Took a 2.5 week trip to Maui several years ago and drove the entire island around, as well as visited the crater, the aquarium centre, helicopter tour, plantation, luau, world famous surf on the south east side, rainforest tour. It was ahh pretty great if I do say so. Although I was much younger then so I didn't appreciate much of the things I do now when traveling. Great restaurants (my god, the food) and the PGA level golf course looked amazing too, though didn't get a chance to play. As may have been mentioned already, the tropical rainforest on the southwest side, or Hana rainforest, is the lushest and most serene place I've driven through to this point in my life. Wish it wasn't like 8 vacations ago so it was a little fresher in my memory, but I do very much remember that.
But you want a condo/resort close to the beach. Had to do a fair amount of walking each day just to enjoy a bit of sand and surf. Definitely not like mexico where you'd just walk 100 feet form your hotel room. Getting around and walking was probably the only thing I didn't like about Hawaii as compared to other tropical vacations.
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