Please suggest a Hawaiian island for me

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I need some advice for a somewhat last minute trip to Hawaii. I have some parameters that need to be met, and even though we've been to Hawaii once last year, I don't feel familiar enough to figure out what we should do this time:

We will be in Honolulu at the beginning of Sept to watch my 2 nieces (13 and 8) while their parents are gone. They have lived in Honolulu for the past couple of years. In the time they've been there, they've visited the Big Island, and the oldest spent a weekend on Maui, though mostly only the Lahaina area. H and I have been to Kauai and also Oahu.

While we're babysitting them, we'd like to take them on a long weekend trip during Labor Day weekend. Where should we go? My thoughts were:
1) Maui, although not sure what we should hit up in just 3 days? Would the road to Hana be too boring for kids? What about Haleakala? Is it still fun even though the kids have seen the volcano on the Big Island?
2) Kauai, although we've been there before and I kind of wanted to go somewhere new.
3) Stay on Oahu and spend a weekend in a nice hotel, although they live there and really have explored the island quite a bit.
4) somewhere else? Probably not Big Island since they've been there.

Help!

[aurora]

I guess it depends on what you want to do and what your nieces enjoy. One of our highlights on Maui was taking the boat to snorkel near Molokini, which is most of a day. If you're ruling out Kauai and the Big Island and they live on Oahu, then I guess your options are Maui, Molokai, and Lanai, right? And Lanai isn't really the place to bring children if I understand it.

I enjoyed the road to Hana but it might get boring for some people who aren't fascinated by waterfalls, whether child or adult. I think Haleakala is different than Mona Loa and Mona Kea so I wouldn't worry so much about them having seen the Big Island volcanoes. But, Haleakala isn't actively erupting so it's far less exciting.

[MamaMaui24]

I got car sick very easily as a kid, so keep that in mind for the road to Hana.

I've only been to Kauai, Maui and Oahu. I'd pick Maui in this case.

Sounds like a really fun time!

[mdgirl]

Even though they've explored Oahu a lot, staying at Turtle Bay is still fun, and the snorkeling up there will be good at that time. We lived in Honolulu a year and did a couple weekends there, and that's not unusual for locals on Oahu. Also ask your sister how long they spent on the BI and what they did. It's huge and I'm sure there's plenty they didn't see.