Really. Remember when everything was closing "for a few weeks"?In hindsight, I should not have rescheduled for this year, but no one saw this lingering back in March.
I just checked the Aulani website for June 12th - 18th and the only unavailable categories are some 2 & 3 bedroom villas. Every more basic category is available.in typical Aulani fashion all the standard view categories and hotel rooms were already booked solid for mid June 2021.
I just checked the Aulani website for June 12th - 18th and the only unavailable categories are some 2 & 3 bedroom villas. Every more basic category is available.
You said "and hotel rooms", so for that you seemed to be referring to general availability.I believe u missed the first part of the statement:
"On a separate note for DVC members"
It's DVC availability not direct reservations with Aulani.
I get that now. I just felt the need to explain my thinking after he bit my head off.Aulani has a hotel room category to book with DVC points. It is because DVC took a standard view grand villa and two 2br units to put in Ulu cafe. They had to provide something back to the timeshare side to offset the points lost.
Marv was not referring to the hotel side of Aulani room availability.
Will be at Aulani over Christmas week. Hope it is open by then.
Us too, hope it’s open! With travel being pushed back to Sept 1, I wouldn’t be half surprised if that gets pushed back further yet again, especially given the difficulty in obtaining timely COVID testing. LabCorp is returning us results in 8-10 days, unacceptably long, especially for people needing to travel to States such as AK for fishing work, etc.
Hopefully by next summer, this will change. I can't imagine Hawaii's tourism sector basically closed for over a year. What that would do to the economy...Ugh, I feel like Hawaii is in such limbo right now and wouldn't count on the Sept. 1 testing exemption at this point. The teachers are making a strong push to delay the start of school. The government doesn't want to open up tourism and school at the same time. A recent scientific poll showed that 80% of residents are weary about opening up tourism. Health officials are saying we aren't ready. There just always seems to be more and more reasons to delay.
I have a number of friends and family members who work in big hotels - Hyatt, Marriott run hotels, and yes, Aulani. They vary in position from front line workers to upper management. No one has been called back to work in preparation for a September 1 opening yet.
It's a balance. Widespread COVID-19 wouldn't do wonders for the economy either there.Hopefully by next summer, this will change. I can't imagine Hawaii's tourism sector basically closed for over a year. What that would do to the economy...