Yes.
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The beef for me. And a mai tai.
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The beef was tempting. Especially with the broccolini.
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Ok airport service sucks. I’ll fix this later
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DS said beef was really good. I couldn’t see his tray from my seat
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Welcome back to the mainland! Crazy that you went from Hawaii all the way to Charlotte! That is a looooong flight.
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It was only 8 hrs. DH said we had tail winds
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The only parking spot we could find was in short term. Remember we started out getting to airport and it said, “Lot full, please exit”. We didn’t
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It’s ok. We really didn’t spend a lot in Hawaii and I knew when we parked I estimated the cost.
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This shocks me. We spent so much money it was ridiculous.
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Us too. But we did a lot of planned activities/excursions ($$$$), we are not hang at the resort types for more than half a day, and we don’t cook on vacation (and enjoy finer dining like you). Dining out every night for a family of 4 in Hawaii is $$$$. You and I travel similarly, but not everyone is willing to part with so much $$$$ (and many just enjoy a low key/low activity restful kind of trip).
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The food at Aulani was typical over priced Disney food, but worse. The lack of nutritious options was appalling to me. Vegetables were horribly lacking. Ulu Cafe had grab and go salads like you can get at a gas station. The parks ( especially DL) do a much better job of nutritious options.
We didn’t do any excursions BC we’ve both lived there before and had old haunts we wanted to go back to. It was more like being at a lake cabin vacation for us and it was perfect.
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Sorry about the Aulani food, but there are lots of great restaurants in Ko Olina. I wouldn’t have eaten at Aulani much either! Longhi’s is amazing, Roy’s is too. Monkeypod Kitchen is fun, love Eggs n Things for breakfast. We stayed next door to Aulani in January, but didn’t really have the desire to visit (did on our last Oahu trip for QS and a Mickey ice cream sandwich). It’s a beautiful resort, but not somewhere I would want to eat all my meals.
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So true–we do travel a lot alike. I made breakfast on some mornings, but we did have dinner out and we have 4 adults who are old enough to drink. That got quite expensive. And we did do a lot of excursions as well. So it was expensive but fun!
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