Oahu GyPSy Guide Driving Tour app for iPhone and iPad

4.0 ( 4560 ratings )

Travel Navigation
Developer: GPS Tour Guide

8.99 USD

Current version: 3.0.1, last update: 4 years ago
First release : 12 Dec 2012
App size: 254.7 Mb

GyPSy Guide’s narrated driving tour for the entire island of Oahu, is an excellent way to enjoy all the benefits of a guided tour while you explore at your own pace.

There are 230+ audio points that play automatically along the scenic drive, featuring the best things to see and do, stories, tips and driving directions.

Professional tour guides share advice on how to prioritize your time at recommended “not to be missed” viewpoints, suggested side-trips and places of interest.

Tours work offline, using free GPS signal and location services, so no data roaming, network, or wifi is required while touring.

It’s Just Like Having a Tour Guide in Your Car™

WHAT TO EXPECT:
Want to connect with Hawaii, beyond Waikiki? Then it’s definitely worth taking a full day, renting a car, and driving around Oahu.

There are many stories, tips and advice along the way, that will enhance your Oahu, Hawaii vacation experience. We’ll highlight the many viewpoints, but how and how long you choose to explore is up to you.

Visit www.gypsyguide.com for route maps, sample audio, tips and advice and what to know before you go.

Includes 3 suggested road trips to explore Oahu;

BEACHES & VOLCANOES:

Oahu’s Southeast corner is an area dominated by extinct volcanoes and sandy beaches. Hike up the short but steep staircase at Diamond Head, you’ll be reward with breathtaking view overlooking Honolulu. And one of the best, but also most popular spots to snorkel is Hanauma Bay.

Escape to the small towns of Kailua and Lanikai for pristine beaches, or take a guided kayaking tour to the twin islands, “The Mokes” just offshore. It’s not hard to feel the spiritual significance at the Pali Lookout. Return to Waikiki, or continue driving to complete the Island Circle.

OAHU ISLAND CIRCLE:

The main attraction is the North Shore, and it’s famous big wave surfing beaches of Sunset Beach & Banzai Pipeline. Hear the history of surfing, local legends and challengers to the throne. Enjoy the lack back town of Hale’iwa, or continue on to Shrimp Truck heaven.

Continue driving along the windward side and grab a photo of the hole in the rock Laie Sea Arch. Or find your zen at the serene Buddhist Byodo-In Temple.

Loop back around the Pali and return to Waikiki. You can also choose to drive this route in the opposite direction and arrive at Sunset Beach, late in the afternoon. Or scope out Ko Olina, the resort area with crested shaped beach lagoons and the Disney Aulani Resort & Spa.

PEARL HARBOR:

We recommend you dedicate at least a 1/2 day for the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center if you want to pay respects and explore this still active naval base.

WHAT YOU’LL SEE:

Some of the highlights along the route:

• Diamond Head
• Hanauma Bay
• North Shore, Sunset & Banzai
• The ‘Mokes’, Kailua and Lanikai
• Byodo-In Temple
• Laie Sea Arch
• Ko Olina
• Pearl Harbor
• Dole Plantation

BATTERY USAGE:
++ Continued use of GPS/Location Services in the background increases battery usage. We strongly recommend taking a cigarette style (DC outlet) car charger. Avoid using a direct connection to the USB port of a rental vehicle.

IPADS:
** iPad models must include a GPS chip. Please note that Apple only install these on the iPad Wifi + Cellular models. Wifi only iPad models have limited location service capabilities and are unable to play commentary automatically.

DOWNLOADING:
The apps are larger in size in order to work offline. You must be on wifi to download as the store may block the download over cellular networks.

ABOUT US:

GyPSy Guide™ produce award winning narrated audio tours along scenic drives and road trips around the world.

Enjoyed by travelers who prefer to set their own pace and itinerary on vacation, but enjoy a fun, informative and educational guided experience while driving themselves. Our goal is to provide a great introduction to the region and inspire you to learn more and return.

None of our apps include paid advertising.

Pros and cons of Oahu GyPSy Guide Driving Tour app for iPhone and iPad

Oahu GyPSy Guide Driving Tour app good for

Loved it and next time I am looking for an app to guide me around I will surely look if there is one from this company

We Used this app for self driving tours of Maui and Oahu, and it never let us down. It has it all: an informative and interesting audio tour guide, practical tips on where to find parking ( you will need them in Hawaii), snack and meal recommendations, driving directions, and more. We especially appreciated that all the suggestions were timed very well, we never missed a turn. Dont get mislead by the basic graphics, the audio content is rich! I wish we knew about this app on our trip to Yellowstone!

We found this tour made our stay very enjoyable. We learned things we would not have known otherwise.

This app was absolutely incredible! My gf and I rented a car and this app took us around the whole island educating us about Hawaiian history, culture and customs while suggesting activities we wouldve never done ourselves. It is informative, accurate and interesting. It doesnt use your data once youve downloaded it. My only suggestion is that they should add a feature to let you know when youve gone off track. This is honestly the best app Ive ever used and it allowed us to see Hawaii stress free on our own time.

My wife and I took a guided tour of the island last year. Cost $200 or so... and we loved it. We thought we could cheat the system by downloading this app. Little did we know, the $7.99 was money incredibly well spent. Simply put, get this if you want to see Oahu. The user experience was immaculate - the guide whom we dubbed Chuck predicted my every question (borderline eerie!). Thank you app!

I travelled solo to Oahu. It was my first visit and I wanted to explore the island. I rented a Jeep and stayed in Waikiki as my home base. This app was absolutely awesome. I can not say enough good things. The guide is great... He even cracks jokes every once in a while. I used the app over the course of two days. Some spots I skipped and went back to at a later date during my stay because o wanted more time there. Thats the beauty of it... You stop where you want and for how long you want! Ill never do another group tour as long as there is a GyPSy guide available, no joke! Worth every penny!

Some bad moments

Hello there, Is this app has the option for the user to select “star and end” or not? Thanks, Kaintroy

This app was good 2yrs ago but since then it hasn’t had updates. Most importantly app doesn’t run in background and on ios8 devices GPS doesn’t always activate even after rebooting phone and reinstalling app.

A good product with quality info, but the lack of flexibility in route choice was frustrating. I think this app can still be effective if the context of the tour is not limited to a specific direction. We enjoyed the style of the speaker and learned several new things along the way. We just had to hear the tour in reverse unfortunately.

I hope they will make more destination. This app is awesome. If you happen to rent a car with USB aux or Bluetooth enable you can route the commentary to the cars audio system. Although there is one issue, after each commentary, it automatically plays your iTune music. The google turn-by-turn guidance does not.

We are currently using this app while on Oahu and I cant tell you how glad I am that I spent the $7 on it! I feel like we are our own tour guides! Its so much more accurate at following our moves than I expected it to be. The timing and cometary are spot on. We named our guide Ralph and he waits in the car for us while we take in the sites ;) We are not staying in the Waikiki area but rather the Ko Olina area but we just picked up the tour at Diamond Head area one afternoon and went almost up to the North Shore. Excited to finish up the rest of the island today! One note- the tour goes counterclockwise and that would be my only "negative" about this app - the option to go either direction would be nice but I still rate it 5 stars because of the price, ease of use and the valuable info it provides! Last thing I would suggest is bring along a adapter cord for the device you are running the app on so you will be able to use your car speakers rather than just your devices speakers. For the 2 of us it was fine but if you have several people in a larger car hearing the guide might be an issue.

I cant even begin to tell u how good this app is. We took the north shore tour on sat and pearl harbor plus east island on sunday completing the island in just two days. Took 1000 beautiful pics along the way. The narrator was very precise with the directions its unbelievable! Wife loved it when he pointed out the next fruit stand where she got a reasonably priced jack fruit! Couple of things for improvement: 1. Can you make an option toTake us to your closest tour route from wherever we are? 2. More timing details would be nice we ran late on the north shore tour. 3. Did not tell us about sea life park even tho its right on the east island route? We saw it anyway Still this app deserves 6 stars no joke! Thank you!

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