North Shore / Waimea, Falls Day & Swim with Turtles
Recommended by 94% of travelers
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Honolulu, USA
- 8 hours (approx.)
- Pickup offered
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Swap the big bus tours for a more personalized experience of Oahu. This private tour is exclusively for your party and takes you from Honolulu to the North Shore where you'll visit a macadamia nut farm and look for sea turtles and monk seals on the beaches. Afterward, head for the Waimea Valley for a swim in its famed waterfall. There's time for a shrimp truck lunch and shopping (own expense) before heading back.
- Private tour, exclusively for your group: A personalized experience
- Explore the North Shore and Waimea Valley in just one day
- Learn about local Hawaiian history and culture from your guide
- Hassle-free pickup from your Honolulu hotel or the airport
What's Included
- Transportation
- Lunch
- Admission into Waimea state park
Meeting and Pickup
Pickup points
Select a pickup point
Pickup details
pick up at ride share area where the front valet area of your hotel
Operating hours.9:00 am
Itinerary
1
Waimea Valley
8 hours • Admission Ticket Not Included
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Near public transportation
- Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 6 travelers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Featured review
James_B
Perfect North Shore tour. Coffee/chocolate place was interesting and had a great gift shot. Waimea Falls/Botanical Gardens was beautiful (there is no falls right now so you can't swim, but that's not the guides fault). Lunch at Jenny's in Haleiwa was delicious. The beach was lovely as well. Seamus was a very friendly, accommodating, and knowledgeable guy. Highly recommend!
Reviews
4.8
based on 106 reviews
Nikki_W, Jan 2026
This was a fabulous tour. Seamus was knowledgeable, friendly, and a pleasure to spend eight hours with.
Response from Host, Jan 2026
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Katrina_H, Dec 2025
The driver was very knowledgeable, friendly, and patient. We enjoyed the coffee and chocolate factory. If you have time, once you get off the cruise ship, I highly recommend taking a private tour to visit other parts of the islands in Hawaii.
Response from Host, Jan 2026
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Milinda_S, Dec 2025
Husband and I had a great time. Seamus was pleasant and knowledgeable. Shared his knowledge about the Hawaiin culture in easily understandable fashion. We took our time and it felt like a personalized trip. Hiked to then Swam in the waterfall, watched the sea turtles and a local coffee and chocolate visit.
Enjoyed shrimp lunch at Jenny’s shrimp truck.
Response from Host, Jan 2026
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Linda_I, Oct 2025
Seamus with Take a Hike was amazing. No rushing. Very knowledgeable. Went out of the way to accommodate us.
Response from Host, Jan 2026
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Patricia_M, Oct 2025
Shamus was wonderful. Extremely knowledgeable, very helpful and we had a great time. Sandy is a good girl 😁
Response from Host, Oct 2025
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Nicole_R, Sep 2025
My family (with kids ages 15 and 11) had the absolute best time on this tour! From start to finish, everything was so well organized and stress-free. Seamus was warm, knowledgeable, and full of fascinating stories about Hawaiian history and culture that really brought each stop to life.
The scenery was breathtaking — I especially loved walking through Waimea Park and swimming with the sea turtles. The lunch at Jenny's shrimp truck was sooo delicious. The pace was perfect, with just the right amount of activity and time to relax. Thank you so much Seamus for the amazing memories. Would highly recommend to anyone.
Response from Host, Sep 2025
Aloha and thank you for spending your very special day with me and Sandy girl we appreciate getting to show you our beautiful little island and letting you get to know her just a little bit better and I hope we get to see you again one day aloha my friends
James_B, Sep 2025
Perfect North Shore tour. Coffee/chocolate place was interesting and had a great gift shot. Waimea Falls/Botanical Gardens was beautiful (there is no falls right now so you can't swim, but that's not the guides fault). Lunch at Jenny's in Haleiwa was delicious. The beach was lovely as well. Seamus was a very friendly, accommodating, and knowledgeable guy. Highly recommend!
Response from Host, Sep 2025
Aloha and thank you for spending your day with us. We truly appreciated getting to show you our beautiful little island. We look forward to seeing you again aloha.
Penny_D, Jun 2025
It was a great experience. Seamus was a great guide and we loved the company of his dog Sandy. Would highly recommend.
Response from Host, Jun 2025
Aloha Sandy and I would like to thank you for spending your day with us. We look forward to seeing you again a
Elizabeth_f, Jun 2025
It was a great experience! We loved that it was a small group. We lived Sandy the service dog she was super sweet and entertaining! Our guide was amazing and told us all the stories and gave us great suggestions of other things to see and where to eat
Response from Host, Jun 2025
Aloha Sandy and I would like to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for spending your day with us. We look forward to seeing you again
Mary_J, Jun 2025
Interesting tour. Guide was knowledgeable. Coat of state park per person was a little high. Turtles were fun.
Response from Host, Jun 2025
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Joe_S, May 2025
More then excellent tour. Seamus was an outstanding guide and the curated inenery was perfect. The National park was beautiful and educational. Hard to get in and out of the waterfall pool but worth it,
Response from Host, May 2025
Aloha Sandy and I appreciate spending the day with you and getting to show you our beautiful island. We look forward to seeing you again aloha.
Lynnzi_E, May 2025
Perfect Day with Seamus and his sidekick Sandy (special dog living her BEST LIFE). Everything positive in these reviews is spot on. He is knowledgeable, respected, and well connected to this community and you will learn sooooo much while you relax exploring a local coffee and chocolate farm, a very manageable ethereal ‘hike’ through paradise to a peaceful clear oasis where you can relax in an actual waterfall before swimming with soooo many turtles followed by amazing shrimp truck lunch. 5 STARS. Sooooo unrushed, safe, memorable, and relaxing.
Response from Host, May 2025
Aloha and thank you so very much for spending one of your special holiday days with Sandy and I Sandy wants to say that she appreciates all the fun she had with you during the hike and we look forward to seeing you again and we hope you have had a wonderful holiday aloha
Ruth_S, May 2025
Seamus was the perfect tour guide to show my husband and I the north shore of Hawaii. He was very knowledgeable about the area, was flexible with what we visited and how long we stayed at each spot, and was a great guy to get to know. Of course, his dog, Sandy, was a perfect partner on this tour. A must for first time visitors to Oahu!
Response from Host, May 2025
Aloha, thank you for choosing to spend one of your special holiday days with Sandy and I. We had a great day with you and look forward to seeing you on your next visit to Hawaii. Aloha.
Katherine_S, May 2025
This tour group embodies the spirit of Aloha! We had a wonderful experience exploring the behind the scenes production of cocoa and coffee (free samples!!!), swimming at Waimea Falls, observing and swimming with the beautiful sea turtles (please don’t touch), eating at the famous North Shore shrimp trucks (yummy!!), we couldn’t be happier with our day with Seamus and Sandy. I needed some allergy relief meds and Seamus knew exactly where to go. I am grateful for this tour, I learned so much about the beautiful Hawaiian culture.
Response from Host, May 2025
Sandy and I would like to thank you so much for spending one of your very special days with us. We look forward to seeing you again aloha.
jianwen_k, Apr 2025
I would strongly recommend book your family customized trip with this firm the guide was super knowledge and helpful. The whole trip is about fun and everything has been arranged and all you need to work on is having fun.
Response from Host, Apr 2025
Thank you for spending your day with us. It was a pleasure to show you and your beautiful family our lovely island aloha.
Anca_G, Apr 2025
This was a private tour, very relaxing, no rush. Got to spend time at the Waimea Falls and Park, ate a delicious shrimp lunch and had just enough time at the beach where we saw many green turtles. It was a good day overall. Enjoyed having sweet Sandy girl accompanying us throughout the day.
Response from Host, Apr 2025
Aloha, thank you for spending one of your special days with us. It was our pleasure to get to show you our beautiful island we look forward to seeing you again aloha.
Sonia_C, Mar 2025
Recommend. Love the gardens and waterfall. The beach was paradise and we got to hang out with a sea turtle. There’s a market where I tried a ripe cocoa bean, it tastes like mango. Great coffee and gift shop.
Seamus took great care of us.
Response from Host, Apr 2025
Aloha, thank you for spending your day with us. It was a pleasure getting to show you our beautiful little island. Look forward to seeing you again aloha.
nicole_h, Mar 2025
Mahalo, is an understatement when Seamus and Sandy accommodate you around the North Shore, and locales in Oahu. Seamus’ approach and knowledge of the area, locals, and agenda is all about your journey and having a wonderful time. He remembers everything to make your trip enjoyable and memorable. What a wonderful way to see the north shore of the island. Seamus and his sidekick Sandy were very knowledgeable and catered the day to what my husband and I wanted to do. Lunch at the food truck was great. The hike to the water fall was filled with information about native and nonnative species of plants and animals. The waterfall was so beautiful and the water was refreshing after hike to get there. At the beach we were able to see sea turtles which was amazing and so fun. Seamus made stops along the way when we requested. We would recommend this to anyone looking for a lowkey but fun day. We would definitely reach back out when we come back to the island.
Response from Host, Mar 2025
Sandy and I would like to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for spending your very special holiday day with us. It was a pleasure to get to know you and show you our beautiful little island and we look forward to seeing you again Mahalo.
justin_n, Feb 2025
Seamus was a great guide for our family. Very accommodating and knowledgeable about the island. Would recommend
Response from Host, Feb 2025
Thank you for spending your day with us
Linda_S, Feb 2025
Absolutely loved the tour. It was perfect starting at 9 AM. It did not have an early wake up which made it perfect for a vacation schedule. The guide was the absolute best and gave us a lot of insight into the Hawaiian culture. He was very knowledgeable about flowers and plants and Hawaiian history. The tour is geared to your personal preferences and moves at your pace. The stop at the shrimp trucks was very enjoyable. This was my first experience with the shrimp truck and I definitely would go back. Sheamus made the tour very interesting. I would definitely book another with him. We have been coming to Honolulu for several years and I feel like I learned so much just from this one day tour. We saw turtles, a beautiful waterfall and botanical gardens. Sheamus Made it a wonderful day.
Response from Host, Feb 2025
Thank you so much for spending one of your special days with us. We truly appreciate it and we look forward to seeing you again aloha.
Denny_B, Jan 2025
The entire day was amazing from start to finish. Our guide was so knowledgeable about Hawaii, we learned so much.
The memories we made we last a lifetime!
Response from Host, Feb 2025
Thank you for spending one of your special days with us. We look forward to seeing you again a
Ronda_W, Nov 2024
Great experience. The tour guide, although not a native, but has been here for quite some time was very knowledgeable about the island and the customs. He provided quite a bit of information. We were also fortunate that since we were the only group booked for that time, he was very kind and tailored the itinerary and experience to our specific requests with an extra stop along the way.
Response from Host, Feb 2025
Thank you for choosing to spend one of your special days with us. We look forward to seeing you again aloha.
Maryse_L, Sep 2024
Waimea valley was so beautiful. And the falls was a great place to refresh after the walk. We highly recommand it and Shamus was a great guide.
Response from Host, Feb 2025
Thank you for spending your day with us. We truly appreciate
Mary_M, Sep 2024
Seamus picked us up on time and was really engaging all day. He clearly knows his stuff and the benefit of a private tour meant we didn’t have to wait on other people every time we wanted to move on. We learned so much from him and his partner sandy was such a good girl! Thanks Seamus we had a really great day and will recommend you anytime! Mahalo
Response from Host, Feb 2025
Thank you so much for spending one of your special days with us. We truly appreciate it and look forward to seeing you again aloha.
Krystal_R, Jul 2024
We used to live on the island and came back to visit, this time we wanted the experience we had not had while living here and Seamus & Sandy gave us just that! He was so personable and helpful! He made us feel like we were on our own trip but he was there guiding along! Highly recommend and will use him again
Blaire_T, Jun 2024
It was truly after the experience that I realized how this tour was not what it could have been. The guide was very opinionated (and though we all have biases), his biases influenced where we went and what we were exposed to. For example, we did not visit all the shrimp food trucks, because he had a favorite, we also did not go to Dole Plantation due to his views on the organization. We were not told completely truthful information. Examples: we were told Dole (from Dole plantations) enslaved the Hawaiian people until the 1970s and no longer had a presence on the island. For this reason, he did not take us to the Dole Plantation which shocked even native islanders when we shared this. We were given an extensive tour of the plant life of Waimea Valley and our goal was to get to the waterfall - a 15 minute walk turned into 30 minutes. We were told there were no trees originally on the island until others immigrated to the islands and brought them (not true), we were also told there were no insects on the island until the "foreign trees and people came, that did not belong there" - also not true. And it is offensive to be told that other humans did not "belong" on the island (especially as a person from a marginalized population)- the rich Hawaiian culture is formed from others visiting and leaving behind gifts to the people and land. There are many other discrepancies and lies and all of these things impacted the reflection of my group's experience. We went to places that were promoted by the guide and not local and sought-after places to see/visit. We also paid for and selected a private tour, and we were paired with other people. We thankfully had a Lyft driver whose nationality and heritage is Hawaiian share places to go on our next trip and provide truthful information with his biases as a native Hawaiin.
Patricia_S, Jun 2024
Shamus was amazing! I tell all my friends to take his tour. Beyond highly recommended. He took us to the best shrimp truck on the island. Saw giant turtles in their natural habitats. We saw authentic tiki carving. Beautiful waterfall parks with stunning flora.
lori_r, Jun 2024
Great time. Seamus was our guide. He was very knowledgeable and accommodating., ssid it was our day and he meant it. Trip to the falls was amazing. We got to swim up to the waterfall multiple times. We had lunch at Jennys shrimp truck at the North Dhore, amazing. And lastly we got to swim with turtles. Our first attempt at snorkeling but we enjoyed it. I would highly recommend this trip.
Alora_G, Jun 2024
This was truly the best experience by far! Seamus was our guide and was very knowledgeable on each and every aspect of the tour. I genuinely felt like I learned more about this beautiful island. He made sure the whole day was about us and made us very comfortable. I would 100% recommend this trip, it is BEYOND worth it!
Shirley_K, May 2024
The worst booking agency ever. We received a $300 confirmation number and booking code. Checked out of our hotel, stored our bags in lockup and waited one hour for pickup. They failed to confirm our day with a driver.
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