Ep. 125 - Planning Our First Trip to Aulani with Advice from All of You!

DCL Duo Podcast: A Disney Cruise Line Fan Podcast

Brian Flock

Society & Culture, Leisure, Places & Travel, Hobbies

4.9 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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On this week's show we're talking with our friend John about our upcoming trip to Aulani and all the things he recommends we do around the resort and the island. We talk activities and food at Aulani, as well as tips and tricks for things to see around Oahu. We also chat about tips from our friends and listeners. Come hear our pre-planning for our first ever trip to Aulani! If you're looking to plan your next fabulous Disney Cruise, Disney vacation or really any cruise or vacation, be sure to support our show and reach out to the fabulous folks over at Touring Plans Travel, our show sponsor. We use Touring Plans Travel for our own family vacations, and love their service and expertise. Touring Plans puts you, the customer, ahead of the product and will always recommend the best options for you and your family. Head over to http://touringplans.com/travel to get a free quote today!! The DCLDuo Podcast is a weekly Disney Cruise Line and Disney travel focused podcast. If you like our podcast, please subscribe and leave us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts. Our podcast is also available on Pocket Casts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google, TuneIn, Amazon Music, and most other major podcast providers. You can also like and follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @DCLDuo. You can also join our Facebook Group, and subscribe to our YouTube channel for even more great content. If you'd like to be a guest on the show, you can email us at dclduo@gmail.com. You can also connect with us and read our blog at our website. Or you can become a supporter of the show over at Patreon. The views in this podcast are our own, and are not those of the Walt Disney family of companies, Disney Cruise Line or the Walt Disney theme parks or resorts. If you have questions about a Disney vacation or any of the Disney offerings discussed in this podcast please contact Disney directly or discuss with your Disney travel agent. Thanks for listening!! We're also listed alongside some other great Disney podcasts at: Top 100 Disney Podcasts

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0:00.0	Do you have a Duffy with a straw hat and an aligning shirt?
0:04.8	No, we just have a regular Duffy.
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0:26.2	Hey, DCL Duo fans, we want to take a minute to thank our amazing sponsors over at Touring Plans Travel.
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0:42.8	vacation head over to touring plans.com slash travel for a free quote let them know that
0:48.0	the DCL duo sent you to help support our show but we're confident that you are going to have
0:51.9	the same great experience that we do when we use touring plans travel.
0:55.3	So thanks touring plans travel for sponsoring the show.
0:57.6	And now on to our episode.
1:02.9	Welcome back, everybody.
1:06.1	This week's episode of the DCL Duo podcast.
1:09.2	And we are excited to welcome back John Marone to our show. John, welcome.
1:14.6	Thank you very much for having me. John, we're so excited to chat with you again.
1:18.5	Yeah, we are going to style this show as, so Sam and I are leaving for Alani in, what is it now, Sam, 21 days. 21 days from now, exactly three weeks. We head to Elani with our son,
1:29.2	our first time visiting Elani, a little bit of an unusual circumstance as it's kind of slowly
1:33.7	re-emerging from the pandemic. Lots of things open still a few headliners that are closed. But John,
1:39.8	who has become kind of a friend on the side here, has sent us this super helpful email with all of the stuff he did on his recent Elani trip to help us with our own planning. And we've gotten some feedback from some other folks, including Steve Creasy over at the DCL podcast and a couple of other listeners out there. And so we are cobbling together, our planning for our trip, and we thought we would sort of share what that's like and offer up some things that you can do at Alani and around Alani that are fun to couple with an Alani trip. So, John, before we dive into that topic, though, do you want to help folks remember you've been on the show before, but help folks remember what your Disney background is, what your connection and love of Disney come from? Absolutely. Absolutely. So the first time I was on the show, we talked about the big red boat, and I was trying to
2:20.4	remember things that had happened 30 years ago.
2:23.6	So now we're going to talk about Alani, and with it being less than three weeks ago, I
2:28.8	think I'll be able to remember most of it.
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