Salutations everyone! So lovely to get such great replies! I feel very welcome indeed.
I touched upon it briefly in my post - I was feeling much maligned and misunderstood by my husband (and my two daughters aged 12 and 10 for that matter) because the lady of the house tends to do crazy things... Like flying to Malaga for lunch and a tour of the Picasso Museum, or, more recently, flying to Cancun ex-AMS via Miami ... for 48 hours. If the price is right, the cabin is premium, and I have been granted permission (I have taken to asking permission after several "just going out for the day" escapes and Jersey tier point runs landed me in serious hot water): I'm off! I try to limit my solo runs to a few times a year.
Which brings me to the Hawaii trip. All four of us. It took some real convincing to get my husband to agree to flying out of Dublin... But now all I can find is Helsinki to HNL for around the £1300 mark. I don't mind but it's going to be a hard sell for him. I think the dates are the problem, we want to go in the middle of August. Of this year! if we do go ex-HEL, any suggestions? I really want to get the most bang for our buck...