The Ultimate Kauai Guidebook: Kauai Revealed Paperback – September 30, 2022

Great reference book

Highly recommend this guidebook!! The best one that I purchased for our trip. Wonderful tips and maps.

There is no better travel guide for Hawaii! We relied on the Maui version during our last trip to Hawaii and loved it. There’s even a “Revealed” app now to accompany the guide. His “Ono”recommendations are almost always spot on! Also love the Hidden Gem recommendations!

We're going to Kauai next month. I've used the Ultimate Guide to plan my hikes, lunches (my wife needs gluten free options) dinners and a boat tour with Na Pali Catamaran. Everything and I mean everything is in this book including detail directions to get from point A to point B.

The book is excellent but go to the web address also thats given in the book and pay the small fee for the online version as its more up to date as businesses and chefs can come and go etc. Be careful of any trails on Kauai that you haven’t researched as some are simply dangerous. Some trails are also for hunters rather than hikers as a young hiker was hit by a falling rock and killed two days after we arrived and she was on a hunters trail that was considered dangerous

A friend told me about this book when I told her we were headed to Kauai. It is written in an almost conversational and enjoyable way and provides lots of insights that I don't think you would know from any other book or website. Inside, there are many full color and easy to follow maps as well as beautiful photographs to give you a sense of what to expect on your sites. It highlights things not to be missed or things that may not be worth your time. The author calls things like he sees them, and doesn't seem to be paid for any of his opinions which I really appreciate. He also shares a lot about culture along the way. You will see from the photos I posted that I ended up tabbing the book because I found the organization a little bit confusing, he has a section for each shore at the beginning and then later sections for beaches, hikes, etc. So I tabbed the things that I knew I wanted to find quickly within each shore. A combination of reading this in advance of our trip, highlighting and tabbing what was important to us, and then also buying this same book's companion app while we were on Kauai for its drive tour, made our trip so much more enjoyable than I think it would have been without. There are many times that he gives you insights, such as when we went snorkeling at Tunnels Beach, it looks like you are parking in a no parking area but according to both his book and his app, you are allowed to park there. Without having that insight I would have been afraid to park and would have missed out on an incredible snorkeling adventure. The companion drive tour app is also amazing. We bought it the first day we were here and were so pleased to have that while we were driving on the island. There are many times where our cell signal dropped but that app never dropped because it's based on GPS. So he would call out turns that we may have missed without a cell signal, and he gave us insightful narrative along the way. Our son would always look forward to our drives on the island, and he'd say "is that Andrew guy going to be talking to us?" If I'd say yes of course, he'd smile and say oh good! Bravo to Andrews Doughty for penning an amazing guidebook and companion app.

Practical and useable guide if you're planning a trip to Hawaii

Prior to our Kauai trip we read Andrew’s book and learned so much about the beautiful island we were about to visit. We also purchased the app which was fabulous. We felt like we had a personal tour guide who was our friend and companion! Thank you Andrew for making our trip so enjoyable! Aloha