76 thoughts on “Hawaii Travel Soars Again. Now Through Vaccine and Beyond”
MaryMargaret B.
Aloha! Traveling from Maui to Oahu round trip from Dec 7-11 return— what do we need to do to get back in Maui?
I understand no Covid to get into Oahu.
Mahalo!
Beat of Hawaii
Hi MaryMargaret.
You will need to test within 72 hours of your flight to Maui.
Aloha.
Linda B
We are planning on visiting beautiful Maui in February. SW has airfare from Las Vegas for 691 RT for 2. Do you think we’ll get a better deal if we wait or should we book now? Mahalo for your input.
Beat of Hawaii
Hi Linda.
There are $206 RT airfares on United Airlines and Delta Airlines in February. Hope that helps.
Aloha to all (particularly you Kauai Guys who run this thing),
Welcome back, visitors who have tested covid negative. Mahalo for complying with our travel requirements. I know they are a pain. But everything about a 100 year pandemic is a pain or worse.
I feel I did not do a good job of trying to explain Hawai’i’s concern about imported diseases when I wrote about bringing your dog here. If you are not familiar with Hawai’ian history, here’s the long story short about infectious diseases. Native Hawai’ians had no immunity to Western diseases that were not usually fatal to Westerners. But not that many years after the first Western sailor set foot upon a Hawai’ian island, Western contact continued, The Native Hawai’ian population was decimated by measles, tuberculosis, and other diseases.
Aloha includes the concept of caring for others.Here on Maui, almost all of us wear our mask because we know it protects others. It’s aloha.
And on a separate note, I want to
apologize to our Canadian visitors who can’t get one of our approved tests in Canada, so have to stop in the US to be tested. Sorry we didn’t do mo bettah for you.
Beat of Hawaii
Hi Nancy.
Thanks for sharing from Maui.
Aloha.
David B
Canada won’t let US residents in at all, except very limited circumstances, and then only with two week quarantine. When will their government start allowing US visitors in with a pre-travel test? At least they can still come to US and get a test here to go to Hawaii.
marci
Thank you for keeping everyone up-to-date on what’s going on. I just returned to the islands after 6 weeks on the mainland. I used Vault (preferred provider) for my test, which I highly recommend. I took my test Thursday noon, marked it for Hawaii travel (this gets priority processing as the Vault zoom assistant explained), dropped it at UPS, received a notification they received it Friday morning (8:00am) and I had my results that afternoon at 2:45pm. So, I had results in about 24 hours, including UPS delivery to them!
Beat of Hawaii
Hi Marci.
Thanks for the update on your testing. Appreciate it.
Aloha.
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Aloha! Traveling from Maui to Oahu round trip from Dec 7-11 return— what do we need to do to get back in Maui?
I understand no Covid to get into Oahu.
Mahalo!
Hi MaryMargaret.
You will need to test within 72 hours of your flight to Maui.
Aloha.
We are planning on visiting beautiful Maui in February. SW has airfare from Las Vegas for 691 RT for 2. Do you think we’ll get a better deal if we wait or should we book now? Mahalo for your input.
Hi Linda.
There are $206 RT airfares on United Airlines and Delta Airlines in February. Hope that helps.
Aloha.
Thank you but how do we find Vault please?
Hi Bev.
On the state website, on Hawaiian Airlines website, or here: https://www.vaulthealth.com/covid.
Aloha.
Aloha to all (particularly you Kauai Guys who run this thing),
Welcome back, visitors who have tested covid negative. Mahalo for complying with our travel requirements. I know they are a pain. But everything about a 100 year pandemic is a pain or worse.
I feel I did not do a good job of trying to explain Hawai’i’s concern about imported diseases when I wrote about bringing your dog here. If you are not familiar with Hawai’ian history, here’s the long story short about infectious diseases. Native Hawai’ians had no immunity to Western diseases that were not usually fatal to Westerners. But not that many years after the first Western sailor set foot upon a Hawai’ian island, Western contact continued, The Native Hawai’ian population was decimated by measles, tuberculosis, and other diseases.
Aloha includes the concept of caring for others.Here on Maui, almost all of us wear our mask because we know it protects others. It’s aloha.
And on a separate note, I want to
apologize to our Canadian visitors who can’t get one of our approved tests in Canada, so have to stop in the US to be tested. Sorry we didn’t do mo bettah for you.
Hi Nancy.
Thanks for sharing from Maui.
Aloha.
Canada won’t let US residents in at all, except very limited circumstances, and then only with two week quarantine. When will their government start allowing US visitors in with a pre-travel test? At least they can still come to US and get a test here to go to Hawaii.
Thank you for keeping everyone up-to-date on what’s going on. I just returned to the islands after 6 weeks on the mainland. I used Vault (preferred provider) for my test, which I highly recommend. I took my test Thursday noon, marked it for Hawaii travel (this gets priority processing as the Vault zoom assistant explained), dropped it at UPS, received a notification they received it Friday morning (8:00am) and I had my results that afternoon at 2:45pm. So, I had results in about 24 hours, including UPS delivery to them!
Hi Marci.
Thanks for the update on your testing. Appreciate it.
Aloha.