Marsha,
It sounds like a wonderfully relaxing time for you, especially having the time to esplore. My only experience there was when I persuaded DH that "it was on the way back" from an Asian trip we took in 1970. I can't imagine how different it must be now! Stayed at the Royal Hawaiian on Waikiki and took a flightseeing trip of the other islands, landing on Hawaii and Kauii, still vivid memories.

I'm very glad we did it as we're not beach people and wouldn't make that long flight now to see it; it made a nice break on the trip from Hong Kong, but we had been gone 4 weeks and I think I was ready to come home!