Well we went to the first show, here is my review. Lets just say we have been to many Luaus in Oahu and Maui also the Sprit of Aloha in WDW (we love that show) which is half the price, so we are thinking this will be pretty good. I mean the only one that is close to this price is the one at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel which was amazing. Boy was I wrong.
The first issue, they are missing tables and chairs for about half the guests. I mean how does that even happen, its a reserved event, how do you not have enough seatings. So we start with a drink which was pretty good, then we got some appetizers, WRONG, that is the buffet meal. Pork sliders, cocoanut shrimp that looks like it comes from Costco, and some little thing with cut up bell peppers. That's it, oh except for the little cupcake for desert. I would put the value of the meal at about $8.
Now for a background, we have been to the Mothers day brunch at the
disneyland hotel, back when they had one, and their buffet was amazing, and half the price. Those were easily twice as good as any vegas buffet, plus they had live music and the Disney princesses.
Maybe the entertainment can save this. SO we start off with the standard luau company dancers, who were good, they do about two dances then they stop. Ok then we get this lecture about the Tahitian terrace, that they show on two TVs, now we were in the first row and we could not see the TVs very well so I can not imagine what the people in the back were thinking.
Then we sit for a half an hour wondering if its over, but oh my the dancers start up again. Three dances in about 10 minutes then they say they are done. Really that's it.
We left scratching out heads, how can anyone blow a luau. We did get a free mug and a picture that were nice.
One more note, when we got there my wife noted the decorations were these fake tikis they were selling at Home Depot. No expense spared.
OK one more thing, so we got a nice necklace with cocoa beads, but on examination the cocoa beads were plastic. I mean really, I know at the the Waikiki ABCs you can buy a real cocoa bead necklace for about $4, for $150 could we not spring for real nuts.
