Pearl Harbor Experience with Reserved Tickets to Arizona Memorial & City Tour
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4.78
Worth it!
Reviewed by: Amj616, 2022/07/09Tony was a great guide! The trip was definitely worth it! I wish they wouldn't make you drive to Waikiki if you aren't staying in Waikiki. Only Pearl Harbor tour we could get booked and it was great!
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| Attended as: | Families |
| Activity Date: | 2022/06/17 |
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Good
Reviewed by: Houser, 2022/06/25Great tour and very informative. Loved the history lesson and the rangers stories. Beautiful memorial.
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| Attended as: | Families |
| Activity Date: | 2022/06/23 |
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Good excursion to interesting memorial.
Reviewed by: Sandra, 2019/11/09Well organised excursion to see the Arizona Memorial with sightseeing of Honolulu surroundings. There was also an option to add on more to this trip eg the Missouri ship. A little more time at the Pearl Harbour centre would have been better, however the short time at the actual Arizona Memorial was as per the rules of the memorial, and not set by the tour itself. The film before the trip to the actual memorial was excellent. I am mobility impaired and was using a walker, and found my needs amply catered for, and was made to feel valued and welcome.
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| Attended as: | Couples |
| Activity Date: | 2019/10/17 |
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Tour
Reviewed by: E and C, 2018/02/19Nice city tour with special driver but the memorial just acceptable
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| Activity Date: | 2018/02/17 |
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Pearl Harbor Tour
Reviewed by: Michael, 2017/11/05Generally the tour is good, however, the tour guide didn't introduce other activities available at Pearl Harbor, such as Battleship Missouri Tour. We could organise the tours better if he told us how much time other tours take. The Battleship tour definitely worth it, we stayed behind for it.
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| Attended as: | Couples |
| Activity Date: | 2017/11/02 |
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Tour option
Reviewed by: Aloha luv, 2017/10/29First time booking a tour when visiting Oahu and was pleased with this company. Price was very reasonable especially because it includes transportation and advance tickets to USS Arizona. Bus was very spacious & clean & comfortable & on time! Our driver, John, was very pleasant & professional. Knocked off 1 star because I wish there was more time spent touring downtown. I thought this tour included Chinatown but we didn't even get close nor was it even mentioned. Honestly, Honolulu is not so big that more time can't be spent exploring. Overall, a very nice experience, mahalo!
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| Attended as: | Friends |
| Activity Date: | 2017/10/07 |
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Arizona memorial tour
Reviewed by: Patricia, 2017/09/12Excellent bus driver he was very personable. Enjoyed the visit to the Arizona memorial very much do much history should not be forgotten
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| Attended as: | Couples |
| Activity Date: | 2017/09/09 |
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Half day tour pearl harbour
Reviewed by: Philippe, 2017/08/01The driver Patrick was nice and the tour in the city interesting. At pearl Harbor we were very disapointed cause the boat could not let us go on the arizona monument due to the wind !! That was our purpose to see it and the deception was high..
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| Attended as: | Families |
| Activity Date: | 2017/07/29 |
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Awesome tour
Reviewed by: Tania , 2015/07/31It was a fabulous your. Larry was very informational and funny. He was very prompt and you can tell he loves his job.
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| Activity Date: | 2015/07/28 |
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A good tour
Reviewed by: mehreen, 2015/07/27We took the Pearl Harbour tour yesterday and pick up was on time from a point close by to our hotel. The coach was clean and comfortable and our driver Larry was nice providing us with information about hawaii culture and history. The stop at Pearl Harbor was for a suffiecient amount of time and our entrance tickets and boat shuttle to the USS Memorial was included in the package. I wish we had covered more of the old town tour (part of the package)as we just drove past Hawaii state Capitol, china town, punchbowl cemetery and only stopped at the lolani palace and king's statute for pics. Our pick up was at 6:35am and we reached the Pearl Harbor at 8:40am (we did the city tour earlier as we had time in hand) and we were dropped back to hotel at around 12:30pm (the drop off would be later had we done the battleship tour at Pearl Harbor). I would recommend this tour to travelers.
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| Activity Date: | 2015/07/25 |
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Good tour, Arizona a bit rushed
Reviewed by: Nathan & Kaila , 2015/07/25Overall tour was great. Early pickup was good because the city tour was comfortable with a couple picture stops. We arrived at memorial early enough to walk around a bit before the Arizona tour. Arizona was already sold out at 9:00, so glad we got tickets online in advance. Ferry runs every 15 minutes, so it's a quick walk through, but we missed the first ferry back, and caught the next. Had more time to tour the Missouri, and was able to walk throughout after the very informative guided portion. There are places here to grab a burger or hot dog if you like, and a snack store back at the Pearl Harbor memorial. After the Missouri, we had more time to tour the memorial before our pickup time. I would definitely recommend this tour.
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| Attended as: | Couples |
| Activity Date: | 2015/06/29 |
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Fun and informative.
Reviewed by: Jake, 2015/07/21The tour itself was great. Seeing the Arizona, punch bowl cemetery and downtown Honolulu was enjoyable. Tour guide was knowledgable and fun, bus was clean. Don't be afraid to bring a backpack with snacks on the bus, our driver locked it up while off the bus. We used Hawaii activities tour group. We were supposed to also see uss Missouri but had to change during tour because of time constraints. So that was disappointing. On website it lists getting back to hotel by 1:30 at latest but once we got to Pearl Harbor tour driver informed us that people seeing Missouri wouldn't leave until 1:45, we had to check out of hotel by 1:30. It took several angry calls to get veltra to reimburse our difference in cost. Had I known the times were different I would have not booked the longer tour or made different arraignments with hotel. Kids were 11& 7 and both enjoyed it, 7 year old even cried during the movie.
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| Attended as: | Families with Young Children |
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2nd time in Oahu, first time at Pearl Harbor.
Reviewed by: Brendan, 2015/07/10The last time I came to Hawaii, I didn't have time to come to Pearl Harbor. Missing it had been one of my biggest regrets of that trip, so when I came back again it was pretty much the only thing on my "must do" list. I normally buy my excursions as a last minute thing so that I can be free to decide last minute what I want to do with my precious vacation days, but not wanting to risk missing Pearl Harbor again, I booked this excursion about a week before I arrived on the islands. I did a bit of research on different tours and options and decided that the USS Arizona memorial was what I was most interested in, and (due to a rebate offered for writing a review), veltra ended up being the best deal I could find. The trip itself was pretty basic... A bus tour of several areas of town including the old palace and the military gravesite near then punch bowl, but the driver was friendly and informative and the bus was comfortable.
Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona memorial were great to see. It was a very moving experience and I highly recommend it to anyone who has the time.
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| Attended as: | Couples |
| Activity Date: | 2015/07/10 |
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Well executed
Reviewed by: Henrik, 2015/01/05The transportation from the hotel and Pearl Harbor went smooth and did the job as expected.
Meeting points and time schedules were all explained clearly and everything went as planned.
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| Attended as: | Families |
| Activity Date: | 2014/12/22 |
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Pearl Harbour
Reviewed by: Allen, 2014/11/22On time pick up and drop off, great friendly driver(Patrick) well done, very organised trip great value. Recommended.
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| Activity Date: | 2014/10/30 |
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Be Careful Leaving Items on Bus
Reviewed by: Mervyn Dale, 2014/11/08Enjoyed experience, but don't leave anything on the bus.
Our driver Patrick said it would be OK to leave items on bus during tour, because he would lock up the bus, but failed to tell us that he would go back to the city to return other guests on the shorter tour and return for us later, hence my wife's pink shawl went missing
Not happy wife
Mervyn Dale, Windsor Canada
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| Attended as: | Couples |
| Activity Date: | 2014/10/17 |
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Arizona memorial & The Missouri
Reviewed by: Pam carmichael, 2014/10/11Very interesting, loved both the memorial and the Missouri, think it could have been done in less time though
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| Attended as: | Solo Travelers |
| Activity Date: | 2014/10/06 |
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Hawaii dreaming!
Reviewed by: Kim, 2014/04/03Fantastic tour to awesome sites. Great commentary from our guide Robert. Mahalo!
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| Attended as: | Friends |
| Activity Date: | 2014/03/06 |
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Arizona & Battleship Memorial Tour
Reviewed by: Georgia, 2013/09/09Fantastic day out. Tour guide Catherine was v informative and friendly. Thoroughly recommend!
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| Attended as: | Families with Young Children |
| Activity Date: | 2013/08/12 |
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Arizona Memorial & USS Missouri at Pearl Harbor Half-Day Tour (No Guide)/ Arizona Memorial & Downtown
Reviewed by: Kenneth Ferguson, 2013/08/19The Bus Driver was excellent; very knowledgeable and gave us a great visit with great information on the history. Unfortunately it was a morning tour - but we had tickets for 2 PM? Having paid so far in advance it was a little annoying to have to wait for an hour on the stand by line. We never saw the Missouri - just the Punchbowl cemetary - so I think we should get a partial refund on this one as well.
Kenneth Ferguson
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| Attended as: | Families |
| Activity Date: | 2013/08/16 |
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Good Tour
Reviewed by: RSK, 2013/08/14Good tour for the price. Worth having someone pick you up and do the driving. We wish we had more time on the Missouri and to see the museums back on Ford Island. We drove from Honolulu, to Pearl Harbor to get tickets, back to Honolulu for the tour, then to Pearl Harbor, and then back to Honolulu. I would have preferred that we were picked up a bit later and have the tickets all ready for us. We barely had any breakfast and because there isn't much time, we didn't eat from 6:30 am to almost 4 pm. Our tour guide was very courteous and informative (Marlan).
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| Attended as: | Families |
| Activity Date: | 2013/08/11 |
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Good, but I missed out.
Reviewed by: Brian, 2013/08/04I thought I paid for the battleship Missouri tour but was never taken. Arizona memorial was just as I remember it.
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| Attended as: | Couples |
| Activity Date: | 2013/07/14 |
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Missouri and Arizona
Reviewed by: Chin Wang, 2013/07/10Tour was great and the tour guide did a great job. However, the pick up point was a closed hotel and not well marked. Took a while to find the pick up point, which was only a block away from the hotel where we were staying. Do not understand this as other buses from the same company were picking up at out hotel. We spend a few hours trying to find the pick up point and the operator that was called was not helpful. Overall it was a very nice day but it didn't start out the way that was expected. You need to set the pick up point at the hotel staying. Do not understand why he had to find a closed hotel!
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| Attended as: | Couples |
| Activity Date: | 2013/07/04 |
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All taken care of
Reviewed by: smichels, 2013/04/12Honolulu is hectic enough without worrying how to get places with traffic. The tour is great. The driver knew the ins and outs of the places we went and made our experience worthwhile. I'm glad we could keep our bags on the bus in between places, especially our packed lunch!
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| Attended as: | Couples |
| Activity Date: | 2013/03/26 |
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Fun!
Reviewed by: Mr. Anonymous, 2012/09/10Had a great time!!
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Great!
Reviewed by: Jordan, 2011/12/09Cousin Jerry was the best! So knowledgeable and friendly. We had a great chat about all things Hawaii! We were lucky we were the only ones seeing Mighty Mo and the city tour in our group so it. The bus to Might Mo was operated by Roberts, they were great too. We will be back!!!
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Our driver saved the day!
Reviewed by: Mr. Anonymous, 2011/05/05Initially, we were told that we were unable to tour the Arizona until 30 minutes before we needed to check out of our hotel. Our driver, Cousin Jerry, saved the day. He walked up to the ticket booth and obtained tickets for my entire family for a tour three hours earlier. This gave us plenty of time to tour the Arizona and Honolulu and have lunch. He really went the extra mile for us!
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| Attended as: | Families with Young Children |
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Too short
Reviewed by: Gabriela, 2011/04/18The main benefit in this tour was to have someone else stand in line and get the tickets and drive around. The Arizona memorial and Missouri tours are handled basically self tours. My favorite portion was the oral history as told by our guide, Cousin Jerry. This was too short. I wish I had heard more from him.
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