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Moon Handbooks: Maui (5th Ed.)

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The Maui Handbook is the best guide to Maui that I have seen. It not only provides all the maps, restaurant and tourist attractions you'd expect, but also goes off the beaten track, describing the history, culture and personality of the island. The author is clearly someone who likes to spend time getting to know a place, and it shows here. It is the one essential guide for anyone who wants to get out of the hotel and experience the real Maui.

As a bonus: the book is not too thick, so you can pack it in you pocket or backpack without weighing you down.

Until Andrew Doughty's "Maui Revealed" was released, this Moon handbook was the best you could get. We used it on our first trip to Maui. Like other Moon Handbooks, it is rich in history and background info, but the practical detail can't compare to "Maui Revealed." We now use this Moon Handbook mainly as a supplement for historical background -- still useful but not our first source. (Most other Maui guides are superficial rubbish.)

Great book. We took this book on a trip to Maui in 1990,it had great ideas, suggestions. So when we returned in May, 2010 we took this edition with us, in addition to a newer book. It was amazing the places that were still in business, or in the same state as they were then! It was great fun to do a comparison of current info we found compared to what was there 20 years ago! The info was still surprisingly accurate! Of course we visited places like Paia, Hana, etc. D. Utz

We recently took this book on our weeklong stay in Maui. We spent the first two days almost forgetting about this book, since the Maui Revealed book is so much better with its maps and descriptions.

That being said, this is still a very good guidebook. This book gives you a little more history of each of the locations and of the island in general. It is also a good resource for planning the flights, where to stay, etc. I found that I would usually check through MAUI REVEALED before we went out for the day, and during the day, then I would read this book at night to find out more of the history of the locations we visited.

If you are only going to buy one book, by Maui Revealed. This book makes a very nice second book for a trip to Maui.