hanauma bay

Kama’āina will be able to visit Hanauma Bay for free without a reservation beginning July 1. The number of visitors that can enter the park will still be limited to 1,500 a day.

Hanauma Bay's sandy beach could be underwater by the end of the decade — at least for a few days out of the year. HPR's Zoe Dym has more on the University of Hawaiʻi study focused on sea level rise.

The University of Hawai‘i Institute for Marine Biology is winding up a five-year visitor capacity study on Hanauma Bay on Oʻahu. Researchers are comparing data from before, during and after the ninth-month closure from March to December 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic.

Tour buses and scuba guides will soon be allowed at Hanauma Bay State Park for the first time since March 2020.

The City and County of Honolulu will be accepting a new form of payment to accommodate Japanese visitors at a popular tourist attraction. Casey Harlow has more.

Visitors will now be required to make reservations and pay an online fee of $25 per person to visit one of the state’s most popular snorkeling sites. Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve will begin the online fee system for everyone 13 and older except Hawaiʻi residents beginning Wednesday, Dec. 1.

Residents at a town hall meeting discussed several possibilities to decrease the number of tourists in Hawaiʻi Kai. One idea that floated around was to reserve weekends for locals only at Hanauma Bay.

The entrance fee for a popular O‘ahu snorkeling spot will more than double for tourists starting this week. Beginning Thursday, nonresident visitors will have to pay $25, up from $12, to enter the Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve.

A measure to again increase the price of admission for tourists at Hanauma Bay State Park is advancing at Honolulu Hale. This is the second time in less…

Updated: 12/3/2020, 6:15 a.m. The city yesterday reopened the Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve after a nine-month shutdown because of the pandemic, but with a…