All this Hawaii talk got me thinking ... we have an upcoming trip to Maui at the end of the month for Spring Break. DS and DH are going for 5 days, but DD and me are hanging out an additional 5 days. I just added on to my DVC with BLT points and had 88 that were going to expire May 31st. After adding a night to my Dark Side reservation at AKL, I had 56 points to play with. I looked at Aulani, which we've always wanted to stay at but haven't because we have a place in Maui, and what do you think popped up? Yep, two nights in a studio for 54 points right in the middle of our stay. Clearly it was meant to be! Even better, as Hawaiian Airlines has a bunch of travel partners for interisland flights, I was able to use 7,000 straggler miles in the kids United accounts for one way tickets back to Maui (I could have also used Delta, American or Virgin Atlantic miles). Cost a little under $11 and 14,000 miles total. I had almost enough miles in my Hawaiian airlines account to take care of the other one-way tickets to Honolulu and filled in the difference with a few thousand MR. Cost on that $11 and 15,000 miles total. So we have an almost free (using my math
) 2 night trip to check out Aulani. The only problem is DS. We are keeping it a secret from him as he will not be happy. This thread is clearly dangerous
to the group and out of lurkdom. Everyone here is super friendly and helpful so don't be shy. We have a very diverse group with travel goals than span the entire spectrum. They range from travel for as few points and as economically as possible once in a great while to travel as often as possible in the most comfortable manner as possible no matter how many points it takes. So no matter what your travel goal(s) winds up being, someone here can help. 
