Mykhailo Nahirniak: 0:23

So today, on Miles from Main Street, we have a special guest. Her name is Paige Lewis. How are we doing today, Paige?

Paige Lewis: 0:31

Great.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 0:33

Your dad tells me that you recently came home from Hawaii.

Paige Lewis: 0:38

Yes, I did.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 0:39

That's awesome. We want to hear all about it.

Bryan Lewis: 0:44

She's a very spoiled brat. Okay, maybe not the brat part, but yeah, my mother-in-law, her grandmother, took her to Hawaii and we're going to talk about it and I can't wait for you guys to hear all about her trip, because it was quite amazing. But before we get into that, you know what I'm going to say Need to share the show and give us a review on your favorite podcast app, and I know that Apple and Spotify has reviews, so if you could get out there and review them, review us on there, that would be awesome. So, Paige, you get to go to Hawaii. How long were you there?

Paige Lewis: 1:25

Five nights, six days.

Bryan Lewis: 1:29

That's a pretty good time.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 1:31

That's a good amount of time. Yes, yes.

Bryan Lewis: 1:33

With Hawaii.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 1:35

I mean, I've never been to Hawaii but it sounds like a fun, long, luxurious trip.

Paige Lewis: 1:42

Yes, so it was very fun, very pretty.

Bryan Lewis: 1:46

It's very pretty. So we were talking a little bit before we hit the record button. We were talking a little bit about just how it was when you got there. So landing at the airport, getting through all that, how'd that?

Paige Lewis: 2:01

go. It was pretty good, it went pretty smooth getting there. When we first got, when we got into the airport at Hawaii, there was a long walk to baggage claim but once we got our bags and stuff, our shuttle leid us, put leis on us.

Bryan Lewis: 2:26

And that was not anyone in the airport, because when I've watched movies or any videos about Hawaii, I always thought there was just somebody in the airport that was going, hey, welcome to Hawaii and giving you a lei.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 2:39

Well, I've only seen in movies where people get off private planes and as soon as they get off the plane they're giving them a lei. But I would assume that a lot of people use regular planes not small little private planes, so I guess that makes sense.

Paige Lewis: 2:56

It was Hale Hale shuttle service.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 3:00

So the shuttle service is this a specifically Disney shuttle or is this just a shuttle that takes you anywhere?

Paige Lewis: 3:10

I'm not sure.

Bryan Lewis: 3:13

I'm pretty certain this is a private service that they were using, not related to Disney. So how long was the trip from the airport to Aulani?

Paige Lewis: 3:26

It took so traffic. We were told it starts about three and we kind of hit before traffic so it only took. So it only took us like an hour to get there. Okay, Well that's probably a little less.

Bryan Lewis: 3:41

That's pretty good and you get to see the countryside as you went right. Yes, we did Cool, all right. So you got to Aulani. I know you had told me that you didn't want to do the online check-in. You wanted to do it. You wanted to go to the desk. How'd that go?

Paige Lewis: 3:58

It was good. Why we wanted to go to the desk is because we were told that that's when you would get your lays, not when we got to the airport with our shuttle service.

Bryan Lewis: 4:09

No, basically it was regular check-in to a hotel, no lei or anything at that point.

Paige Lewis: 4:16

We got the front desk lady kind of showed us the map and where to go for things and then gave us our buttons for our first time being there. And then we were celebrating my birthday, so I got a birthday button.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 4:31

So this is a question I've had for a while and it already kind of sounds like a typical Disney check-in where they like, they like slap the map down of the hotel and they're like okay, this is the main lobby, this is where your room is. If you walk this way, this is how you get there. And I've wondered for a while and maybe this is kind of like a big question that we can answer throughout the podcast but did it feel like just like a fancy Disney hotel that you were going to, or did it feel more of like a location? Did you get those like Disney World hotel vibes or did it feel like a completely different kind of thing?

Paige Lewis: 5:14

I feel like it felt like a Disney hotel because they were all very nice. You got all like. You had the Disney stuff that they'd give you, like they would normally give you at a hotel, with the map and stuff.

Bryan Lewis: 5:31

So you kind of felt that Disney touch though the hospitality that they provide.

Paige Lewis: 5:37

Yes, because as soon as we got there, actually, the bell service was right there and took our bags from us and brought them up to our room.

Bryan Lewis: 5:45

Nice, was your room ready right away? Yes, it was.

Paige Lewis: 5:47

And it was before actual check-in time Nice, nice.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 5:52

So what was something about the hotel that you liked? I know that I've seen pictures of the lobby. The lobby looks really big. I heard that that's pretty cool.

Paige Lewis: 6:04

Yeah, so when you first walk in it's open, so it's a big open area. It has all of the pretty paintings on it, so pretty like architecture, like the tiki wooden stuff that you know Hawaii for and then you have it's open and you just see the view of the beach and the pools and like the garden area when you first walk in and then when you go off to the side they have more of the architecture and the painting and stuff over to the where you check in.

Bryan Lewis: 6:40

I know you guys did a lot of, like, specialty meals and you did some an excursion of some sort, but beyond that, like of the activities around the hotel, what were some of the things that you enjoyed?

Paige Lewis: 6:56

I enjoyed meeting the characters. There were many fun ones. They had many different ones that I feel like you can meet at the parks, Like they had Max. They had Max Goofy's son.

Bryan Lewis: 7:12

But you don't, I mean you can't meet him. I think he might meet at Disneyland a little bit, doesn't he?

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 7:17

He well, he meets at as a power line Max at Hollywood Studios, but you don't you never really like meet like regular Max anywhere.

Bryan Lewis: 7:26

Okay, so that's cool.

Paige Lewis: 7:28

They had like Stitch and Angel together at some points.

Bryan Lewis: 7:32

Nice.

Paige Lewis: 7:32

They did pairs too, so, like Daisy and Dot and Donald, mickey and Minnie, and they were all in their. A lot of them were in their Halloween costumes. There's also Goofy and Max together too, which was cool to see, oh that would be really cool.

Bryan Lewis: 7:47

So one thing I wanted to say is that she video called us at one point and kind of walked around the grounds with us and we got to say, hey, how about go over here? What's going on there? But the one thing that stuck out to me, like I kind of thought, like this, the, the meet and greets, would kind of be like easy to do, like you know. But she was like oh, there's I don't remember who was meeting at the time, but Chip and Dale, I think, was one of them oh, chip and Dale's meeting over there, and the line was like a mile long. I'm like, oh, so that was something that kind of burst my bubble, I guess, is that you know, like the meet and greets will take time.

Paige Lewis: 8:34

Yeah, so what? When I was doing research before our trip, I found that if you really want to meet someone, to go 15 minutes before, especially if they're more of like a character that is more rare to see or someone you really want to see, because they'll eventually switch out and you might not get to see them.

Bryan Lewis: 8:56

So I know you met Mickey and you met a couple of other characters. Is that what you did? Is got there early like that?

Paige Lewis: 9:03

Actually, the first day we were there we went to two and we kind of just hit them right at the perfect times. There was no line. We hit Pluto, I think, and then we went over to Mickey and we waited for like a minute and we got to see Mickey. But when we went to see Stitch on the last day we were there earlier and there ended up being a really long line for that one.

Bryan Lewis: 9:27

Okay, but you did get to meet Stitch, so that's good.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 9:33

That's interesting to me. I guess I don't know why I would think that like, oh, they wouldn't have characters. In Hawaii it is a Disney hotel and it's like probably one of the only Disney things that they have around there, so it makes sense that they would have characters. But that is cool because it kind of like feels like it almost like when you're talking about it. It almost feels like it is like a Disney park that you're going to and they have like meet and greets places. So that's pretty cool.

Paige Lewis: 10:04

Yeah, I like that. You would see anyone like you'd be in your swimsuit. You just get to go, sit on the line for the character and stuff. There wasn't like a special place, you had to go. They were all over the grounds at Wani.

Bryan Lewis: 10:19

Awesome. So, like I said, you did go do some special meals. What kind of meals did you get to do?

Paige Lewis: 10:29

So our first meal was ama. Ama, which is those drives, is like a contemporary island dining area. So it was a five, four course meal and so you had a pre appetizer, an appetizer, an entree and a dessert. So it was very fancy. We got to sit right out and you right out, like outside, and you could see the sunset, the beach and there was live music going. So it was really nice, really fancy, like if you're there for your anniversary and our honeymoon. That's what we saw a lot of people there for.

Bryan Lewis: 11:15

And in Wisconsin they were five hours behind us. So they're eating at 530 and we're already in bed at 1030. So I'm getting texts of pictures of food and I'm going okay, but I'm going to bed now. But I do remember one text saying this is the fanciest meal I've ever had, and we have a running joke in the family that we're not fancy super club people. So I'm sure that was a little bit jarring for you.

Paige Lewis: 11:53

Yeah, it was lots of different things. Like I was, it was hard seeing the menu because it was a little confusing for me. I don't know.

Bryan Lewis: 12:03

Okay.

Paige Lewis: 12:04

So the waiters explained it.

Bryan Lewis: 12:06

And it was a, so it was a four course meal, but you get to choose each of your courses.

Paige Lewis: 12:11

So they had about four to five things for each category and you got to choose what ones. So you chose them all right away. You put your order in and then they spaced out when you got your food.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 12:27

So in my head I'm thinking so it's funny, I've never been to Hawaii. In my head I'm thinking of like all of the different Hawaiian movies and things that I've seen on TV. And in my head when you're talking about this, it's like an outdoor thing, Like, like all like the Hawaiian places I've seen. Is this like, was this like a restaurant that you guys went to?

Paige Lewis: 12:53

Um, yeah.

Bryan Lewis: 12:56

So, yeah, what I know of it Was it indoors.

Paige Lewis: 13:00

So part of it was.

Bryan Lewis: 13:02

Yeah, so it's like on the edge of the building, um, towards the beach side of the building and um, just from the pictures that she showed, like they were sitting on a terrace just outside of the building. They had like garage doors open type of thing. Um, so you went inside to the restaurant right and walked through the restaurant up back outside to the terrace.

Paige Lewis: 13:28

Yeah, I don't know. It's hard to explain because everything is very open. It was very an open concept, but there was a roof over it at some parts. Okay, cool.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 13:40

Yeah and um, I mean, I've been to, I've, I've been lucky to be able to go to very fancy establishments with with my wife at Disney Uh, and the way that you're explaining it like like a prefix menu kind of sounds like um, kind of sounds like like typical, like Disney, like prefix, like if you go to the California Grill um, was it, was it something like that If you've ever seen like California Grill videos or like would you, would you compare it to something like from a Disney park?

Paige Lewis: 14:15

I mean, I haven't really gone to a really fancy meal at Disney. I feel like the fanciest one we went when I went was Cinderella's Royal Table. That's fancy.

Bryan Lewis: 14:27

Yeah, that one or um artist point which was a character meal, oh that one was pre prefix of it too Right. Yeah, um, so you think that this was fancier than those, or?

Paige Lewis: 14:41

Yes, I do. Okay, Like you, they gave you the moose bush, which is that little tiny like thing you get even before your pre appetizer.

Bryan Lewis: 14:54

Is that what moose bush means? Is like pre appetizer. I don't even know, you told me that Hawaiian word.

Paige Lewis: 15:01

No.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 15:03

Oh, it's just regular. You told me that. No, like I don't know, that is.

Paige Lewis: 15:07

Yeah, so you, they gave you like a little sample of something kind of but it's very tiny circle of something.

Bryan Lewis: 15:17

And.

Paige Lewis: 15:18

I did not like what they gave us. I don't know what it was. They explained it to me and I am.

Bryan Lewis: 15:23

Oh, this was the one that was like a squid or something that had the ink leaking out of it. That was my appetizer. Oh, okay.

Paige Lewis: 15:31

I got Ahi tuna which is like the what is it called, like Ahi tuna poke or whatever. It was raw tuna and then they had squid on it and caviar and kale.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 15:48

It was not, so it sounds very fancy actually. Yeah, it was it was lots of seafood.

Paige Lewis: 15:55

There was steak, but their steak was like when you think of fancy places, I always think of the very small portions they give you, even though you pay a lot for it. So I don't know, it was definitely smaller portions.

Bryan Lewis: 16:09

Hmm, but you're getting a higher quality. Yes, yeah.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 16:15

And I've always with like going to I mean I'm sure this place blows the beauty and the beast be our guest out of the water. So like I always think of that where it's like you get. You get several courses, but it's it's like small, small portions, but you get like like four courses.

Paige Lewis: 16:36

Yeah.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 16:36

So it's like you're still like getting a bunch of food, but they're just people always complain about how small the steak is there and it's like you ate a whole soup, whole appetizer and then you get that.

Paige Lewis: 16:47

So but yeah, I must like the smaller portions because I was still full at the end. But you kind of can, just you kind of eat every, almost everything you're getting.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 16:59

Yeah, I've noticed with with Disney there. There are two types of restaurants at Disney. There are the ones that will just like keep bringing your food and you just feel terrible like wasting all of this food because they've just like kept bringing it out. Or they're the ones where you're like okay, maybe we need to get a pizza when we get back.

Paige Lewis: 17:20

Yeah, I kind of noticed that Aulani too, like some places, they barely gave you any food, but some places you gave, they gave you so much food and it was.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 17:31

Since we're still talking about food, what was, what was like another meal that kind of stood out to you. Did you, did you do any like what? What are they like? I don't know the terms, like where they like? It's like a big production and everything, and there's like fire breathers and stuff Like what are those called?

Paige Lewis: 17:56

You're talking oh the Luau.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 17:57

A Luau yeah.

Paige Lewis: 18:00

That. Actually that probably was my next like very stand outish thing. So so we got. We got preferred seating, which means we got to go. We were one of the first people's in people in. So you still have like set spots that they put you in. But you're closer if you buy the preferred seating. And we walked in, you took a picture with the dancers and then they gave you a drink and you went and sat down and you could go do a bunch of different activities. So they had taro pounding, which is kind of like a sort of like explain it like a gritty kind of pasty, like food, but they kind of explained it as a potato. I don't know, I did not like it but this is taro root right.

Paige Lewis: 18:59

I've never had it, but it was like it was spongy.

Bryan Lewis: 19:02

Okay.

Paige Lewis: 19:03

So what they do is they? You sit on benches and then they have a like kind of like a cutting board and you take I don't know if you know like a guacamole smasher and you smash the taro on there and like cream it out.

Bryan Lewis: 19:20

I think you mean like a stone pestle.

Paige Lewis: 19:21

Yeah, okay. And then they had flower like bracelet baking, so you made yourself a flower bracelet out of layers. We also got like we got lei'd. When we walked int o the luau too, there was those stone, the stone leis.

Bryan Lewis: 19:44

The kukui nuts Kukui nuts yeah.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 19:48

Kristen bought one of those when we were at the poly recently. We looked at it and we were like, do we need this? I think we need this.

Paige Lewis: 19:57

And then we they had ukulele lessons and temporary tattoos. So those activities are all fun and occupied the kids, occupied the adults, because you got it up five but they didn't really start. You didn't start eating till six, so they had music and dancers out while you were doing the activities, hanging out, talking. And then at six you had the big buffet which had a lots of food. It had anywhere from pork, belly to fish, the salad to lots of fresh fruit, many desserts.

Bryan Lewis: 20:41

Nice.

Paige Lewis: 20:42

And I liked everything I tried there. It was really good.

Bryan Lewis: 20:46

And how was the show?

Paige Lewis: 20:47

It was very good. It was about an hour long and they kind of just took you through the story of Hawaii and highlighting things. So they had dancers, they had the fire throwers, kind of like two narrators that just went through the whole thing. And they did have Mickey and Minnie at the beginning, hula, and you could join them in Hula if you wanted to Nice.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 21:19

I mean you may not be able to answer this but like I hear from a lot of people that like those types of Luaus feel kind of like generic, whereas like if you went more in mainland and went to an actual party it would feel more real. Did you get that sense or do you just not really know? You've never been to one so you couldn't really tell.

Paige Lewis: 21:48

I mean, I could understand, if you've been to a real Luau, probably how it would feel, generic, just kind of the way they ran it, because they kind of had to keep it on a tight schedule and they had Disney mixed into it. But as a person who has never been to a Luau, I didn't think it was like super generic or anything I was going to ask also, like how Disney-fied did they make the whole thing?

Paige Lewis: 22:16

They really did not make it Disney-fied at all. They had Mickey and Minnie come out for the Luau, like once, and then I don't even know if there's anything else. Really Disney Nice.

Bryan Lewis: 22:27

We didn't talk about this at all, but I did see a picture posted, I think I don't know in one of the Disney groups that I'm in, but they had been at O'Lanney. They did the Luau the night before you did and they said the characters like the Fab Five had come out at the end of the Luau and we're meeting people. Did that happen at all?

Paige Lewis: 22:50

I mean we kind of just straight went to our room. I didn't see any of them there, because they had the dancers and the narrators kind of lined up where you could go take pictures with them and talk to them, but I didn't see any characters.

Bryan Lewis: 23:04

Okay.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 23:08

That's kind of cool to hear, because I've always thought like I definitely want to get out to Aulani and go to Hawaii. I think that would be an amazing experience. But I've also heard from people that, like, even if you stay at like the regular resorts that are kind of around that area, because there's a bunch of like really big ones, it's not like real Hawaii, because it's like you're just staying at a resort and everything's kind of like like made for you. So it's good to hear that it's not. I mean not that I would be upset if, like, Disney made like a Disney luau like I'd probably still love it but it's cool that, like, they try to make it a little more authentic when they do stuff like that.

Paige Lewis: 23:53

Yeah, I actually thought they did a really good job at keeping the place authentic Hawaii, like with just a bit of Disney sprinkled into it.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 24:03

It wasn't like Disney with a bit of Hawaii, that's what I always think of when I go to places like like not so much the contemporary, but like kind of like the Grand Floridian, where it's like this feels like a fancy resort and there's like those like little touches of Disney places that like you can find, I mean that's like right at Disney, so it's kind of easy to find those. But yeah, that's, I mean that sounds really cool and it's really great that they kind of make it more authentic than just kind of like in your face Disney.

Bryan Lewis: 24:37

And when we were on that video call. So Aulani is set up on these coves that are I don't know if they're man made or just how the island is formed, but there's these coves on the edge of the island, and so when we're on that video call video call I had her walk out to this point, so if you're looking out of Aulani to the water, that you can walk to the left and go all the way around to the point of this cove and be out closer to the actual water, and so I made her do that. And it's kind of like this little park out there, but as the first building that she walks by, that's off property, we started joking that it was like the Hawaiian mafia live there or something.

Paige Lewis: 25:27

It was actually a chapel. Oh, it was Okay yeah.

Bryan Lewis: 25:32

It was hard to tell on the video what it was. But we don't joke. But anyway you said that was, or somewhere next to that was a resort and that that was actually the place. People were saying you should go for the, for the luau.

Paige Lewis: 25:47

Yeah, so it actually isn't a resort, it's Paradise Cove, that's so they have a beach and it. We actually saw a bunch of seals there like they were laying out on the sand like wild seals, and cool.

Paige Lewis: 26:06

And we were told that, yeah, they were, it was really cool. And then we're told that that beach has a lot of turtles that you could go see, but we weren't in our swimsuits or anything. It was our last day. We kind of just walked over there because we had time and yeah. So they had that beach and the luau area. It was just that big luau area and it wasn't a hotel or anything. But we were what actually talked to the security guard. Okay a really nice luau and everything.

Bryan Lewis: 26:38

I was just going to show something to keep in mind when you're going. If Disney's luau is sold out, maybe it's better to check in the Paradise Cove.

Paige Lewis: 26:46

Yeah.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 26:48

So I don't really know all that much about Aulani. What I do know about Aulani is what I've seen on Tim Tracker and they at one point did this like scavenger hunt or just kind of like a walk through like area that like taught you all of these like things about Hawaii. Did you do that at all?

Paige Lewis: 27:12

We did not do it, but we saw a bunch of people do it, so they had tablets and you kind of walked around and it taught you about. I think it kind of just taught you about the place and the Hawaiian stuff and actually kind of use that Disney magic, because you would put your tablet something and then it would make like the waterfall or you tap. There was one area where if you showed your iPad, that a turtle would appear Like within the water.

Bryan Lewis: 27:42

Wow, you did kind of look around at the Menehune right.

Paige Lewis: 27:47

Yes, so I went to the Hawaiian hidden Mickey's and learned that a little later in the trip.

Bryan Lewis: 27:54

So what was that all about?

Paige Lewis: 27:56

So just like a hidden Mickey, but the little Menehune which is actually meant for like child. So they're like little Tiki's, hidden under things. There were some in the elevator. They had a phone, they still had phone booths. They had them in the phone booths.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 28:18

They were all over the resort Fun. So, as somebody who typically goes on vacations and runs around the entire time was, would you say that this vacation was pretty relaxing Like did you? Did you do a lot of just like chilling around the resort or were there like lots of things to do?

Paige Lewis: 28:43

Yes, it was lots of chilling, which actually was a part I didn't like, because I'm a very go go go person when it comes to vacations and I felt like I was just not doing anything.

Bryan Lewis: 28:54

I don't know.

Paige Lewis: 28:56

I was like I feel like I could be going somewhere right now and I'm just laying at a pool hanging out how?

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 29:04

so here's, here's another question. So there is a pool and a beach. What was the pool like?

Paige Lewis: 29:15

Um, I don't know.

Bryan Lewis: 29:18

Well, they have multiple pools, right yeah?

Paige Lewis: 29:20

they have. They have like five different pools. There was a lot. Got a whole list here.

Bryan Lewis: 29:28

Oh wow, yeah, they have this is my, my organized one. She takes lots of notes. She's got three pages of notes here, so she's checking things out, but yeah, she's got a big list of pools.

Paige Lewis: 29:45

So there's the way Lonnie pool, way Lana pool, which was by the bar.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 29:51

Was that swim up pool?

Paige Lewis: 29:53

It wasn't a swim up bar, no, but it it um, it was right next to it and there was a smaller, so cool, more secluded one and there's Kakamaka grotto, which is so there's a adult only infinity pool that you have to be 18 or 11, but the Kakamaka grotto is the family Like. It's really big. It had like caves and stuff. Unfortunately that was under construction anywhere there so we couldn't go in that one, but that was the big family company pool. So and I heard we were talking to some DVC members actually and they said that one is actually the busiest pool when it's open. So when, but when you're there, it was the what? Wait, I'm going to put true this name wake a hole. Wait, I don't know, but that was like the main pool over there. Wait, wakey hole, I don't know. I can't.

Bryan Lewis: 30:58

Well, it kind of. If you know why, Kiki, it's spelled W-A-I-K at the beginning.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 31:04

Okay, okay.

Bryan Lewis: 31:06

Wakey hole? I don't know. I don't know, wakey, whatever.

Paige Lewis: 31:11

Yeah so so then.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 31:13

So there were pools. And then did you? Did you spend a lot of time on the beach at all?

Paige Lewis: 31:20

So unfortunately my grandma could not go in the ocean.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 31:24

Oh yeah.

Paige Lewis: 31:24

Because of her leg but, I swam in there for about half an hour. Nice, which is very salty because it's salt water which, like my eyes, were burning. I don't know.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 31:36

I don't know how someone can spend a whole day at that type of beach, because it's well, it's funny when, when I think of and maybe this is just me getting older, I know that when I was younger it was very much like let's get into the water. When I think of beaches now, I think of just like getting a chair and just like sitting in a chair on a beach and just like sitting and listening to the beach, which sounds like it would be amazing, which I haven't ever really done that all that much in my life. So maybe Aulani is the place that I finally do that. But was it? Was it that type of beach, or was there just like a lot of action happening all the time?

Paige Lewis: 32:19

There was a lot. I feel like the beach was more busy than the pools almost because I feel like there was sand castle building all over. There were. You could rent paddle boats and boogie boards and it was actually pretty busy.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 32:35

So and well, and then also with that, did you feel like the the resort itself was busy kind of everywhere?

Paige Lewis: 32:45

Yes, I did. I feel like there's a lot of people there Like I felt everywhere I went, there was like a person might be. Yeah. Like there was no, there's no where you really felt secluded almost.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 32:59

And, like I'm guessing, you've been to places like, like the Kalahari or like stuff like that. Would you kind of like cause I mean, I've been to the Kalahari before when it's been like packed Like would you kind of like compare it to that?

Paige Lewis: 33:15

Um, I don't know cause, I feel like Kalahari you're on top of people in those waters. I didn't feel like you were on top of anyone when you were swimming or anything, but I still felt like it was pretty busy, like I feel like when you go to a normal Disney hotel, there really aren't many like people swimming, probably cause they're at the parks. But that's also the only thing you could really like, one of the only things you can do out of a lot of you swim, so Okay.

Bryan Lewis: 33:49

So I mean, you did it, spend a lot of time around the pool and the beach, but you did get out of there a little bit too, and you went, you did an excursion one day. Um, what were some of the fun parts about that, you know, before you get into it, actually, like when we were getting ready for this and I was doing a lot to help. But Melissa Pilgrim, who we've been working with, um, she helped a lot with this.

Bryan Lewis: 34:20

And we, we booked the room on our own because, um, we were messing around with the deal and trying to get stuff and she was having trouble getting it booked for some reason, um, but that wasn't a big deal, so we just transferred the reservation to her. You have 30 days after you booked something to transfer it to her, if you ever do that, um. And then she, like, like you went and booked this excursion on your own, and I don't know why you did that. I think you just wanted to make sure it was done. I don't remember, but as soon as she, as soon as the reservation was on, melissa, like she hit the ground running.

Bryan Lewis: 35:02

She was calling this excursion place to make sure that, because my mother-in-law was using a motorized scooter and so she was trying to make sure that was able to go on, and this was an excursion that was more meant for all abilities, so that's, it was a lot of busing, not a lot of walking, and so when she contacted them, there was a problem with the scooter. They didn't have any more room for it. So then we were able to get a collapsible wheelchair and they allowed that. Um, so, anyway, I just wanted to highlight like I've worked with Melissa in the past on some stuff for Disney World and I was just so impressed with what happened with her because she picked up on the Well, you know, we told her that she needed the scooter, so she immediately had that taken care of. She picked up on this excursion, had all the details taken care of there for us, the shuttle, she took care of getting that all taken care of for you, and it was seamless Like everything was perfect, wasn't it?

Paige Lewis: 36:18

Yeah, it was. She actually gave us an itinerary with tips and tricks and all of our information for the whole trip, which is very nice to have as a planner and wanting to know everything.

Bryan Lewis: 36:29

It was really weird for me because they got there and they were landing and I'm like I have no idea what's happening now, because I had given their information to her and it's not like me, like I'm usually, the planner aren't.

Paige Lewis: 36:42

I.

Bryan Lewis: 36:42

I'm the one putting it all together and I didn't know it was happening, but I was trusting that Melissa had put it together and I didn't know that she'd given you an itinerary. This is the first I had heard of it. That's awesome.

Paige Lewis: 36:55

It was weird for me too. I felt like you should be doing everything, and I was like hey, we gotta be up at this time.

Bryan Lewis: 37:03

Nice.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 37:05

That's awesome. Yeah, I know I make myself itineraries when I go on vacation and sometimes we don't even really follow them. They're more like guidelines than actual rules, but yeah, it sounds like it was a pretty fun trip.

Paige Lewis: 37:22

Yes, it was.

Bryan Lewis: 37:24

So I hijacked the excursion. What can you tell us about this excursion?

Paige Lewis: 37:29

So we did the majestic circle island tour. So it kind of just you started off at Aulani and then you did a circle around the island, basically on the outskirts. So we went. We did probably about five stops. The waves are really high that day and but there was no water, like it was dry season. So our excursion kind of got messed up a bit because of those conditions, but we got on the bus.

Bryan Lewis: 38:06

The one thing that you were looking forward to on the excursion was the waterfall.

Paige Lewis: 38:10

Yes.

Bryan Lewis: 38:11

You could. There's a park that they go to, with a waterfall that you can swim in, but it was dry.

Paige Lewis: 38:17

Yes, that was what was messed up with the dry season we could not swim in the waterfall. Even if I really wanted to swim in the waterfall, it would have been hard to for it, because it's kind of a hike to get up to the waterfall and I had to push the wheelchair so it would have been tough. It would have been tough Because it was very hilly.

Bryan Lewis: 38:39

But you did hit some other places. What else did you get to do?

Paige Lewis: 38:42

We went to the dole plantation which was like very packed, like everyone is there. We went to small macadamia and not shops and coffee shops. For lunch we stopped at a shrimp place which was kind of just like a shack on the side of the road.

Bryan Lewis: 39:02

But it was very good.

Paige Lewis: 39:04

We had lemon pepper, shrimp with rice and we got a drink and it was like really good one of my favorite meals.

Bryan Lewis: 39:16

You sounded like you were going to say that.

Paige Lewis: 39:18

I was about to say that I don't know. Almost every meal is my favorite meal.

Bryan Lewis: 39:22

It's hard for me to decide.

Paige Lewis: 39:24

I feel like I got the coconut shrimp at Aulani, the fried coconut shrimp, which is really good, but I did like the lemon pepper shrimp from the shrimp place better.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 39:34

I love all my kids equally.

Paige Lewis: 39:40

We kind of saw the ranch where Jurassic Park was. We went past it. We didn't do the tour of Jurassic Park or anything, but we saw it. We got to stop at a couple of beaches and kind of see the really big waves and everything. I can't remember. They were like 10 foot waves or something, but the next day it was supposed to be up to 40 feet foot waves, which would have been really cool to see.

Bryan Lewis: 40:08

That would have been North Shore. For anyone that's listening that doesn't know, Aulani is on Oahu, which is Honolulu. That's the airport you're going into. Aulani is on the South Shore, so this excursion took them around to the North Shore, which is popular for surfing. You did see some surfers.

Paige Lewis: 40:33

Yes, we did, it was cool.

Bryan Lewis: 40:36

But you said the beach was roped off. It was closed because of the high waves.

Paige Lewis: 40:43

I feel like some movies I watch, when there are really high waves, the police come and rope off. You're not supposed to surf, but everyone goes and surfs still.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 40:56

You can get in trouble for it, but they still do it Were there people surfing on the roped off beaches.

Paige Lewis: 41:05

Yes. Oh okay, I feel like a lot of them tried to go off to the side because they were hidden from them, because they didn't want to get caught by the police.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 41:18

I hear surfing. I know very little about surfing, but I hear that the surfing is better in coved areas because it's a little more manageable. You know where things are going to happen because it coves in.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 41:35

Whereas if you're on the big long stretch of beach, you never really know where the wave is going to break, because you have to be in the right spot for the wave to break correctly. That might be why I always hear surfers like oh, there's this really great spot that I always surf in. It's always this small little coved area. I know nothing about surfing.

Paige Lewis: 42:02

That would make sense.

Bryan Lewis: 42:04

That makes sense to me. So dole plantation. What do you have there?

Paige Lewis: 42:13

Dole Whip.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 42:14

Of course.

Bryan Lewis: 42:15

Yay, Wait when was this.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 42:18

No, you were home already. I recently bought Dole Whip because we found the Dole Whip at the Woodmins over by us.

Bryan Lewis: 42:27

Woodmins, that's the spot.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 42:29

Well, it's funny, we had been actually searching for Dole Whip for a while and then we kind of like, just like every time we'd be out at a grocery store, we'd like walk through the ice cream aisle and be like Dole Whip. No, and I wasn't looking for this Dole Whip and I was actually looking for I think it was just like vanilla ice cream, because I had brownies at home and I was just like staring where the vanilla ice cream was. And I looked up and I just saw all three of the boxes and I was like, oh cool, so we've got Dole Whip in our freezer now.

Bryan Lewis: 43:03

But this was Dole Whip at the Dole Plantation. With what on top?

Paige Lewis: 43:07

Pineapple fresh pineapple.

Bryan Lewis: 43:09

She doesn't ever want to eat another pineapple in Wisconsin.

Paige Lewis: 43:12

No.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 43:13

Because it was that good, yes Wow.

Paige Lewis: 43:16

And it was amazing. Like I love fruit and I love pineapple, that's my favorite fruit, so I don't think I could ever.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 43:24

I don't know are you going to have a? Well, did the Dole Whip itself taste different?

Paige Lewis: 43:31

I thought it was more like of a pineapple-y taste than Disney World Dole Whip. Like I'm more of like that fresh pineapple taste, I liked it better than Disney World Dole Whip.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 43:45

I this is a hot take, which I think I've said on here before. But like I'm not a huge fan of Dole Whip, dole Whip is good, don't get me wrong. It was underwhelming the first time I had it. I'm a huge fan of the coconut soft serve that they have at Disney, so that's like my, that's my go-to frozen treat when I go to Disney. So I mean, dole Whip it's not.

Bryan Lewis: 44:09

It's not like the bee's knees, like that everybody makes it out to be, but yeah, the first time I had Dole Whip was in Epcot and we had the rum added to it, and I also found it underwhelming and I was, so I didn't really go after it too much. We had it. I would have the Citrus World, and I've been on this show how many times saying I'd rather switch Citrus World than Dole Whip. But the time that you and I had Dole Whip at Tangerua Terrace at Disneyland, that changed it for me. And then this summer I had it at a place here in Wisconsin and it was good there too. So now I'm like I'm excited to get to Disney World and try it there and see if I've changed my mind on it.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 44:55

I'm almost thinking that, like. So, when I had it with you in Disneyland, I actually thought that was pretty good and I think I've I don't think I've ever actually had it at World, but I've only I've had it at Land and then I had it at Land in 2019 when I went, and that was when I was kind of like this is what everybody's so excited about, so maybe it just kind of depends on, like, where you get it. I don't know. Well, we'll find you'll do the research on that, brian.

Bryan Lewis: 45:26

Yes, we'll figure that one out. But back to back to Hawaii, Anything else. You had the Six Gersion, you did the Lua'o, we talked to Ama-Ama.

Paige Lewis: 45:45

I recommend the Mugs that you can get out of any almost any this year's or they have them there too. I recommend getting those.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 45:54

Yeah, I was going to ask about merchandise. So was it just kind of like a like there was one gift shop and that that's where you bought stuff, or were there like several spots to like buy merch?

Paige Lewis: 46:07

There were three different spots actually.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 46:09

Yay, let's talk about them all.

Paige Lewis: 46:12

They have the Lava Shack, which was more of the pool stuff because it was right next to the pool, like it was in the middle of the pools. So they had swimsuits, towels, sunscreen. They had Mickey ice cream bars, they had a refills station, then they had the main one, which was Kaleppa's store.

Bryan Lewis: 46:39

Sure.

Paige Lewis: 46:40

Yeah, and that's what had all of the clothes, the stuffed animals, the ornaments, the snacks like bags, ears, everything. And then they had a third one which is like you're kind of like Disney Higher End Boutique store. I think they had Duny and Burke's there. They had like your nicer stuff you could actually. So every room has the Mickey lamp in it, mickey with a surfboard and wood.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 47:16

Oh yeah, I've seen this before. Yeah, you can buy the lamp. You can buy the lamp, but it's $300.

Paige Lewis: 47:24

Oh my God, it's a beautiful lamp.

Bryan Lewis: 47:28

It's really pretty. I love the feeling of it, that she brought home.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 47:32

So we didn't get the lamp, we got the ornament. But we got the ornament. That is fun. I've always been a big fan of.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 47:43

Disney selling the things from their hotel room. I remember back in the day when you could buy the shower curtain from Art of Animation and I wanted to do that, but I haven't seen it very much anymore. But that is cool that they have several places to buy merch in it. Honestly, it sounds like a deluxe resort. All that they're missing is like at the Grand Floridian. They have the basin. They have the basin in there.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 48:13

But yeah, that's kind of what it sounds like, where you've got your main area, you've got your area more dedicated to pool stuff and then you've got your higher end area. Was there a lot of DVC branded stuff? Did the whole place feel more DVC?

Paige Lewis: 48:36

There was definitely lots of DVC catered towards DVC things. They had a whole office area. They had a desk you could like. There was many DVC only activities. They got their own special events because you get your wristbands every single day at Aulani to be able to use the pools. They got sparkly, different colored ones than we did.

Bryan Lewis: 49:06

Ooh, special, yeah, we want to be DVC for the sparkly wristbands.

Paige Lewis: 49:12

Right, we're counting on those I did.

Bryan Lewis: 49:16

No, I wanted to be DVC for the sparkly wristband.

Paige Lewis: 49:18

Right.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 49:20

You should have talked to somebody at the front desk Actually, I'm sure you didn't do this because you probably would have talked about it but did you see anybody there that were like giving DVC tours or anything like that?

Paige Lewis: 49:32

Yes, they had two tour rooms that you could go into and look at. Yeah, she was walking around.

Bryan Lewis: 49:39

No, I did not. She was walking around with us on the video. She was like there's one, oh, there's another one, and they had talked about doing a tour just for me.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 49:48

I did not do it. Tourists are cool. Honestly, Brian, I don't know, have you done those at Disney World before?

Bryan Lewis: 49:56

No, I always bring it up with Tammy, Like let's just go do a tour, and she's like no.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 50:02

Honestly, it was one of the coolest things we had done on an off day at Disney. And it worked out because it was raining that day so we were able to just kind of like walk around all of the hotel rooms. But that would have been something cool to be able to do at Aulani and be able to tour all of those DVC rooms. And that's a hot tip for you people at home if you're walking around a DVC resort and you see those people at those desks and they're just chilling, just to walk up and ask for a tour and they will gladly do it. But understand that at the end of the tour they're going to pitch a DVC and we were totally cool with that because we want them to pitch us DVC. We're just waiting for the time that somebody pitches us DVC hard enough that we're like, yeah, let's go ahead and do this.

Bryan Lewis: 50:52

That's the thing is they don't push hard. They just like give you the information. Like you ask your questions and then you're on your way. They don't push you that hard. They might give you a follow-up call a week later. But I've noticed that, like you talk to them, they'll give you the information, they'll give you the tour, but they're not going to be like those time-shared places that are going to rope you in for four hours. They and try to sell you hard. They're going to just kind of here's what we got. We'd love to have you.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 51:26

We've been getting a lot of grief from people when we do talk about like oh, I think we want to do DVC and everybody's been calling it like Disney time-share, but like, just, I don't know. Like the way that it's put together is kind of time-sharing, but I don't ever like, when we end up doing it like it's not going to feel, feel like a time-share, it's literally like a vacation club, like it's as if you're just financing the trips that you want to take. Like you know you're going to be taking these trips. Why not finance them and then be able to stay yet like these fun deluxe resorts, right, so yeah.

Paige Lewis: 52:07

We actually talked to someone who was DVC like a couple. They were on their 14th year of it.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 52:14

Oh, okay.

Paige Lewis: 52:16

So they said they loved it. They thought it was a great decision. They loved that they can pass it down to like their kids and their grandkids how old were they? They were a little old, I think. I would have guessed they were in like their higher 50s, lower 60s, so they would have bought it when they were about 85 to 50.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 52:40

There you go, Brian.

Bryan Lewis: 52:43

I know, I know, but let's get back to Hawaii and the Aulani.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 52:50

Let's get back. Yeah, let's Paige, let's go.

Bryan Lewis: 52:53

Let's get back to Hawaii, yeah, right, yeah, there were a couple of more things I wanted to cover and I know you've got like a list of a whole bunch of tips, the one that I saw under other was pin trading there.

Paige Lewis: 53:08

We did not. I really wanted to bring our pins and I forgot them, which I was upset about. So I would definitely bring pins to trade. They have them at the Lavashack. They just kind of have them all over and actually on the daily thing. That gives you a schedule of all the activities they have that day. They will tell you where they're having pin trading hours in what time.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 53:32

Oh cool. And is it set up the same way as when you go to Disney gift shops, where there's just a small board with random pins on it, or is it like people walking around?

Paige Lewis: 53:43

They do have a board, but there's actually not in any of the gift shops.

Bryan Lewis: 53:48

Hmm.

Paige Lewis: 53:50

There was one next to a gift shop, and then the others were kind of just at stands around the resort.

Bryan Lewis: 53:56

Okay, cool, yeah, go ahead.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 54:02

So are there a lot of like Aulani branded pins, or did you see a lot of like generic Disney pins, or was it like a lot of like vacation Aulani type pins?

Paige Lewis: 54:15

I mean, I didn't look at all of them because I wasn't really trading, but I did see a few of those generic ones, but I also saw like a few unique ones as well. Cool yeah.

Bryan Lewis: 54:30

So we have some pin trading, so that would be something to definitely have with you. We need to bring.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 54:36

I think we have some pins that we could possibly trade now, because we have so many pins now we need another board to put pins on, but I think we're going to have to bring some on our Christmas trip coming up.

Bryan Lewis: 54:48

We definitely have extras yet. Yeah, it's sort of subject with page.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 54:54

Christmas trip. I had to bring it up. Yeah, you went to Aulani. You're on the podcast right now talking about your Aulani trip.

Paige Lewis: 55:04

I could be on the podcast talking about Christmas trip too.

Bryan Lewis: 55:08

No, you just get one, we'll have you come on the podcast and you can interview us.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 55:14

Yes, exactly, yeah, perfect, you interview us.

Paige Lewis: 55:16

My Jeopardy my Jeopardy, my Jeopardy, my Jeopardy host.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 55:24

Actually, that's a good idea.

Paige Lewis: 55:26

Yeah.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 55:28

Page can host a Jeopardy between us, and we do Disney Jeopardy.

Paige Lewis: 55:34

I have a really good Jeopardy voice.

Bryan Lewis: 55:36

There you go.

Paige Lewis: 55:38

You could do Girls Against Guys. I actually know you guys would win. You do couple against couple. You just do all four of you against each other.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 55:46

Yeah, there you go, it's happening. We should do it on our trip, when we go on our Christmas.

Paige Lewis: 55:55

How would that work she?

Bryan Lewis: 55:57

wouldn't be there then she wouldn't be there, then you had one activity that we kept asking you if you were going to do, but you skipped it.

Paige Lewis: 56:07

Yep.

Bryan Lewis: 56:08

Why.

Paige Lewis: 56:10

I don't know.

Bryan Lewis: 56:13

So they do have snorkeling in a controlled area up by the pool where you can go snorkeling. They have fish and they have other things in there, but you didn't want to do it.

Paige Lewis: 56:24

I did. I don't know. It was hard, I don't know Because Mima couldn't do it, but I wanted to do it. I don't know. I don't know why I didn't end up doing it.

Bryan Lewis: 56:38

I should have.

Paige Lewis: 56:38

Yes, you should have. I really should have, but it was really cool. It was like you had to pay like $40 to do it. Yeah, that's not bad.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 56:50

Is it like? I don't know if you guys have ever been to Typhoon Lagoon, but is it like the place at Typhoon Lagoon?

Bryan Lewis: 56:56

We haven't been there.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 56:58

There's a place in Typhoon Lagoon that you can snorkel on. Supposedly there's like fish and stuff in there. I have this hazy memory of my family actually going to. I don't know if this is real or not. Maybe this was a dream. Take this out. But there this this time that I swear my parents were telling me about, like when I was in drum core and they I Think this was 2003, when drum core was in Orlando and they went to Blizzard Beach and and one of them did that, like one of them did the snorkeling with all the fish, but it was it. Was it like? Was it actually the ocean or was it just fish and stuff that Disney had made in a pool?

Paige Lewis: 57:43

Fish and stuff that Disney had made in a pool. Got it, so it was yeah yeah, it's pretty deep, but they had a bunch like they had, like that, over a thousand fish in there, probably Mm-hmm. There was a bunch of different cool fish and so you could buy snorkel if you were younger and couldn't do it because you have to be, actually I don't know but you could feed the fish to Feed the fish.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 58:12

I'm just. I mean, I've never actually snorkeled. I feel like I wouldn't be able to understand that contraption with like breathing through your mouth and I don't know.

Bryan Lewis: 58:23

I have tried using one of those when I've been in the water and stuff and I can't figure it out. I Don't know why. So, okay, there was the grocery store across the street. Yes now that's probably like the last thing we'll talk about, but yeah, I want to hear about this.

Paige Lewis: 58:51

So probably not even like a 10-minute walk. You just walk over across the street. They had Starbucks. They had many different shops, but they had a ABC, a ABC store. So if you don't know what those are, they're like Stores in Hawaii that have anywhere from groceries, the clothes Like it's like a general store.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 59:18

Okay, I had to stop you real quick because when you said so, you said ABC store.

Paige Lewis: 59:25

Yes, right.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 59:26

Okay, my mind went straight to the ABC store in New York at at 30 Rock and I was like, oh, like, abc store. And like all of a sudden I was like in Hawaii they have an ABC store.

Bryan Lewis: 59:41

So you're talking like the TV channel, aren't you? Yeah, exactly.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 59:45

The TV ABC. But then my mind was like, oh well, I mean Disney, but yeah. So I was super confused for a while.

Paige Lewis: 59:58

It's called an ABC store. But yeah, so you, we actually got a lot of our Make those very standard Suven Hawaii stew in years, like key chains, magnets. They had shirts, bags, little Little hula girls that sit on your dashboard. I got one of those. Yeah, they had a bunch of different stuff. They had a sushi area, alcohol area, boba tea making area.

Bryan Lewis: 1:00:31

Yeah, yeah, you did find out a place called Monkey pod.

Paige Lewis: 1:00:36

Yes, so our last night we got we were talking to those DVC couple again. They said one of their favorite places to go get eat dinner is Monkey pod, which is also across the street, and it had like wood fired pizza. They're known for their my ties. They'd like whipped egg whites on top of it, which everyone loves, like toasted.

Bryan Lewis: 1:01:00

But, yeah, yeah, I could, I could go for one of those.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 1:01:04

Yeah um, I was gonna ask how much. So you did an excursion, but like how much outside of the resort did you do actually?

Paige Lewis: 1:01:14

Just the excursion and walking across the street from Mm-hmm.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 1:01:20

So it was just kind of like Aulani and like yeah, everything was kind of like right in there, like everything you needed.

Paige Lewis: 1:01:27

Well, I kind of wish I did one or two more excursions, kind of see the island more, because I felt like I was very secluded to the To a Lonnie, and it's like you see a lot on that, the majestic island tour. You see a lot of the place but I would have loved to see more of the island.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 1:01:47

And that's like something I wrestle with too. Where it's like Because because like, like I said, I've heard from other people where it's like oh, these big resorts don't really give you like the who I feel, but at the same time it's like it's our Lonnie and it's a Disney resort and like that's what I want.

Paige Lewis: 1:02:06

Like I want to stay at Disney resorts.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 1:02:08

So I don't know how Sad I would be not seeing Hawaii, but then again it's also Hawaii, so it's like, yeah, there's lots of other other things that you could do. But I mean I say that like. I mean you say that with vacations too, where it's like, oh, there's so many things you could do and we just keep going back to Disney World.

Paige Lewis: 1:02:28

So that's what I say.

Bryan Lewis: 1:02:33

Why travel to Italy when I can just walk from Morocco to Italy?

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 1:02:39

You mean, like I've got that was that there's a just completely off track, but there's, there's a video of a guy doing that at oh yeah, they did a European trip. And the guy was like no, yeah, they have this at EPCOT. And they're like no, but that, that's fake and this is the real thing. He's like yeah, but you can see this at EPCOT. Yeah, but you can see the EPCOT, there's they? No way.

Paige Lewis: 1:03:05

What else went on?

Bryan Lewis: 1:03:07

Yeah, it's not the same Yep. Oh, so would you go back to Hawaii?

Paige Lewis: 1:03:14

Yes, definitely.

Bryan Lewis: 1:03:19

One of the first things you did to me Was send me a picture of Mickey waffles. Yep, which is one of the worst things you could do.

Paige Lewis: 1:03:28

They were amazing.

Bryan Lewis: 1:03:30

They always are.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 1:03:32

Have like a Mickey waffle press now at this point.

Bryan Lewis: 1:03:34

It's not a same.

Paige Lewis: 1:03:37

They had a sweet key cream like cream cheese to put on them. What I think every Disney resort needs that you didn't tell me about this, oh.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 1:03:49

I can't wait till that garden grill breakfast that we have coming up.

Bryan Lewis: 1:03:52

It was so weird having her at a Disney place without me there.

Paige Lewis: 1:03:57

You're gonna be at Disney place without me there.

Bryan Lewis: 1:03:59

It was Especially when we were on the video call and she's walking past characters and telling me different things. It's like man. This is so weird.

Paige Lewis: 1:04:09

I think you do. Mom would love it there. Like, and Mia, like I Don't know, my grandma's really surprised that there was lots of vacation. I was really surprised, my grandma's really surprised that there was lots of littler kids there.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 1:04:25

Wish I Was really confused about, because I think Disney Resort I think kids kind of well, it's also I mean you after, like I mentioned this a little bit where I was like, oh, it sounds like a deluxe resort, but like that's kind of what it is. It's basically like a deluxe resort in Hawaii.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 1:04:44

Yeah and I feel like I see that all the time at deluxe resorts where it's like Families take their kids there to like chill, but they're still at Disney so they can like take their kids over to the parks. And here I guess it's like you do have like some kid-centric things that you can do, from what I understand, but it's also just kind of like one of those like elegant nice hotels that you can stay at like a nice deluxe hotel.

Bryan Lewis: 1:05:12

So and they have. And what is it?

Paige Lewis: 1:05:16

aunties Beach house which is like a kid area that you can go and hang out and kind of like on the cruise ships that they have.

Bryan Lewis: 1:05:24

So there's daycare for your kids.

Paige Lewis: 1:05:27

I would want to work there.

Bryan Lewis: 1:05:28

Yeah, right goals yep. And and to the point of the deluxe resort, like when we were looking at booking this for them. I went and started pricing hotels in that area and Kind of the different options they could have gotten. And there are Cheaper options, definitely, but there are expense more expensive options. I found this to be kind of middle of the road, maybe a higher end of the middle of the road, but it wasn't Extravagant for a Hawaii resort.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 1:06:09

We've yeah, we've actually looked at going to Aulani before and like the hotel itself Reasonable. It's really just kind of like the flight that gets you and like everything else that comes, that comes from it, but still like yeah, like like you said, kind of like I mean there there are way bigger Resorts that you can, you can go to in Hawaii, but I mean Aulani.

Paige Lewis: 1:06:38

Right, yeah, I Could. I never got over how much everything was like. I understand that we were in Hawaii and then there's also Disney prices on it, but I'm like a meal for two of us. I feel like it was always costing around a hundred dollars with tip, which I could never get over. I was like that's so much money.

Bryan Lewis: 1:06:59

Yeah, when you're sitting down somewhere, that's gonna.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 1:07:04

It's gonna be that anywhere in Disney property to in Florida or California, like well, yeah, any of the the nicer, like if you're staying at a deluxe resort any of the nicer signature restaurants. It's gonna be like that's, that's pretty perfect course, yeah.

Bryan Lewis: 1:07:23

But we want to know if you guys have been to Hawaii. Let us know if this was helpful. If you have any questions for Paige, send them to us. You can Find us on Instagram and Facebook. We are at miles from Main Street and We'd love to hear from you out there. Paige will definitely answer any questions on Facebook and Instagram, so send them to us and we'll get you some answers. Sound like you had a wonderful time.

Paige Lewis: 1:07:52

Yes, it did.

Bryan Lewis: 1:07:54

Thanks for coming on the show.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 1:07:56

We are, we are very jealous, very jealous of you. But like we always say, some love close.

Bryan Lewis: 1:08:05

But others don't.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 1:08:07

So let's talk about it. We'll see you next time on miles from Main Street, but, like we always say, some love close.

Paige Lewis: 1:08:41

Some look far.

Mykhailo Nahirniak: 1:08:45

That was wrong, that was wrong.

Paige Lewis: 1:08:50

I don't listen to your podcast obviously, obviously.