Skip to content
  • Home
  • About Tara
    • Bucket List
    • Find Me Elsewhere
    • What’s In My Suitcase?
  • Destinations
    • Asia
      • Indonesia
      • Israel
      • Japan
      • Maldives
      • Sri Lanka
      • The Philippines
      • Thailand
    • Europe
      • Eastern Europe
        • Czech Republic
      • Northern Europe
        • Denmark
        • Finland
        • Iceland
        • Sweden
        • Ireland
        • UK
      • Southern Europe
        • Croatia
        • Portugal
        • Italy
      • Western Europe
        • Germany
        • Holland
        • Austria
    • North America
      • USA
      • Canada
      • Cuba
      • Aruba
    • Oceania
      • Australia
      • New Zealand
    • South America
      • Brazil
      • Peru
  • Travel Resources
  • Life
    • Art
    • Health & Beauty
    • Life in General
  • Tech
  • Contact
    • Work With Me
    • Privacy Policy
    • Disclosure
  • Home
  • About Tara
    • Bucket List
    • Find Me Elsewhere
    • What’s In My Suitcase?
  • Destinations
    • Asia
      • Indonesia
      • Israel
      • Japan
      • Maldives
      • Sri Lanka
      • The Philippines
      • Thailand
    • Europe
      • Eastern Europe
        • Czech Republic
      • Northern Europe
        • Denmark
        • Finland
        • Iceland
        • Sweden
        • Ireland
        • UK
      • Southern Europe
        • Croatia
        • Portugal
        • Italy
      • Western Europe
        • Germany
        • Holland
        • Austria
    • North America
      • USA
      • Canada
      • Cuba
      • Aruba
    • Oceania
      • Australia
      • New Zealand
    • South America
      • Brazil
      • Peru
  • Where Is Tara?

  • Travel Resources
  • Life
    • Art
    • Health & Beauty
    • Life in General
  • Tech
  • Contact
    • Work With Me
    • Privacy Policy
    • Disclosure
North America

How to be a Tourist in Hawaii

How to be a Tourist in Hawaii
Sharing is caring
          

This post (probably) contains affiliate links, including Amazon Associates links, and I may receive a small commission if you make a purchase after clicking through one. This is at no extra cost to you and allows the site to keep running! Thanks for understanding.

tourist in hawaii, where is tara povey top irish travel blog

ALOHA! Soooo as you may know, I spent a few weeks in Hawaii last month. I guess that qualifies me to teach you how to become the PERFECT tourist in Hawaii.

But first things first, I hope you will understand that this article is made for those with a sense of humour. If you don’t have one, I don’t know how you found my site, but I suggest you leave it now.

For the rest of you amazing folk, here we go, a step by step guide to being a tourist in Hawaii.

1) If possible, be Japanese (not racist, just factual).

2) If you cannot be Japanese, be white, retired and loaded.

3) Extra bonus points if you can arrange it so that you are also on your honeymoon.

4) Make sure you pay extra to be greeted with a Lei. Wear this at all times.

5) Make sure you purchase a Hawaiian shirt. Wear it for entire trip. Never wear again.

6) You MUST rent either a JEEP or a soft top mustang. Nothing else will do!

7) If you go for the soft top, don’t forget to leave the top down even when it’s pouring rain.

8) Drive EXTREMELY slowly on roads so that you can take photos of the beautiful views and hold up all the locals trying to get to work/home.

9) If you can’t rent a car make sure you get one of those tourist trams around town. A lot of them are Japanese only, which is fine because you’re probably Japanese.

10) Buy a shave ice. Make sure you call it SHAVED ice.

11) Don’t eat shave ice, just take a million photos with the shave ice until it melts.

12) Stay ONLY in Waikiki Beach

13) If you venture outside of Waikiki it must ONLY be to a resort or to see a luau

14) Take a photo with the statue of The Duke on Waikiki beach

15) Never wear sunscreen. Sunburn is your trophy from your trip!

16) Make sure you have a surf lesson and use the shaka symbol copiously. Tell everyone you have the “aloha spirit”. The locals will accept you as one of their own.

17) Don’t forget to talk about how much you “feel the waves, man”.

18) Drink nothing but Mai Tai cocktails.

19) Make sure you only visit Oahu, Maui or Kauai. Sure, aren’t those the only ones?!

20) Sing the Jurassic Park theme tune every time you see a mountain.

Got all that? Perfect! You now know everything you could ever need to be the perfect(ish) tourist in Hawaii.

Seriously though, if you ever visit Hawaii your eyes will BLEED with the amount of JEEPs and soft top mustangs you see.

On a more serious note, here’s a little video for you about all the fun things to do in Waikiki , Hawaii.

Have you ever been to Hawaii?? Was there anything I missed off the list?


where is tara tara povey travel blog


Sharing is caring
          
SHARE THIS
best irish travel blogfunny hawaiihawaiihawaii tourisholiday in hawaiihow to be a tourist in hawaiiirish travel blogtourism hawaiiwhere is tara povey irish travel blog
About Tara

About Tara

I'm all about HONESTY, LUXURY & INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES. I'm a pharmacist / writer/ photographer/ adventurer. Born in NZ and raised in Ireland - I'm a hobbit raised by leprechauns. Come in and let me guide you around the world. It's a pretty colourful place.

Related Posts

Things to do in Dordogne, France – Wine, Castles and History
Things to do in Dordogne, France – Wine, Castles and History
20 Fun Things to do in Dublin – A Local Guide
20 Fun Things to do in Dublin – A Local Guide
How to Plan a Solo Trip to the Amalfi Coast
How to Plan a Solo Trip to the Amalfi Coast
1 Year, 1 Couple, 11 Countries, 5 Road Trips
1 Year, 1 Couple, 11 Countries, 5 Road Trips

Post navigation

Hawaiian Airlines; Authentic Hawaiian Hospitality
Snorkelling With Turtles in Maui

6 comments

  1. Robin Curry says:
    April 3, 2016 at 12:35 am

    Very funny, and mostly true. I hope you did visit another island, the BIG one, which is the one we keep going back to. Not quite as touristy except for Kona, but with so much to do and see it’s worth every return triip. The active volcano is there, diligently building a new island under the water somewhere. Hawaii is said to have every ecosystem, or most of them. I haven’t seen a glacier though.
    Your blog keeps me wanting more, and makes me want to get out of town. We are going to do that soon.
    Thanks, Tara!

    Reply
    1. Tara says:
      April 5, 2016 at 11:16 am

      Hi Robin! So great to hear you’re enjoying my blog! I did get out of Oahu but only to Maui. I really want to go see the big island!! My boyfriend is a geologist and he really wants to go back and see the lava flows 🙂

      Reply
  2. LisaLDN says:
    April 3, 2016 at 10:12 am

    Ah, this is killing me! Hilarious, and even though I haven’t been to Hawaii (yet), I definitely recognize some of them from home! We have thousands of tourists visiting my tiny village in Norway, and driving behind them when trying to get to work on time is THE WORST! I’m actually planning a trip to Hawaii in October, and was hoping to rent a jeep, haha!

    Reply
    1. Tara says:
      April 5, 2016 at 11:14 am

      Hahaha. Glad you liked it. JEEPs are so gorgeous, but you see so many in Hawaii that it puts you off a bit.

      Reply
  3. Shave Ice Huntington Beach says:
    April 11, 2016 at 8:31 am

    Haha, we love #10 and #11. At least shave’d is partially correct. I cannot tell you how many times I’e heard, “I’d like to get a snow cone, please.” A whhaaat?? lol. I usually respond with, “I’m really sorry, but I do not sell those at this establishment. Would a ‘shave’ ice be a suitable substitute? I guarantee you will enjoy it more than a snow cone.” Anyway, funny post! Love the humor!

    Reply
  4. best resorts in mahabalipuram says:
    September 7, 2017 at 6:12 am

    Views from the summit stretch across the entire island and are particularly beautiful at sunrise.

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

About Me

About Me

Tara Povey, Owner

Hi, I'm Tara! I SELL DRUGS (legally); I am a pharmacist. Somewhere along the line I realised the 9-5 life wasn't for me and took a sabbatical to travel the world and try new things. During the pandemic I re-joined the workforce and have now mastered the balance of travelling the world doing things that terrify me and working part time. Want to know more? Come take an adventure with me!

CHECK OUT MY VLOGS

SUPPORT ON PATREON

AS FEATURED IN

where is tara povey top irish travel blogger

Sign Up for the Newsletter

Get tips, freebies, and advice delivered to your inbox.

  • Home
  • About Tara
    • Bucket List
    • Find Me Elsewhere
    • What’s In My Suitcase?
  • Destinations
    • Asia
      • Indonesia
      • Israel
      • Japan
      • Maldives
      • Sri Lanka
      • The Philippines
      • Thailand
    • Europe
      • Eastern Europe
        • Czech Republic
      • Northern Europe
        • Denmark
        • Finland
        • Iceland
        • Sweden
        • Ireland
        • UK
      • Southern Europe
        • Croatia
        • Portugal
        • Italy
      • Western Europe
        • Germany
        • Holland
        • Austria
    • North America
      • USA
      • Canada
      • Cuba
      • Aruba
    • Oceania
      • Australia
      • New Zealand
    • South America
      • Brazil
      • Peru
  • Travel Resources
  • Life
    • Art
    • Health & Beauty
    • Life in General
  • Tech
  • Contact
    • Work With Me
    • Privacy Policy
    • Disclosure
Copyright © 2025 | All Rights Reserved |