TheDalys
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jun 14, 2012
September 18 - 26th 2013, Poolside Garden View (5th floor).
Aulani was great, the atmosphere is definetly family oriented.
Pros:
-check in was quick (online checked in before hand)
-the room was great (Deluxe Studio, just the wife and I), bath tub, regular shower and also a over head "rain" shower, balcony had a great view (could see the pools and ocean)
-the services were easy, each day you would hand your room key to the "towel cabana" worker and they would give you a colored wrist band for that days use of the pools plus however many towels you need. the were towel return boxes all over and new towels were always available.
-very relaxing- the beach, the pool, our balcony wherever we found a chair we soaked up the sun and layed back.
-the characters come out everyday, mickey minnie goofy for sure, we seen donald chip and dale a couple times but only seen stitch once. so Disney is not thrown in your face 24/7. finding the hidden mickey's was fun though.
Cons:
The only con we had (resort wise) was one we found at most restaurants but we noticed it more at Aulani (just because we were there more). The menu was time specific (things only served between this time and that time) and small menus. plus not a good vegetarian option when the menus is already small. Ya we could order with no chicken and such, but we get charged for that meat in the end. And with the set times for menus, the first couple days it was hard because our bodies were still on our home time zone clocks and our meal times were all off.
That was our only Con during the trip that Aulani had control of.
The others were:
-people laying on the beach on their cell phones having loud conversations.
-Inconsiderate picture takers (mostly of asian background, i am not racist, it was just an observation i noticed, they always ran full tilt places).
-Side walk / Hallway hoggers, i donno but when walking in a group and passing people we get in single file so that everyone is on the side walk not being pushed off by the clowns that stay in the group formation.
We had a blast though and plan on coming back when the kids are older and can handle a 13 hour travel day through 3 airports, haha.
I am going to be writting another Aulani post on things we found to make the stay cheaper in another forum on a later date.
Aulani was great, the atmosphere is definetly family oriented.
Pros:
-check in was quick (online checked in before hand)
-the room was great (Deluxe Studio, just the wife and I), bath tub, regular shower and also a over head "rain" shower, balcony had a great view (could see the pools and ocean)
-the services were easy, each day you would hand your room key to the "towel cabana" worker and they would give you a colored wrist band for that days use of the pools plus however many towels you need. the were towel return boxes all over and new towels were always available.
-very relaxing- the beach, the pool, our balcony wherever we found a chair we soaked up the sun and layed back.
-the characters come out everyday, mickey minnie goofy for sure, we seen donald chip and dale a couple times but only seen stitch once. so Disney is not thrown in your face 24/7. finding the hidden mickey's was fun though.
Cons:
The only con we had (resort wise) was one we found at most restaurants but we noticed it more at Aulani (just because we were there more). The menu was time specific (things only served between this time and that time) and small menus. plus not a good vegetarian option when the menus is already small. Ya we could order with no chicken and such, but we get charged for that meat in the end. And with the set times for menus, the first couple days it was hard because our bodies were still on our home time zone clocks and our meal times were all off.
That was our only Con during the trip that Aulani had control of.
The others were:
-people laying on the beach on their cell phones having loud conversations.
-Inconsiderate picture takers (mostly of asian background, i am not racist, it was just an observation i noticed, they always ran full tilt places).
-Side walk / Hallway hoggers, i donno but when walking in a group and passing people we get in single file so that everyone is on the side walk not being pushed off by the clowns that stay in the group formation.
We had a blast though and plan on coming back when the kids are older and can handle a 13 hour travel day through 3 airports, haha.
I am going to be writting another Aulani post on things we found to make the stay cheaper in another forum on a later date.
Glad to hear others do it too. 
