Aulani & HHI for Tween boys?

[kdh123]

I am looking for information about Aulani and also Hilton Head Island regarding activities for an 11 year old boy and/or a 13 year old boy! Thank you!

 

[ldo]

for HHI, my kids that age liked the following: fishing, crab pot at the end of the dock (buy at DVC $5, get chicken necks, etc. at grocery store), swimming in the ocean with just a mask, making sand castles/forts/burying Dad in sand, pm beach hunts for crabs with flashlights, outdoor pm movies at DVC, riding bikes (DVC has all sizes, reasonable rates), crafts (they decorated cork boards to put WDW pins on last year $15, tye dye), smores by the DVC fire pit. At 11, they loved the DVC party by the pool. At 13, too cool for that.
For Hawaii, if you have a car, maybe geocaching. You could put your own geocaches at places in HHI, if there aren't any. Get GPS and practice in your local area/join geocaching online 1st.
For our Hawaii trip that got canx, I was going to go to the Kualoa Ranch and do the 1/2 or full day tour, including movie sites, snorkel off shore, luau, and drive the island, go to Dole pineapple plantation.

 

[AKMOUSE]

We had three boys ages 14,14,12 and a 9 year old girl.
This was 2 families at Aulani in October. The kids stayed busy. The resort was very vacant (great time to go) and they ran ALL DAY LONG. They were in the lazy river, slides and doing the Auntie Scavenger Hunt. They stayed in the resort area and had a blast.

We are all planning to go back.

 

[amym2]

We were at Aulani the week before DS turned 12, and honestly he would have been happy just in the lazy river and water slides all day long, with a little bit of time at the beach/lagoon. He's not really much of a pool kid, but he loved Aulani! He also enjoyed the Menehune Trail (scavenger hunt using a tablet). We didn't have time, but I think he would have liked the ukulele lessons too. And of course there are gaming systems in the community hall. Since DD9 was there, too, we all did the hula lessons, and DS was a good sport about that, but I doubt he'd recommend it. He definitely would recommend the Makahiki breakfast buffet, and he enjoyed the kalua pork on rice buns at Ama Ama. He's a scrawny little thing, but he does love to eat.

Off-property we went to the Dole Plantation and North Shore (Giovanni's Shrimp Truck, Turtle Beach). DS is a huge history buff, so he also enjoyed the Polynesian Cultural Center and Pearl Harbor (USS Arizona was closed due to gov't shutdown, did USS Missouri).