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Helicopters, kayaking and two more itineraries

Helicopter tours, kayaking, happy hour by island, and Maui/Big Island sample itineraries.

Filling out the Do department's adventure end

Two guides that round out activities the site hadn't covered yet: helicopter tours, covering where the premium price is genuinely buying access to otherwise-unreachable scenery, and kayaking, spanning everything from a calm beginner river paddle to a serious open-ocean Nā Pali crossing.

Food: happy hour by island

Happy hour by island is a genuinely practical budget guide disguised as a food page — where the pupus and drink specials actually deliver value, tied directly back to our budget breakdown.

Plan: two more sample itineraries

Following the Oʻahu itinerary from a few updates back, we've published a Maui itinerary (built around the Road to Hana and a Haleakalā sunrise as full-day anchors) and a Big Island itinerary (a deliberate two-base week, since the island is simply too large to commute across daily).

What's next

A Kauaʻi sample itinerary, a ziplining guide, a golf-courses-by-island guide, and a grocery-store/dietary-restrictions guide are next on the board.