Road to Hana Maui GyPSy Guide Reviews

We decided to drive ourselves- we heard mixed reviews about this. Definitely must be careful as the road are narrow and one lane at times and bI personally wouldn’t want to drive them at night. So make your trip start as early as possible- the point is to see and enjoy this beautiful island!! If you want a longer trip why not spend the night in Hana.
We started a little late and took our time. The information on RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide is excellent!! The recommendations totally help you pick and choose what to see. We loved a hike up to a waterfall early in the trip which was pretty tough hike!! There were definitely easier and bigger ones to see without this hike😂I don’t regret it but for sure every piece of advice on RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide was excellent! This is a great way to get all the info you need in the comfort of your own car sat your own pace!! We thoroughly enjoyed listening to the history of Hawaii on the return trip. We got within 6 mi of Hana and decided to return-having seen the beauty but realizing that it gets dark fairly early. Next time maybe we will do a reverse trip to Hana and see the other end. Excellent advice and presentation in every way!!!Fun and less expensive. Follow the advice given- drive cautiously and an easy doable trip!! Loved it.
Loved all the stops- a tad disappointed with the marketplace stop for food. Found it average or less than average. Coffee there great!!

This was hands down the highlight of our trip to Maui. Read about GyPSy on several blogs and the $5 we paid for this particular tour was worth 10x that. We started the day before the sunrise and I can’t tell you enough to start early. We felt like we were the only car on the road for pretty much the entire way up. We took our time and enjoyed all the stops and scenery. There are a ton on blogs out there to tell you all about the stops so I’m not going to bore you now but really appreciated the guide in RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide telling us about all the best places and when not to waste our time. Found my coconut on the beach exactly where the guide said I would and cracked it open on a sharp lava rock. I drank that sweet coconut water while the surf crashed around my feet. Amazing!!! We went beyond Hana all the way to Oheo Gulch and walked the trail to see the seven sacred pools. After we spent half the day driving up to Oheo Gulch we thought the ride back would be a let down. Let me tell you, IT WAS NOT!! The historical accounting of the human history of Maui was awesome. Our primary takeaway was that it just didn’t pay to be royalty on Maui. Lol.

We stopped at so many places on the way to Hana including the black sand beach that took our breath away. The day we spend with GyPSY was the highlight of our once in a lifetime trip. Don’t miss the opportunity to take this drive and definitely don’t do it without GyPSy. Thanks for a great day!!!!

RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide was recommended by a friend that visited Hawaii. RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide is a must have on the road to Hana. It gives detailed directions and information about the key stops to make in order to see the key attractions along to road. It was amazing to me that the virtual tour guide seemed to know exactly where we were EVEN THOUGH we had NO cell service!!! The tour guide gave us A LOT of history about Hawaii and how things have been developed on the islands since before they were discovered by the Europeans.

I would suggest that perhaps the stops and highlights be pointed out when people make the journey from the rougher side of the mountain. My group did this intending to stop at some spots that we had missed the previous day journeying to Hana up the narrated side but missed them because they were not mentioned when traveling the road in reverse.

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide if you want to get a REAL HAWAII experience!!! It is WELL WORTH whatever fee they are charging for it.

The road is a bit stressful with tight turns, tourists with varying degrees of skill/courtesy and locals zipping through. This guide took a lot of stress and guesswork out of our trip. Not only does he tell you the best stop to make he also warned you when you need to really pay attention to the road. Suggested the option for music in the background like relaxing Hawaiian music would be perfect. That way when he’s not talking you don’t think you might have lost the audio which actually happened to us several times. So happy we downloaded RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide and very much enjoyed the history lesson too! My only subjective comment is the pools(last stop) wasn’t worth the time/price compared to all the free splendor along the way. Not mad we did it but won’t do that pert again. MAHALO!!!

Buy it and stop searching! This will be the best money spent on your trip. We did the road to Hana on June 18, 2018 and the Gypsy Guide was awesome. We had done the trip 11 years earlier and there was no comparison. It gives a lot of very relevant advice based on where you are and also helps plan ahead by laying out choices down the road and helps pick where to stop and what to skip based on how early in the day it is. On the ride back you get a very interesting history of Maui that makes the long ride back actually enjoyable. Make sure you hook up sound to car stereo. Most rentals have Bluetooth you can pair with. Bring a charging cable and cigarette lighting adapter. battery will drain fast with RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide. Our rental ford had a USB port but it created a conflict with bluetooth so sound wouldnt come out. I used the cigarette lighting adaptor for power instead of the usb port in the car to fix that.

My husband and I are still in Maui- we literally just got back from driving the Road to Hana - and I had to leave this review! Amazing narration, direction and motivation to keep going on the Road to Hana. Mahalo Mike as we named the magical voice that told us stories, gave us perfect and precise turn by turn directions and just simply added so much value to what could have been a very complicated and frustrating day of trying to figure out a map and not missing turns. PS: it’s not like it’s a quick uturn when you miss it, either. Hello, one lane bridges! There is no cell service for many parts of the drive and as a passenger who gets really motion sick (this is not an easy drive- but worth the rally!) it would have been impossible to navigate successfully. Plus, who doesn’t want the feeling of a personal tour guide- who seemed to know exactly what you wanted!!

okay, I never do reviews unless something went drastically wrong. 🤷🏾‍♂️
RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide is amazing. We just used it today and"George" (that's what we named the voice) was incredible. I saw so impressed by the locational accuracy even we weren't using data. His suggestions were PERFECT. We made it to three of the five places on his"must see" list and they were ABSOLUTELY must see. Plugged him into the car audio. Music automatically lowers when he speaks. LOVED the commentary and Island history strategically placed on the return drive. He tried just enough--not too much.
Safety suggestions were extremely helpful. RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide is well priced. 6 bucks for your own periodical your guide?!
Guys, if you are making the drive, RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide is A NO BRAINER. do everything he suggests and you'll make the best memories and see the BEST sites without wasting your time! Even his food reconnections were awesome! Well done to the creators. Thks for an awesome time!

I seriously did not expect RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide to be this good. Beach hats off to the developer as it couldn’t been better. We felt like we had a tour guide in the vehicle as the guide was spot on as we drove from one mile marker to the next. If you are concerned where to stop or if you have time to stop at certain locations no need to worry about it as the guide would let you know how you are doing on time. It felt like app was listening to our conversation as we would ask each other questions and RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide would cover it for example we wanted to know what was the squirrel like animal we kept seeing around and it was answered during the audio tour. This seems to like the way to go I would like to see more of this in other parts of the world. I highly recommend it. Not only I but my husband that doesn’t typically give compliments.

I found RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide through a recommendation from a blog post about the Road to Hana and I am so glad that we used it! It was so helpful and really allowed us to enjoy the journey much more than if we would have had to follow a map and watch for the best points of interest ourselves. We were truly amazed by how great of an app this was - it worked wonderfully without cell service (which is a majority of the drive), told us what we could skip and recommended must see stops, and even had a sense of humor- which gave RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide a much more human feel.
Like others have said, a couple things do need to be updated like the caves being closed and we weren't able to find the vanilla bourbon toasted coconut it recommended (it would have made a great souvenir for someone back home). But overall, superior app - I'll actually be sharing RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide with our travel agent so she can recommend it to future Maui travelers!

Okaaaay! I might be a tiny bit dramatic; but not really. I am so incredibly grateful to have downloaded RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide. I ended up doing the trip solo but I was okay with that! I am an adventurous soul. I ended up finishing a long drive (that started at 6:30 am) around 3.15 pm at Haleakala doing the Oheo pools and the epic waterfall hike. Anyway; scarfing down food in the parking lot at 6:15 pm I knew I’d be heading home in the dark. I had no idea how treacherous and dangerous it would be. I was facing a 3.5 hour drive back. A few close calls as the rain poured down. I was comforted only by the stories he told on my entire ride back. I was distracted from my fear of plunging to my death, crashing head on with people driving the opposite direction and getting lost which I somehow find myself doing more than I’d like to admit. I felt like I had a co pilot and friend with me. Thank you for this wonderful experience and helping me through the long drive back home!!!

This was 10x better than doing a booked tour. The tour guide is fun to listen to and really informative. Tells you best places to stop and places you can skip over and even tells you how much time to spend at each place. Really informative and is as if you’re hearing it right from a local (I think he is local). They track your location so it automatically picks up where you are and tells you what’s coming up and where to park or pull off and knows when you start driving again. It’s literally like having a local in the car with you! Definitely download ahead of time before you lose service on the road. You don’t need to to do the back road home, it’s not worth it!
He tells you the stops on the way up Hana and gives you the history on the way home which is awesome to hear. Definitely should rent a car and listen to this over paying for an in person guided tour. 100% recommend!

We happened to talk to a couple the night before leaving for The Road to Hana and they recommended RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide. Throughout the trip we constantly said to eachother “aren’t you so glad we have RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide?” My wife and I are already fairly indecisive and when driving it’s compounded. Had we not had prior warning to upcoming attractions we would have been constantly turning around (no easy feat on this road!) and circling back or arguing about whether it was necessary. So much good info and guidance about when to stop and what we could miss. We left the resort area at 6:15 AM and returned to our condo at 11:00 PM! Included was a 2 hour Pīpīwei hike at the end of the day. We stopped a lot, based on the recommendations, and we didn’t feel that we wasted one second of our almost 17 hour day!! The only stop we made that we didn’t feel lived up to the hype on which Greg (we named the guide Greg) bestowed it was the Waikamoi Ridge Trail. It’s early on the road and we were eager to hike. It was .8 miles, hard to park for, muddy and offered basically no views due to vegetation growth. The view from the roadside park was excellent, no need to hike, it just wastes time. Other than that, we were never steered wrong, and maybe the vegetation gets cut back regularly. Overall I would recommend RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide to anyone making this trek, I can’t imagine what it would have been without Greg’s help!

I was hesitant at first about purchasing RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide. I wanted to experience Maui and all it had to offer however I visited post covid April 2021 with my teenage daughter. Unfortunately all the excursions were completely sold out including all of the road to Hana excursions. I can easily fall asleep and get dizzy if the roads get to winding or boring ride unbeknownst to me this was perhaps the best investment I made and it was worth 100 times more than what I purchased for. It lead me directly to all of the best spots and it also read the history of Hawaii,,, I couldn’t wait for RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide to continue to talk while driving. My biggest mistake was waiting for the last day to use RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide as I heard there are other trips he navigates you too. The only issue that I did have was that he wasn’t specific as to what time the last park was opened til... we reached it at 430 however it closed at 5, we had no choice to bypass the last park due to it closing soon after ...You will not be disappointed!!!

RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide was amazing! We had been on the road before 19 years ago but we wanted to retrace our steps. However, the Road to Hana has always been know to be dangerous and unpredictable (just like life). So we saw the ad and looked at reviews. They all seemed good and for $7 seemed like a fair price especially when tours can go up to $120 per person! So we went on the tour and it was amazing! I had read that RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide goes on low power mode when it hasn’t been used in a while so when we stopped I exited RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide to save battery and turned it back on when we were off again, it would restart the sound check and it would take a bit to track the current location. I could see how that’s annoying but I honestly it wasn’t a bother to us. There are various stops they suggest and on the return the guide tells you history about the Hawaiian islands which was really cool. We were driving back at night so it was nice. One detail that would have been nice is if it was narrated by a native Hawaiian.

Our hotel concierge service recommended RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide, stating that it will save a few hundred bucks over a guided tour company. Was skeptical but downloaded it and drove to Hana from Lahaina. I had Google maps running in the foreground, music app and this guide in the background. As soon as we started approaching the town of Paia, the guide (we called him Hanatard 😀) came on, and was with us for nearly 11 hours on the way to and return from Hana. We even went past Hana to the Sacred Pools and Hannatard walked us through that section as well. In addition to the the top 5 (there are a lot more) stops that he recommended, he walked us step by step on all the turns, parking spots, even some of the snack and dining areas. On our return from Hana, he gave a fascinating history lesson about Hawaii. The only small complaint that we have is that the music will not pause when he comes on which can be a bit annoying. Overall we HIGHLY RECOMMEND RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide for those taking the Road to Hana! Well done indeed!!

I’d read good things about RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide but I was still skeptical, especially since our rental Jeep didn’t have Bluetooth so I was concerned about sound quality/volume. I also had no frame of reference for the drive except that it is either tremendously dangerous or a total breeze. RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide made the experience. It would have no doubt been a beautiful drive without it, but it would have been STRESSFUL. How to know where or when to pull over. Or if you’ll have a better view on the return. How can you expect to remember all the trivia as you drive even if you researched thoroughly beforehand. The guide was great. The volume through the phone speakers more than sufficient even with windows down. I honestly think the drive would have been a let down in some respects without RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide. We would have felt like we must have missed some spots. Or run out of time. The whole family loved the narrator and the trip was spectacular. Only note: make certain you have means of keeping the phone charged throughout the drive. This will eat your battery even without using any data.

I didn’t know what to expect. My wife and I drove the road to Hana 21 years ago and are now back in Maui with our 20 year old son and 17 year old daughter. The tape (cassette) that we bought in 2001 was good. Gave us points to stop and we were able to follow along, but this? Fantastic!!

I drove the entire way. I downloaded the Gypsy Guide Road to Hana and didn’t know what to do, so just hit play. It automatically synced up with a map and all I had to do was follow. I could stop, get out of the car, close RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide and re-open it and it would use my location and not skip a beat. The guide was like having someone in your car with you and he had personality to match! He made it very easy and pointed out the must stops, the you can stop but not necessary and the just skip those. Even added in some interesting knowledge to the trip with dad jokes and all. When we returned back from our trip to Hana it felt like we lost a friend!

Great job Gypsy Guide! Will use you again for other trips and actually looking forward to telling all of our friends!!

I have never wrote an app review but I had to take the time to write this one! We were blow away how nice it was to have commentary exactly timed for when you drive by. We named the guy, “Mac” and he just became apart of our trip like a real personal tour guide would! He isn’t stuffy or boring and sounds like a guide you would here at Disney World. Light and fun! The part we loved was on our way back when it was dark and all you wanted to do was be done and out of the car and the awfultwists and turns, but having “Mac” kept us distracted with stories and history. History that didn’t bore my kids either! It was fascinating actually! One more thing we loved was that at each stopping place he would tell us not just what was there but tell us honestly if it was really worth stopping or not to save us time. We didn’t listen once and went on a hike that was uneventful and just okay after he warned us, we got back in the car and said, “we should of listened to you Mac!”😂 He also lets us know approximately how much time to spend at each place, which we loved so we could get to it all! Loved RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide ! Will buy any other apps they make so we can here from Mac again! Thank you! Well done!!!

App provides a great narrated/guided journey to Hana. It took all the stress and confusion out of the trip and allowed us to focus on the journey and easily pick the stops we wanted to make. Some suggestions: subtle Hawaiian music during times he’s not talking. If you’re syncing to your car audio you can’t follow app and play music at same time. Would make a more immersive experience. Though I liked the ride home Hawaii history narration, it would have been nice to re pepper in some point of interest call outs as you pass them - kind of as a reminder. Something like: “passing once again such ‘n such falls on your left.” The history telling just became a little monotonous and the little ones in the car were a little taken by all the graphic accounts from the story. Mommy, why did that king stab his wife...??? What’s polygamy daddy? Would you like to have 10 wives? Sure thing kiddo... isn’t Hawai’i great! For those making this trip, one regret I had was bringing food. Wish I could have hit the roadside food stands on an empty stomach. Also, if I had to do again I would skip every stop and do his last “must-see” points of interest first (at the end of the road) and work my way backwards picking places to stop based on what time I wanted to get home. On our way out, most all the falls were nearly empty whereas when we were going TO Hana everything was crazy full.

Me and my family loved RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide! Now I’m not the type of person to ever pay $6 for an app, but trust me it’s so worth it. It worked perfectly for us and we really felt like we made the most of our trip to Hana. Hana road seemed totally overwhelming, especially since it would be so easy to drive past something amazing without even noticing. RoadtoHanaMauiGyPSyGuide did an awesome job of letting us know what we needed to see, what we could probably skip, and lots of awesome info about each place. There was so much we would have missed had it not been for our guide. Every side adventure is well worth a small detour. It was just like having a tour guide in our car but we were free to go at our own pace and did just what interested us. On the way back we got awesome commentary about the history of Hawaii. If I could give more stars I would.