United joins Hawaiian and Alaska to make your arrival in Hawaii easier without long lines. Here’s how it works.
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United joins Hawaiian and Alaska to make your arrival in Hawaii easier without long lines. Here’s how it works.
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so we will be in Maui and then on to big island, would we be able to use that for our covid test there or do we have to get 1 prior to leaving Maui?
do we have faith that this preclearance is recognized by the state of Hawaii and that they are not going to change their minds sometime in Feb or come up with some other bureaucratic step to make Hawaiian tourists regret they got involved with this?
Unless you’re flying to Kauai! I’m a resident who just returned from the mainland. I was there taking care of a friend who had just had surgery. I got my Covid test and my QR code and returned home to a mandatory 10 day quarantine! If I was a tourist and spent 3 days in a resort bubble I could get a second test on my 4th day and be released.
This is not an option for returning residents, your quarantine is mandatory 10 days no exceptions. Unless you want to spend $1500 to stay for 3 days at a resort bubble then pay to take a second test. This is not only extortion from residents it’s discrimination!
Teri – I’m curious: Why did you bother with the time/expense of a pre-flight Covid test and getting a QR code (etc.), if you are going to be stuck with 10 days house arrest no matter what? I know you know this, but you also had the option of going to another island for three days and then taking the second test. Would still cost you $$$, but not nearly as much as a hotel bubble and would be more enjoyable.
But I agree with you. Anyone stuck in quarantine should be able to test out after three days. A hotel bubble is not any “safer” (code word for not catching COVID) than being locked in a room at the Tip Top or being stuck at home. It makes no sense, other than your mayor really wants to motivate people to stay at a bubbler hotel or on another island for a while.
What happened to : HONOLULU (KHON2) — House Speaker Scott Saiki plans to introduce a bill when the House reconvenes on Wednesday, Jan. 20, to make the state’s safe travel program uniform regardless of which island is being visited.
Gary,
my wife flew to Kona last week and she only had to wait 2 hours in her condo before she was free to leave. If she didn’t hear back from the state then she was good to go. I’m not sure where you got the 24 hour notice from but did you wait in your condo for 24 hours before you ventured out?
Mark
Do you have any indication of when you can fly from mainland (Phoenix) to Kauai?
What happens when we have had the 2 shot covid vaccines? Will we still be required to have a pre travel covid neg?
Aloha! In December, We used Vault (non-insurance covered) with no incident before flying from San Diego to Oahu, stayed low key for three days, then took another Covid test to make sure we were clean. It was an expensive effort, but made our entire HawaIi family feel comfortable. FYI
Great news!! We have rescheduled our Big Island trip for Spring Break!
New (22 Jan, 21) bypass screening for all the Hawaiian Islands including Kauai or “all” except Kauai? Help.
As a resident of Kauai, I can tell you that’s a big NO! If you want to come here it’s 3 days in a resort bubble then a second test on the 4th day to be released out of quarantine. I just flew home yesterday from the mainland and I have a mandatory 10 day quarantine even with a negative Covid test and no option to take a second test to be released early from quarantine! They basically are discriminating against the residents of Kauai
Thanks for your helpful updates. We flew to the Big Island last Fri on Alaska Air. They were the first to have wrist bands that allowed you to skip arrival screening. The only problem is it does not really work that way. When you arrive in Kona you are ushered to an area where you fill out another health questionnaire. Then you go through a line with several stations for a rapid test, nasal swab. You don’t have the wait for the results so it is not that inconvenient, unless you are the last ones off the plane. If you do not hear from them in 24 hours, no news is good news.
I think it is a little misleading for the airlines to say your wrist bands allows you to skip arrival testing. Maybe it is different on other Islands.
Gary
Hi Gary.
Thanks for the input. We will note that in the article.
Aloha.
We flew into Kona mid November. We too got screened for covid at the airport. (NAAT rapid test) The only difference I can see, is we had to sit for 15 minutes to get are test results back. Also had to put the results in PDF form and upload to safe travels within a week, No big deal. I found the testing at the Kona airport to be very unprofessional. We were on United.
Aloha Guys
Just the opposite! We flew in on Jan 7th. Uploaded all our info to the safe travels website before leaving (testing by Vault – $119). Took another rapid test at Kona upon arrival. I thought that the tests were done professionally. Proof of negative test needed for rental car and at accomodations.