Yet if you've long admired Niihau from afar -- squinting into the horizon from Kauai's... Eavesdropping at the edges of Niihau SF Gate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

Niihau Helicopters has been offering half-day trips since 1987. It’s just that few people seem to know about them. I was among them. ... NIIHAU TOURS. Niihau Helicopters, ...

Niihau Helicopters has been offering half-day trips since 1987. It’s just that few people seem to know about them. ... NIIHAU TOURS: Niihau Helicopters, 877-441-3500; ...

Niihau Tours: $385 per person, plus $15 handling charge, for the half-day helicopter tour. Two tours daily, Monday-Saturday, but tours depart only if there are at least 5 people. Plan ahead and be ...

Niihau Helicopters has been offering half-day trips since 1987. ... the owner of Martin's Travel & Tours in Los Angeles and a Hawaii specialist who knew of my love affair with the 50th state, ...

But for $185 Niihau Helicopters will ferry you from Kauai to some of the most inhospitable land in the state. These flight tours are offered two or three times a week.

Reporting from Niihau, Hawaii — Tell people you’re going to Niihau, and they invariably exclaim, “No way!” Or, “Do you know the Robinsons?” Yes, way, and I do not know the Robinsons ...

NIIHAU, Hawaii — Our pilot, Dana Rosendal, revved the twin engines of the Agusta 109A helicopter and taxied 30 yards down the runway of the Port Allen Airport on the southern shore of Kauai.

The bulk of Niihau is restricted to its 70 full-time residents and their families or to those who received a coveted invitation from the family who has owned the 69-square-mile island since 1864.

Niihau is the 'Forbidden Island' of Hawaii, privately owned by the same family since 1864, when Elizabeth Sinclair purchased it from King Kamehameha V for $10,000.

Niihau’s reputation is well deserved. For nearly a century and a half, the privately owned, 70-square-mile island, located 17 miles southwest of Kauai, has been off limits to outsiders, earning ...