135 thoughts on “Maui Adds Mandatory On-Arrival Testing As Rules Change”

  1. We are flying from San Diego to Kauai via Hawaiian Airlines on May 11 but landing on Maui to board another Hawaiian plane to Kauai. We will never leave the terminal. I am curious if we will be subject to this test given that circumstance. If we are in fact subject to that test, I’m a bit nervous about how that small airport is going to handle this without hopelessly disrupting connecting flights due to the inevitable time delays that will occur in the process of testing.

    1. Yes, I am also wondering if passengers will have to pay for this. We are traveling to Maui at the end of July.

  2. Here we go again. Was hoping a vaccination would fix all this. Guess not. Disappointed. :0(

    1. To everybody whining about our testing rules you have a few options…..1)Don’t travel during a global pandemic and expect everything to be ‘normal’, 2)Follow our rules that are intended to keep residents and Kapuna safe…we don’t care what mandates your state has, 3)Check all available information..there’s multiple websites to stay updated, 4) Having acquired a negative test does NOT entitle you to flaunt or ignore our rules once you leave the airport..respect our Islands and our people, 5) Stay home or travel to a location that doesn’t seem to care about masks and testing. There is currently NO vaccine passport and even vaccinated people can still carry, shed and transmit the virus. Somehow over 20,000 people a day for the last 3 weeks have found a way to navigate the rules, protocols and procedures…if they can manage, I’m sure you can to.

      1. Well said. I too am so tired of people whining about their vacations when they forget that there are those of us that live here and have to deal with the aftermath of tourists. While the majority follow the rules, there are plenty that don’t. If they don’t like the rules that are in place, then they can stay home. Hawaii doesn’t need them.

        1. Amen brother. The whiners are the ones who either didn’t check the protocols, thought they could ‘slip past’ the rules, feel a sense of entitlement because they got the 72 hour test and/or vaccinated, are vacationing on the ‘cheap’ and think because they ‘spent X amount of dollars to come here’, or come from a state that doesn’t have or doesn’t enforce Covid rules. We don’t need or want ‘those type’ of tourists or the mutant strains of the virus that’s highly prevalent in at least 5 states. Stop whining or please, just stay home

  3. Thank you for the update. Have they considered whether vaccinated passengers will be treated any differently?

    1. Hi Teri.

      As indicated in post revision, there is no exception for vaccinated passengers. That would need to come from the state, not from Maui.

      Aloha.

  4. Maui’s decision is a wise balance of preserving their economy while adding additional safety measures.

    Sadly, Kauai could have chosen this airport testing plan last December, rather than the demeaning and economy-crushing resort bubble fiasco.

    1. My recollection is that Mayor Bubbles wanted a post-arrival three day quarantine before a mandatory second test. Ige turned him down. Mayor Bubbles then tried to get arriving people to voluntarily take a second test after three days. I don’t think many people did. We sure didn’t. Then Mayor Bubbles opted out completely, although a month later went with the bubble hotel or another island for 3-4 days before second test route. Some people have done that, with their reward for all the extra hssle, rick and expense being way less tourists to compete with.

      Mayor Bubbles has opted back in and is once again asking people to voluntarily take a post arrival test, plus to download the famous contract tracing app that was much debated on this site. He’s asking private businesses to offer discounts to tourist who agree to the second test. I have no idea how many will do that for some coupons, but I would put the over under at about 5% max. When he becomes disappointed that people aren’t voluntarily taking another test and risking quarantine, maybe he’ll also pull this airport stunt. The Big Island is apparently still testing some arrivals at the airport. I’ve read it’s 25% of them. Not sure what the point of that is other than to validate the Safe Travels program.

  5. Do you really think Hawaii wants to reopen? This is now ridiculous. My family of 8 planned to go to Maui in July. That’s not happening now. Forget you MAUI! I feel badly for their economy and the citizens that are subjected to their crazy leadership.

    Thank you for keeping everyone updated.

  6. This Maui mayor is just some kind of stupid. Please let us know what testing company he chooses, I want to buy the stock. A test with in 72 hours then again on arrival, what a waste of time and resources. I guess the safetravels form and QR codes are not good enough to come to Maui. Someone please make a suggestion to the mayor to use the resources for the extra test to help the unemployed or the homeless people of the island. Funny, no mention of anyone that has received the Corona 19 vaccine could pass through.
    Thank you for reading my rant. Hopefully the mayor will rethink his decision!!!!

  7. We just returned from our third trip to Hawaii in the past five months; all three were great as always. But if the trip had been planned for a week later and we were told we had to take another test upon arrival, we would postpone our trip. Even though we take precautions on the mainland and would’ve tested negative in the 72 hour window prior, it’s not worth the risk to quarantine over a positive test (or false positive). We won’t be returning to Maui until this requirement is gone and maybe that’s what Maui wants.

  8. This is full BS – thousands of travelers are already non-refundable on summer vacations. This move epitomizes the very opposite of “aloha” spirit and will likely drive mass cancellations. Rationale families who can actually reschedule will because there’s just too much at risk with this on-arrival test. Bad form Maui!!!

    SoCal Matt

  9. Changing the rules yet again… Moving the goalposts yet again… This is so frustrating…

    Is anyone in charge over there who can actually act consistently? Rationally? This will just make tourists stay away longer. Why make (mostly nonrefundable)reservations, spend all of that money, go to all of that bother, pass Covid tests on the mainland just before traveling if not being vaccinated, only to be required to do another test at Kahalui Airport? What if there’s a false positive? Will Maui reimburse folks who have false positives at the airport for their lost time and money?

    Sigh… Face palm… I want to return to Maui, to spend my tourist bucks (and yes, I’ve been vaccinated), but until Hawaii gets its collective act together I’ll be staying away. There are lots of places here on the Mainland that want my money more.

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