Congradulations, I see you used AA points directly which is the smart way to book. I am new to travel hacking and made a few mistakes, but was able to book R/T to Hawaii as well. Where are you staying? I found the hotels on MAUI very expensive. Even air B and B cost alot. Hope I am not hijacking your thread but I did want to share my experience
I was also able to also book R/t tickets to Hawaii on united for a small fee using my points. I took the richmond savers/brad and alexi course, travel 101 course. here is what I did in order to get some very discounted travel.
I used chase ultimate awards, transferred 40 thousand to United, and booked one flight.It cost 36,000 points actually, now I have surplus at united and can not transfer them back to chase, oh well.
I used my citi thank you points,to book through Citibank Thank you portal ( 50,000 points) plus 100 dollars cash to pay for the other flight on united.
I then used 4 free hyatt nights and booked those nights ( not easy to get availability I had to be flexible) the booking agents at hyatt were very nice, however. I did call more than once and got different answers, in the end I did manage to squeeze another night out of them with "points and cash" for $125- so 5 nights total.
Lessons learned-Booking earlier seems best for hyatt I booked November so exactly 2 months early, but if they have a standard room available you can book with points, so if I booked earlier I may have been able to use the rest of my hyatt points for another night. Flexibilty helped also when booking the flights, I used a window of 3 weeks, booked the hyatt first then the flights around that. I will also admit the trip is about 2/3 off as I sprung for air B and B and a hotel as well so 12 nights in hawaii
will still cost me almost 2 grand with free trips and free nights. I am delighted however, last time I went 9 years ago I forked over a bundle.