Hawaii - tourist trap or Heaven !!!

I would be lying if I say that this is/was the top vacation destination in mine or vasu's list !!!! There are quite a few destinations before that in the list . But then most of our dream destinations are quite unfeasible / super expensive or simply impossible for us to plan at this time . We wanted to take a long vacation for quite some time and this was our longest since our honeymoon .

We did visit east coast for two weeks last year but then we were visiting friends then , so that doesn't count as a romantic gateway . Finally we booked our tickets right before Christmas , thanks to the crappy weather then .Originally we had planned to get away during the Valentine time but then decided I can't wait that long , so booked it before that .

We always thought of Hawaii as a big tourist trap ,that it has been too much commercialized and that most of the good beaches have been taken up by big hotels and not accessible to the general public .
We were totally wrong about the second statement, all the beaches (or at-least the one's we have been and we have been to many of them ) are accessible to everyone .Besides I realized it's not fair to have such a definitive idea about a place I have never been to !!!! What if I am wrong .. we realized that we did rather take a chance and proven wrong !!!! .So these were our thoughts before the trip .. lets dive into the actual trip !!!

Hawaii--- Heaven or a tourist trap !!!