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Thank you all! I guess we better get up a little earlier! We have always taken the boat in the past but wasn't sure how much it was running.

What do you think is the best way to get from Beach Club to HS for rope drop? Do the boats run early in the morning or are we better off walking? Thanks!

My family also enjoys good food. In fact, we plan vacations around where we are going to eat. We ate at Blue Bayou maybe 14 years ago and the food was terrible and expensive. But, my kids are 18, 17 and 12 now and they really wanted to try it for the atmosphere. My kids also wanted to see...

We were there last Thursday (6/6) from 8am -noon and had a similar experience to you (starting the day quite early). Maybe I was expecting too much from reading other people's trip reports, but the only enthusiastic CM was our waiter at Oga's who we saw very briefly (service is not that great)...

Thank you for sharing. And thanks to everyone for sharing their experiences.

I have an 8am-12pm reservation time during an EMH morning. We were planning to arrive at 6am to check-in and buy MaxPass. So, in order to use MaxPass, we will have to leave Disneyland and re-enter? Has anyone else had to do this? Or, after checking in, can we leave and re-enter for EMH--maybe...

I hope we know before check in, too, because we have dining reservations!

Marukame (2310 Kuhio) in Waikiki is great for Japanese noodles. There is usually a line, but it moves fast. It's cafeteria style. If you have adventurous eaters, my family loves Musubi Cafe Iyasume (2427 Kuhio). They make rice balls with different toppings like egg, avocado, spam, salmon, etc...

We flew United direct from Chicago to Honolulu. It was ok. It was the only direct flight, so we didn't really have a choice. What drove me nuts was that they kept changing our seating assignments and didn't tell us. I had checked our flight before we left and found that our seats changed so I...

We did the multi-person ATV tour. While we did enjoy it, we were a little disappointed that we didn't see all the movie sites I thought we would (my bad for not researching this further). But, my kids (10, 14 and 15) had a blast. Tip--if you do an ATV tour, the dust flies around like crazy and...

We flew direct to Honolulu from Chicago for spring break. I looked at stopping for a night on the west coast (to make sure we make our connection), but after factoring in luggage fees, rental car, hotel, etc., it wasn't that much more to fly direct and we saved a lot of time which meant more...

We just came back from Oahu for spring break. We spent the first few days at the Hilton Hawaiian Village and then we moved to Aulani. We did not like the Hilton Hawaiian Village--it was too busy and traffic around there was always a nightmare. We typically went out first thing in the morning...

Keep in mind, if you are in a regular hotel room or DVC studio, your refrigerator isn't that big.

No--I doubt they would let you take-out happy hour priced food. I meant that if you couldn't make it to Monkeypod to take advantage of the happy hour, getting regular take-out from there could still save you a little bit of $$ and it would be easier on the kids!

If you can't make it to Monkeypod during happy hour, you might consider getting take out from there. We had a big party so they couldn't accommodate us until late at night. We ordered take out and that worked out well. You could eat by the pool or beach and supplement with stuff from Aulani, if...

You should always snorkel with a buddy. So, I think as long as you are with your 5 year old and you don't go too far out, your 5 year old will be fine. Don't go too far out initially and see how your son does. DD10 never wanted to go far out, she was content to stay relatively close to shore...

We just got back from Aulani. If your first day happens to be on a Saturday, there is a farmer's market at the community college at the base of Diamond Head that's great!. We got up early to hike Diamond Head to watch the sunrise (we missed it by about 15 min) and then came down and got food at...

We just got back from Aulani. We went to Hanauma Bay earlier in the week and loved it. We got there around 7:15am and the first parking lot was almost full. By the time we left at 9:15am, the line to enter the park (pay the fee, visitor's center) was really, really long. Then, you have to wait...

On school nights, we will ask DS12 to get ready for bed at 9 and in bed by 9:30. He can read in bed for a bit, if he can't fall asleep. All electronics are charged in DH's office. We don't feel that they need to be texting their friends late at night/early in the morning.

We went there 2 years ago with kids ranging in age from 6 to 16. We all really enjoyed the San Diego Zoo (and we live 20 minutes from a pretty good zoo -- Brookfield Zoo). We would not go to Sea World again. We just felt like all we were doing was waiting in the hot sun for cheesy shows to...