Our Stay At The Hilton Hawaiian Village Resort

The Hilton Hawaiian Village Resort & Spa is a short twenty minute ride, from Honolulu. You arrive to an open main lobby.

At check in they will give you a map of the resort, it will come in handy. This place is big!!

  View from the fifteen floor of the Ali’i Tower.

Ali’i Tower offers its guest a private pool, whirlpool and a pool terrace. The famous Tropics Bar & Grill Waikiki Beach is located in the Ali’i Tower, on the beach front. Hawaii Five-O was film here. Pronto Pickle is small deli type restaurant, grab & go. They had sandwiches hot and cold, hamburgers, hot dogs, salads, pizza, brownies, and nachos.

If you like Starbucks coffee, there are two locations at the resort. One is around the corner of the Ali’i Tower and another inside the Kalia Tower.

Many animals live at the resort. 



Several pools are located in the resort. Some towers have there own pool, for the guests of that tower. The Super Pool is located outdoors near the beach, and is in the middle of the towers. Previous picture above is the pool from the 15th floor. Super Pool area, wristband is required

Paradise pool has multi-levels, four waterslides, two whirlpools and waterfalls. No matter if you go to the Super Pool, Paradise Pool, Tapa Pool, Kalia Pool, or Ali’i Pool make sure you check the hours.  They are not open all day.  Times vary.  Towels are provided at the pool.

Atlantis Adventures leaves the pier at the Hilton Resort. Children must be 36” tall to ride the submarine.

The resorts brochure stated it has 90 retail shops and 19 restaurants. I personally didn’t count, but there are a lot of shops. Some of the restaurants were: CJ’s New York Style, Round Table, Benihana of Tokyo, Hanajuban Noodle Shop, Rainbow Lanai, Pronto Pickle, Sergio’s Italian Table, Bali Steak.

Most restaurants and retail shops will allow you to charge to your room. You need to set this up with the hotel when you get there. Don’t assume the shop will do this, ask before eating/shopping. Or just have a backup if they don’t. If you charge items to your room, it’s a good idea to check your bill everyday or every other day.

No coin laundry service. The ABC store did have small boxes of laundry soap, to wash clothes in bathtub or sink.



Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa

When vacationing in California, we always find ourselves staying at the Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa. We recently visited to find that they added another pool, whirlpool and a wing of rooms. This wonderful hotel full of natural textures and was the first to be immediately adjacent to the Disney Theme Park.

Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, has four pools; Fountain Pool, Children’s Pool, Redwood Pool and the Mariposa Pool. The Redwood Pool has a big waterslide and a very small waterslide for the infants and toddlers.

Pinocchio’s Workshop is a great service for those with small children. For a fee, you can leave your children and enjoy a quiet meal or whatever with the kids. For the older kids Grizzly Game Arcade a great addition to the hotel.

Disney’s Grand California has an entrance to the Downtown Disney and to The California Adventure Park. It’s a short walk or Monorail ride to Disneyland.

This time my family stayed in the new wing. We had a balcony view of California Adventure. I thought the rollercoaster outside my balcony would be really noisy. To our amazement the sliding glass window had really good windows. Great view without the noise.