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Very cool show. I'm guessing better than your average Waikiki Luau tourist trap show. I, too, am surprised at how many people are suddenly at the resort! They haven't been in the pool area recently....
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Definitely a different scene with all the people by the time the pre-show started. What an entertaining way to learn some more history, too. I was snickering from the moment you said the guys could really shake their things.
Very cool show. I'm guessing better than your average Waikiki Luau tourist trap show. I, too, am surprised at how many people are suddenly at the resort! They haven't been in the pool area recently....
Unless of course it attracts locals as well... There are some properties in Ko Olina itself and there's no reason why people couldn't come here just to see the show from anywhere on the island - all they'd have to pay is the parking for a couple of hours.
Definitely a different scene with all the people by the time the pre-show started. What an entertaining way to learn some more history, too. I was snickering from the moment you said the guys could really shake their things.
Haven't had much of a chance to comment so far (except to remind you that YES you can get Dole Whips at the plantation!), but everything is looking so wonderful! You certainly had some adventures on the other islands (good and bad), and it looks like you've managed to see quite a bit of Hawaii. I can't believe it's almost time for you to leave! You're making me want to be in Hawaii right now!!!
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Haven't had much of a chance to comment so far (except to remind you that YES you can get Dole Whips at the plantation!), but everything is looking so wonderful! You certainly had some adventures on the other islands (good and bad), and it looks like you've managed to see quite a bit of Hawaii.
We certainly did - and I'm glad we got to see so much, as all the islands we visited were beautiful and well worth a visit.
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I can't believe it's almost time for you to leave! You're making me want to be in Hawaii right now!!!
Oh don't talk about leaving. I cannot begin to tell you how long I put off working on our leaving day, as I didn't want to relive it again. I want to go back as well....
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Monday 11 November – part ten: the highlight of the show!
Then Uncle introduced us to what was the highlight of the show – a duo of ukulele players called Heart and Soul, also known as Mike and TJ I believe. These guys were just amazing. I am not particularly a fan of ukuleles, mainly because up until this evening, I didn’t think it was a particularly versatile instrument, and there wasn’t much you could do with it.
Well, how wrong can you be? These guys were amazing, and the ukuleles ended up being used more like guitars than anything else. I’m struggling with some of the songs they played, as I recognised them, but couldn’t place them, but there was a snatch of Yankie Doodle Dandy in there, and I definitely remember the Wipeout. They got the biggest round of applause of the night, and rightly so. I think I could watch a show from these guys on their own, they were that good.
Then we were into the finale dance…
The cast took their bows…
… but of course it wouldn’t be a Disney show without characters, right? We’d been waiting for them throughout the show, and I was now beginning to wonder whether they would actually appear, but of course they did – the whole range of characters you can find here, and trust me, there aren’t many of them. It’s literally just Mickey, Minnie, Chip and Dale, Goofy, and Stitch, and that’s it.
That’s one criticism I do have here, I was expecting more characters – Donald, Daisy and Lilo, given that she’s Hawaiian, as a bare minimum, and it really surprised me that they weren’t here. And guys I know we’ve discussed this already in the earlier segments of the trip report, but please bear in mind this was written at the time – i.e. mid November 2013 Maybe it’s something that will grow in time, but given that the resort’s been open for a couple of years, I doubt it. To me, without more characters, and a few more Photopass photographers out and about, Photopass is never going to work here. We’d talked about how they could offer private Photopass sessions, as I think they do (or certainly did) at the various Disney World resorts. Now an hour with a photographer, getting lots of shots of us around the resort, that’s something I’d pay for the CD of.
Anyway, the characters did a dance routine, with the audience encouraged to join in. We joined in by snapping photos…
They went into a second dance, but we looked at each other and decided to head back to the room. The whole Starlit Hui had been a lot of fun, and we’d really enjoyed it. I’d recommend it to anyone who comes to stay at Aulani, although we both agreed that we felt we got more out of it from seeing it later in our stay, as we understood more of the references to both Aulani and Oahu in the various songs. It was a good way to round off our final night here.
With that, we headed back to the room, getting a few final photos of the resort at night.
Public telephones with a menehune on top!
When we got back to the room, it was the sad task of packing. We started with one case, piling in there everything that we shouldn’t need again this vacation, and it’s pretty full already. I’m not too worried (at this stage anyway!) about the weight of our cases, given that they weren’t that full or heavy when we flew out here… but we’ll see what happens in the morning.
I did say to Mark that, wonderful as it has been to put down roots for so long in one hotel (I don’t remember the last time we did that with a hotel ), it makes the packing all the more painful…
The weather today was hot and sunny, albeit quite windy, with temperatures in the high 80s. The best thing today was the Starlit Hui. The worst thing today was Mark falling over and hurting himself. Today we tried going to the Starlit Hui And the result was it was a lot of fun. The most magical moment today was seeing all the memorials at the National MemorialCemetery of the Pacific on Veterans’ Day and remembering the sacrifices these people had made for us over the years.
What a great show! Glad you enjoyed it!
It is a bummer about the characters, you would think that is something very simple to rectify - as well as the PP photographer - what a great place to do sessions.......they are missing out there for sure
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Glad you enjoyed the show! It does seem like a perfect thing to do on your last night. Do they hold the show if it rains? I thought the same thing about Photopass when I saw Aulani as an option on the site. Unless they had photographers at the pools, beach and meals, like the Shutters photogs do on DCL, how would it be worth it?
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What an entertaining way to learn some more history, too. I was snickering from the moment you said the guys could really shake their things. 
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There are some properties in Ko Olina itself and there's no reason why people couldn't come here just to see the show from anywhere on the island - all they'd have to pay is the parking for a couple of hours.
I cannot begin to tell you how long I put off working on our leaving day, as I didn't want to relive it again. 
I want to go back as well....
that's entirely possible...
I am not particularly a fan of ukuleles, mainly because up until this evening, I didn’t think it was a particularly versatile instrument, and there wasn’t much you could do with it. 
Maybe it’s something that will grow in time, but given that the resort’s been open for a couple of years, I doubt it. To me, without more characters, and a few more Photopass photographers out and about, Photopass is never going to work here. 
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