Kauai

Top Kauai activities

Kauai: Hawaii Movie Tours

Badge of ExcellenceKauai, USA

From $172.00

Select Date and Travelers

up to 24 hours before the experience starts (local time)

6 hours
Pickup offered
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

Explore our promoted experiences

Kauai, Hawaii

Waimea Canyon & Na Pali Driving Tour app

from $19.99

Per group

Kauai, Hawaii

Kauai North Shore Private Guided Tour with Hotel or Port Pick-up

from $1,106.33

Price varies by group size

Kauai, Hawaii

Kauai Highlights Small Group Tour. A taste of the South & West

from $225.13

Viator earns higher commissions on experiences featured here

Overview

See the Garden Island through a filmmaker’s lens on this full-day tour of Kauai’s most famous movie locations. Travel aboard a comfortable minibus to the beaches, towns, waterfalls, and lookout points that you may recognize from movies like ‘Tropic Thunder,’ ‘Castaway’ and ‘Jurassic Park.’ Watch clips on board the bus, and then compare the Hollywood scenes to the breathtaking beauty right before your eyes.

Full-day tour of Kauai's famous film and TV locations
See dozens of island shooting locations immortalized in films and TV shows
Travel in an air-conditioned minibus and watch movie clips on board
Stop at many beaches, towns and valleys to snap photos and hear tales from the set

What's Included

Hotel pickup from select hotels

Gratuities

Meeting and Pickup

Pickup points

Select a pickup point

Start time

07:00 AM

Pickup details

· Hotel Pickups: 7:00 AM – 8:15 AM · Hotel Returns: 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

What To Expect

Wailua Falls

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Hanamaulu Beach

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Opaekaa Falls

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Wailua River State Park (Pass By)

Kapa'a Town Park Circle (Pass By)

Kalalea Mountain (Pass By)

'Aliomanu Beach Parking (Pass By)

Kīlauea Lighthouse

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Hanalei Valley (Pass By)

Hanalei Pier

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking, unless booked within 2 days of travel. In this case confirmation will be received within 48 hours, subject to availability
Not wheelchair accessible
Stroller accessible
Near public transportation
Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
Pickup from Poipu is an additional $10.00 charge per person.
This Tour has No Service from the Hanalei / Princeville Area's
ADA Accessible, Due to limited availability, we require that ADA vehicle reservations be made a minimum of 48 hours prior to date and time of service. We will make all reasonable attempts to accommodate the needs of the disabled traveler.
For electric wheelchairs or scooters: The combined weight of the wheelchair and guest cannot exceed 500 lbs, the maximum width of the wheelchair cannot exceed 29 inches.

Not all stops on this tour are ADA accessible
Due to accessibility restrictions we are unable able to deploy a vehicle wheelchair lift at the following location: o Moloaa Bay – Gilligan’s Island · Stops may include sandy, uneven or unpaved paths not ideal for ADA accessibility.
Due to accessibility restrictions we are unable able to deploy a vehicle wheelchair lift at the following location: o Moloaa Bay – Gilligan’s Island · Stops may include sandy, uneven or unpaved paths not ideal for ADA accessibility.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Guests will need to sign a waiver to enter Coco Palms.
Children under the age of 4 are FREE and must be seated on an adult's lap. If you require a seat for a child under the age of 4, the above rate will be applicable.
A minimum of 6 adults are need for the tour to operate
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 22 travelers

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.

Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.

Traveler Photos

Reviews

5.0

108 reviews

Total review count and overall rating based on Viator and Tripadvisor reviews

Reviews by Viator travelers.

We perform checks on reviews

Showing 1-10 of 108 reviews

Educational

Monica_P, Apr 2024

I really enjoyed the story about "Puff the Magic Dragon" origins. Also the video on the hurricane interesting to watch.

Response from Host, May 2024

Aloha Monica, I'm glad you enjoyed the tour. This tour beings back a lot of memories for our movie buffs. See you again soon on one of our many tours. Mahalo,

Fun and beautiful tour, highly recommend!

Bianca_S, Apr 2024

My family and I enjoyed the movie tour and seeing the island, it was beautiful. Highly recommend and family friendly.

Response from Host, Apr 2024

Aloha Bianca, Mahalo for your wonderful review. We appreciate your time and complements. Kauai is my favorite Island. Mahalo again,

First Tour For Your Vacation!

Jacqueline_O, Mar 2024

We are not really tour bus people, but we are indeed movie buffs so we decided to embark on this tour! So, so worth it! We just loved hearing the stories surrounding movie making on Kauai and seeing clips to align with what we were seeing! Andrew is an engaging guide, fun to listen to, and super knowledgeable! This is an excellent early vacation tour as it orients you to the whole island of Kauai!!! (Sandy, our driver, was amazing!)

Response from Host, Mar 2024

Aloha Jacqueline, Mahalo for sharing your wonderful experience with us. Enjoy the rest of your stay. Aloha.

Relaxing & Entertaining Tour

Drinda_B, Jan 2024

After action packed tours, we selected this tour for the end of our vacation. This tour was relaxing, entertaining, and just fun. The tour guide Andy supplemented with his personal stories which enriched the experience. This tour was also an effective method of seeing most of the island. I would definitely recocommend!

Response from Host, Feb 2024

Aloha Drinda, We appreciate you sharing your experience with us. Mahalo for your compliments about Andy' enhancing the tours experience. Enjoy your rest of your time on the Garden Island of Kauai. Aloha

Awesome Movie Tour of Kauai

Wendy_M, Dec 2023

This was one of the best tours - Andrew our guide was knowledgeable, animated, friendly and had a nice speaking AND singing voice. Watching movie clips of films that had been made on the island of Kauai brought a certain closeness to the locations we were at. Up close and personal. Still can’t believe the man who jumped off one of the waterfalls only to miraculously survive and get banned from ever returning to the island. Andrew was brought up on the island and lived on one of the sugar plantations. He explained so much about the history of Kauai which is very cool. Sandy was our driver and she was also incredible maneuvering the smaller size bus to solaces bigger buses couldn’t get to - lots of one-lane bridges. This tour gets ***** FIVE STARS Mahalo

Response from Host, Dec 2023

Aloha Wendy, Mahalo for sharing your wonderful experience with us. We are blessed to have Andrew on our team. He enjoys sharing his aloha nd knowledge of the Kauai The Garden Island. Thank you also for your compliments regarding Sandy driving. Aloha ,

Not at all what we...

Ronald_M, Oct 2023

Not at all what we expected. Description not at all what the tour was like . Too many unnecessary stops.

Response from Host, Nov 2023

Aloha Ronald, We appreciate all comments and apologies that we didn't meet your expectations. Please contact me at sightnsea@robertshawaii.com. I would like you input regarding unnecessary stops , so we can improve out tour. Mahalo,

Great Movie tour. Highly Recommend

Stephen_A, Oct 2023

We have been coming to Kaua’i for around 20 years and haven’t seen some of the places your tour took us. It was great fun and Andrew and Sandy did a great job showing and telling us about Kauai movies done here. It really helped seeing the movies on screen as we were in each place. Hope to see Coco Palms come back to life. Thank you❤️

Response from Host, Oct 2023

Aloha Stephen, Mahlo for your wonderful review and sharing your experience with us. Mahalo,

great experience and...

Mike_G, Oct 2023

great experience and knowledgeable guide. Love the movie clips and having he experience to see the site where it was filmed.

Response from Host, Oct 2023

Aloha Mike, We appreciated you sharing your wonderful experience. Enjoy the rest of your stay on the beautiful Garden Island of Kauai. Mahalo,

Loved all the movies!

Alice_C, Oct 2023

History of the island. Open back up the Coco Palms…sad that the government is stopping opening up such a fabulous memory!

Response from Host, Oct 2023

Aloha Alice, we appreciate your review and will pass it forward. Mahalo,

A must for movie buffs!

Sarah_S, Oct 2023

Ray and Andrew are so much fun! Andrew knew so many fun movie trivia facts and Ray did great driving around the island! This is a must for any movie buff. They take you to filming location hot spots and stop for lunch in their local town.

Response from Host, Oct 2023

Aloha Sarah, Thank you for your compliments. Ray and Andrew are a great team and love sharing the knowledge with Aloha. Mahalo,

Great rour

Evelyn_B, Oct 2023

Andrew was an excellent guide. He had lots of great information about the movies and the history of Kauai.

Response from Host, Oct 2023

Aloha Evelyn, Andrew loves sharing his knowledge about the movies and locations on Kauai. He embellishes the aloha spirit. Mahalo for your review,

Excellent tour guide

Kelly_F, Oct 2023

The tour guide Andrew was wonderful!! He was funny and informative and kept us entertained!! The only negative was by the time we stopped for lunch we were STARVING!! Would recommend bringing a snack

Response from Host, Oct 2023

Aloha Kelly, We appreciate your wonderful review. Thank you for sharing Andrew's humor. I'll make sure Andrew gets a copy of your review. Mahalo,

Excellent and fun!

Felisa_D, Oct 2023

Such a beautiful day and fun tour! Andrew was fantastic! Not only did I learn interesting things about movies but got to see a lot of the Island and learn a lot about it! Saw things I wouldn’t even know were her! Highly recommend this tour!!

Response from Host, Oct 2023

Aloha Felisa, Mahalo for your sharing your wonderful experience with Andrew. Enjoy the rest of your stay. Aloha,

Wonderful Tour Experience!

Judy_M, Oct 2023

Our tour guide was so very knowledgeable, patient, and polite. Our driver was excellent, maneuvering narrow roads and tight places with the utmost skill.

Response from Host, Oct 2023

Aloha Judy, Mahalo for your excellent review. I'm happy to hear that you enjoyed the complete tour. Aloha

Was very knowledgeable...

Kirsten_L, Oct 2023

Was very knowledgeable and the spots we stopped were beautiful. It was fun to see the movies along the way

Response from Host, Oct 2023

Aloha Kristen, Thank you for sharing your beautiful experience us, We appreciate your time. Hope to see you again soon. Mahalo,

Great tour!

SUSAN_C, Oct 2023

Our tour was great, the guide Anthony or Andrew,? Was awesome very knowledgeable, and quite enjoyable.

I would recommend this trip to everyone. So much fun.

Theressa_M, Sep 2023

Everything was so memorable. There was so much information that I had never known. All of the sights were so beautiful. Good was very entertaining as well.

Response from Host, Sep 2023

Aloha Theressa, Thank you for sharing your memorable experience on our Kauai Movie Tour. Your comments are appreciated. Mahalo,

it was a great tour with...

Manuel_R, Sep 2023

it was a great tour with an extremely knowledgeable host! I did not know about the history of the coco palms and the 1992 hurricane. The highlight for me was taking a photo with a 1992 Jurrassic Park Crew Badge!

Response from Host, Sep 2023

Aloha Manuel, I happy to hear that you enjoy our tour. Thank you for your excellent review. Mahalo,

If you love movies new and old- great tour

Teresa_D, Jun 2023

The tour guide and driver were awesome. Learned so much about the island! Beautiful scenery. The two things you need to do to receive 5 stars are as follows: We were harassed as a group at the Gillian’s island stop. Very very h comfortable and just wanted to leave- zero enjoyment and a bit scary. Also one hour in Hanalei- was so rushed. Hardly had time to finish lunch and no time to look around. You have to consider that at that time, others arrive, restaurants are busy. It would have been nice to have at least an extra half hour.

Response from Host, Jun 2023

Aloha Teresa, Thank you for your review and recommendations to improve our tour. Also, I'm looking into what happen at your Gilligan's Island stop. Thank you for bringing this to our attention and we can address the situation.

Great Tour

John_B, May 2023

The Movie Tour was excellent and well worth the price and vacation time spent (about 6 ½ hours all told). Andrew grew up in Kauai and is an excellent narrator about island history and the movies that were filmed in Kauai. The tour starts with clips from the many movies filmed or developed here, including animated movies. The one where everybody jumped or gasped was “Dino Croc”. There are stops at some of the most notable natural sites on Kauai including waterfalls and views of the inland mountains with specific references to associated movie scenes such as Raiders of the Lost Ark. Andrew’s background knowledge is great here. For example, we learn that Harrison Ford was not actually used in some scenes, but local talent (a friend of Andrew’s) was substituted at lower cost. We also want to complement Claude, our driver of the minibus, who navigated us safely through the narrow upland roads (we were glad that we left our Hertz rental at the hotel and let Claude do the driving). For lunch, there is one hour, and the restaurants are crowded. You might want to think about packing lunch, although there are a number of small places, BUT leave time for Jojo’s Shave Ice, particularly the coconut, macadamia nut ice over their ice cream (line 4 on their menu). After lunch, there are no more stops until Lihue, but there is a GREAT video (a joint venture between the Weather Channel and the cast of Jurassic Park) of the 1992 hurricane Iniki. It is a PREMIER highlight of the tour. The good thing about a movie tour is that it takes you back in time and you see the context of the past. This tour really gives that perspective. John & Debbie

Response from Host, May 2023

Aloha John B. Words cannot express our appreciation for your excellent review. Andrew and Claude make a great team. Both enjoy what they do and sharing their love for Kauai. Mahalo, until we meet again,

...