O'ahu Hawaii itinerary check

Going with brother and Mom. Mom is 65 years old so trying to avoid any crazy hikes.

Day 0

• Arrive HNL at 10:00 PM
• Head to hotel HHV
• Dinner near hotel (Any recommendations thats open this late? we will probably arrive at the hotel at like 11:30 pm as the plane lands at 10pm)

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Day 1 (Friday)

Early morning:

• 7am Diamond head hike (GoCity Pass. Has transportation)
• Kapi’olani Park (nearby diamond head hike)
• Get supplies needed that we planned on buying instead of packing
• Head back to hotel. Wash up.
• Lunch
• Iolani Palace (GoCity Pass)

Evening:

• Waikiki Beach
• Dinner + fireworks at HHV

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Day 2 (Saturday)

• starts 8am to 12pm Kakaʻako Farmers market early morning (needs to be a Saturday)
• Pearl harbor (Gocity)
• hotel to wash up + quick rest
• meet up for Aloha Kai Luau at HHV bus stop 3:25pm (Gocity. Has transportation. Ends at 9ish)
• head back to waikiki

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Day 3 (Sunday)

• rent car
• Drive to Kailua Town (7am)
• Breakfast/brunch and explore
• Manoa Chocolate for tasting
• Lunch
• Makapu’u hike
• head to waikiki for dinner / explore

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Day 4 (Monday March 2nd)

Mainly a chill day / recover day but I need something we can do at this time before 12:30pm because of a meeting until 3:00pm 12:30 pm head out for meeting (cant miss) ends at 3pm any other ideas thats a quiet relaxing day w/o a car?

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Day 5 (Tuesday)

Early morning

• rent car
• Ocean Voyage Adventure Kualoa Ranch Tour (Gocity pass)

1 of these options

• maybe Kualoa Secret Island Beach (Half-Day) on gocity. (is this worth it?)
• maybe UTV tour (Super dusty and muddy?? NOT on gocity)

early evening before close

• head out for hoomaluhia Garden and Byodin Temple ( garden close at 4pm. temple closes at 4:30pm)
• head back to waikiki

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Day 6 (Wednesday)

• Rent car
• Hanauma bay snorkel (start early. 7am~ish)
• After snorkeling Explore the area
• back to hotel to wash up
• drive over to Kapolei; eat lunch first and check out the area. Eat dinner before heading back to waikiki (Any recommendations on what to do a Kapolei?)

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Day 7 (Thursday)

• Rent car
• Green world coffee farm
• north shore mac nut factory (is there a tasting of some kind we can do here?)
• Waimea Valley hike
• head back to waikiki

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day 8 (Friday)

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day 9 (saturday)

last full day

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day 10 (sunday)

flight at 8:45pm

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couple questions / concerns i had were;

• i want to keep car rental days on the same day as possible. because parking at the HHV is $70/day. so we WONT be parking there. Is there an option where we can do a daily car rental? or an option that DOESNT charge us for parking? (i remember i saw a thread on reddit about it... but i cant find it anymore) how good of an option is Turo?

• on day 1, we first plan to start the day with the diamond head hike. we DONT have reef safe sunscreen. is it ok to use standard sunscreen if we WONT be going into the beach? (plan is to buy reef safe sunscreen and anything else we may need including boardshorts after the hike + Kapi’olani Park before heading back to hotel to wash up)

• any decent place to buy boardshorts we can use for snorkerling, beach activities, lounging at pool, etc?

• Day 4. i have a meeting i CANT miss no matter what that starts at 12:30pm and ends at around 3pm. whats something we can do before then, as well as after? should we move some other things around from other days to this day?

• for day 5, i think this is a tricky day? we plan on starting the day with the Ocean voyage thats on gocity pass. as early as possible (i think thats 8:40am) i heard good things about the UTV tour but my mom is not a fan. but also she has asthma and everyones saying its super dusty. i am also not a fan of the though of it being super dusty. nor it being very muddy. especially since its not going to be the end of our day. So instead, we're thinking of doing the Kualoa Secret Island beach half day thats on gocity. is this worth it?

• with day 5, will we have enough time to check out Hoomaluhia garden and byodin temple since they close at 4pm? (Either Ocean voyage tour + Haflday secret island tour. or Ocean voyage tour + 1hour UTV tour. the latter definitely seems possible. but not sure about the first option.)

• day 6 any recommendations on what to check out / do at Kapolei?

• based on this schedule, we still have 2 full days left. there are some things i left out on a list of things we looked up for hawaii. but wondering if we should just leave it blank? i assume some things will go out of whack and everything wont necessarily go according to plan. so having 2 days buffer seems fine?