The Watercraft Connection

Awesome spot to rent jetskis. The owners are very nice and accommodating to any specific needs of yours. After the rental the younger guys explain everything to you and also accompany you out on the water. Overall a great experience. Best Prices on the Island!

Thank you for a great day! We rented jet skis for an hour. After guided out to the place where we would be riding we were able to take off on our own. It was a pretty large area. Perfect for me as Ive only rode one other time. The best part was we saw a pod of dolphins… twice! About 15 – 20 and super close. We stopped and just watched, they were beautiful. It was a great relaxing hour of fun. We were able to stop and swim around in the water when we wanted to an hour was a perfect amount of time. I will def be returning. Thank you for an enjoyAble day!!! :) :)

We rented a two person kayak. River ride was enjoyable. We saw 2 turtles. Very relaxing. The first guy we talked to at the booth was very friendly. After waiting for about 30 – 45 minutes the second guy was very unorganized and didn’t seem like he knew what he was doing. When we got back we were greeted from a lady. We received a great deal on the rental.

We thoroughly enjoyed our lazy relaxing paddle up the river ! Saw a few turtles! The people running the booth were great! Very friendly and helpful! Would go back anytime! A very nice activities in Haliewa!

Rented a kayak through a Go Card. The trip up the river was good. Lots of turtles to see. Customer service skills need some improvement.

The jet ski experience was amazing. The wave runners were good quality and the people were friendly and helpful. The jet ski area is large and we were able to see turtles up front in the water. We were originally going to rent for 1 hour but the girl at the check in desk recommended we only do a half hour. She was right! Thirty minutes is plenty of time. I appreciate their honesty and would definitely recommend this place to friends and family.

The service was great… After we told her we were going to pay for the activity. When we arrived she seemed bugged or too busy to care.
We did an hour long session, which was great for about 40 mins, then we got bored. The area that we could be in was not very big, so we weren’t able to travel around the ocean much.
The jet skis worked great. The ocean area we were able to be in was good, we saw some sea turtles which was fun. Overall a great experience, though a little pricey

Our family had a great time kayaking on the Anahulu river thanks to the owners of this rental «shack» (they seem to have about 4 jet skis and a half-​dozen kayaks) who were just closing up but stayed around another hour for us. We’ll come back another time to rent from them again, for sure!

Me and my boyfriend were born and raised on Oahu. I’ve been jet skiing before in the Honolulu area but it was my bf’s first time and we decided to try jet skiing in North Shore. I went on Unilocal prior to trying out this place and I saw some really bad reviews but also some good reviews. Therefore, we thought let’s give this place the benefit of the doubt so we headed to North Shore. This guy was the rudest person I’ve ever met. From the get go, he was not friendly. Because I saw some sketchy reviews on this place, I wanted to be safe and ask questions before paying especially because he wanted a $ 350 deposit. Really? $ 350 deposit? Then this guy with an Australian accent, who I believe is the owner, became irritated and said «let’s not do this» and put the paper works away. I wasn’t even asking a lot of questions. I was talking to him for 5 minutes or less when he became so outraged. We were more than happy to leave and not give him any of our business. I recommend not to go to this place. He claims that he’s the cheapest rate on the island but he’s not. He only has business because of the tourist that go to NORTH SHORE which is a place to go when on Oahu and he’s the only jet ski rental area on the north side. But his attitude will catch up to him even though he tries to run from his bad reputation by changing the name of his business. See Watercraft Connection and Jet Skis Plus. Both names are his business

My husband and I had a blast riding jetskis with Watercraft Connection. It is $ 65 for 30 minutes and and $ 125 for an hour to ride, and I would mention to keep in mind that those times to include the time it takes to go to and from the open ocean area that you will be riding, a trip that has to be taken at idle speed due to safety requirements. There were some larger swells the day that we were riding, so we had a lot of fun jumping the jetski. There is an instructor that explains how to operate the jetski and all of the safety requirements. Our instructor, Carl, was extremely helpful with giving us other tips as we have recently moved to the island. He recommended several restaurants and gave advice as to buying a jetski on island. Unfortunately, we had to leave ours on the mainland. Also, I would recommend renting the goggles for $ 15. The couple that was jetskiing with us opted to go with their own sunglasses, and now somewhere there is a nice pair of women’s Oakley’s at the bottom of the sea.
There are only two changes I would have made for our trip: I would have worn sunscreen (oops!), and I would have paid for an hour rather than 30 minutes. The adage is definitely true, «Time flies when you’re having fun.»

The rudest and most inconsiderate people on the island. Absolutely no phone etiquette. In person, absolutely no positivity. I felt as though I was dealing with your average crook. The overall morale of the man and woman was as though they were your semi-​polished drug dealer looking for their next fix. Their little shack was just as hopeless as well. Oh and they have been known to change their business’s name so their reviews do not follow. They are the only ones, on this side of the island that rent Jet Skis. Do not be fooled. We ended up leaving because these people were just not the people we wanted to take our business to.

We went whale watching on January 26, 2011. It was amazing! We watched whales off and on for over an hour. The owners were nice and honest folk. They arranged a trip just for us. It was well worth it. Our captain was awesome! He was knowledgeable, skilled, and knew where to see whales. He was very respectful of them, and because of that, they had no problem with us being around, and we had so many amazing sightings. Take an ice chest, maybe some food, and sunscreen, and a camera. I have some great photos and it was really amazing to see these humpback whales up close. There were some pretty cool moments, I have to say I would go again. Thanks guys, we had fun, and I’ll send some pics.
p. s. you can find them in the harbor parking lot behind Hale’iwa Joe’s. There’s a sign that says whale watching. They rent jet skis and other stuff too.

Friend from Kailua told us about renting Jet Skis in Haleiwa. Watercraft Connection is what he was referring to and it’s located in the Haleiwa boat harbor. Not a few miles north and inland as Google maps might have you believe (that’s a PO box). It’s not even a real building. It’s a small shack in the harbor right behind Haleiwa Joe’s.
They rent jet skis and kayaks. Jet ski rental ends up being $ 135 (after taxes and harbor fees) for an hour of time. Jet skis are big enough to seat 2 comfortably, and there’s a seat for a 3^rd… but they’d have to be small. They have 3 jet skis for rent, with a 4^th that the instructor uses Kayaks are 1 or 2 person and you basically just go paddle up the creek.
For the jet ski rentals — an instructor leads you out of the harbor to about a mile off shore. You then have an area marked off by 3 buoys and the instructor’s jetski (a rectangle of sorts) to play around in. Decently large area and plenty of room to get up to speed. Nothing to really do except just go putz around in the ocean — which can be a ton of fun if you’ve never been jetskiing before. With the chop and larger ocean swells we got up to a max speed of 41mph but if it’s smooth we heard you can hit 50mph. With the large swells it’s a lot of fun to hit them and get some air before coming crashing back down into the water.
It’s actually a lot of fun for those who enjoy that kind of thing.
Our jetski actually started beeping (loud and annoying) at us and started flashing the «check engine» light. We brought it back into the harbor and let them deal with it.
Overall a really fun time going fast over the water, getting sprayed by the ocean and jumping swells. It’s pricey but worth it in my opinion if you’ve never done it. Docked stars for cost, difficulty actually finding the place, and the business basically amounting to a small shack with a stool in it.