Van taxies in HI?

[Frogso]

We were originally considering renting a van at each port in HI but now with the price of gas we thought we might just use taxies. Our problem is that there are 6 of us travelling together. In most of the Carribean there have always been vans as well as sedans used as taxis. Are there van taxies in Hawaii?

[spleen93]

There are but as you might imagine, they're not as common as regular taxis. If you require a van, you might want to call ahead and request one to be waiting for you.

 

Spleen

[Middleager]

We just came back from Hawaii a couple of days ago, from a cruise on NCL Wind.

 

In most places we booked rental vans and got really good prices. Alamo had $40/day in many places. The price of gas was around $3, and the most we paid was in Maui on the road to Hana, at $3.24. After hurrican Katrina, we saw in CNN news that some places on the US mainland had prices of >$4/gallon, but in Hawaii, the prices did not seem to go up very much. On Sat.-Sun. Sept. 3-4, the prices in Oahu (we drove many places in Oahu) were mostly $2.95.

 

If you are only going very short distances then you may try a van taxi, and risk not getting one. Booking a rental van might be the safer bet.