name being called (though I did enquire twice - once when I thought I had a mispronounciation of my name and again to see if my tour had arrived. Anyway, after noticing that most people had left and there were no buses left and the gentleman that had been calling out names had walked up the street and the disappeared - my husband and I walked around the corner to grab some breakfast 3/4 of an hour AFTER our pick up which never happened. Contacted ticket provider immediately who then checked with tour provider. Later on in the day, they confirmed that I was a no show even though I was at the pick up point earlier than the scheduled time. So I paid for a tour for 2 people - that apparently was my own fault for missing and now not eligible for refund. Usually this company is quite good but in this case ........ people from NZ, use another tour company!

Very fun and informative Johnny was a great guide.Saw many interesting sights.We had a great time..would recommend 👍

The drive was excellent very knowledgeable and caring for all of us on the tour he went above and beyond to make it a wonderful experience Wish it was … Thanks to him everything prefect… Thanks again will recommend this experience…. Thank you drive …

The pineapple was stop was delicious and the preparer was woohoo! The shrimp stop was delicious and had us wanting to go back for more. The beaches are incredible. I wish the driver shared more of his knowledge with our group. The morning getting on to the buses was a bit chaotic. The bus was cramped. No guarantee to sit together in your group. Overall though good experience and we are glad we did the tour.

Great inexpensive tour! Johnny, our tour guide, was so knowledgeable and pleasant. The day passed very quickly!

Do not book here, the manager is extremely unprofessional. Our tour bus broke down and we sat a shrimp truck for almost 2 hrs! We did not get to finish our tour. Very upsetting we had 13 guest total on the tour and the manager never responded to any of us so we all got screwed

You get what you pay for!! Do not book this tour!! The tour operator is unhelpful & very unprofessional. He will just read your messages. We was out all day & didn't complete what we was supposed to. The van broke down & some other van took us to a shrimp place where we were stranded for 2 hours after they said someone would come in 45 minutes. Once we eventually got picked up, we had to turn around due to someone having a flight to catch, so we missed out on half the tour. We had other excursions booked that we have lost money on. In good morale, I would have hoped the tour operator knew this was wrong to everyone involved. However, he instead rejected our refund request & lied, saying that we were immediately picked up and was continuing our tour. The only good part about this was the very nice tour guide, it wasn’t his fault the bus broke down. DO NOT BOOK!!!!!

Great time Captain John did a great job. The weather this time of year was fabulous. Every person fondly.

Great tour with extremely knowledgeable guide with stops for good food and souvenir shopping. I wish we could have couple more stops at beautiful Hawaiian 🌺 beaches 🏖️!

Derk, our guide, was SO nice and funny! He was very attentive and caring. The activities were nice, although we didnt see any turtles. But, the guy who was calling our name to go join Derk was not. He was not saying my name the right way, and i waited 30 minutes for nothing. When i finally understood he was waiting for me, he was REALLY rude to me. He even asked me if i could speak. I have to say that at this moment, i didnt want to go anymore. The same guy was also really rude with another woman.

Wonderful tour ! The price was great!! Our tour guide Johnny was the best which I think made the trip even better . He was funny and very knowledgeable about the island 💗

Tour company was very accommodating as we missed our scheduled day as we did not check our texts to say to meet under green canopy and luckily we were able to do the tour the next day. Very informative and really liked the driver.

Cheap but worth it: we went to lots of places & do some activities: visiting the macademia & dole plantation, saw the look out

Great way to see Oahu. Tour Guide Johnny was great! Lots of good stops and fun information! Highly recommend!

Perfect day A great guide!! Very complete Visits galore!! For a price that defies competition

Great day with johnny the driver, waiter, salesman. Moreover it has a lot of humor!!! He stops several times to make us discover splendid landscapes and shops not to be missed... In short great day!!!

Excelente! En un dia conoces mucho de la isla, y Johnny nos fue platicando todo el recorrido. Para nadar yo iría a una playa pública ya que en la del Ritz Carlton no te permiten usar las tumbonaa