Hi, Gr8scott! I just reread your original post! Hope whatever you decide, you have a wonderful trip!
I just booked our Marriott Ko Olina for next summer - 4 weeks stay. Yup. Daughter and I will do 2 weeks in the studio and then we move for 2 weeks in the one bedroom, when my husband and son join us. The one bedroom villas at the Marriott are nice as 2 towers have a separate sitting room that has sliding doors that close, so it fits a rollaway bed (we do this every trip, even when we use the full 2 bedroom villa, so son gets the living room and we can even get a second rollaway if the sofa sleeper isn't comfortable and she gets the sitting room. We've done this before, and I just put both beds up on the wheels and close it off in the morning so we have the living room still). It's like having two bedrooms really, and we don't need an extra bathroom.
I enjoy it this way as I lived in Hawaii, and we just want to go back and relax and enjoy it. Also, about week 3, daughter and I will go to the Big Island (Hilo) for 3 days or so and leave the guys. I have a friend that lives there, and she wants to hike the lava tubes and see Volcanos National Park.
Maui is huge, and I went there 3 times when we lived on Oahu, plus one trip as a teenager. Kauai is an island that can be enjoyed for a weekend (did that a couple of times). The Big Island we did a week on when our friends came to visit over the summer, and it was so much fun. Flew into Kona and out of Hilo, but for just us two we're going to just go in and out of Hilo.
