Day One – after the 20 minute flight from Honolulu to Lihu’e, collect the rental, a convertible is the preferred option. Then check into your preferred resort.

Day Two -about ten to fifteen minute drive to a beautiful old plantation house which has been converted into Plantation Gardens a complex of galleries’ and a fine dinning restaurant. Close by is Kola Rum Company.

Day Three – Lower the top of your convertible and cruise to the Waimea Gorge, one of the islands major attractions. A twisting road will take you to the top where you can look down into the gorge 900 meters deep, in places. On your drive back to Lihu’e stopping off at the villages of Hanapepe, Kalaheo and Kaloa to explore their galleries. Also in the area is the Allerton and McBryde Gardens administered by the National Tropical Botanical Gardens

Day Four – relax in yours resort and make arrangement to dine in the Jimmy Buffett restaurant in  the evening. or you could drive north through the Coconut Coast to Kilauea and Wailua on the Coconut Coast.