Thank you for sharing your experiences at Aulani. I live on Oahu and have not found the time to visit there yet. One day soon I hope 😊

Monkeypod is the best. You need to have several of the Mai Tai's!

Loving this series so beautiful. Can't wait to see more ❤

@SoCalDisneyDad

Жыл бұрын

It is! Hawaii was beautiful all around.

●☆● Go to the AULANI in October to celebrate Halloween...We went 2023 ,kids had so much fun Trick a Treating

Awesome!!! Loved it! Your Aulani Tour felt immersive enjoyed seeing aspects of day, sunset, and night. Interesting about Monkeypod Trees.

@SoCalDisneyDad

Жыл бұрын

Sunset was super beautiful there.

I love POG tooo. best drink ever

I'm from Hawaii and your pronunciation of the Hawaiian words is great!! Fun trip!!

I didn't want the vlog to end. Great vlogging. Now I really want to go. I loved the shaved ice with ice cream. Had that in Big Island. Game changer. I loved those ears at the store with the flowers and mini mouses. So many things I wanted to buy. I can see myself living in Hawaii. It's totally my vibe. 😊🌺 And that view. No words. Amazing.

@SoCalDisneyDad

Жыл бұрын

Completely agree! There's so much to do there you'd never be bored. Beauty all around you.

I was there with my family from Thursday to Tuesday of this week. Such a fun time! We got rain Sunday afternoon lol everything there is top notch! Will definitely be back. We missed Stitch and Moana.

@SoCalDisneyDad

Жыл бұрын

You arrived the day we left! Last Thursday was our checkout date. We were there till about Noon.

@nintendogamedude

Жыл бұрын

@SoCalDisneyDad we got there maybe like 1230 lol our plane landed 1040isn and waited for Uber to pick us up. Did you guys try the coconut white chocolate pineapple?

@SoCalDisneyDad

Жыл бұрын

@@nintendogamedude No, but we got chocolate covered pineapple at the Dole Plantation

@nintendogamedude

Жыл бұрын

@SoCalDisneyDad the Dole Plantation was so much fun! We stopped there on our way to North Shore. The whole island is a lot of fun your video really reminded me of how fun it was lol we had very similar room but on the other tower

All that food looks delicious 😋

@SoCalDisneyDad

Жыл бұрын

Everything was super tasty. I don’t think we had a bad meal the whole trip. Even the quick service at the pool (which is in a later video) was delicious.

@AreuisTheDemon

Жыл бұрын

@@SoCalDisneyDad Can't wait for the next video 🙌

My son loved Aulani, the characters were so friendly here! We also went to the monkey pod and loved it! There is also a place that served breakfast across the street- Eggs n things, soooo good! We also paid for their Luau, but it rained so they canceled it 😢 We also did the time share tour and got a Disney gift card for the tour! I believe it was for $150

@SoCalDisneyDad

Жыл бұрын

Nice! We have done their DVC spiel 2-3 times in the past. They tried to get us to do it again. 😂 $150 is a nice incentive. We didn’t talk to them until checkout day so they didn’t even tell us what incentives they had before we said we didn’t have time.

@kjc_cal2112

Жыл бұрын

@@SoCalDisneyDad they should have definitely told you about it before! Enjoying the Hawaii videos

Please make these vlogs an playlist almost missed it 😭 so glad I found it

@SoCalDisneyDad

11 ай бұрын

They are in a playlist. It’s in the Hawaii Trip 2023 playlist. Navigate to playlists on my channel page and click the drop down arrow under “Created Playlists” at the top. It’s the 4th option down (just out of view)

@ReezA.MP3

11 ай бұрын

THANKS !!!!

We just back from Aulani last Thursday morning

@SoCalDisneyDad

Жыл бұрын

You must have been there the same time as us! We were there May 21 through May 25

Those surfboard cutting boards are so great we bought one and used it for our character autographs. If you go again you should definitely research renting DVC points we did and only spent $2200 for 7 nights in January. Was amazing. With that we got free parking….such a fun series am enjoying watching and reminiscing🤗

@SoCalDisneyDad

Жыл бұрын

We debated renting DVC. It's something we've wanted to do. But the problem is they don't offer any sort of cancellation or rescheduling. At our kids ages, sickness is a very real possibility, especially at the end of school, and the thought of losing everything is too much to risk for us. Unless you know of a place that offers the ability to reschedule without cost (much like a hotel cancellation, so long as it's within 3 days?)

@beckyrichardson8585

Жыл бұрын

What you do is purchase travel insurance but make sure you read fine print and make sure you know all the exclusions. That is what I heard is what everyone does….we took the risk but I completely understand the risk I work in healthcare and it always seems someone ends up sick!

@SoCalDisneyDad

Жыл бұрын

@@beckyrichardson8585 It’s definitely something we want to do. Next year we are going back to Orlando as a family and we want to stay at the Animal Kingdom Lodge for a few nights and are probably going to do DVC for that.

@Douglas-1994

Жыл бұрын

how long out did you book? Cause I was looking at renting DVC point for a one bed villa for OCT and it's $4,500 sheesh!!

@beckyrichardson8585

Жыл бұрын

@@Douglas-1994 my parents are running in to the same problem this year I think Hawaii’s school break is October which may be the problem….I booked in August for a January trip.

I think the peanuts and mint would’ve made Amy’s saimin better. They should’ve had her order something different.😆

Just booked two nights at Aulani through DVC rental store.!!

@SoCalDisneyDad

Жыл бұрын

Awesome!

Aloha

Leonard's is so good!!! My boyfriend was asking questions about mine and I didn't say a word I just continued eating 😂 one question..do you have a private jet? Lol😅

@SoCalDisneyDad

Жыл бұрын

Haha. No private jet. Leonard’s was really good.

Love all your Hawaii videos because we will probably never get there 😭 Just curious, do you guys have any plans to review the new Sea World Rescue Junior area in Sea World? Or Albert’s restaurant at the San Diego Zoo?

@SoCalDisneyDad

Жыл бұрын

I totally spaced on doing Rescue Jr. the other day when I was there. I’m sure we will be back soon. At least on June 24th for sure. I can’t make June 17th for the start of Summer Spectacular. They are notoriously not fully open on the first weekend of a seasonal event anyway. Albert’s, we do have a review out there. It’s just kind of buried. I’ll find a link.

@SoCalDisneyDad

Жыл бұрын

I believe the Albert’s review is in this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/jHpkzNWOfKqon9Y.html

@kimberlyphifer2391

Жыл бұрын

@@SoCalDisneyDad awesome! Thank you! Our kids keep asking about it, and I searched on KZread and found some random person’s vlog on rescue junior, and our kids were like, “THAT’S NOT DISNEY DAD!” 😭 Thanks for all the great content!

Are there any discounts for magic key holders?

@SoCalDisneyDad

Жыл бұрын

No. But they do offer seasonal deals. We landed one that made our fourth night free essentially as we were originally only planning 3 nights. But the deal dropped the cost per night by $200 AND gave us a $150 credit for purchases. So rather than “save” money, we added the fourth night.

Sorry not sure if you mentioned it but did you use a Travel agent or just book everything yourselves? I've always wanted to visit Hawaii. I love how you split the trip at two different hotels.

@SoCalDisneyDad

Жыл бұрын

We booked everything in Hawaii ourselves except Aulani. And the only reason we didn't book that ourselves is one of our friends is a DVP (Disney Vacation Planner) and she earns commission on sales. Costs us no extra, but she gets a small paycheck, so we figured why not?

@stephaniethoms9991

Жыл бұрын

@@SoCalDisneyDad thank you so much. I agree! Why not? I'm going to check it out. I appreciate you guys sharing your trip with us.

@FleshGolem420

Жыл бұрын

The thing about Hawaii is you need to just read up a bit on the different islands and think about what kinds of areas you would like to be in. I like the Big Island because it has a bit of everything but there's lots of options. But once you pick an island or two for a first trip it's really pretty straightforward, again using the Big Island as an example it's... big... so you would like ideally three hotels, one on the dry (Kona) side, one on the wet/jungle side (Hilo) and ideally one near Volcano National Park. Then you can figure out the details later.

@stephaniethoms9991

Жыл бұрын

@@FleshGolem420 thank you so much! I appreciate that. I'm going to check it out.