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Just saw this in todays Garden Island News:
This rule is independent of the Safe Travels program and does not require travelers to utilize a state-approved travel or testing partner. Rather, travelers utilizing Rule 24, are allowed to submit any pre-travel and post-travel test so long as it has received emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Get tested (if you can schedule one) before you leave home .. travel to the Big Island and get tested again.. fly to Kauai and get another test.. pay for and have to stay in a resort bubble for 4 days.. then get tested again..(hope you don’t get a false positive)….I’d rather stay home, not a welcoming strategy. Who comes up with these
plans ??
Aloha to Kauai Islanders from your loyal and respectful friends in British Columbia, Canada.
My wife and I were planning on our one month vacation in March 2021.
This would have been our 4th visit to your Island.
We are wishing you all the best for 2021 and hopefully will be able to visit in 2022.
Stay home and stay safe!
Mahalo Nui Loa 😃♥️
Powell River B.C. Canada
What makes a difference to us is the “Trusted Testing Partners” which I thought was part of he Bubble Resort Program. They need to accept any FDA approved tests including the instant tests. We have a COVID test facility a couple of miles from the house. The it is an antigen test, costs $115, and you have the results in 15 minutes. The test is 97% accurate. It is a nasal swab, but it is not accepted because it is not a molecular test.
I assume the test on the 4th day is some kind of instant test.
Does anyone know how the Bubble Resort thing work? Do you have to make your own reservation?
Sadly not realistic to even get to Hawaii and have testing results since “approved partners” are over booked on mainland. Testing should be done upon arrival on Islands at airports.
We will cancel our planned trip to Kauai with this latest proposal by the mayor. It’s expensive enough with airfare, hotel stays , hotel and city taxes, hotel resort fees, car rentals, COVID testing and now proposals to charge visitors only to pay for beach parking. I can think of other more welcoming places to plunk down my hard earned vacation dollars.
Thanks BOH for your great reports and providing a platform for commenting!
Hi Lee.
Thanks for letting us know. We hope you can return again.
Aloha.
Goodby Hawaii. Maybe see you when Covid is done. Too many beautiful places in the world that actually want us to bring our money to them. Maybe see you in 2023. Hang on till then.
We own a home in Kalaheo currently rented until 2022. Own 3 weeks at the Marriott Wiaohai but canceled our planned March trip to Kauai.
It’s not worth it!
We traveled to Kauai Oct 15th when opened with testing. Leading up to the trip is to much stress. Our medical is Stanford care. One of the best, but a Stanford test is not approved on the trusted list. We had to drive to Reno from Oakland to get a test at Walgreens. So we took two tests. We had to drive 4 hrs for the approved test, which btw was self administratored vs Stanford with trained nurses.
Three simple needs;
1) Expand the test approved list!
2) 96 hours vs 72 hrs
3) require a negative test preflight, everyone!
What’s the point of my testing if someone else chooses to quarantine?
Early December there were 18 cases with 14 quarantined at home , 4 in facility.
What’s that mean? 14 locals and four tourists with late test returns?
99% recovery! Follow the real science!
Aloha, I would not bother coming to Kauai as a traveler from the mainland to join one of these ridiculous resort bubbles that are never going to work, however if I was a traveler from the mainland I might go to Maui or another island, and then make Hawaii part of my multi island stay.
Unfortunately, for Kauai, this rule is going to do little to bring back business to these businesses who are no longer in business on Kauai thanks to the mayor’s horrible decision to leave the Safe Travels Program.
Travelers still have major hurdles
If you’re coming here to stay in a resort bubble, you can’t rent a car. How do you get to your bubble? How do you get from your bubble to the test site? How do you get from the test sight to the back to the airport to rent your car? Kauai is not worth it.
Most of not all winter travelers have already made their winter vacation travel plans, and Kauai is not a part of it. Kauai has missed the entire winter season, the snowbird season, when the big rates are here, and now Kauai will be possibly working on July 2021 travelers.
The only way for Kauai to regain traction and tourism, and stop the businesses from closing, is to join the Hawaii safe travels program as the governor has successfully ran it for the past couple of months.
Resort bubbles do not work.
Go elsewhere.
Rules change weekly. Two Covid tests now. A non-starter for me. Ridiculous. Plan on Maui in March, after canceling my planned trip for mid-January due to Covid problems currently in CA.