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After all I grew up here eating in the kitchens of my family and friends. I am very jaded when it comes to local food in Hawaii. Come to Aulani, to relax and re-discover your inner child, adults will love it too. Mickey and I have come a long way together from the days of the Mickey Mouse Club on the TV. I could have remained on the lanai all day looking out but there are restaurants, cultural programs, docent tours, artwork everywhere, a beach to walk, and a spa to explore.
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My room had a peaceful ocean view to the west of the coastline towards Nanakuli. The word "olelo" means language and here the servers and bartenders will teach you Hawaiian words for anything you ask. I loved the Olelo Room patio featuring live Hawaiian music by local luminaries in Hawaiian music like Jerry Santos and Tony Conjugacion. There are also plenty of quiet spots where adults can relax. They have "Aunty's Beach House" a kids-only day program housed in a place that feels like you stepped back to your tutu's (grandparent) house if you were lucky enough to grow up in Hawaii like I did. A swim in the Wailana Pool, a float down the Waikolohe Stream or a snorkel at the Rainbow Reef were just the thing to cool down. And the west side is sunny, very sunny when I was there the temp hovered around 89 degrees F. If you are not familiar with this ocean-front property in the Ko Olina resort area it is on the west side of the island not in Waikiki. But finally the "kid" curiosity in me won out and I was off to Oahu. I will admit that I was a little apprehensive to stay at what I thought was a kids-centric property. Babysitters are available for kids as young as six weeks old.
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Perhaps best of all, the Aulani has an outstanding, supervised kids’ club that’s free to guests ages 3 to 12. Hawaiian storytellers gather around a fire pit at night, and rooms have warm woods, with a single subtle reference to the Mouse King-a wooden carving of Mickey with a surfboard and ukulele that doubles as a desk lamp. The resort decor is more traditionally Hawaiian than obnoxiously Magic Kingdom the lobby is built to recall an old canoe house, on a grand scale, and is covered in murals, painted by local artists, depicting island life. But while Aulani is most assuredly every kid’s dream, it is not every parent’s nightmare. Goofy, Minnie, Mickey, and the rest-all in their vacation outfits-make occasional cameos at the breakfast buffet or by (sometimes, in) the pool.
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Then there are the three pools, including one for adults only and one filled with tropical fish for snorkelers-in-training, two impressive waterslides, and the biggest crowd-pleaser of them all, a 900-foot-long lazy river where guests, big and small, splash around on inner tubes as they meander around a faux-rock grotto. And who can blame them? The beach is an idyllic cove (albeit a man-made one) stocked with kayaks, boogie boards, and everything else little beach bums could want. Aulani, A Disney Resort and SpaA Hawaiian fantasyland on Oahu’s more remote leeward coast, about 40 minutes from Waikiki, Aulani is so seductive-for all ages-that many guests are loath to leave the property at all.