172 thoughts on “Hawaii Travel Now Ready For October Reopening”
Patricia R.
I think you should be very very careful about opening, I know you want to make money but our lives are important and especially Kupuna..All those tourists are still carrier’s still. I just don’t think it’s not a good idea Yet…Too soon…next year will be better that’s my Theory…
Michelle L.
That’s why the antigen testing would be better. It will tell if you have or had the virus. The”had” part more importantly.
🤙
JC
Funny. As COVID has continued, I have watched the situation in Hawaii unfold with a mixture of concern for the health of the residents, and horror for the lack of leadership in the state. Ironically, we made a dream purchase of a condo on Maui one week before the pandemic closed travel to Hawaii. Since then, we’ve lost all rental reservations, learned about an underlying hostility toward tourists (and rentals) and have yet to spend one night there.
What hasn’t changed are all of the state taxes and fees. The bills come like clockwork, while leadership talks of reopening one moment and closure the next. I appreciate the Lt. Gov’s attempt to lay out a plan, but he has done that before to no avail. My hope is that someone builds a plan that protects residents and allows visitors to return safely at some point in the near future. Or at the very least, just tell travelers that the borders are closed well into 2021. In the meantime, I am sending good thoughts to those of you who live there. Stay safe.
JohnW
Wow, talk about bad luck. I have to make a point here JC around your perception about underlying resentment towards
tourists and rentals. Any resentment you are detecting is directed towards rude tourists, not tourists in general. When I read on here about people complaining about the “locals” and how poorly they were treated all I think is they are the ones with an issue. Like anywhere, but to a certain degree even more so in Hawaii, if you are nice people are nice to you, if you are not nice then the opposite can be true.
I risk of over generalizing but…. show up in a MAGA hat and complain about immigrants and you’ll have a very different experience from someone who is friendly, open minded and non judgmental.
The hostility towards rentals is directed at the people turning former nice residential areas into vacation rentals and destroying neighborhoods.
Most have no problem with rental condo’s anymore then with hotels. Appropriate tourist accommodations are not an issue.
You posted a nice attitude that I’m guessing you will have no problems when tourism finally returns. This has been a struggle for all but will pass. When it does I’m guessing the Hawaii that rises from this period will be a very special place indeed…..hang in there!
Shannon S
Can you get PCR results within 72 hours? What if test results not in at time of flight? Can you test four days or a week before?
Kalani F
My bet is the state wont open until after the election. just loke the schools on california. once election is over, COVID will no longer be a threat.
Kw
You are not listening to the facts
COVID 19 will be around until we get a vaccine and people get vaccinated
COVID 19 is real
It won’t “disappear”
Wake up
Michelle L.
Exactly. Just like the cold and flu. The vaccine also will not cure. It will be the same as flu vaccine, only for the CV-19 strain. The virus is everywhere. To be forced to wait until elections and vaccine for $$$. Not ok. But I respect you all. Just want our lives back.
DonnaF
Aloha my name is Donna. I was with my family on the Big island 3 days shy of one month. When I got there I did my qurantine. Before I left to come home on Kauai. I took a covid-19 test. Just because Kauai, has been zero. My results we negative. So do I still need to be in qurantine? I live alone. I’m diabetic and need what I need for food.
Shannon S
Is the 14 day quaranteen over in october?
Cheryl G
I’ve postponed my trip twice already! I’m hoping October will be the month I can go!
Amy
Sounds good, a lot of people are ready to get back to work! Are the tests going to be free? Can we have a guarantee that the results are going to be consistently available on time? With the recent “leave of absence” of the main people in the Contact/Tracking Dept. in Oahu…how can re-opening move forward with no current oversight in this dept.? Or has this been remedied?
Vacation Rentals need to open as well. Looking forward to receiving the Hawaii Re-opening plan/rules for the rentals to open simultaneously with the hotels. We all have livelihoods to protect, as well, we do contribute quite a bit to the State of Hawaii taxes. Mahalo for trying to get this moved along. Hopefully the IGE will agree!?
Beat of Hawaii
Hi Amy.
Thanks. Good questions. We hope to hear more from the state by next week.
Aloha.
Richard C
Hi Guys thanks for the forum.
I’m going rogue. In Northern California where I live they’re several large Native American Casino Resorts. They’ve been open for months, yet no covid spike has been attributed to their being open.
What gives? What are they doing right?
I own a business in Oroville Ca, yes we’re on fire again, with two Native American Casinos in town, yet no covid spike.
It just came to this realization just thought I’d share it.
Beat of Hawaii
Hi Richard.
Thanks.
Aloha.
Ted S
I think that the state of Hawaii should set up a fund or make a law that states if a visitor is coming to Hawaii and has tested negative, than gets to Hawaii and tests positive, they will be able to have a second test done free of cost. If they test positive again, they should get help changing their return flight, plus be able to cancel all reservations at no cost to them, because they could have got the virus on the flight to Hawaii. This would be better than no visitors at all. I think it would be a big incentive to bring people to Hawaii.
Randy A.
I think this is a great idea Ted. Or at the very least, has some factors in it that would be a great bridge to finding some kind of a reasonable solution here. But to just keep extending the closure and insistence of these quarantines is foolhardy in the long run. So many of us are ready to come back, spend our tourism dollars there and more than willing to do it as safely as is dictated. We do all need to look out for each other, but in ALL facets of our lives and not completely forsaking the economy. Solutions are out there. Like Ted, we need to throw ideas out there and start to find a way.
Colleen
And how does a person know whether or not they have gotten a ‘false positive’ test that is going to send them back home?
A Nurse acquaintance of ours who works in the communicable disease department of a local hospital told us that she knew someone who sent in SIX swabs to be tested (none of which had been used on anyone – they were clean) and they ALL came back POSITIVE for the virus. So one really wonders. Needless to say – the lab was reported.
Nope. Think we will wait until this all dies down or we do, ha ha
Just sounds like way too much stress for us. When we pack our bags for vacation the last thing we want to worry about is a test that could send us back home, losing our vacation weeks, car rental, airfare. We will wait until Spring and then see how it is going. We may have to cancel our July trip if things are still as unsettled as they are now.
I can’t imagine anyone wanting to vacation under these circumstances.
Monique T
Sounds great… but…
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I think you should be very very careful about opening, I know you want to make money but our lives are important and especially Kupuna..All those tourists are still carrier’s still. I just don’t think it’s not a good idea Yet…Too soon…next year will be better that’s my Theory…
That’s why the antigen testing would be better. It will tell if you have or had the virus. The”had” part more importantly.
🤙
Funny. As COVID has continued, I have watched the situation in Hawaii unfold with a mixture of concern for the health of the residents, and horror for the lack of leadership in the state. Ironically, we made a dream purchase of a condo on Maui one week before the pandemic closed travel to Hawaii. Since then, we’ve lost all rental reservations, learned about an underlying hostility toward tourists (and rentals) and have yet to spend one night there.
What hasn’t changed are all of the state taxes and fees. The bills come like clockwork, while leadership talks of reopening one moment and closure the next. I appreciate the Lt. Gov’s attempt to lay out a plan, but he has done that before to no avail. My hope is that someone builds a plan that protects residents and allows visitors to return safely at some point in the near future. Or at the very least, just tell travelers that the borders are closed well into 2021. In the meantime, I am sending good thoughts to those of you who live there. Stay safe.
Wow, talk about bad luck. I have to make a point here JC around your perception about underlying resentment towards
tourists and rentals. Any resentment you are detecting is directed towards rude tourists, not tourists in general. When I read on here about people complaining about the “locals” and how poorly they were treated all I think is they are the ones with an issue. Like anywhere, but to a certain degree even more so in Hawaii, if you are nice people are nice to you, if you are not nice then the opposite can be true.
I risk of over generalizing but…. show up in a MAGA hat and complain about immigrants and you’ll have a very different experience from someone who is friendly, open minded and non judgmental.
The hostility towards rentals is directed at the people turning former nice residential areas into vacation rentals and destroying neighborhoods.
Most have no problem with rental condo’s anymore then with hotels. Appropriate tourist accommodations are not an issue.
You posted a nice attitude that I’m guessing you will have no problems when tourism finally returns. This has been a struggle for all but will pass. When it does I’m guessing the Hawaii that rises from this period will be a very special place indeed…..hang in there!
Can you get PCR results within 72 hours? What if test results not in at time of flight? Can you test four days or a week before?
My bet is the state wont open until after the election. just loke the schools on california. once election is over, COVID will no longer be a threat.
You are not listening to the facts
COVID 19 will be around until we get a vaccine and people get vaccinated
COVID 19 is real
It won’t “disappear”
Wake up
Exactly. Just like the cold and flu. The vaccine also will not cure. It will be the same as flu vaccine, only for the CV-19 strain. The virus is everywhere. To be forced to wait until elections and vaccine for $$$. Not ok. But I respect you all. Just want our lives back.
Aloha my name is Donna. I was with my family on the Big island 3 days shy of one month. When I got there I did my qurantine. Before I left to come home on Kauai. I took a covid-19 test. Just because Kauai, has been zero. My results we negative. So do I still need to be in qurantine? I live alone. I’m diabetic and need what I need for food.
Is the 14 day quaranteen over in october?
I’ve postponed my trip twice already! I’m hoping October will be the month I can go!
Sounds good, a lot of people are ready to get back to work! Are the tests going to be free? Can we have a guarantee that the results are going to be consistently available on time? With the recent “leave of absence” of the main people in the Contact/Tracking Dept. in Oahu…how can re-opening move forward with no current oversight in this dept.? Or has this been remedied?
Vacation Rentals need to open as well. Looking forward to receiving the Hawaii Re-opening plan/rules for the rentals to open simultaneously with the hotels. We all have livelihoods to protect, as well, we do contribute quite a bit to the State of Hawaii taxes. Mahalo for trying to get this moved along. Hopefully the IGE will agree!?
Hi Amy.
Thanks. Good questions. We hope to hear more from the state by next week.
Aloha.
Hi Guys thanks for the forum.
I’m going rogue. In Northern California where I live they’re several large Native American Casino Resorts. They’ve been open for months, yet no covid spike has been attributed to their being open.
What gives? What are they doing right?
I own a business in Oroville Ca, yes we’re on fire again, with two Native American Casinos in town, yet no covid spike.
It just came to this realization just thought I’d share it.
Hi Richard.
Thanks.
Aloha.
I think that the state of Hawaii should set up a fund or make a law that states if a visitor is coming to Hawaii and has tested negative, than gets to Hawaii and tests positive, they will be able to have a second test done free of cost. If they test positive again, they should get help changing their return flight, plus be able to cancel all reservations at no cost to them, because they could have got the virus on the flight to Hawaii. This would be better than no visitors at all. I think it would be a big incentive to bring people to Hawaii.
I think this is a great idea Ted. Or at the very least, has some factors in it that would be a great bridge to finding some kind of a reasonable solution here. But to just keep extending the closure and insistence of these quarantines is foolhardy in the long run. So many of us are ready to come back, spend our tourism dollars there and more than willing to do it as safely as is dictated. We do all need to look out for each other, but in ALL facets of our lives and not completely forsaking the economy. Solutions are out there. Like Ted, we need to throw ideas out there and start to find a way.
And how does a person know whether or not they have gotten a ‘false positive’ test that is going to send them back home?
A Nurse acquaintance of ours who works in the communicable disease department of a local hospital told us that she knew someone who sent in SIX swabs to be tested (none of which had been used on anyone – they were clean) and they ALL came back POSITIVE for the virus. So one really wonders. Needless to say – the lab was reported.
Nope. Think we will wait until this all dies down or we do, ha ha
Just sounds like way too much stress for us. When we pack our bags for vacation the last thing we want to worry about is a test that could send us back home, losing our vacation weeks, car rental, airfare. We will wait until Spring and then see how it is going. We may have to cancel our July trip if things are still as unsettled as they are now.
I can’t imagine anyone wanting to vacation under these circumstances.
Sounds great… but…