Maui Revealed: The Ultimate Guidebook [Paperback]

Andrew Doughty (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2005

USA Today calls it, "An authoritative and in-depth look at all that the island offers." The authors are residents who personally and anonymously review every facet of Maui. From restaurants to helicopter companies to scuba to beaches to trails, they show you the best Maui has to offer. This comprehensive, humorous and easy-to-read full color guide that will lead you to more adventures than any other book.

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Book Description

This all new third edition is most comprehensive yet easy to use guidebook ever written for Maui. Hawai’i resident and best selling author, Andrew Doughty, actually hikes all the trails, rides the boats, scuba dives the reefs, dines in the restaurants, reviews all the resorts, snorkels the coastline, explores the hidden waterfalls and shares all the secrets that he finds. Everything is reviewed anonymously. This book and a rental car are all you need to discover what makes Maui so exciting.

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USA Today calls it, "An authoritative and in-depth look at all that the island offers." The authors are residents who personally and anonymously review every facet of Maui. From restaurants to helicopter companies to scuba to beaches to trails, they show you the best Maui has to offer. This comprehensive, humorous and easy-to-read full color guide that will lead you to more adventures than any other book.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Wizard Publications Inc.; 3rd edition (May 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971727937
• ISBN-13: 978-0971727939
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (164 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #121,834 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #46 in Books > Travel > United States > States > Hawaii

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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Some good, some bad, September 3, 2005

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R. Knight "gonegonegone" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maui Revealed: The Ultimate Guidebook (Paperback)

I found this guide useful for planning my trip before I left home, mostly because it includes several pictures and fairly good maps. I used it to make a prioritized itinerary for the road to Hana---which stops to make, which hikes to go on, etc. We only had one day for the road to Hana, so we could not make every stop. I thought the guide did a pretty decent job of sorting out the mundane sites from the must see. The maps for the road to Hana are also very useful. We returned from Hana via the South road at night. It was no problem at all. It was certainly more fun than turning around and going back the way we came. The road is a lot less winding, which was nice. It does go up and down a lot, though. There was nothing wrong with the road at all, but you do need to watch out for the cows. There are signs warning you when you get to cattle country. The cow crossings are kind of a give away too. FYI, we made the trip in an economy car.

I am in debt to Maui Revealed for its recommendation to see Warren & Annabelle's, which was great. I would recommend, however, that anyone going to see this hilarious show should go late. An hour and a half killing time and eating snacks before the show was a drag. I suppose the wait might be more entertaining if you plan to get drunk.

When we actually got to Maui, we used Lonely Planet's guide almost exclusively. We started with Maui Revealed, but then we found that Lonely Planet's instructions were considerably more useful than those in Maui Revealed. In fact, with the exception of the road to Hana, the Lonely Planet guide was far superior for everything.

I would recommend getting both guides if you have never been to Maui before. If this is not your first trip and you do not plan to go to Hana, skip Maui Revealed entirely. It simply does not have enough substance to be worth the time reading it. The "revelations" in the book are all regular tourist destinations that appear to have been visited for at least a hundres years. You will never be alone. Everyone has Maui Revealed on their back seat or in their hand. The recommended restaurants are over priced. I had to laugh when I saw long lines of people waiting to get into a hamburger joint or a local dive for lunch. I would suggest trying the restaurants NOT listed in Maui Revealed. I think you will get food that is just as good and avoid rediculous lines. Best meal we had on Maui? Maui Tacos on our Lanai at sunset. Cheap, great food, and our lanai had a better view than any restaurant we saw! Perhaps Maui Revealed mentions Maui Tacos. I wouldn't know. I got the tip from Lonely Planet.

About the 3rd edition of Maui Revealed, I checked out the 2nd edition from the library and read it cover to cover. I then ordered the 3rd edition online from Amazon. After a page-by-page comparison, I was shocked to find that the only difference seems to be that a couple of pictures were changed. This is the saddest "update" I have ever seen in a travel guide. Buy the 2nd edition if you can get it cheap.

Lastly, we saw several signs with messages like, "Contrary to Maui Revealed,please respect our rights. This is private property."

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Take with a grain of salt, October 24, 2007

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Gus "Gus" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maui Revealed: The Ultimate Guidebook (Paperback)

Just returned from Maui. Many items are accurate but the book has some major misses as far as restaurant and entertainment recommendations. Use care.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent guidebook to Maui, February 7, 2006

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Jill Malter ([e-mail]) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maui Revealed: The Ultimate Guidebook (Paperback)

I've visited Maui a number of times, and I think this is a fine guidebook to the island. It has plenty of excellent maps and some great photos as well. Yes, quite a few other people have this book, so if you try to see some of the sites it recommends, you will not be alone. And yes, some of the places it mentions used to be known mostly by the locals, not the tourists, but that is no reason for keeping information about the place a secret.

There's plenty of good advice on places to stay, places to eat, beaches, and much more. One excellent (roughly 40-page) section is on the road to Hana, and there's plenty of useful material here. Without this book, I wouldn't have known how to get to Nahiku (although in retrospect, I don't think it is quite as special as the book implies). Nor would I have known how to get to the Blue Pool (about a mile West of the turnoff for Wai'anapanapa, you will find 'Ula'ino road, which you take West for about three miles. You'll have to scramble over some rocks, so it's better to wear tennis shoes, not sandals). The Blue Pool, with its gorgeous waterfall, is a nice highlight of the Hana drive, but as this book shows, there are plenty of other waterfalls which are right by the side of the Hana highway.

I recommend this guidebook.