![]() ![]() Stop At: Atlantis Submarines Waikiki, 252 Paoa Pl, Honolulu, Oahu, HI 96815-1957 Phone: (800) 381-0237 web: Audio headsets are available in English, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese and Korean.This is a typical itinerary for this product No food and beverages are served on the submarine, but snacks and drinks are sold on the shuttle boat between the pier and sub. Premium tour: ages 13 and older, $115 adult with one child, $125 child, $45. Regular tour: ages 13 and older, $105 adult with one child, $115 child, $38. Sub tours begin on the hour at 9 a.m., the last leaving at 3 p.m., seven days a week. Shuttle bus pickup is available at select hotels on Waikiki. The launch pier is located off the beach in front of Hilton Hawaiian Village Ali’i Tower on Waikiki Beach, which is just west of Fort Derussy Beach Park and the Hale Koa, the military’s hotel on Waikiki. But you’ll have to use your imagination for sharks staring back at by Atlantis Submarines DIRECTIONS Sub tours are also offered from Maui and the Big Island.įor a taste of what it’s like inside the submarine, take a virtual tour of its interior at /vt/oahu/tour.html. I suppose that’s partly because the recorded audio headsets are somewhat timed to describe each reef, and partly because it takes a disciplined timetable to load and unload so many people to subs. If I have a quibble with the tour, it’s that the sub never pauses at the reefs, which, let’s face it, are the most interesting places to view. ![]() In between the reefs is a span of sea floor that makes you realize how much “land” lies under the Earth’s waters. It seemed as though the sub was only a few feet away from the turtle.įish routinely appeared inches from the portholes, peering in at gaping passengers. The sea-life high points of my tour were three rays gliding in unison, a couple sharks and a very large sea turtle resting atop one of the pyramids. A digital gauge displays the sub’s depth at all times, which was never more than 107 feet during my trip. Two rows of passengers sit back to back in the sub, with each row facing large portholes. The boat then cozies up beside it for loading and unloading. It’s kind of a treat to watch the submarine break through the surface of the water. Passengers are first shuttled out to the open bay by a double-decker tour boat. Since I didn’t get to see the inside of that smaller sub, I can’t say whether it’s worth spending the extra 10 bucks for the premium ride, but I can say the view was spectacular from the big one. I recently took a trip in the 64-passenger sub, which the company touts as “the world’s largest passenger submarine.” It’s the “premium” tour with “viewports having 65 percent greater viewing area” as compared with the 48-passenger sub. The two subs used for the Waikiki tours - one seats 64, the other, 48 - are lined with portholes. Simply getting a ride on a submarine is a unique experience for most of us, but the Atlantis subs aren’t the windowless tin cans we’ve seen in films like “Crimson Tide” and “Run Silent, Run Deep.” But if you’re looking for an easier, less soggy and wide-ranging tour beneath the waters beyond Waikiki Beach, there’s Atlantis Submarines. ![]()
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