Affiliate Disclosure

This site is free to read because of affiliate commissions. Here is exactly how that works, what it costs you, and what it does and does not change about what you read. The boats themselves are compared on the Oahu boat tours page.

The short version

We may earn a commission if you book through one of our links, at no extra cost to you. You pay the same price you would pay by going to the booking platform directly.

We are not a tour operator or a travel agency. We do not sell tours, take payments or act as an agent for any operator or platform.

Who does what

Every sailing listed here is sold and operated by a third party. On this site that is currently six companies — Hawaii Glass Bottom Boat, Pink Sails Waikiki, E Sea Diver, Hawaii Nautical, Oahu Catamarans LLC and Lahaina Cruise Company's Hawaii Ocean Project — selling through two booking platforms. The operator's name, the platform and the product ID appear on each tour page so you can check the listing yourself.

The operator runs the boat, the platform takes your payment and holds your booking, and both set the price, the inclusions and the cancellation terms. We have no authority to make commitments on their behalf and cannot change, refund or reschedule anything.

What the commission does not buy

Placement, ratings and wording are not for sale, and no operator has paid to appear here or to be described in a particular way.

The practical test is on the pages themselves. The cheapest sailing pays the smallest commission and gets recommended for exactly what it is. The most expensive sailing on the site carries its most critical quotes — a crowded reef, a deli-wrap lunch, and a cancellation handled badly — because travellers wrote them and they are true to the record.

Ratings and reviews

Ratings and review counts are the platforms' own, read on the date shown on each page: from 4.4 to 4.9 across the six boats in August 2026. GetYourGuide figures come from verified bookings; Viator states its figures combine Viator and Tripadvisor reviews, and each page names its source. We do not calculate a site rating of our own, and this site carries no aggregate rating in its markup, because the site has no reviews.

Quoted reviews keep the reviewer's name and travel month as published. We do not write testimonials.

Prices

Prices shown are starting prices at the time of the last check, stated on every tour page: $42.88 to $99 per adult as read in August 2026, with one fare on a 15% deal at the time. They move with season, demand and date. The price that counts is the one on the checkout page before you pay.

Our research process, including how seasons and harbor details are verified, is set out in the editorial methodology.