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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Years ago, we took our kids to Hawaii, exactly when they were your kids' age right now. We went because my brother had a destination wedding. Two words: Never Again. The time difference was especially hard for all of us coming from EST.

Of course they don't remember a thing now that we talk about it. They are now 5 and 7 and we will take them again eventually, but not for a while. [/quote]

+1, except a family reunion not a wedding, and I also had a 5 year old on the plane.  We broke it up by staying overnight in Phoenix. I think a direct would have killed us.  There was a very nasty woman in front of us very upset that my baby cried for even like 20 minutes at takeoff and kept telling me to shut her up.  Lovely.  Even with the layover in PHX, the first three days were totally shot because of the problems with the time difference.  I still have some PTSD from wandering around in the middle of the night with one or two children, trying to let the baby sleep in the hotel room.  There's not that much you can do in the middle of the night, once you've already had coconut pancakes at the all night diner.
I LOVE Hawaii, but I wouldn't do it unless there's some particular reason.  Go to Costa Rica instead -- it's only 5 hours from here.  Or the Caribbean, as others have said.  Or Cabo, if you want the cooler temperatures.  If you do go to Hawaii, get two separate rooms.  That way, if one child can sleep, you can let the child sleep in one, while the other child watches videos in the other.  [/quote]

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