JennisSilly
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Nov 16, 2008
When we first started planning our trip to Aulani, I scoured the boards for trip reports that I could relate to our family and our trip, so I figure I should contribute back.
I'm going to be honest, I've been capturing our trip over on my blog, so I'm only going to be linking blog posts here, but I know this was all information I worked hard to track down.
(I dislike photo bucket, so there are no photos in this update, but I promise lots of photo's in my update links!)
I'm Jenn, a thirty-something nursing student and Stay at Home Mom. I've been a Disney Vacation Club Owner since 2005 (and man, do I wish I bought more points back then!) We live on the west coast, and often vacation at Disneyland, it's where I grew up and I do prefer it to Disneyworld.
My Husband is A. He's a finance type guy and grew up without taking family vacations. He's quickly grown to understand and dare I say share my love of Disney. He however is a very, very frugal man which as we all know doesn't go well most of the time with Disney Vacations.
Our DD, E, is 4 years old. She's been going to Disneyland since she was 4 months old. She's been to Disneyland more times than I can count and Disneyworld twice, so we're planing the seed early with her!
We take a family vacation every June around our anniversary. Last year we went to Disneyworld as a make up to our October 2013 trip which was...junky. In June 2014 we stayed at the Grand Floridian Villas and realized the key to a good WDW trip is monorail access. So, when our 7 month mark came up for this June, DH and I thought we'd be booking a trip to GFV, but it wasn't available. Because he didn't want to do a split stay, we decided to go to the other end of the earth and take a look at Aulani. Sure enough there was a deluxe ocean view stuido available, so we booked it!
Neither one of us had ever been to Hawaii, so this was an exciting (and nerve racking) experience for us!
I'm going to be honest, I've been capturing our trip over on my blog, so I'm only going to be linking blog posts here, but I know this was all information I worked hard to track down.
(I dislike photo bucket, so there are no photos in this update, but I promise lots of photo's in my update links!)
I'm Jenn, a thirty-something nursing student and Stay at Home Mom. I've been a Disney Vacation Club Owner since 2005 (and man, do I wish I bought more points back then!) We live on the west coast, and often vacation at Disneyland, it's where I grew up and I do prefer it to Disneyworld.
My Husband is A. He's a finance type guy and grew up without taking family vacations. He's quickly grown to understand and dare I say share my love of Disney. He however is a very, very frugal man which as we all know doesn't go well most of the time with Disney Vacations.
Our DD, E, is 4 years old. She's been going to Disneyland since she was 4 months old. She's been to Disneyland more times than I can count and Disneyworld twice, so we're planing the seed early with her!
We take a family vacation every June around our anniversary. Last year we went to Disneyworld as a make up to our October 2013 trip which was...junky. In June 2014 we stayed at the Grand Floridian Villas and realized the key to a good WDW trip is monorail access. So, when our 7 month mark came up for this June, DH and I thought we'd be booking a trip to GFV, but it wasn't available. Because he didn't want to do a split stay, we decided to go to the other end of the earth and take a look at Aulani. Sure enough there was a deluxe ocean view stuido available, so we booked it!
Neither one of us had ever been to Hawaii, so this was an exciting (and nerve racking) experience for us!
Guess we have to go back!
