Reviews

This was an INCREDIBLE tour!! Brody was an excellent guide - very informative! Would do this again if I had the time!

Thanks so much to Captain Brodie for a wonderful flight around the incredible Kauai. The views were breathtaking, more than I could have imagined, and Brodie's narration of the various points of interest were thoughtful and well delivered. Thanks Brodie, we'll be sure to recommend you to anyone we know who chooses to visit your beautiful island! Maholo and Aloha. Carly & Oliver (and bump!)

Brandon said to do the bad reviews under Brenden. :) Ill file this one under Brandon. Great flight Great Pilot Great ground staff. Thanks for a lovely time Fiona

Great fun. I suggest that you provide dark-colored, mesh, pull-overs for passengers to wear over light-colored clothing. Only complaint would be the great deal of glare off the window from the passenger in front of us. It made taking pictures difficult without the glare of his bright shirt and the glare from the PFD's buckles.

Brandon was fantastic! Thanks for an amazing trip.

Brody did a very good job handling the aircraft, and explaining the island at the same time. It was unique and I would definitely do it again.

Brody was a great guide. His ability to fly made my nervousness completely disappear. I appreciate the combination of history and seeing the beauty of Kauai. This is a GORGEOUS island by air! Thanks so much!

My wife, and another couple all went on a Blue Hawaiian helicopter tour of Kauai. None of us had ever been on a helicopter before, and while excited there were also some nerves. Every employee at Blue Hawaiian is professional and takes safety very seriously. When we booked the reservations a few months ago we requested to all ride together in the same helicopter, and they were more than happy to meet that request. The ride was outstanding!! Very smooth, not bumpy at all, headsets are comfortable and the pilot did a remarkable job talking about the island and giving us a great ride in the valleys, craters, etc! It was amazing, and well worth the money!! We chose Blue Hawaiian based on referrals from friends, and we are glad we chose them!! The CD is optional for $25, and we love it! We've watched it a couple times already since coming home. Have Fun! ALOHA!

Well worth a trip. Friendly staff and a pilot who knew all about the island... A must do experience on Kauai. We loved it!!

Four of us took the 2-hour tour of the Big Island with Noah and were very impressed. The equipment was comfortable and the views were amazing! Noah was a great tour guide; low key, knowledgeable, friendly and helpful. I was most interested in the volcanoes and was not disappointed. We got to see lava flowing into the sea. Noah circled so that everyone got good pictures and had time to soak it all in. We did not get to fly as close to the currently active crater (Halemaumau) as I would have liked but I suspect that had more to do with air space restrictions than Blue Hawaiian. This is a truly delightful way to see the island! The only reason I have not given them 5 stars is that we were not given the opportunity to have pictures taken with the helicopter, in spite of having been told we would before we took off. When we asked as we were deplaning, the woman who was escorting us from the aircraft was a bit snippy and said she knew nothing of that promise, had not been told we wanted to have our pictures taken by the aircraft and hurried us into the building. Another employee was more accommodating but by the time we went back to the pads, the helicopter we had been on had departed for refueling, so our pictures are of the A-Star, a different helicopter than the one we took for our tour, which was the Eco-Star. A small issue, admittedly, but when you pay hundreds of dollars for an experience like this you expect a bit more. The only other issue I had was that we were about 10 minutes late leaving because they brought in the EcoStar for us rather than the smaller A-Star, and while that was very nice of them to do (especially since the EcoStar is more expensive to rent), they did not make up the time in the air. Again, a small item, and overall we really had a great time and we would highly recommend it to anyone!

My husband and I went on the 2-hour Big Island Spectacular, and it was amazing. We paid a little extra for the Eco-star helicoptors; although i don't know the different between the A-star and Eco-star, the Eco-star was comfortable, great view, and not in the least bit bumpy! Our pilot, Toshi, was funny, experienced, and had a wealth of information that made the trip exciting and informative. I definitely recommend this tour for anyone visiting the Big Island! We also bought the $25 DVD at the end of the trip, and it was well worth it!

When old friends showed up and invited us to join them on a helicopter ride over the Big Island, I could not gracefully refuse, so put aside my fears and climbed aboard. Even though we live here, we could not have imagined how beautiful, interesting, varied and mind-boggling Hawaii Island is from the air. Our pilot, Jason, was extremely professional, engaging, informative, and always thoughtful of folks living below. We saw lava vents and flows and coastlines that we'll never see any other way; it was truly fabulous!

Yes it's stupidly expensive money. But it's still the best thing I ever did. I ended up paying around $1,500.00 3 years ago. We did the long tour - first volcanos then a stop in Hilo for fuel - followed by the waterfalls. I thought the waterfall bit would be boring after seeing lava literally burst out of the volcano. I was wrong - waterfalls were totally cool. These guys are not the cheapest - but they provide a great show. We really loved it.

If you're staying in or near Waikoloa, look into it - this is an awesome experience. It is very pricey, but we were gifted with a very good pilot/guide (Jason) and the views are spectacular. We saw lava flows - and this is the only way to get near the lava as of this writing - as well as the jaw-dropping series of waterfalls and valleys up in the northeastern part of the Big Island. We saw a lot of whales right off of Hilo too (late February). Yes it's pricey, but my wife and I looked at it from a once-in-a-lifetime perspective, and we have no remorse. Jason gauged his audience really well, and was fairly well-versed in the various subjects that came up during the flight. Jason encouraged us to ask questions and wanted the flight to be very interactive - and it was. The only complaint I could come up with is that both my wife and I felt that the valley fly-throughs were so surreal and breathtaking, they're over so fast, that you really do feel like you've watched them, and not really lived them - more of a cinematic experience than a visceral one. If you want to really let a particular area soak in, I think you would need to experience it differently (although best of luck getting to some of the places we saw... it looks like treacherous bush-whacking to me). At the price this costs, I was happy with our pilot. I don't know if you can ask for them by name, but I suggest you try to get on Jason's schedule.

This is a very expensive tour, but we decided that it would be our one big splurge for this vacation. We took the "Big Island Spectacular", which is the tour of the entire island, and opted to go in the Eco-Star because it has more window space and we thought the view would be better. We wanted to get great pictures. What they don't tell you is that the view is only better if you are sitting in one of the two front seats. My husband and I were seated on the right rear, and we couldn't see much out the front at all. To make matters worse, the pilot was narrating what he saw out the front and to the left - where he was sitting. We couldn't see any of what he was talking about at all. He did turn the craft around a few times to try to give us a view as well, but not long enough to get good pictures out the side window. We were limited to taking pictures out the little side window because the guy sitting beside the big window up front had light colored pants on, and all our pictures have the reflection of his pants in them. We couldn't see the waterfalls on the trip up the coast by Hilo becuase we only flew one way, and we couldn't see out that side of the copter past the other folks who crowded into the left side window to get their pictures. We thought at least we could buy the video of the trip to see what we were missing, but they said their equipment malfunctioned and the video disc was blank. They did give us one of their advertising CDs which has bits of all their tours on it. In summary, I would advise not to waste your money unless you know you will be sitting up front. Those will be the people who say that the tour was awsome.