Love Big Island - Hawai'i travel guide https://www.lovebigisland.com/ Big Island travel guide written by and for people that love Hawaii. Itineraries, activities, etc. Aloha 'aina, malama' aina! (love and take care of the land) Sat, 26 Sep 2026 07:10:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://www.lovebigisland.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-BigIsland-no-text_512px-32x32.jpg Love Big Island https://www.lovebigisland.com/ 32 32 Myths of Maui Lūʻau https://www.lovebigisland.com/tours/myths-of-maui-luau/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:40:41 +0000 https://www.lovebigisland.com/?post_type=tours&p=24978 The Myths of Maui Lūʻau runs nightly on the oceanfront lawn at the Royal Lahaina Resort on Kāʻanapali Beach, and it has run longer than any other luau on Maui. At [tour_price] for general admission, it is the cheapest of the big beach luaus on Kāʻanapali, and the price covers an open bar, an island […]

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]]> Huakaʻi Lūʻau: Journey Through Polynesia https://www.lovebigisland.com/tours/huakai-luau/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:39:27 +0000 https://www.lovebigisland.com/?post_type=tours&p=25005 The show runs on the ocean-view lawn at the Hilton Vacation Club Kāʻanapali Beach resort in West Maui, a compact oceanfront setting where you sit within a few rows of the band and the dancers. It runs on Tuesday evenings only, with the show timed to start near sunset and a fire-knife dance closing it […]

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]]> Gilligan’s Island Luau https://www.lovebigisland.com/tours/gilligans-island-luau/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:36:23 +0000 https://www.lovebigisland.com/?post_type=tours&p=25003 At [tour_price] per adult, Gilligan’s Island Luau is the cheapest luau on Maui, and the crowd is smaller than at the big resort shows. It runs on the patio at Gilligan’s Bar & Grill inside Maui Nui Golf Club in Kīhei, with the sun dropping behind the golf course, not the ocean, at showtime. The […]

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]]> Tales of the Kapa Moe Lūʻau (Ritz-Carlton Maui) https://www.lovebigisland.com/tours/tales-of-the-kapa-luau/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:34:25 +0000 https://www.lovebigisland.com/?post_type=tours&p=24977 The Ritz-Carlton Maui in Kapalua runs the newest luau on the island, on Tuesdays and Fridays. Book it for the food, not the show: dinner is a buffet with a poke station and island dishes, while the bigger resort luaus serve dinner on banquet trays. Drinks are included, and the bar usually closes once dinner […]

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]]> The Lūʻau at Grand Wailea https://www.lovebigisland.com/tours/luau-grand-wailea/ Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:30:17 +0000 https://www.lovebigisland.com/?post_type=tours&p=24976 The resort times the show so the sun sets over the water partway through the evening, and it closes on a fire-knife dance. This luau, also called ʻAhaʻāina Wailea, runs most nights of the week (typically Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday) on the resort lawn above Wailea Beach, on the South Maui coast. Dinner […]

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]]> Waikīkī Starlight Luau https://www.lovebigisland.com/tours/waikiki-starlight-luau/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:49:47 +0000 https://www.lovebigisland.com/?post_type=tours&p=24887 If you’re staying at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, the luau is on your own resort: no coach at 3:30 PM, no hour on the H-1, no shuttle back at 10 PM. Check in on the 6th floor of the Mid-Pacific Conference Center at 5:30 PM, and walk back to your room when it ends [tour_duration] […]

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]]> Star Tour Show at Ko Olina: Rooftop Stargazing with an Astronomer https://www.lovebigisland.com/tours/star-tour-show-ko-olina/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:49:16 +0000 https://www.lovebigisland.com/?post_type=tours&p=24881 Stargazing in Hawaiʻi usually means a long drive and a late night on a mountain. The Star Tour Show is an astronomer-led hour on a Ko Olina rooftop that starts right after dinner, close enough to walk from the resorts. An astronomer with a green laser and no script Greg McCartney runs this show, and […]

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]]> Pālehua Trail Rides: Ridgeline Horseback Ride Above Kapolei https://www.lovebigisland.com/tours/palehua-trail-rides/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:48:36 +0000 https://www.lovebigisland.com/?post_type=tours&p=24876 Pālehua Trail Rides runs the only mountain horseback ride on Oʻahu’s west side, on private ranch land in the Waiʻanae range above Kapolei that’s closed to the public. The trail climbs to a ridgeline overlooking the south and west coast, with Ko Olina and the ocean below and cattle grazing the slopes. Rides run at […]

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]]> Self-Drive ATV and Farm Tour on Oʻahu’s North Shore https://www.lovebigisland.com/tours/north-shore-stables-atv/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:48:03 +0000 https://www.lovebigisland.com/?post_type=tours&p=24867 This is the only tour on Oʻahu where you drive your own four-wheel ATV. On every other “ATV” tour here, you ride in a two-seat side-by-side or on the back of a machine someone else steers. You get your own quad and take it around 67 oceanfront acres of a working farm in Waialua, out […]

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]]> Nā Lei Aloha Lūʻau https://www.lovebigisland.com/tours/na-lei-aloha-luau/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:47:06 +0000 https://www.lovebigisland.com/?post_type=tours&p=24854 There is no fire knife dance at this lūʻau. The fire knife is Samoan, so Nā Lei Aloha, a production of the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, leaves it out and fills the whole program with Hawaiian hula and live Hawaiian music instead: a storytelling show about the history and meaning of the lei, with […]

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