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Hawaii By Cruise Ship: The Complete Guide to Cruising Hawaii with Giant color pull-out map

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We had purchased a couple of books about traveling to Hawaii and were not satisfied. If you are planning to take the NCL cruise of the islands, this is THE book for you!!

I am the owner of [...] and I'm taking my family on a Hawaiian Cruise aboard the Pride of Hawaii this month. Even though I've been selling Hawaii forever, I have found this book to be an invaluable resource for anyone planning a cruise to Hawaii.

If you only have a day or two in each port of call, you can really struggle with picking the right excursions or validating the one's you may have already picked. This is like a Bible for anyone cruising to Hawaii.

From the pre- or post-cruise hotel packages, to the restaurants, beaches, shore excursions, national parks, attractions in each port of call you'll be very glad you picked up this book, and believe me you'll take it with you as well.

You'll get the most benefit from it if you read it before you actually book the trip, but definitely before you start planning your shore excursions.

We just took a cruise around the Hawaiian Islands on the Holand America cruise line. We saved sooo much many thanks to this book! Instead of spending lots on the excursions, (Such as Pearl Harbor, Volcanos National Park, Snorkling), we just rented a car and got to see a whole lot more than we would have if we had signed up for just one excursion. Plus, as the book will tell you, a lot of the excursions that you pay $100 (or more) for are actually free (or at least half that price). Thanks to this book, our family made the most of our time on the Islands. I highly recommend this book for anyone visitting any of the Islands!

Thousands of people cruise around the Hawaiian Islands every week. Anne Vipond speaks directly to this group of visitors, explaining how to get the best experience out of your Hawaiian cruise vacation.

The book begins with a very nice reference area helping you understand the basics of a cruise ship and the background of the culture and history of Hawaii. Both of these are things you might normally overlook in a Hawaii travel book - but both are really important to helping you really enjoy your vacation by cruise. The more you are prepared for how a cruise ship works - and the more you understand the background of the peoples and landscapes of Hawaii - the more meaningful your trip is.

The book goes island by island, allowing you to quickly page to whichever island you're interested in and scan through the attractions. That way you can bring the book with you on the ship, bookmark whichever island is coming up next, and scan to see what you should watch out for. There are nice color photos so you can see exactly what the lava tubes look like, what the sea arch looks like, and so on. As I visited the locations, I was impressed that the book did a great job of showing me exactly what to watch for.

The book keeps a variety of visitors in mind. It talks about which golf courses are nearby, what hiking trails are available, what the beaches are like. It indicates when you should rent a car in advance and when shuttles are available.

There is a very nice pull-out map that has an overview of Hawaii on one side, and up close detailed maps on the other side of the main islands and locations. The book has even more detailed maps of specific areas, like Volcano National Park on the Big Island.

The book is definitely not as bulky as some other Hawaii books out there - but I found this a good thing. This was something I could easily carry with me and thumb through to figure out what seemed most interesting. Then if I wanted really in depth information about one detail, I could go to my specific book to get all the full information. For example, I have the Big Island Revealed which is an entire book just on the "Big Island" of Hawaii since I really wanted to explore there. But I used this book as a guide to figure out which attractions I wanted to see, and then went to the Revealed book to get the mile marker and location and other details.

A great reference book for the cruiser to Hawaii!

We really loved this book. It had alot of very helpful suggestions in it. A few things had already changed but overall it was a nice guideline to go by.

I am planning my first trip to Hawaii and have found this book very knowledgable and informative. It has given me wonderful ideas for our trip,as we will be cruising on NCL. Excellent source of information and great tips....thanks

We were planning a cruise to Hawaii and were looking for more information than contained on the cruise ship web sites. This book is the perfect compliment. It gives you detailed information on all the shore excrusions as well as other activities available, maps of the islands and tips on what to see and do. It really helps you plan your shore days to the maximum extent. This book is essential for those cruising the Hawaiian Islands.

This is the good book for cruising Hawaii. My only concern is that the Map should be more detailed. Many times the place she is talking about, but I have hard time to find where it is..

THE BOOK CONTAINED MUCH INFORMATION ABOUT THE MAIN ISLANDS, BUT FAILED TO DETAIL THE ACTUAL CRUISES AROUND THESE ISLANDS. A

This was a very helpful reference for our cruise to Hawaii. The information may need to be updated a bit, but is still very good. The port descriptions along with maps were exteremely helpful. The "attractions" information helped us plan tour excursions as well as on our own sight seeing.