This page is to help you quickly jump through this picture set. Below you will see a listing of the pages and the captions on that page.

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  Approaching the Lobby from the driveway. I realized I did not take many pictures from out front. Once you got close it was hard to see much.
  Before taking a tour of the inside thought I would show it from the outside more. Here are a series of pictures taken from the towers looking back at the lobby.
  

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  A look from ground level up at the lobby. The main floor of the lobby is the third floor of the resort.
  

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  Stepping from through the front doors into the main area of the lobby. This large open air lobby gives you a view straight through to the Waikolohe Valley beyond. (Note the front desk is to the right and down the hall).
  

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  To one side.
  

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  Here is a walk around the lobby. Unfortuantely I did this too early in the morning and the background music was not on yet so it is mostly a silent film, but it will give you an idea of the general layout and where things are before I continue with the pictures.
  A look at the front desk.
  

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  Near the front desk are the concierge desks.
  

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  Here is a video clip from the Welcome to Aulani presentation that happens each afternoon.
  Now a series of shots looking around the main room of the lobby.
  

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  Now a closer look at the mural that lines the room. Starting to the left over the main door and working around clockwise.
  Artist Martin Charlot conceived and painted the Aulani Lobby mural, a 200-foot long tribute to Hawaiian history ad culture with layers, multiple stories and meanings. In the late 1930s, Martin Charlot’s father, muralist Jean Charlot, wrote one of the first serious critical essays about animation as an art form, claiming that animation was a continuation of the great mural traditions of Europe and that Disney animators were the masters of this art form.
  

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  As I mentioned it is an open air lobby, here is a look toward the drop off area as you walk to one of the wings.
  

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  The ground in the center of the main hall features a 12×12-foot compass rose embedded in the floor. The four points of the compass do not point to the traditional North, South, East or West. Instead they correspond to directions the ancient Hawaiians relied upon – up is toward the sea; down points to the mountainside, the left arrow corresponds to the feminine side of the resort (made of lava with a smooth finish) and the right to the masculine side (made of lava with a rough finish).
  

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  A look down the main walkway of the lobby. This connects the two towers of the resort and inters the main hall where we entered.
  

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  Signage and artwork lead the way to each tower.
  

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  Pictures from the welcome to Aulani event.
  

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  Across from the front desk is a room for kids to watch TV also the room is used for the Menehune Adventure games.
  

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  A look around inside.
  

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  A not so hidden Mickey.
  A closer look at the chairs.
  In the corner sits a Menehune. These mythical characters are scattered throughout the resort. Some hidden, some not so hidden. You can search them out and they are also central to an interactive game you can play. More on them in a dedicated section.
  

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  A closer look
  

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  Around the lobby are plenty of places to sit and relax. Both inside and out.
  

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  There is also some signage around to help you out.
  

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  Just off the lobby is an office for Disney Vacation Club.
  

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  There is also a tours office.
  A payphone area.. yes there still are payphones.
  A Menehune by the phones.
  

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  More seats the other side of the lobby area near the gift shops (the shops will have their own section of pictures).
  

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  A look overhead. This is near the entrance to the Ewa Tower.
  

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  Looking toward the front doors.
  I will leave with a teaser of the Waikolohe Valley which you overlook out the back of the lobby. I will be posting several sections featuring a look around the valley.