My family loved sea life park, but the luau left something to be desired. We arrived early (at 4 pm) and were allowed to sit and wait in the park restaurant before the show. Our emcee was entertaining and the music was festive, but there wasn't much to do. After killing an hour and a half waiting, we were finally able to go back to the seating area. There are a number of long tables perpendicular to the stage set up with numbers. The more you pay, the fewer people between you and the stage. We couldn't see very well from our seats.
The advertised activities (bracelet flower lei, palm frond headband, and ukulele lessons) were set up in the corners of the area, but they weren't well staffed. There was only one woman at the lei table and she couldn't keep up. The guests were also impolite and shoved my kids out of the way to get to the table so they could participate in the activity. It was unpleasant. One of the men at the palm frond station yelled at another guest for grabbing his own fronds. No one really was helping teach how to braid the palm fronds. It was a, "I'll start it and give it to you experience." We had so little time, we were barely able to get through two stations before we had to rush to eat. Rather ridiculous given the hour and a half we killed in boring seating area...
The food was ok, but the presentation was poor. 3 long tables full of unknown food were laid out. Each table was identical, but none of the food was labeled. There were 3 types of meat (pork, a chicken kabob, and a fish with pineapple salsa), a salad selection (cucumbers, tomatoes, and two types of dressing - both unlabeled), rice, noodles, a zucchini variety veggie, and a potato of some sort. There were a couple of different kinds of cake and an unknown cookie (peanut butter?). Underwhelming on the presentation, but at least the food was pretty tasty and the stations were kept filled.
The drink station (you get so many tickets based on your package) were sierra mist, pepsi, diet pepsi, Hawaiian sun passion orange, beer, wine, and mai tais. You could get hot water, coffee, water, and a fruit punch without a ticket. I felt it was very limited and pricey if you ran out of tickets.
The band and the cast were actually pretty talented. They had some incredible fire dances and the chief was hilarious! It would all have been so much better if we could have seen the show. One woman at the front table was quite insistent on sticking her arm straight up in the air to take photos and the women in front of me edged out so far into the aisles that I couldn't see around them to the cast. The photos I shared shows my frustration.
On the plus side, when it started raining, they were quick to pass out ponchos.
Skip it.