Kona (Kailua Bay) Cruise Reviews

Port is very clean. Restaurants, shopping all within a several block walk from pier that tender lets passengers off. Some very small beaches close by. There is a swimming area right at the end of pier. Highly recommend lunch at Kona Brewery. The beer is outstanding as well. The wife loved the local quilting shop just off the main drag. Lots of choices there. ...

No car needed here. You can see and do much right off the boat. We rented bikes at BikeWerks- very cheap and fun. We did Alli drive and then rode out to the old airport where there is a huge beach and nobody and a garden of succulents. ...

we went out on our own to shop and explore. Beautiful port. ...

My favorite port was Kailua Bay in Kona on the Big island of Hawaii! ...

Tendered port with Submarine dive and excellent bar / dining directly where the tender arrives. Easily the best port we visited in Hawaii ...

was able to get around the town quite easily and there was a free shuttle ...

We DIY our day so we enjoyed it. Smaller port easy to get around. ...

Lovely place, we went for long walk. ...

We had booked an excursion with HAL to tour Kohala, the northern part of the Big Island. We had driven this route ourselves in prior years and enjoyed the varied landscape of green ranch-lands reminiscent of California, desert-like lava fields, and small towns with stores selling arts and crafts. But HAL canceled this excursion the day we embarked. So we had to content ourselves with walking ...

tender meant that there was NO getting off for FIL. (HINT get your timed Tender tickets the early morning at Pinks)  The rest of us took Ubers to local beaches or wandered the (very) short strip of tourist traps. There was a beach right at the tender drop off and the water looked enticing but I saw no beach umbrellas, so it was more for those that just wanted to swim. Had a drink at a local bar ...