Maui to Oahu: Pearl Harbor WWII Tour & USS Battleship

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A Day on Oahu: Four Pearl Harbor Sites, One Flight from Maui

You fly from Maui to Honolulu, spend a full day at four Pearl Harbor attractions — the Arizona Memorial, Aviation Museum, USS Bowfin Submarine, and Battleship Missouri — with a professional guide leading you through each one. Lunch and all entry fees are included, plus your round-trip airfare and airport transport. You're back in Maui by evening.

14h

Step-by-step itinerary

Pearl Harbor WWII Heroes Tour

Fly from Maui to Honolulu
Explore exhibits and harbor displays
Visit USS Arizona Memorial
Tour Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum
Visit USS Bowfin Submarine Museum
Tour Battleship Missouri Memorial
Return flight to Maui

The Experience

You're sitting in your Maui hotel with an afternoon free, and someone at the front desk mentions you could actually see Pearl Harbor in a day — the real sites, not just photos. The driver picks you up early, takes you to Kahului Airport, and you're on a short inter-island flight to Honolulu before you've finished your coffee. By mid-morning you're standing at the USS Arizona Memorial, looking out at the water where 1,102 sailors rest. The Visitor Center has exhibits you can move through at your own pace, and if the National Park has boat launch tickets available that day, you'll take the shuttle out to the memorial itself; if not, you see it clearly from the shoreline. Either way, it's quiet and deliberate — not rushed.

After that you move through the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, where you walk among restored WWII aircraft and see the history of what happened here laid out in the hangars. Then there's the USS Bowfin Submarine, a working museum where you actually board and move through the narrow corridors — it's cramped and real in a way that makes the stories stick. Your guide narrates the whole day, connecting the pieces so you understand not just what you're looking at but why it matters. Lunch is included, and by early afternoon you're back at the Battleship Missouri, where Japan signed the surrender that ended the war. You stand on the deck where it happened.

The flight back to Kahului leaves you in Maui by evening. Round-trip airfare, all four entry fees, transportation from Honolulu Airport, and lunch are already in the price — you don't arrange any of it yourself. Just bring your ID in your pocket (no bags allowed on Ford Island, which is an active military base), wear shoes and a shirt, and show up. The whole day is about seven or eight hours on Oahu, but it covers the sites most people only read about.

What’s included

Your day includes round-trip airfare from Kahului, Maui to Honolulu, pick-up and drop-off at Honolulu International Airport, professional guide narration throughout, admission to the USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, USS Bowfin Submarine Museum, and Battleship Missouri Memorial, plus lunch.

Good to know

Easy physical levelWheelchair accessibleAccessible transportStroller friendlyPets welcomePublic transport nearbyInfants must sit on laps

Operated by Polynesian Adventure Tours

Is this one for you?Book this if you're staying on Maui and want to see the major Pearl Harbor sites without arranging flights, tickets, or transport separately — the all-inclusive format means you show up at your hotel pickup and everything else is handled.