My standard approach to a few days visit in Oahu is that on my first day I rent a cheap little car, often something like a little Suzuki or any other type of ‘jeep’, which gets me around the island in comfortable, sometimes rattly fashion. There is a place in Waikiki where you can, what we call here, ‘rent a wreck’ that means the cars are cheap and not overly well maintained. But they do the job to get you from A to B and back quite well.
Hence I would spend lots of my days driving around where ever my fancy takes me and in the late afternoon the car is securely parked and not used anymore before the next day.
For this kind of travelling I have an anatomically inbuilt sat nav system, it’s also called my nose. I just follow my nose as we say in German.
The rest is walking. It’s wonderful to walk along the shore line in and around Waikiki and Honolulu or to take a walk somewhere around Diamonds head or, my most favourite place, Waimea Falls. (more about that later)
Public transport – apart from expensive taxis – is fairly limited and I have never used it to any great extent.
One of those trolley buses, so beloved in American tourist centres
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