Snorkel Bob’s S. Kihei

Great service, will return!
Stopped in with my fiancée on Dec 14^th to rent some snorkel gear. There were two families in front of us and it seemed so busy that we almost turned around and went somewhere else. Other staff was helpful, but Zach made sure we knew we were taken care of and got us out of there as quickly as possible despite the mêlée of customers.
Give this guy a raise, he’s awesome!
Gear was better than the other shops we had poked around in the night before, and the prices to rent are good enough that it’s not worth buying and hauling your own stuff out on vacation. We’ll be back next year so we can hit some of the spots we missed!
Thanks again,
Adam & Hollie

Excellent support in picking our gear. Hubby needed a prescription pair and worked out great even gave us mad tips on where to snorkel! Mahalo

Dianne was amazing! Great service. Good products. Very informative. The equipment worked perfectly too. For kids and adults.

Sue helped up get our gear fitted and checked out quickly. I’m a fan of speedy customer service but she also took the time to listen to what we wanted out of our snorkeling experience and drew up a lot of great recommendations on a map of the area. That map turned out to be gold and we had an amazing trip.

Rented snorkel equipment from Melissa, who was extremely helpful and knowledgeable. She helped us pick out the right masks and gave us tons of good suggestions on the best places to snorkel in Maui — and she was spot on! We saw tons of cool fish and also saw sea turtles (my fav!) The gear was very high quality and worked fantastically for me and the hubby. I will definitely return to Snorkel Bob’s when I am back in Maui.

Highly recommend Snorkel Bob’s on South Kihei just for the fact you will have the pleasure of meeting Sue. She was super informative and honest with her recommendations according to what she knew we wanted.
You can get roped into all the time share stuff or you can go with Sue and book directly. The Snorkeling and Zip lining adventures were awesome plus all the great recommendations on places to eat. It was such a pleasure meeting you and Mahalo!

The girl — I think her name is Andrea — was all set to rent us snorkeling equipment. We explained our needs and instead ended up booking an all-​inclusive trip out to Molokini and Turtle Town the morning of our wedding anniversary. We had equipment, breakfast, lunch, cocktails at the end and I rented a wetsuit. Would definitely go to them again!

Great place good service and well taken care of knowledgable staff too. Andrea did a great job setting us up she was awesome would come back here again.

I am writing regarding my experience from a few weeks back … Great experience… Rented on Kauai kept equipment for the week and returned on Maui. I lost the prescription mask (worked great) the day before across the road at the beach … Asked at Lifeguard station and they denied having anything …
Next day at the store i told them the story and Zelda told me someone had told her that they had found and turned in a prescription mask to Lifeguards day before … She ran across the street to the lifeguard booth and miraculously returned with the prescription mask … Saved me the price of buying the mask — having lost it … Zelda and Dianne were both extremely helpful and as I said Zelda went out of her way to run across the street and convince?/ search at the lifeguard station to find the missing mask … They were both very helpful and knowledgeable — Dianne gave me some tips on other good snorkeling spots up above Kanapali …
All around at each store I went to on both islands the folks at the shops knew their stuff and seemed happy to help me and actually enjoyed their work…
Thank you Zelda and Dianne at Kam’olé beach Snorkel Bob’s.

Good place. We checked one snorkel bob first and they run out of the bogie board, so we had to drive to the next one. Overall, was a good day experience– you get what you ordered at an ok price

Rent boogie boards for $ 6.50 each… Try to get there early in the day as they can rent out.

Not so great for the price. We had to go back and change one of the masks because it was old and the strap broke on the first try! We were able to take it to a different location and the lady was nice in switching out.

Super helpful young lady got us all outfitted. We ended up using the gear every day that we were on Maui. Well worth the price.

First bit of advice: shop for your snorkeling stuff at home. Here they gotcha and they know it. Plus you have the pressure of not wasting your vacation time, so it’s hard to research and compare stuff properly. All that said…
Snorkel Bob’s is a chain store. There are a lot of them all over the Islands. They are a bit pricey, and some of their people are knowledgeable (and some not-​so-​much). They rent and sell equipment, as well as book some excursions. If you KNOW what you want, and if SB has it, then it’s fine. If you’re asking advice, you may or may not get good advice. Be warned.
We came in to rent a snorkel set for my mother-​in-​law. We already had our own stuff so didn’t really need SB for ourselves. Their rental rates are typically for a week, and it’s not unreasonable. Unexpectedly my wife wanted to try a mask with corrective lenses in it (you can get masks that will do a general correction, usually in 0.50 increments). I ended up trying one too. We both liked them, and we both bought them. They were good masks (probably over-​priced). So on top of the rental, we now had these which entitled us to free stuff.
And then they advised us it was too rough to snorkel that day (which it was), and offered us surf lessons (see my review for Maui Wave Runner). So we opted for that, which got us more free stuff. We ended up with a free boogie-​board rental (actually, 2 boards), a free vest rental, and two free books. Another nice feature is that you can return equipment to ANY SB location. You don’t have to return to the one you rented from.
The equipment performed reasonably, and the pricing wasn’t outrageous. It didn’t quite fit my mother-in-law’s face properly, but they didn’t really have another option for us. We made it work. Our corrective masks were great. No problems.
We donated our old masks to Savers in Kahului.

The $ 9/​week snorkel set advertisement you see in all the coupon books is for an old school set that you probably don’t want to use. A normal standard snorkel set is $ 25 a week. Good, quick service.

Nice equipment and a decent price UNLESS you are five minutes after the time circled on your receipt (that they don’t explain in enough detail)…if that happens you are charged about half the week’s fee for a late charge.
Were we late? Yes. Did they explain the policy in clear language? No. All she said was that it was due Friday — no time was given — and if we wanted to drop it off Thursday night they had a drop box. What she needed to say is «your equipment is due next Friday by 11 am sharp». And that the computer won’t allow them to override the extra charge. Or so they say.
Plenty of places to rent gear on Maui. I’ll be going someplace else in the future.

Ok; I ride my bike up towards the front of the shop today, just looking to rent fins for a week, and a cool, casual cute girl working there (‘Drea”) comes out and opens up the door for the guy in front of me who was returning gear and me and my bicycle; all with a friendly smile. I’m here for that casual, friendly, good-​natured island ‘tude. Both girls were good-​natured, helpful, knowledgeable and the rental was reasonable. Other locations for dropping off gear, so, also convenient.

Awesome people! Always rent from this location. They worked with us and our specific requests. Super clean and lots of options. We will be back!

Small store but a good place to buy or rent gear, or to sign-​up for trips and activities on the island.
We have bought some gear here as well as booked a charter through them. Prices are reasonable and staff very friendly and helpful. We haven’t had an issues dealing with them and would use them again.

Needed 2 boogie boards for kids they only had adult size and went ahead to
Rent them to me.