I've been to Aulani with parties of 7, 8, 9, and 9, including over holiday weekends and other periods when the resort is sold out, and we've always gotten chairs together.
I agree, the only really hard chairs to get are chairs in the sun right in the first row next to the pools. Parents with smaller kids go for those because they can keep a good eye on the kiddos in the water right from their chair. I find most the whining here about chairs is from people that find 90% awesome to be not awesome enough.
So sad. We've been to Aulani several times. You'd think by now that they would have added deck space or more chairs for the amount of guests staying there!
We were just there in early March for our first visit, and the "pool chair problem" I was expecting wasn't a issue for us. Every day we could get spots, even in the middle of the day. Sure it was busy, but it seemed just fine to me.
I did watch the cast members following the posted policy of using a folded towel on unoccupied (no people, just stuff) chairs, which you're supposed to unfold when you return to indicate that you're still in the pool area. Also saw the result of this process - a party's bags and towels got picked up and moved because they were gone too long.
I guess everyone has different experiences. I was there two weeks ago and there was not a chair to be found. We sat on the ground on towels. They did however enforce the one hour thing, so on two occasions they took peoples things away and we got chairs.
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