Looking to book travel now for July 2018 trip with the family (3 kids). I'm flying on united points and here are my thoughts...

1) Fly IAD-HNL on a non stop. Stay 2 nights on Wiakiki
2) Fly to OGG and use Marriott 7N cert and stay at the Wailea
3) Fly to LIH and spend 5N at (possibly) Kauai Marriott
4) Fly back to OGG to catch a return flight home to east coast.

My ideal is to fly into OGG rather than HNL but for 45k UA miles PP, I can only do fly into HNL and fly out of OGG. Should I avoid Honolulu altogether or is it a nice easing into Hawaii especially for the kids?

Thoughts? Will have 3 kids in tow. I will look to use excursionist perk to take me from HNL-OGG and then fly an inter-island flight from OGG-LIH and then from LIH-OGG on the return.

Thoughts?