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All Reviews for Mauna Kea & Stargazing Tours in Big Island
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Mauna Kea Evening Stargazing & Daytime Solar Viewing Tour with Dinner
Fabulous
Reviewed by: Kara
A great tour, worth the money as the staff details the conditions of the sky during your viewing.
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| Packages: | From Kona & Waikoloa - Solar Viewing & Stargazing with Dinner |
| Attended as: | Friends |
| Posted on: | 2025/03/27 |
| Activity Date: | 2025/03/16 |
Mauna Kea Evening Stargazing & Daytime Solar Viewing Tour with Dinner
Incredible
Reviewed by: The Bushnell family
One of the highlights of our trip! Sam was fantastic - incredibly knowledgeable and friendly. Not only were we awed by the universe, Sam helped us understand Hawaii as well. Keep up the great work.
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| Packages: | From Kona & Waikoloa - Solar Viewing & Stargazing with Dinner |
| Attended as: | Families |
| Posted on: | 2025/03/26 |
| Activity Date: | 2025/03/24 |
Mauna Kea Stargazing Tour Experience with Free Professional Photos - Epic Tours
See you in the sky
Reviewed by: See you in the sky
This was an absolutely amazing experience and I highly recommend! The view is stunning- truly unbelievable. You feel as if you have been transported to another world.
Tips from someone who has been there-
Dress as if you are visiting a frozen tundra. Its cold.
Take someone you love with you so you have a witness to what you are seeing- this helps to ease your mind from thinking its a dream. You will be in disbelief of the awesome beauty.
Listen to a great song while you star gaze- here’s mine.
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Z12ukmkHnMUcdcMr8nz3V?si=DG1Wjp0lQcKaP57JfB58mA
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| Packages: | Stargazing Tour - Starting times between 07:00 PM - 11:30 PM |
| Attended as: | Couples |
| Posted on: | 2025/03/15 |
| Activity Date: | 2025/02/22 |
Mauna Kea Summit Sunset & Stargazing Tour with Meal, Transportation & Guide
Great experience !!
Reviewed by: Quinn
Great experience overall, our guide James is very nice, he is knowledgeable and funny, definitely would recommend it to my friends
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| Packages: | Standard Package |
| Attended as: | Couples |
| Weather: | Sunny |
| Posted on: | 2025/02/27 |
| Activity Date: | 2025/02/25 |
Mauna Kea Summit Sunset & Stargazing Tour with Meal, Transportation & Guide
Amazing experience. Must do
Reviewed by: Hawaii lovers
This was truly awe inspiring. It is absolutely a must do, our tour guide Wes was incredible. We can’t rave enough about it
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| Packages: | Standard Package |
| Attended as: | Couples |
| Weather: | Sunny |
| Posted on: | 2025/02/15 |
| Activity Date: | 2025/02/13 |
Mauna Kea Summit Sunset & Stargazing Tour with Meal, Transportation & Guide
Memorable and Informative
Reviewed by: Oscar
Riding up to the top of Mauna Kea with James, our tour guide and driver, was interesting and entertaining! James is very knowledgeable about the Hawaiian culture and history; volcanic geology; the telescopes on Mauna Kea; and the night sky. And he always paid close attention to all his customers. A better telescope would have made this tour perfect.
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| Packages: | Standard Package |
| Attended as: | Couples |
| Weather: | Sunny |
| Posted on: | 2025/02/07 |
| Activity Date: | 2025/02/03 |
Mauna Kea Summit Sunset & Stargazing Tour with Meal, Transportation & Guide
Cold but gorgeous
Reviewed by: Obarc
James was a great tour guide, very informative. Didn't care for the sandwich choices. Was nice to have the hot chocolate though. The view was amazing.
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| Packages: | Standard Package |
| Attended as: | Others |
| Weather: | Snowy |
| Posted on: | 2025/02/05 |
| Activity Date: | 2025/02/02 |
Mauna Kea Summit Sunset & Stargazing Tour with Meal, Transportation & Guide
The sites we went to were excellent.
Reviewed by: AG
Sites we went to was brilliant, and transport was all ok
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| Packages: | Standard Package |
| Attended as: | Families |
| Weather: | Sunny |
| Posted on: | 2025/01/25 |
| Activity Date: | 2025/01/04 |
Mauna Kea Summit Sunset & Stargazing Tour with Meal, Transportation & Guide
Excellent Tour!
Reviewed by: Jerry
The driver-and-guide James has a rich knowledge of history of volcanoes and history of hawaii, and also provides expert guides on the stars.
Take your warm shoes with you.
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| Packages: | Standard Package |
| Attended as: | Couples |
| Weather: | Sunny |
| Posted on: | 2025/01/20 |
| Activity Date: | 2025/01/19 |
Mauna Kea Summit Sunset & Stargazing Tour with Dinner - Hawaii Forest & Trail
The MOST AMAZING Tour ever - once in a life time
Reviewed by: Bob and Rita
I would not change one thing about this tour. It exceeded our expectations. the communication before the experience was excellent. Jason was an exceptional guide - so attentive! He is an expert in astronomy and Hawaiian history which we greatly enjoyed. He had a great telescope and a cool machine that takes pictures of celestial objects in the sky that he EVEN EMAILED TO US LATER! Just wow! The chicken stew was delicious too! An overall amazing, once in a lifetime experience. Thank you! Rita and Bob
None - great communication too!
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| Packages: | Summit Sunset & Stargazing Adventure |
| Attended as: | Couples |
| Weather: | Sunny |
| Posted on: | 2025/01/20 |
| Activity Date: | 2025/01/10 |
Twilight Volcano Tour with Stargazing, Black Sand Beach & Coffee Farm
Wow!
Reviewed by: Kara
The Big Island is so beautiful and to wrap up at Mauna Kea- the perfect tour!!
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| Packages: | Twilight Volcano & Stargazing Tour |
| Attended as: | Friends |
| Posted on: | 2025/01/14 |
| Activity Date: | 2024/10/25 |
Mauna Kea Summit Sunset & Stargazing Tour with Meal, Transportation & Guide
Amazing stargazing!
Reviewed by: Joe
My tour guide, James, was great! He was informative, kind, patient and made the experience fun. Seeing the sunset on a volcano summit and then stargazing afterwards is a bucket list thing that everyone should do! Unforgettable!!!
The altitude is a bit much. I felt dizziness several times, but it was manageable.
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| Packages: | Standard Package |
| Attended as: | Solo Travelers |
| Weather: | Sunny |
| Posted on: | 2025/01/06 |
| Activity Date: | 2024/12/22 |
Mauna Kea Summit Sunset & Stargazing Tour with Meal, Transportation & Guide
Outstanding experience!
Reviewed by: Seema
We had a wonderful time with James! He explained things thoroughly! He did not try to rush us in any way, and took lots of nice pictures! I would highly recommend taking stargazing tour with Hawaiian eyes!
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| Packages: | Standard Package |
| Attended as: | Families |
| Weather: | Sunny |
| Posted on: | 2024/12/29 |
| Activity Date: | 2024/12/25 |
Mauna Kea Summit Sunset & Stargazing Tour with Meal, Transportation & Guide
Breathtaking sunset and star gaze!
Reviewed by: Ziying C
We took the tour on 12/24/2024. It was a full car but very friendly and nice guests together! The eruption was very stunning and the star gaze - wow!
Our guide James is very helpful patient and good at photo shooting as well. He can also speak a little Japanese. Parka jackets saved our lives for sure.
The overall trip experience was excellent. The sandwich was surprisingly good as well.
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| Packages: | Standard Package |
| Attended as: | Couples |
| Weather: | Sunny |
| Posted on: | 2024/12/26 |
| Activity Date: | 2024/12/24 |
Mauna Kea Summit Sunset & Stargazing Tour with Meal, Transportation & Guide
Awesome experience
Reviewed by: Swapped
Host was really good, very polite and understanding.
The sandwiches were good, and the hot coco while stargazing, was delicious cherry on top of the whole experience.
The only issue I would complain about is the vehicle, because the space was really cramped up and it was a struggle to get in and out of the vehicle. Many from the back of the vehicle complained about the air conditioning, but I didn’t feel any discomfort, even though I was in the last row
I would recommend adding details of the vehicle, and leg space availability.
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| Packages: | Standard Package |
| Attended as: | Couples |
| Weather: | Sunny |
| Posted on: | 2024/12/23 |
| Activity Date: | 2024/12/21 |
Mauna Kea Summit Sunset & Stargazing Tour with Meal, Transportation & Guide
Great Memories!!!
Reviewed by: An amazing time!
My husband and I had a great time in the tour. We were picked up on time and the guide made the trip to the summit entertaining and we learned many different things about Hawaii during that time.
The sunset at the summit is breathtaking and our guide was prepared to take pictures that he later shared with all of us!
It got cold after the sunset…. so be ready. The hot chocolate while stargazing was a very nice addition!
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| Packages: | Standard Package |
| Attended as: | Couples |
| Weather: | Sunny |
| Posted on: | 2024/12/21 |
| Activity Date: | 2024/11/30 |
Mauna Kea Summit Sunset & Stargazing Tour with Meal, Transportation & Guide
Excellent Tour Guide James
Reviewed by: Eric M.
James who was the tour guide was very nice and thoughtful in providing anything we needed and gave a very informative details about Mauna Kea and the surrounding areas. He was also very helpful in pointing out specific constellations during the star gazing tour. He offered and took pictures of us with our phones. I really enjoyed the tour and highly recommend anyone who comes to The Big Island of Hawaii to take this tour and hopefully James will be assigned as your tour guide.
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| Packages: | Standard Package |
| Attended as: | Solo Travelers |
| Weather: | Sunny |
| Posted on: | 2024/12/04 |
| Activity Date: | 2024/12/02 |
Mauna Kea Summit Sunset & Stargazing Tour with Meal, Transportation & Guide
Stunning and otherworldly views
Reviewed by: Briza Del Villar
This was such an amazing experience. I felt like I was on another planet and our guide James was such an awesome guy. I’m hoping to experience this again in the future soon
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| Packages: | Standard Package |
| Attended as: | Families |
| Weather: | Sunny |
| Posted on: | 2024/11/30 |
| Activity Date: | 2024/11/27 |
Mauna Kea Summit Sunset & Stargazing Tour with Meal, Transportation & Guide
Excellent Guide - knowledgeable and helpful
Reviewed by: Ravinder
The best part is the guide took excellent pictures of everyone with the sunset and stars.
Very knowledgeable and answered all questions. Was very considerate and made sure all were ok during the trip.
Setup the telescope very well - we could see the rings of Saturn very clearly.
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| Packages: | Standard Package |
| Attended as: | Families |
| Weather: | Cloudy |
| Posted on: | 2024/11/14 |
| Activity Date: | 2024/11/12 |
Mauna Kea Summit Sunset & Stargazing Tour with Meal, Transportation & Guide
Mauna Kea Summit Sunset Stargazing Tour
Reviewed by: Joan
Our guide, Koki, did a fabulous job with the Sunset photos for each of us at the summit and also a great job getting everyone's photo with the stars. He was an excellent driver and went slowly on the bumpy gravel part of the drive.
Because Koki's Japanese dialect is not something most English speaking people understand, he needs to speak more slowly and distinctly. I had a great deal of trouble understanding him - seems like I could only catch 4 out of every 10 words, and that is not something I expected on this tour. Granted, out of the 10 people, there were 2 Japanese men and Koki spent a lot of time on the way home speaking only to them in Japanese.
So, I had very mixed feelings about this tour. I come to Hawaii at least a couple times a year and I would definitely ask more questions about the guide and his speaking and understanding ability before I take my nest tour.
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| Packages: | Standard Package |
| Attended as: | Solo Travelers |
| Posted on: | 2024/11/11 |
| Activity Date: | 2024/11/09 |
Mauna Kea Summit Sunset & Stargazing Tour with Dinner - Hawaii Forest & Trail
Blown Away
Reviewed by: Rick
We took this tour with Jason. It was amazing. Jason, a local, was fantastic. He was personable, engaging, entertaining and extremely knowledgeable about all aspects of the tour, and Hawaiian culture and lifestyle. The views speak for themselves and are breathtaking.
Highly recommend this excursion to anyone who is interested in views, astronomy, and something different to do, when on vacation. I thoroughly enjoyed this adventure and look forward to the next time.
Aloha Rick, Thank you so much for your kind review! Jason is a wealth of knowledge are we are so glad you enjoyed your time with us. We look forward to hosting you again soon!
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| Packages: | Summit Sunset & Stargazing Adventure |
| Attended as: | Couples |
| Posted on: | 2024/11/09 |
| Activity Date: | 2024/11/07 |
Mauna Kea Summit Adventures Sunset & Stargazing Guided Tour with Transportation
Good, but not for everyone
Reviewed by: Laura
Gorgeous, unimaginably beautiful views. Very interesting and informative guided tour. Strenuous though, they warned us about the low oxygen and a couple people were visibly feeling ill. "Dinner" was hot but not very good (heavily salted vegetable lasagne).
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| Packages: | Mauna Kea Sunset & Stargazing Tour with Dinner |
| Attended as: | Couples |
| Posted on: | 2024/10/27 |
| Activity Date: | 2024/10/25 |
Mauna Kea Summit Adventures Sunset & Stargazing Guided Tour with Transportation
Family memory created!
Reviewed by: Missy S.
My husband, adult daughter, and I had a spectacular time on this excursion. Our driver/guide/astronomy guru, Maka, was the lynch-pin of the whole experience. After seeing the beautiful sunset at the top, we scurried down to set up for our tour of the night sky. Maka has significant knowledge, a great sense of humor, and an amazing telescope! We all want a laser pointer now!! Fortunately, the three of us experienced only giddiness as an effect of the altitude…the three of us were silly and laughed so much. What a great memory! We had rented a Jeep for our week on the Big Island. Someone had suggested we were wasting our money going on a tour, rather than driving ourselves. But, though the tour was not inexpensive, it was worth every penny for the experience! Highly recommend!!
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| Packages: | Mauna Kea Sunset & Stargazing Tour (Dinner not included) |
| Attended as: | Families |
| Posted on: | 2024/10/26 |
| Activity Date: | 2024/10/02 |
Mauna Kea Summit Adventures Sunset & Stargazing Guided Tour with Transportation
Way better than expected!
Reviewed by: Nathan S.
Our guide was a local, born and raised, and very knowledgeable about everything! He was entertaining, friendly, and went out of his way to make it special for us! Highly recommend!
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| Packages: | Mauna Kea Sunset & Stargazing Tour with Dinner |
| Attended as: | Couples |
| Posted on: | 2024/10/17 |
| Activity Date: | 2024/10/15 |
Mauna Kea Summit Adventures Sunset & Stargazing Guided Tour with Transportation
Our Driver was 95 out of 100
Reviewed by: OSAMU M.
It was our 2nd time at the summit after 14 years with your company and we were more concerned about the summit weather due to last time it was so windy and cold to stay outside of the car.
But, the weather this time thanks to god it was good to watch the sunset.
Our driver was so nice was caring, professional skill of guiding and a gentleman.
He was caring everyone.
This made our trip OUTSTANDING.
I would recommend this trip to anyone eligible it is good tour with a Mercedes 4WD van with 14 passengers.
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| Packages: | Mauna Kea Sunset & Stargazing Tour (Dinner not included) |
| Attended as: | Families |
| Posted on: | 2024/09/23 |
| Activity Date: | 2024/09/21 |
Twilight Volcano Tour with Stargazing, Black Sand Beach & Coffee Farm
Lots to see
Reviewed by: Kara
Your in the bus for a long rides but the sights are all beautiful!
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| Packages: | Twilight Volcano & Stargazing Tour |
| Attended as: | Couples |
| Posted on: | 2024/09/18 |
| Activity Date: | 2024/09/12 |
Twilight Volcano Tour with Stargazing, Black Sand Beach & Coffee Farm
All day event
Reviewed by: Kara
A really well planned day, we really wanted to stargaze so was super happy we got the day tour + the evening
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| Packages: | Twilight Volcano & Stargazing Tour |
| Attended as: | Couples |
| Posted on: | 2024/09/18 |
| Activity Date: | 2024/09/07 |
マウナケア山頂 サンセット＆星空観測ツアー ＜午後／天体望遠鏡／夕食付／英語ガイド＞ by ハワイフォレスト＆トレイル
天候が悪く、マウナケア山頂での日の入りは見られませんでした
Reviewed by: けほや
ハワイ本島での現地ツアーです。元々の予定は、車で山頂（4200メートル）に登り日の入りを見学、その後別の場所で夜空で星を観察というものでした。
ところが、途中のビジターセンター（2800メートル）で辺りが雲に覆われて道路が閉鎖され、山頂に行けませんでした。マウナケア山頂は雲の上にあり天候リスクが少ないと聞いていましたが、途中の道が閉鎖されるリスクを認識しました。
その後、少し下った広場（1800メートル）で夜空の星を観察出来ました。土星も見え、星空は素晴らしかったです。
Mahalo for your review. We appreciate your feedback and are pleased you were able to stargaze and see Saturn! We look forward to hosting you in the future.
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| Packages: | Test Package |
| Attended as: | Families |
| Posted on: | 2024/09/15 |
| Activity Date: | 2024/09/13 |
Mauna Kea Summit Sunset & Stargazing Tour with Meal, Transportation & Guide
Unforgettable experience
Reviewed by: David D
Todd, our guide, was great. Great driving up the steep dirt road. Great info about the geology, topography, observatories, constellations and more. Engaging, informative. All the other details too - nice sandwich, hot beverage and clothing for the cold. Did I forget to mention the views? Fantastic views of the sun setting into the Pacific and a clear night sky.
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| Packages: | Standard Package |
| Attended as: | Couples |
| Posted on: | 2024/09/11 |
| Activity Date: | 2024/09/09 |
Mauna Kea Summit Adventures Sunset & Stargazing Guided Tour with Transportation
AMAZING!!!
Reviewed by: Leigh
God’s amazing creativity seen through volcanic activity and celestial bodies. Truly an experience you won’t forget. Maka was the best. Very knowledgeable and friendly. Be forewarned that if you have altitude problems, you may fell icky at the summit. Take it slowly. You’ll fell better when you descend.
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| Packages: | Mauna Kea Sunset & Stargazing Tour with Dinner |
| Attended as: | Friends |
| Posted on: | 2024/09/06 |
| Activity Date: | 2024/09/03 |
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