Hello friends, I hope you are well! Today I am sharing a recap of our Disneymoon! We got back a few weeks ago from Disneyland in California and Aulani resort in Hawaii! I’ll be sharing the plans we had for each day as well as what we actually did, and will definitely be sharing more in the future! Okay, without further ado let’s jump in!
The Plans: fly to LAX and get a shuttle to our hotel, Check in, and run to Disneyland! Lunch at Cafe Orleans, dinner at Carthay Circle, and watch Paint the Night!
basically ran to Disneyland and were in the park by noon!
The Plans: Magic Morning at Disneyland, dinner at Blue Bayou, get MaxPass and Fastpasses for Fantasmic!
got MaxPass and did SO MANY THINGS. I totally recommend getting it if you can and will be sharing a post all about it soon!
The Plans: Hop between Disneyland and Disney California Adventure, and finish up what we hadn’t done. See Mickey and The Magical Map and Believe! In Holiday Magic (fireworks). Breakfast at Carnation Cafe.
breakfast at Carnation Cafe, I got Mickey waffles!
walked around Downtown Disney and grabbed pizza to take back to our hotel and packed up to fly to Hawaii in the morning!
arrived at Aulani right around 4pm for check in!
parking tip: (ours was free because we are DVC members) go to the lower floors instead of going higher in the parking structure, there were consistently spots open on P2!
checked into out room, got ready for dinner!
Dinner at ‘Ama ‘Ama right during sunset, honestly one of the best meals of my life!
explored the resort a little before heading to bed!
stumbled upon a surfing competition!
got stuck in traffic for about an hour!
headed back to Aulani, and relaxed by the pool for the rest of the day! My feet were done after Diamond Head, so we didn’t do the other hike we planned.
helicopter tour that left from Ko Olina, so it was a 2 min drive from Aulani!
Our tour was actually cancelled because not enough people had signed up, and we found our around lunch the day before. Because it was the day before, when we tried to book something directly with Koaloa ranch, everything was booked up. It was a bummer because it was the one thing I really wanted to do, but luckily they let us know that the horseback riding was being replaced with ATV-ing, so we booked horseback riding separately. Lesson learned!
So, we had another resort day and spent time relaxing at the adults only pool! Since we would be getting a refund for the most expensive tour we had booked, we ending uo making another reservation for ‘Ama ‘Ama for dinner! And for breakfast we went to Island Vintage Coffee across the street, and I got an açai bowl that was delicious! I’m sad we didn’t go there earlier in the trip because we definitely would have gone back!
headed to the Laniwai spa around 10am to enjoy the hydrotherapy showers before our massages at 11!
said goodbye to one of the nicest hotels I’ve ever stayed in, Aulani!
If you’d like to hear more about our trip, check out the video below!
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sounds like you had such a great time! isn’t Oahu wonderful? 🙂 did you actually get 18 malasadas??