You call her Boots, and I call her Lt. Uhura. I think it's fitting that they included the communications officer in the ride about the history of communication.
"Wallcot" is an apt description, and will resonate for everyone who has been there in the past year or so.
Glad you got to celebrate your birthday at Teppan Edo! What flavor ice cream was it?
Yes, Disney was quite clever in setting up Spaceship Earth, and I hope they don’t change it too much. We all feel the communications officer is the star of the show.
The walls still feel strange, and you can’t walk straight through the middle, but the theming of the Guardians of the Galaxy ride is coming along nicely and hides that giant building.
The ice cream was regular vanilla soft serve, which I enjoyed. I have tried the green tea flavor before and didn’t love it. Sometimes simple vanilla is great.
$96!!!! Yikes! And that's without any ILLs.
Yeah, the problem is the six people, but we weren’t going to only do it for some of us. Also they say it is $15 a person, but tax makes it close to $16 so it adds up.
As always, your photos are spectacular.
Aww, thanks. It was pretty dark and overcast that morning but I had fun.
Did you find
Genie+ worth it for Epcot? We are planning on it for our HS/MK day.
So frustrating! And very expensive.....
We did not feel
It was worth the cost for our Epcot day, but with better luck it might have been. Our problem is we do t spend all day in the parks, which limits the value we get from Genie +.
I would wear that dress if they made it in adult sizes. So pretty for summer!
Yes! Allie may have to make her own bigger one someday, or convince Mom to.
I haven't dined there in many years but your positive reviews make me want to try it again.
It gets mediocre reviews online, but often from people who order the standard steak or maybe chicken. I will still put that filet up against any other on property. Mmmmm and that sauce.
A stressful start to your day but seems things turned around. I just hate the whole Genie+ thing. I liked outlining my day with fast passes from the comfort of home. With thousands of people getting on MDE at 7 am is a recipe for frustrations. Glad to hear it did save you time on Soarin and Spaceship Earth. Maybe by end of day you felt like it was worth the $$? Your lunch looks so good - I am putting that on my dining list for our next trip!
Yeah, it is frustrating to have a mad rush for getting “fast passes” and not being able to schedule it out like we would have preferred. It was not worth the cost for us, but it isn’t designed for people who do parks the way we do.
Teppan Edo is consistently great for us, especially since I started ordering the better steak.
That will be a lot of fun, and warm, too.
I am jealous of the west coast people who can fly to Hawaii so easily. It is a really long flight from Chicago. We were last there in 2008 and the way they have cut the luxuries, including food service from the 11 hour non-stop flight has made it a lot less appealing of a trip. Is this your first trip to Hawaii?
Yeah, it will be a shorter flight than Disney is for us, although we will still have to deal with LAX. It is our first time in Hawaii for any of us, so it will be a new experience.
I heard that Remy was the most popular ride in France. It is nice to hear that they made it the same in Epcot.
It is the busiest ride right now in Epcot too. It is a nice ride, but the hype should die down a bit.
This is probably the best feature of Genie+, being able to grab a ride with just a few minutes of wait time. I like that you are able to use Genie+ in multiple parks.
But we haven't bought Genie+ yet and I'm not sure we will.
Yeah, we were optimistic about being able to get things spontaneously, but the more popular rides booked up really early in the day
This is a brilliant idea! We got rained on during our last trip and if I had known about this trick I would have gone back into the park later that night.
Melissa came up with a great plan and it worked perfectly.
Of course you are going to have your favorite meal on your birthday. I love your hat, by the way. I've seen people walking around Epcot with that hat. I thought they bought them but maybe not.
It was a great meal and I’m glad we got it on my birthday. The hat was cute, and people thought it was a Remy inspired hat and asked me where Remy was. It kind of made me wosh I had bought the RC one like Marshall’s Emille.
YES! Go to Monkeypod lol. It's one of the restaurants in the nearby shopping center, it is walking distance. It was a top highlight of our trip. We also really enjoyed renting DVDs from the community room and just lounging on the couch in the evenings with the patio doors open seeing the sunset and the waves and watching movies (not a ton of night life). The shave ice with condensed milk sounds weird- it is great. Poke bowls were what my partner ate every day for lunch. We also did a car service one day to drive around the whole island, which was pretty cool to see so many spots. Stopped for lunch at Turtle Bay which we loved too. All in all, we loved Aulani, BUT we also love Hawaii in general so we were easy to please. Do you know about the secret beach to see turtles at just past the four seasons?
Thanks for all the great tips. We will definitely try Monkeypod. We will have a car for the whole time, so we are looking forward to doing some exploring around the island besides Aulani. We will also look into to the beach past the four seasons. Very cool stuff, thanks!
