Definitely an awesome hotel, loved every minute of...

Definitely an awesome hotel, loved every minute of it really. Unfortunately, the reason I removed a star is because of the price. We stayed in a regular hotel most of our trip and only stayed one night at Aulani. Aulani is beautiful and was better in basically every way, but it was also well over double the cost of a regular hotel, and we got a cheap room. However, I am very glad we did it. If we have the money in the future I am sure we will go back. The area is nice, we liked being outside of Honolulu and Waikiki, the hotel is beautiful, the pools are awesome, the food is great and not really any more expensive than eating out anywhere else. We tried the buffet dinner which had characters walking around, it was really fun and nice, some foods were definitely better than others but it was still a great experience. All around great place to stay, the price is just crazy.