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Reminded me of the high cost of parking the last time I went to downtown Los Angeles to look up something for my mother. You made me go out and peek at their current prices.... $3.50 for each 10 minutes up to a maximum of $35.00 per day.
Makes me happy to only be paying 'only $18 ' per day in San Francisco for my upcoming cruise. Every motel/hotel in SF charges for parking $20 a night and UP.
Reminded me of the high cost of parking the last time I went to downtown Los Angeles to look up something for my mother. You made me go out and peek at their current prices.... $3.50 for each 10 minutes up to a maximum of $35.00 per day.
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Makes me happy to only be paying 'only $18 ' per day in San Francisco for my upcoming cruise. Every motel/hotel in SF charges for parking $20 a night and UP.
Those prices sound like they've dropped actually. I remember when we went to San Francisco back in 2006, I looked at prices for parking and most hotels were charging $25/night then!
The hotel prices are still in that range $20 and up depending on the hotel (saw many in the $30-35 range when I was looking to book a motel for the night before the cruise)
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Monday 4 November – part six: exploring Aulani at ground level
By around 6:00pm, I knew if I didn’t move, I was just going to go to sleep. Well, on Hawaiian time, we had now been up since before midnight last night!
We headed down to reception to get vouchers for the laundry.
The painting by the elevator… … and the floor name plaque
DVC members get up to 12 of these per day if you’re staying in a studio, which is good for two washes and two dries a day. It’s great value, as each voucher would cost you $1 in the guest laundry. The detergent and fabric conditioner are also charged for, although as we had our own, I didn’t check how much they were.
With vouchers in hand, we headed back to the room, gathered up all the dirty laundry, and headed down to the first floor. Now at Aulani, the layout is a bit odd. You enter through the lobby floor, which is actually on the third floor. If you want to get out to the pool or the beach, you go out through the first floor. I know – weird huh?
We put the laundry on, and left it to get on, while we wandered around outside. We went past the Waikolohe stream, which is essentially a lazy river.
This shot came out very weird…
We also got some photos of the main lobby building. The people you can see outside are eating at the Makahiki buffet, which we’ll be eating at tomorrow night.
We got some photos of the other tower, which is the Ewa tower. We were in the Waianae tower. The DVC villas are in both.
We saw Mickey out greeting people, but didn’t stop for photos, as neither of us were really in the mood, as we were both fighting tiredness.
We had a quick look in Aunty’s Beach House for the kids…
… and found where ‘Ama Ama is.
We also had a look around Off the Hook….
… then wandered around the Waikolohe Pool, which is the family fun pool.
The whole way around here, we saw plenty of kids, although we definitely got the feel that this is also very much an adults’ resort as well.
We walked round to the new area of the resort, so new it’s not actually marked on the resort map they gave us to the Ka Maka infinity pool and grotto area…
… and the Ulu café, where we stopped to get dinner, breakfast and some refillable mugs. As they were both $18.99 each, and we’re here for eight nights, we figured we’d more than get our money’s worth. Here’s some of the selection they had available:
Purchases made, we headed back to the laundry room, and our washing was done, so we piled it into the drier and headed upstairs to have dinner. I’d opted for the summer roll…
Sorry about the awful quality of the photo. and I have to say it was pretty foul. I was expecting sushi, but did not get that at all. I can’t even begin to describe what it was. It certainly had rice and shrimp in it, but much more than that, I couldn’t enlighten you. It was just not a good choice.
Mark on the other hand got a California roll, and I had a bit of it to get rid of the taste of mine, and that was so much better.
I also had half a papaya to finish off. When we were done eating, we went down, and got the washing, which was completely dry – we were very impressed, as often you have to put the dryer on more than once at Disney World.
We were both fading fast, so we headed to bed. I was so glad we had finally made it here, but my goodness, getting here had been exhausting.
The weather today was cloudy with some rain and in the high 50s when we arrived in Dallas Fort Worth The best thing today was finally arriving at Aulani after a long day of travelling. The worst thing today was spending the whole day travelling. Today we tried flying to Hawaii And the result was it was exhausting, but well worth it when we got to Aulani. The most magical moment today was getting our first glimpse of Aulani.
Next: we’ve got plenty of time to make it to Pearl Harbor…
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up to a maximum of $35.00 per day. 
to only be paying 'only $18 ' per day in San Francisco for my upcoming cruise. Every motel/hotel in SF charges for parking $20 a night and UP.
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to the Ka Maka infinity pool and grotto area…
I can’t even begin to describe what it was. It certainly had rice and shrimp in it, but much more than that, I couldn’t enlighten you. It was just not a good choice. 
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