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The Point at Poipu is a lovely resort with a beautiful pool and a great poolside bar and grill. Full kitchens in all units. This is a good deal!
Susan, you may want to call Point at Poipu. The poolside grill was closed along with the poolside hut a while back. Possibly they have re-opened it now that they are a bubble resort. Also, the full kitchen will not do you a lot of good since you cannot go to the grocery store while you are in the bubble. Possibly the stores deliver?
There are some grocery delivery services on the island. Do some searching before you get here. One of them refused to deliver to anyone stuck in hotel quarantine but would deliver to people quarantining in their residences. Guy says helping someone stuck in a hotel room would make the experience less painful, and he felt it was his virtue signally duty as a good person to not service the bad people stuck in hotel jail. But, that was back in May:
thegardenisland.com/2020/05/06/hawaii-news/approaching-delivery-differently/
I would start by asking the “Point”, since this would be a common problem for all of their bubblers.
Hi David.
We aren’t sure if there are delivery services still in business and actually able to handle this. Suggest doing some basic online research. And a good idea to ask The Point.
Aloha.
I don’t want to give bad advice. FWIW, a few hits on a quick search.
kauaikiss.com/ (their web site says “island wide”)
go-kokua.com/ (web site says “Lihue to Hanalei”, so no Poipu.
Safeway (there are at least two of them on island) also offers “no contact delivery”. Don’t know if they’ll go down to Poipu.
But, again, someone planning to be a bubbler at The Point should start by asking The Point.
Hi David.
Hopefully, someone can give us a hand regarding whether any food delivery service on Kauai has actually worked out.
Aloha.
Why in the world are there not some uber/lyft/door dash drivers not getting together with the bubble resorts and offering delivery service? Could be a gold mine for an go getter entrepreneur, I would put a flyer in every room for my service and at the front desk, if I were on island.
What an opportunity:)
Bill S
Reply to Bill S:
Good thought. Maybe because the situation is temporary and fluid. How may potential customers will actually stay in these places, and for how long? And at some point, maybe later this year, Kawakami will allow people to fly directly and visit Kauai without quarantine, and so much for bubble resorts.
This is so ridiculous. I just stayed at a bubble BC I have no choice. But I would have been safer at my home. People were allowed to test on a site that was not approved by safe travels. These tests are not as effective. I saw people arrive on Kauai no test and be permitted in a bubble. Never once at the airport did they take a temp or ask for our negative Covid test. Hotel will take care of that. Well hotel did not care either. I saw people test 3 days later positive And be allowed to leave BC hotel did not know what to do with them. No one is safe in a “bubble”. Employees have family visiting them. Kids going to pool and playground. No one is safe. I would have been safer to go to my own house and be safe. Then test again. And $400 for a retest. What a rip off. People taking advantage of people. The mayor has no clue. He opted out of safe travels but still wants people going to kauai to use it. Stupid. He has No clue. No one is safe on his so called bubbles. He is going to have a lawsuit on his hands.
“I would have been safer to go to my own house and be safe.”
Safe to say, safe is a high priority for you. Perhaps you are an at risk age/pre-existing conditions? Why didn’t you just quarantine at your own house so you could “be safe”?
Which bubble place did you stay at? Who charged you $400 for a “retest” – does that mean you had a positive test result and got “retested”? Or does that mean the mobile bubble test? Someone else commented that it was $220. Still gouging. But $400?!
So I guess I need clarification. If we fly to the Big Island first and stay there for 72 hours, we do not need to test to get to Kauai or quarantine? If we fly directly to Kauai, we have to get a test within 72 hours of landing there, then STILL quarantine and take another test after being there 72 hours? Sorry but I have to be very clear as we are going in June and right now are going to Kauai first then the Big Island:( Thank you!
Hi JoDee.
Stay on Big Island for 72 hours. While you are there, obtain a test from a trusted partner and upload it to Safe Travels. Fly to Kauai. You do not need to quarantine or have another test.
Aloha.
Don’t everyone rush at at once now.
Aloha
We have elected to cancel our trips to Maui and Kauai until everything is back to normal.its not worth the trouble. We had trips to both islands scheduled this year and sad to say we won’t be going. We travel there multiple times a year but we will stay on the main land. Good luck to all and we hope and pray you will be able to survive. Until we meet again
Mahalo.
Hi Dave.
We hope you can return again soon.
Aloha.
What if you have had both doses of the Covid vaccine?
Am I understanding correctly that these hotels are now resort bubbles only?? So once you are released from quarantine you are required to depart?? Or is it that you can still stay there without a Kauai ankle bracelet and you are free to go and come as you please? Which means you would then be sharing the property, pool etc. with those who have not had their second covid test and therefore (by Kauai standards) you would be putting yourself at risk for covid. So every year your family stays at HBR for 2 weeks but because of the resort bubble you now stay there 3 days and then need to move on & find other accommodations … this whole system is a mess!
No matter what, we absolutely will NOT visit Kauai if we are required to wear ankle monitors & be quarantined to a camp of sorts. The fact that the governor of Hawaii allows Kauai to have these types of regulations is beyond scary.
Hi,
I wanted to share that on Maui – yesterday, I researched ALL of the testing sites – there are NO rapid tests. There are a lot in Honolulu, but not on Maui. On Maui, they range from 1-5 days, which is not helpful for me, and just too much stress. I decided to spend all my time in Maui. If you have a lot of flexibility on your holiday – then that works.
Ko’a Kea resort charges a fee for the tracking, but it is 100% refundable as long as you keep in line with the rules for EMQ. Seems like all the other resorts do not allow it to be refundable.
Another thing (I’m an NP working with COVID). There are now 3 FDA approved rapid at home tests, the one by Ellume does not need a doctors prescription. 2 are antigen (Ellume) and 1 is PCR. Ko’a Kea said that they would accept any FDA approved test. It is extradinarily more affordable than getting a rapid test on Kauai through Poipu MD mobile (not that I don’t want them to get business).
I was able to try to put in an order quickly for the Abbott test. Since I am only going to Maui, now, I don’t need it.
aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2021/at-home-covid-tests.html
Thank you for the continued updates for rules and restrictions to visit Kauai. I contacted one of the resort bubbles (Hilton Garden Inn) to clarify the current quarantine guidelines and wanted to pass on my understanding to you and your readers. If I were to arrive in Lihue and check into the resort bubble on a Thursday afternoon I would need to, as you stated, wait at least 72 hours before being able to take the next COVID-19 test. However, I believe all the Kauai resort bubbles use the same mobile testing company that comes to each resort one time per day. At the Hilton Garden Inn that’s at 12:00 noon Monday-Saturday. No testing is available on Sunday. That means if I check in on a Thursday afternoon the 72 hours is up on Sunday afternoon and I have to wait until Monday at 12:00 noon to take the test. That means you will actually be required to stay four nights, not three. And be careful not to arrive on a Wednesday afternoon. That would mean your 72 hours would be up on Saturday afternoon, but with no Sunday testing you would have to wait until Monday to get tested. That means you would need to stay five nights in the quarantine if arriving on a Wednesday! Finally, the Hilton Garden Inn stated I could only be in the room or go to the pool during my stay. No restaurants on site with food only available to be delivered to your room. The mobile COVID-19 test is $225/person and the tracking device you have to wear during your stay is $80/person. Sorry, not for me.
Hi Joel.
Thanks so much for that. It was very helpful and also disconcerting.
Aloha.
Hi any word on travelers who are vaccinated?