TR June 17th -24th in Paradise (Completed)

[JCMCM]

We're headed on our first ever Aulani trip soon and I so enjoyed reading your report! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for sharing!

 

[DisneyMountainWoman]

We're headed on our first ever Aulani trip soon and I so enjoyed reading your report! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for sharing!

Yeah, you will love it and thank you!

 

[nascargirl]

Loved your trip report. Makes me want to return sooner than later.

 

[MsChristy12]

Day 1: Travel Day

We fly United since my parents have the United card and they are both platinum. They bought first class tickets and use their points to get us economy and then they get free upgrades so we get upgraded to economy plus. There is only one flight that leaves Denver on United each day that is direct to Oahu so that is our flight it flys out around noon.
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We live next to the airport so it is easy to get the airport. We check all our luggage through my parents since they get 6 free luggage, yeah!!

The regular security line in Denver was huge! Lots of summer travel. Luckily everyone has tsa pre check or global entry. A nice fast shorter line. Then we head to United Club level. Dad gets club passes with his credit card and then already bought passes for the rest of the group. United club level is nice. They had breakfast still out.
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View attachment 771420I got some pancakes and bacon!! My son got lots fruit.
Then went to the bar for mimosas!
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Cheers to the start of our vacation trip.
We chill here for a bit. We see the switch over to lunch. Lunch not good... glad we got breakfast.

We head down get some soda and food for the 6 hour plus plane ride and load in.

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They had screens with some great movies. We finally got to watch the new John Wick movie and I got to watch the Emmit Till movie. So did not sleep with the good movie selections My son did well with his tablet and video games. He loves his lego jurrasic world game.

This flight was not as bad as I remembered it and they even got us in early! Bonus.

We landed and grabbed the shuttle to luggage. Luggage arrived promptly. Then we went to Alamo to pick up our rental. We did it through Costco got a mini van for the week for 800 including taxes and booster seat. More than last year but not bad. We did the pre-registration so got to go strait to pick up the car. I highly recommend Alamo. We walked passed other rental car places with huge lines waiting to get their car and there was no lines for Alamo. We picked out our mini van and headed out. No issues

Next up arriving at Aulani!!

Look forward to reading your trip report! We'll be there later this year, can't wait!!

Also, I love your family's travel style...first class, upgrades, pre / global entry, lounge access...totally my jam!!

 

[MsChristy12]

If Minas fish house is too expensive, I would highly suggest coming during happy hour. The food and drinks are really good still and give u a nice taste of Minas fish house.

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**Heads up to those who want to go Mina's for Happy Hour!!**

So I just read it on a very recent Yelp review that, their HH is no longer a thing! Ughh! The review said it was still listed on their website but apparently, they stopped doing HH as of July 31. What a bummer!!

 

[DisneyMountainWoman]

**Heads up to those who want to go Mina's for Happy Hour!!**

So I just read it on a very recent Yelp review that, their HH is no longer a thing! Ughh! The review said it was still listed on their website but apparently, they stopped doing HH as of July 31. What a bummer!!

Ohh no... that is horrible. The happy hour was so nice.

 

[DisneyMountainWoman]

Loved your trip report. Makes me want to return sooner than later.

Yeah glad you enjoyed it! I have to now wait till 2025 to go back. We have bought enough points to do a 2 bedroom every other year... it will feel like forever...