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  1. Yoko

    I am living in Tokyo. I had to cancel my trip to Oahu in April, and have been waiting for reopening, but Governor seems so cautious, which is understandable to protect the state, yet it may be the time now to reopen tourism while securing safety.
    In Japan, we are not allowed to take a C0VID test unless we have symptoms like fever etc. So I will be happy to cooperate to take a test upon arrival and self-quarantine until negative result is available even at my own expense.

  2. Donna V.

    Hi we have made reservations a year in advance of our timeshare in June we had to cancel we screwed rescheduled for July 20 we’re still hoping that Maui and Kawai will be open and our resort will be open so we could travel at this time do you think there is a possibility that this will happen

  3. JohnW

    It was in the morning news that LG Josh Green was attending meetings today centered around reopening and testing.
    Hawai’i is one of the safest places on the planet right now, obviously the intent is to keep It as safe as is reasonable while bringing back tourism.
    A good testing program would surely help keep it that way and combined with people wearing masks when appropriate and social distancing practices could make Hawai’i an incredibly desirable place to visit. Safe to say there will be window of time that Hawai’i will be uncrowded, open for business and returning tourists will be very much appreciated….good deals will abound. I’m guessing it will be a very special time that people will reminisce about someday.
    It’s never been a bad place, but the reopening will be something else again.
    Everyone stay safe, take care of one another and start working on your Aloha.

  4. Jared L.

    It’s already too late. Most if not all tourist depend businesses in Hawaii that aren’t major / national / global brands will almost certainly fail and never recover in the next few months. Not to mention the state and county government coffers that have been decimated by their bungling of this event. (I saw an old, scraggly looking women out in a county-owed truck spraying the traffic signal buttons at a crosswalk at a long-since closed school campus on Sunday… despite the fact that (1) not one person on the entire island actually HAS this, (2) it has been medically established that it is exceedlingly rare that you can actually catch it from TOUCHING things, (3) directly sunlight kills it on surfaces in about 10 minutes and (4) the county had well over $500,000,000 in debt–even BEFORe the virs.) The dominoes are already staring to fall. Revenues have collapsed–and since state and county governments refuse to cut spending or cut jobs, their only options will be sharp increases in taxes rates–and more debt–to add to the $5 BILLION + the state already owes creditors–largely thanks to the boondoggle rail project on Oahu.

    Of course, as always, the taxing authorities will try to shift as much of the burden for local taxes on to non-residents as possible. They’ve already laid the groundwork for raising taxes on second homes owned by mainland residents–who are already forced to pay an inordinate amount of tax. But… that’s the way Hawaii government always works… rob from the “rich” and give the “poor”. So that’s nothing new. However, when the mainlanders continue off-loading their properties at an even higher rate–and the local real estate markets collapse even further–already a trend after their mis-handling of the STVR situation–that will simply create even larger revenue shortfalls for the counties–and shift more of the tax burden back onto the locals.

    Mrs. Menor-­McNamara statement that “every day we inch closer to an economic cliff that will close businesses permanently and destroy our local business community beyond repair if tourism does not reopen” is actually a huge under-statement. The governor and the mayors have already drive the car over the cliff with all of us in it. The only real question is who will actually survive he impact.

  5. Mike W

    I don’t get it either….

    If they want to TEST, I have no problem taking a test. We’re due to travel on August 1st. The problem is, we have NO PLACE in Oregon or Washington that will give us a C0VID test without symptoms! Is this going to be addressed? Is Hawaii talking with Oregon and Washington about allowing/arranging TRAVEL C0VID tests? So far, we keep seeing.. ‘We will require testing,” but we need a place to take the test!

    It’s been mentioned… Who is going to travel to Hawaii from Portland if they have to go through a 14 day quarantine? I think the answer is…. VERY FEW.

    We’ve rescheduled a week long trip to Kauai. Absolutely, NO WAY we will travel to sit in a room for 7 days and go home… Let alone figure out how to eat and the like.

    So, yes…. Does Hawaiian Air know something we don’t?

    Maybe they plan to force the issue? Hmmmm?

    Allow my family to take a test and we’ll be there…. 😉

    1. Mark B.

      And what happens when you get a false positive? For a family of 4 it’s about a 1 in 5 chance one of you will test positive (falsely). Are you willing to gamble all the reservation money for a 80% chance you can go?

      I’m not. If clear plans aren’t laid out by June 30th we will cancel our August 1st trip while the reservations are all still fully refundable.

  6. Mark P

    Stunning that HA guv willing to proceed with economic and psych suicide of his ppl. Simply stunning.

    1. Dan C

      Please consider that perhaps the HI governor puts the lives of the citizens (and kÅ«puna) of equal importance to your “economic and psych suicide”.

      Understand no one is working in bad faith. The fact is that there are very few critical medical facilities available on islands like Maui and if the virus were to blow up there hundreds of people would not receive the care needed.

      Mahalo.

  7. lanell

    Aloha,

    Thanks for the info! We’ve probably canceled/reschedule our flight from Maui to Seattle four or five times, since March. Hawaiian seems to change their schedule almost daily. We booked for July 7, they had a direct Maui to Seattle flight. Two days later they canceled it and have us flying through Honolulu. We thought we might change our flight to July 15, for the direct flight, but we think they’ll change it soon. It’s understandable, but kind of crazy! Our daughter is developmentally disabled, layovers are difficult during normal times.

    Thanks again for all the news.

    Lanell

  8. Matt L.

    I’m curious if you know anything more about plans regarding facial recognition? During the press conferences last week surrounding the extension of the quar antine orders, the Governor and Lt. Governor mentioned that thermal cameras would be up and running for arriving gates soon, and that they would be adding facial recognition capabilities in the near future. Some of the remarks seemed to indicate that this would be a temporary use of the technology and it would only be in use in the airports. But that doesn’t make any sense.

    What have you heard?

    1. Brad F

      Matt, I heard that also but it doesn’t make any sense. A reporter asked the question ” why do you need facial recognition and will it be used out side of the airport” The answer was, ” we want to be sure we can identify people with potential C0vid symptoms and talk to them about treatment” Also,” No we will only be using this inside the airport” So my question is: If they have the thermal imaging equipment that scans you at TSA for body heat, They will know right then who it is. So Why facial recognition ? You wont be allowed to go any further if the Thermal scan works. I don’t think they are being honest with us regarding the Facial Recognition.

  9. Shelly G

    Thank you so much for this information. We had flights and hotel booked for July 17 through the 27th. The flight was with Hawaiian airlines. We have canceled both. Do you think we should be calling Hawaiian Airlines and our hotel to get our reservations booked again?

    1. Beat of Hawaii

      Hi Shelly.

      We’ll update this as soon as we have more info. Hopefully later this week.

      Aloha.

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