Checking in to Disney's Aulani | Ocean View Room Tour, Monkeypod & More

[@jennifergonzalez6236]

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

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

It is! Hawaii was beautiful all around.

[@carouselkim8992]

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

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

Sunset was super beautiful there.

[@joym-ah5482]

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 😊

[@aimsack]

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

[@lisabostrack24]

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]

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

[@paulmoeller5220]

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

[@ReezA.MP3]

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

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

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]

THANKS !!!!

[@nintendogamedude]

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]

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

[@nintendogamedude]

@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]

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

[@nintendogamedude]

@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

[@beckyrichardson8585]

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]

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]

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]

@@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]

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]

@@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.

[@andreahawkins5890]

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]

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

[@kimberlyphifer2391]

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]

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]

I believe the Albert’s review is in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHeTm6aLgax1pdU

[@kimberlyphifer2391]

@@SoCalDisneyDad awesome! Thank you! Our kids keep asking about it, and I searched on KZbin 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!

[@AlysonGardner-g5h]

I love POG tooo. best drink ever

[@kjc_cal2112]

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]

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]

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

[@AreuisCoolKid]

All that food looks delicious 😋

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

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.

[@AreuisCoolKid]

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

[@barbaramallon4318]

We just back from Aulani last Thursday morning

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

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

[@skyeblue5669]

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

[@Douglas-1994]

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

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

Awesome!

[@jmd1036]

Are there any discounts for magic key holders?

[@SoCalDisneyDad]

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.

[@stephaniethoms9991]

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]

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]

@@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]

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]

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

[@mmh290]

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

[@lauri-jeancarlson8476]

Aloha

[@jiepper]

Can you bring your own snacks to the pool area?