halfmonkey
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- Jan 25, 2011
We're currently looking into a trip to Oahu with our entire family for Christmas 2018. Super early planning. I don't think we're going to book Aulani as much as we would love to but I've read way too many negative reviews about crowds and since we're planning to go over Christmas break, I think that will make for a very unpleasant trip if everything we do requires us to stand in line and wait a super long time. I've read that in order to get kids into Aunty's house, people wake up at like 5 or 6am. That doesn't sound like a vacation to me.
So instead, we're planning to book a beach rental house either through VRBO or Airbnb. We booked a house through Airbnb before in Santa Barbara for our family and it was nice. Right on the cliffs over looking the ocean by UCSB. It was also over Christmas break so most of the kids went home at that time so it was actually a very quite neighborhood when we stayed.
Since that turned out to be a successful trip and rental, I think we're going to do the same thing for our Oahu trip. We're planning to rent somewhere by Waimanalo Beach.
Anybody have any tips from those that have visited Oahu and originally wanted to booked Aulani but ended up booking somewhere else?
So instead, we're planning to book a beach rental house either through VRBO or Airbnb. We booked a house through Airbnb before in Santa Barbara for our family and it was nice. Right on the cliffs over looking the ocean by UCSB. It was also over Christmas break so most of the kids went home at that time so it was actually a very quite neighborhood when we stayed.
Since that turned out to be a successful trip and rental, I think we're going to do the same thing for our Oahu trip. We're planning to rent somewhere by Waimanalo Beach.
Anybody have any tips from those that have visited Oahu and originally wanted to booked Aulani but ended up booking somewhere else?