CaliforniaGirl09
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Dec 4, 2009
I'm so excited. I just closed on an add-on-BLT resale contract and had some banked points that were due to expire at the end of May. The points showed up in my account on Thursday. I added a night to our Dark Side stay in April at AKL, which left me with 56 points. I didn't want to hassle with trying to rent them last minute and realized that we were going to be in Maui for ten days over Spring Break (at least DD18 and I will be--poor DS21 and DH have to fly back earlier). DISers on another thread were talking about Aulani, and it suddenly occurred to me that we could do a quick island hop over there in the middle of our Maui stay. We have a place to stay in Maui so we don't pay for accommodation so I'm not double paying Luck was with me, and I was able to score an Island Garden View Studio for two nights for exactly the nights I wanted. I'm *thrllled*. What a fun use of these points that might have gone to waste. We've been dying to check it out, but when you have free accommodations in Maui, it's a little harder to motivate to spend the points. I was able to get the interisland flights with straggler miles in different FF accounts so that made it pretty painless.
Of course, I'm already making up for all my savings with my other plans. I've read through a bunch of the recent threads on this board to get ideas. I've booked a Cabana at the Adult pool for our getaway day. We fly out late so we'll have all day. DD18 is a redhead and the $$ is worth it to not have to hunt down shade chairs for our one long pool day. I booked an excursion to Pearl Harbor on the full day since DD18 hasn't been there. I booked Ama Ama for breakfast one day, and the character buffet dinner at Mahakiki on our arrival night. I'm thinking about heading over to Michael Mina's restaurant at the Four Seasons for our other dinner, but I'm not sure whether they'll let DD18 in for happy hour menu? We have Monkeypod on Maui so don't want to eat there. I was tempted on Ray's, but it sounds as if it might not be walkable? Any other restaurant recommendations?
We won't have a car. I'm planning to just use the flat rate taxi option.
Any don't miss things to do on our pool day? Lazy river will be #1. If any of you have stayed in an island garden view studio, I'd appreciate help with my location requests. So far, I'm going with high floor, but should I request a certain room or building?
Thanks for the help
Of course, I'm already making up for all my savings with my other plans. I've read through a bunch of the recent threads on this board to get ideas. I've booked a Cabana at the Adult pool for our getaway day. We fly out late so we'll have all day. DD18 is a redhead and the $$ is worth it to not have to hunt down shade chairs for our one long pool day. I booked an excursion to Pearl Harbor on the full day since DD18 hasn't been there. I booked Ama Ama for breakfast one day, and the character buffet dinner at Mahakiki on our arrival night. I'm thinking about heading over to Michael Mina's restaurant at the Four Seasons for our other dinner, but I'm not sure whether they'll let DD18 in for happy hour menu? We have Monkeypod on Maui so don't want to eat there. I was tempted on Ray's, but it sounds as if it might not be walkable? Any other restaurant recommendations?
We won't have a car. I'm planning to just use the flat rate taxi option.
Any don't miss things to do on our pool day? Lazy river will be #1. If any of you have stayed in an island garden view studio, I'd appreciate help with my location requests. So far, I'm going with high floor, but should I request a certain room or building?
Thanks for the help