Help! Can anyone recommend private tour guides

[stuNYC]

I am on the POA 1/23 cruise

 

I can't take "typical shore excursions" offered by ship or Roberts and don't want to drive everwhere myself. My DW needs a wheelchair and has difficulty getting onto a van. I know that renting a car is the least expensive option ,but I want to see the sites with an informed tour guide rather than drive to them by myself.

 

I usually take ship excursions by myself in the AM and in the PM my wife and I would like to hire a local guide to take us for a 3-4 hours tour of the big island, kauai and kona

 

Any prior experiences with guides on these islands and contact info would be greatly appreciated. I have surfed the web and have called several tour operators without success

 

I am in a state of panic so close to sailing without any planned excursions

 

Thanks in advance for saving my sanity

[br00ke]

If you need a guide in Maui, I have used Steve at http://www.mauicustomtours.com

He did a great job arranging a tour to meet our needs. We were travelling with 2 little children (6months and 3 years).

We saw so much in one day.

[apeller]

Just posted this in another thread. We used Rickystours.com in Hilo. He was a great guide, with a clean van, and very reasonably priced. The tour we did included:

 

Hilo Tour

*Banyan Drive

*Liliuokalani Garden

*Rainbow Falls

*Macadamia Nut Co.

*Akatsuka Orchid Garden

*Black Sand Beach (Richardson Ocean Beach Park)

 

Volcano National Park

*Steam Vents

*Jaggar Museum

*Halemaumau Crater (home of our volcano fire goddess and also the main vent of Kilauea volcano for the past 100 years)

*1982 Lava Flow

*Keanakakoi Crater

*Thurston Lava Tube

*Kilauea Iki Crater