The Maui Companion
$37
App-based with live maps. Always current.
Planning Maui shouldn't feel like a part-time job.
I plan Hawaiʻi trips for a living. Ten years on Maui, full-time travel advisor, and most weeks I talk families out of at least three things they were sure they had to do.
The Maui Companion is the exact framework I use with private planning clients. Same research, same opinions, same order of operations. Previously, it only existed for people who hired me.
What's inside: Where to stay by region, and who each resort is actually right for. The beaches worth the drive and the ones to skip. Activities and luau I'd send my own family to. What to book ahead, and how far ahead. Road to Hāna without the panic. A real budget framework. A packing list that accounts for what Maui actually asks of you. Honest takes on the things everyone insists are unmissable.
It doesn't stop when you land. Pull the guide up in the free Trip Plans app, and every place in it is mapped. Standing in the rental car line, wondering where to eat, tap directions, and go. Kids melting down at a beach that turned out to be too rough, the next one over is right there. No searching, no second-guessing, no you being the only person who knows where anything is.
That's the part I care about most. Somebody else holds the plan for once, and you get to be on the trip instead of running it.
Three ways to use it: Live guide in the app, public link on any browser, or a PDF you can download and mark up. All three come with your purchase. Updated regularly.
What it isn't: A list of everything on Maui. It's a list of what I'd actually do, in the order I'd do it, with the reasons why.
If you get partway through and decide you'd rather hand the whole thing off, I plan trips too. What you spend here gets credited toward it.