Since this is a public forum I will not post dates, but I will post days and what we have planned at this time.
Saturday fly from Boston to Honolulu. 12 1/2 hours
With the time change it looks like 6 1/2 hours. We will check into Aulani and get groceries. I will have to go back to the airport to pick up my parents when they arrive as they are flying with my brother's family and they only booked a convertible
We purchased a 5 day Go Oahu card for my family and my parents so many of the Oahu activities are included in the price of that card.
Sunday we plan to drive around much of Oahu. We have a 9 AM Jungle Tour booked at the Kualoa Ranch. It is a safari vechicle much like those at AK. (the Kualoa Ranch have many activities included in the card, but you can only book one per day of use there. After the 1 hour tour we will drive up to the North Shore and do some snorkeling at Shark's Cove (free as we have our own gear). From there we will drive to the Waimea Valley and hike to the 45 ft waterfall. Admission is included with the Go Oahu card. After that we are planning to visit the Dole Pineapple plantation, take the tour, ride the train and do the maze. We hope to be finished by 5 PM and back to Aulani for dinner in the room and relaxation for the rest of the night.
Monday back to the Kualoa Ranch to use Secret Beach at 9 AM. This is 3 hours admission and they have all sorts of equipment and activities. From there we will head back toward Aulani stopping at Hawaii's Plantation Village. It is set up as a historic town for tourists. Both activities are included in the Go Oahu card. After the village we will go back to Aulani. We plan to watch the Starlight Hui and it is only offered this night during our stay.
Tuesday we have no plans yet, but my venture out to Pearl Harbor and maybe the Wet and Wild. It depends on whether we just want to soak in Aulani or not.
Wednesday is check out day and we wanted to go to Aloha Stadium for the giant flea Market, but it is probably not safe to leave our luggage in the van for any length of time so this may not work out. We may end up hanging out at Aulani or leaving our luggage at Aulani and retrieving it later
We can't check into Ohana East until 3 PM.
Thursday we are doing a dolphin encounter at 9:30 AM at Sea Life Park. We will take in the park after the encounter and head back to our hotel for lunch before venturing to Waikiki Beach. The dolphin enounter and Sea Life Park admission are included in the go Oahu card. We use the card to rent a surf board, boogie board, beach chair or umbrella on Waikiki. At some point the boys want surfing lessons, but not sure where we will fit it in or when.
Friday we have a rainforest and waterfall adventure booked (again on the go Oahu card). That will return in time for lunch at the hotel. We will probably do the hop on/hop off trolley pass that afternoon and evening to do some shopping around Waikiki.
Saturday we board the ship, but it doesn't sail until 7 PM which makes things tricky with the luggage. Car breakins apparently run rampant in Hawaii so it's a bad idea to leave anything in the car. We had planned to go to Pearl Harbor and/or do Aloha Stadium, but we'll see how that all worked out beforehand. We turn in the rental car at 2 PM.
Sunday is the first day in Maui. We have a mini van rented and plan to pick up a cd and drive the road to Hana. The driving tour is supposed to be pretty good with tips and hints for stops along the way.
Monday we are in Maui until 5 PM. Today is our vow renewal at 10 AM. We have it booked and hopefully the weather will hold out. Probably most looking forward to this day.
Tuesday is Hilo. We've rented a 15 passenger van and plan to go to Volcanoes National park. If time allows we will check out the Kapoha tide pools and/or Mauna Loa chocolate factory (owned by Hershey). The ship departs at 6 PM
Wednesday is Kona. I recently discovered a chocolate farm where they grown the cocoa beans and do all the manufactuing onsite. We have a tour booked at 9 am. It is the only farm on any of the Hawaiian Island to grow cocoa. We then have a jet ski rental booked for 2 PM near the ship. We depart Kon at 6 PM.
Thursday is the first day on Kauai. We have tubin the ditch scheduled for all 11 of us. Kauai was once the leading producer of sugar cane and immigrants dug irrigation ditches by hand. We will be taken to the top of a an abandoned hillside sugar plantation and given miners hats with lights and placed on inner tubes. The ditches are several miles long and much of it is through tunnels. It looks like a lot of fun. Lunch and swimming provided at the end. Not sure what we'll do from there, but we have the rental car until 10 PM so I'm sure we will do some sight seeing.
Friday we are in Kauai until 2 PM My parents and SIL are doing a helicopter tour which will also land at the base of the huge waterfall seen at the beginning of Jurassic Park. It looks like an amazing adventure, but much too pricey for the 5 of us. We'll do something within walking distance from the ship.
Saturday we return to Oahu in the morning. The 5 of us are booked at the Waikiki Banyan so we'll at least drop our luggage off. The rest were to leave from the ship to the airport, but their flights have been changed so not sure wht we'll do with them for 12 hours. No concrete plans, lots of room to do what we didn't the first week.
Sunday again no plans, we'll see if we have any days left on the go oahu card or just hang out at the beach, walk around, whatever.
Monday we fly from Oahu to LAX and take a bus to DL. We leave Oahu at 12:30 PM and get to LA at 8:30 due to the time change. Hopefully we'll get a good nights sleep.
Tuesday - Saturday we have DL tickets, flying out of LAX late on Saturday night arriving back in Boston early Sunday morning.
I'd love any tips, pointers or things we may have missed in planning.
Deb
I am trying to restore the old one to factory settings. Hunter will need to do papers on a laptop next year and he currently has a netbook which isn't capable.
. I will do a trip report, but I'd be happy to share our outlined itinerary now. There are some things I highly recommend doing early, book your airfare (it's only gone up) and book your rental cars. Those can rebook if things drop, which we did a couple of times. Right now rates are astronomical for our time frame which is now only 2 weeks out. I thought there might be deals, but minivan for one week which we booked at $262 including taxes is now $2000 
