Six of us are flying through YVR connecting to a flight to Maui. Our domestic flight arrives in YVR at 1230 hours on a Saturday and the flight to Maui leaves the same day at 1715 hours.

We'd like to leave the secured (US) departures area to meet family for lunch for a couple of hours in the airport.

Not sure how this will work out leaving the secured area after checking in for our U.S bound flight. Will this be OK, do we check our luggage in to the U.S. flight first and then leave, and will it be a problem going through customs twice?