Cheapest flightRated 5.0
45 minHana Rainforest and Haleakala Crater 45-min Helicopter Tour
★ 5 · 21 reviews
- Cheapest flight here
- Forty-five minutes, rainforest and crater
- 21 reviews at 5.0
- Free cancellation
$396$8.80 / min
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Helicopter tour Maui price: all 12 listings compared
A helicopter tour Maui sells starts at $396 for forty-five minutes and runs to $3,353 for three islands in ninety. In between sits the flight most people actually book — $2,303 for the seventy-five minutes that include a landing. Above about $611 you are no longer buying more coastline; you are buying ground time, a second island, or the doors coming off.
Quick answer
The cheapest helicopter tour Maui offers is $396 for forty-five minutes over the Hana rainforest and the Haleakala crater. The best-evidenced flight is $2,303 for seventy-five minutes with a landing in the Wailua Valley, rated 4.9 from 332 reviews. Doors off is $452. Ninety minutes over two islands is $611. If you would rather spend the day on the road instead, the Road to Hana by car starts at $199.
Maui helicopter prices, at a glance
- Cheapest flight
- $396forty-five minutes
- Our top pick
- $2,303332 reviews at 4.9, and it lands
- Doors off
- $452forty-five minutes, age 10+
- Longest flight without a landing
- $611ninety minutes, two islands
- The Molokai crossing
- $2,653fifty-five minutes, 188 reviews
- Dearest here
- $3,353three islands
- Cheapest way to see the Hana coast
- $199by road, five and a half hours
- Listings compared
- 12every one bookable online
- Reviews behind them
- 1,952read off the live listings
- Lifts off from
- Kahului heliportevery flight on this page
Every trip, current fare
Every helicopter tour Maui price, in one table
Ordered by fare. The cost-per-minute column settles most arguments, because a forty-five minute circuit and a ten-hour drive are not the same product sold at two prices.
| Tour | Length | Price | How | Cost per minute | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maui: Road to Hana Helicopter & Waterfall Tour with LandingSeventy-five minutes, and it lands where no road goes | 75 min | $2,303 | Lands | $57.58 | 4.9 · 332 |
| Hana Rainforest and Haleakala Crater 45-min Helicopter TourForty-five minutes over the rainforest and the crater | 45 min | $396 | By air | $8.80 | 5 · 21 |
| West Maui and Molokai Special 45-Minute Helicopter TourForty-five minutes over West Maui and Molokai | 45 min | $396 | By air | $8.80 | 5 · 9 |
| Doors OFF West Maui and Molokai Helicopter TourDoors off, forty-five minutes, 45 reviews | 45 min | $452 | By air | $10.04 | 4.8 · 45 |
| Maui: Waterfalls of West Maui and Molokai Helicopter TourFifty minutes over the West Maui waterfalls | 50 min | $459 | By air | $9.18 | 4.9 · 7 |
| Maui: Hana Rainforest Helicopter TourFifty minutes over the Hana rainforest | 50 min | $459 | By air | $9.18 | 4 · 1 |
| Maui and Molokai: Spectacular Helicopter TourNinety minutes over both islands | 90 min | $611 | By air | $6.79 | 5 · 7 |
| Maui: Road to Hana Adventure with Breakfast & LunchThe road version — ten hours, with meals | 10 h | $220 | By road | $0.37 | 4.6 · 646 |
| Maui: Small-Group Road to Hāna Sightseeing TourThe road version — small group, 689 reviews | 8 h | $282 | By road | $0.59 | 4.6 · 689 |
| Maui: Open-Air Road to Hāna Jungle Adventure TourThe road version — open-air, five and a half hours | 5.5 h | $199 | By road | $0.60 | 5 · 1 |
| Central Maui: Two-Island Scenic Helicopter Flight to MolokaiFifty-five minutes, the Molokai sea cliffs | 55 min | $2,653 | By air | $48.24 | 4.8 · 188 |
| Maui: 3-Island Hawaiian Odyssey Helicopter FlightThree islands, and the price ceiling of this page | 90 min | $3,353 | By air | $37.26 | 4.6 · 6 |
What the money buys
Four things, and only one of them is more coastline
Minutes, the landing, the doors, and the second island.
Minutes in the air. Forty-five minutes covers the Hana rainforest and the crater, or West Maui and a look at Molokai. Fifty adds the West Maui waterfalls. Ninety covers both islands properly. Past ninety, no listing gives you meaningfully more of Maui — the island is only so large.
Whether it lands. The single biggest jump on the table. $2,303 buys thirty minutes on ground with no road to it; $611 buys a stop at a ranch that does have one. Everything else stays airborne.
Whether the doors come off. $452 for forty-five minutes. You are paying for the absence of glass, which is the main thing standing between you and the photograph you imagined.
How many islands. Molokai is a channel crossing, and the flights that make it cost more for that reason. The cliffs on its north shore are the tallest sea cliffs in the world, and nothing on Maui itself matches them.
What the headline fare does not include
Five costs that surface later
None is ruinous. All of them surprise people at the heliport.
- Getting to Kahului
Every helicopter tour Maui sells leaves from the heliport beside the main airport. From Kihei that is around half an hour; from Lahaina, closer to an hour. No listing here includes a transfer.
- Parking at the heliport
Small, and the most common surprise on arrival.
- The weigh-in
Not a charge, but a constraint. Seats are assigned by weight for balance, and some operators apply a surcharge above a stated figure. It is on the listing; read it.
- Photographs
Some operators sell a package on the ground. Your own camera against the glass is free, and from a window seat usually better. Doors off is better still.
- A second flight
People who fly the forty-five-minute circuit in cloud often rebook in clear air, because it is a different flight. Nobody budgets for that one.
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The four fares worth comparing
The cheapest, the best evidenced, the doors-off flight and the longest circuit.
Our top pick332 reviews
75 minMaui: Road to Hana Helicopter & Waterfall Tour with Landing
★ 4.9 · 332 reviews
- Our top pick, and the only one that lands
- Forty minutes in the air, thirty on the ground
- A former taro plantation with no road to it
- 332 reviews at 4.9 — the strongest on this page
$2,303$57.58 / min
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45 reviewsDoors off
45 minDoors OFF West Maui and Molokai Helicopter Tour
★ 4.8 · 45 reviews
- Doors off, and it changes the photographs
- Forty-five minutes over two islands
- 45 reviews at 4.8
- Age 10+, goggles provided
$452$10.04 / min
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90 minutesRated 5.0
90 minMaui and Molokai: Spectacular Helicopter Tour
★ 5 · 7 reviews
- Ninety minutes over Maui and Molokai
- The longest flight without a landing
- Rated 5.0
- Free cancellation
$611$6.79 / min
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Why the cheapest fare is not the cheapest flying
Ninety minutes is cheaper per minute than forty-five.
Divide the fare by the minutes and the table rearranges itself. $396 for forty-five minutes works out at about $8.80 a minute, which is the cheapest flying on this page. $611 for ninety minutes works out at about $6.79 — cheaper still per minute, and twice the flight.
The landing flight does badly on that measure and it does not matter, because the thirty minutes on the ground are not flying and were never priced as flying. If you are comparing any helicopter tour Maui offers purely on air time, compare the airborne listings with each other and leave the landing out of the sum.
The road tours sit at the far end of the same table and look absurdly cheap per minute, which is the honest reason we include them: $282 for eight hours is pennies a minute. They are also eight hours, and they never leave the tarmac.
Three ways people overpay on Maui
All avoidable
None of these is the operator’s fault.
- Buying the landing when they wanted the view
If the half hour in the valley is not the point, $396 shows you the same coast from the air.
- Buying forty-five minutes twice
Two short flights on two days cost more than one ninety-minute flight and cover less.
- Booking the flight and the road tour on the same day
Ten hours of driving and a flight is a great deal of Maui for one calendar square, and the flight is the part people remember through a haze of tiredness.
Common questions
Questions about what a helicopter tour Maui costs
How much is a helicopter tour on Maui?
From $396 a person for forty-five minutes. The most reviewed flight, which lands in the Wailua Valley, is $2,303.
Why is the landing flight so much more expensive?
Thirty of its seventy-five minutes are spent on the ground somewhere no road reaches. No other listing on Maui sells that at any price.
Is doors off more expensive?
Yes — $452 against $396 for the same forty-five minutes.
Are transfers included?
No. Every flight here leaves from Kahului heliport and you make your own way there.
Is there a cheaper way to see the Hana coast?
By road, yes: from $199. It is five and a half hours instead of forty-five minutes, and it stays on the tarmac.
Do prices change through the year?
Less than you would expect. What changes is availability — July to September is when the listings sell out.
How the twelve fares are actually built
Three bands, and a helicopter tour Maui price sits in one of them
Scenic flights, the doors-off premium, and the occasion listings.
Band one, $396 to $611. Standard scenic flights sold per seat. Forty-five to ninety minutes, no landing except the ranch stop on the longest one. This is where most people buy, and the differences between listings are minutes and which half of the island.
Band two, the doors-off listing at $452. The same forty-five minutes with the glass removed and a minimum age of ten. The premium is about $56, and it buys the photographs rather than more island.
Band three, above $2,303. Here a helicopter tour Maui listing stops being a scenic flight and becomes an occasion: a landing in a valley with no road, a channel crossing to Molokai, or three islands. The fares are not proportional to the minutes and were never meant to be.
Knowing which band you are shopping in removes most of the confusion. Comparing a band-one fare with a band-three fare on cost per minute tells you nothing useful.
Four questions that decide your budget
Answer these and the price picks itself
In this order, because each one narrows the field.
- Do you want to get out of the aircraft?
If yes, there is one answer on Maui and it is $2,303. No other helicopter tour Maui sells lands anywhere without a road.
- Do you want the photographs more than the comfort?
Then $452, and everyone in the party must be ten or over.
- Do you want one volcano or both?
One is forty-five minutes from $396. Both, plus Molokai, is ninety minutes at $611.
- Would you rather have the day than the flight?
Then the road tours from $199 cover the same coast for a fraction of any helicopter tour Maui fare, at the cost of ten hours.
In short
Helicopter tour Maui: the three numbers that matter
The floor, the one people book, and the value ceiling.
$396. The floor. The cheapest helicopter tour Maui offers, forty-five minutes, crater and rainforest.
$2,303. The one people book. The only helicopter tour Maui sells that lands somewhere without a road, and the only one with a serious review count behind it.
$611. The value ceiling for pure flying. Ninety minutes, both volcanoes and Molokai, and the cheapest minutes of any helicopter tour Maui has.
Everything else on the table is a variation between those three points. If you remember nothing else about helicopter tour Maui pricing, remember that the jumps are caused by landings, doors and channel crossings, never by scenery.
Go deeper
More on helicopter tours on Maui
The landing
The flight that lands
Thirty minutes on ground no road reaches, from $2,303.
The verdictWhich tour is best
Twelve listings, and the four worth your money.
Road or airBy road or by air
620 curves and ten hours, against forty minutes of flying.
Doors offDoors off or doors on
What changes, and the rules nobody reads until check-in.
BookingTickets and booking
Weights, seats, and what sells out on Maui.
When to goThe best time to fly
The trade-wind cloud sits exactly where the rainforest is.
