Tips, essential Rules, latest changes. Save Time and avoid Worry. What to know before traveling to Hawaii.
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Tips, essential Rules, latest changes. Save Time and avoid Worry. What to know before traveling to Hawaii.
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Thank you for this information. I scheduled our test 71 hours before the scheduled flight and have received a negative result, but now I’m worried if my flight gets delayed. I only have an hour wiggle room.
Will they make an exception for a delayed flight?
Hi Lori.
You need to test within 72 hours of your “scheduled” departure time from the mainland to Hawaii. So a flight delay will not count against you.
Aloha.
I took a rapid test at Walgreens and received a negative result. I then found out it’s not the correct test when i uploaded my results. I leave tomorrow morning. What can i do? Help!!!
Tippy….how did this turn out? We want to use Walgreens also and are unsure id we can use any tesr other than the PCR.
Hi BOH!
I’m flying Southwest to Oahu and am not clear if there is another screening process upon arrival. I’ve heard there is a wristband available at the airport before departure that allows one to skip that process. Can’t find any info anywhere. Thoughts?
Thanks so Much!
Nancy
Hi Nancy.
The page with that information about Pre-Clear is here: https://www.southwest.com/coronavirus/hawaii/.
Aloha.
I’m currently in Kona, arrived 4/21, with a negative Covid test prior to arriving. I see we can travel to Oahu without another test since arriving. If I fly to Oahu tomorrow 4/26, and find a flight on 4/29, to return to KOA, and fly home to mainland the evening of 4/29 (so basically book a flight prior to my original return flight and lay over in KOA), do I need an additional test in Oahu to layover in koa for 3-4 hours? I don’t want to change my existing return flight with American Airlines, and would be booking with Hawaiian airlines to return during the day of 4/29 from Oahu to Kona. Do I need to schedule a repeat test in Oahu to lay over in KOA, and register the flight from Oahu to Koa with travel.Hawaii.gov?
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your time.
Hi Lynn.
Perhaps best to ask the state directly about that, since you will have multiple itineraries and we aren’t clear how that would be handled on arrival at Kona. Safe Travels help desk is at 855-599-0888 between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time.
Aloha.
What are the KOA people going to do? Quarantine is 10 days locked in a room or leave the island, whichever comes first. Lynn is leaving the island right after she arrives on the island. I assume not leaving the airport. I thought lots of people over the past year would show up without the proper test and be able to fly back instead of being locked in a room or jail?
Hi ! Thanks for putting all this together, that’s of great help.
We plan to spend two weeks in Hawai in August, one week in Big island, on week in Maui.
I’m trying to figure out how we could arrange the trip the best considering the interisland travel regulations.
We will arrive and depart from Big island but didn’t figure out yet the internal flights.
Upon arrival in KOA Big island, if we don’t leave the airport and fly straight to Maui, do we need to follow any specific protocol ? Or the test we will have taken on mainland is covering us all the way to final destination ?
Or if i organize the trip the other way around : do we need to follow any specific protocole on our last day in Hawai, if we fly to Big island , and there get our flight to mainland?
Said another way, if we do Maui>Big Island>Mainland on our last day, do we need to get tested in Maui in order to be able to get to Big island and catch our transpacific flight ?
Thanks !
Hi Antoine.
Thanks. This is fast changing and it is the state’s intention to change this for mainland arrivals before then. Thus would suggest waiting to see how this unfolds. At present, however, it is our understanding that so long as you remain in transit you will only be required to comply with the final destination’s requirements.
Aloha
Hello,
Please help me. My flight is going to depart from SJC on monday at 6:50am, stopover in Maui before arrive in honolulu( final destination). About 72 hours time frame covid testing. I have to take my test after 6:50am on Saturday right? Or 72hours from Maui departure time? Thank you so much! Have a nice day!
Hi Helen.
Within 72 hours of the scheduled departure of your trans-Pacific flight.
Aloha.
Thank you for this great up-to-date newsletter. My wife and I leave on the 6th of May for Kauai and then will travel to the Big Island later. We have both been vaccinated and have set up our appointments for a COVID test too. There is no spot on the Hawaii Safe Travel website to upload our vaccination card. We are planning to bring the original with us although we would rather just have a copy of it. At this time, which is the best to bring?
Thank you for the help.
Hi John.
Thank you. The exemption for vaccination will initially only be valid for Hawaii residents who were vaccinated in Hawaii. Subsequently that will be rolled out to mainland visitors who were vaccinated elsewhere.
Aloha.
Does United pre-clear in Denver at the gate or some other location?
We came from denver as well, Usually you pre clear at the last leg of departure, we were supposed to be cleared in San Fran but the system was down and ended up pre clearing in Honolulu! Big line but it went by so fast!!!
Hi,
Thank you for the info. If I have a few hour stopover in Honolulu on my way to Maui, am I allowed to leave the airport? Do I have to retest for covid?
Thanx,perry
Hi Perry.
If you leave the airport, at this point in time you are required to comply with the rules of interisland travel. So yes you would need to. Also, you can contact the state’s Safe Travels help desk at 855-599-0888 between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time.
Aloha.
Is pre-clear in Denver at the gate or some other location?
Hi Ernie.
We don’t know. Hopefully someone can lend a hand on that.
Aloha.
Aloha
My husband and I depart Dallas Texas April 26th at 9:00am central to Maui with a layover in california. We are scheduled to leave California at 4:30pm pacific. Our Rapid ID now test is scheduled for 9:30am central time on April 24th. Will we meet the ” within 72 hour” timeframe? Thank you
P.s. im trying to post my comment but its not going through. Hopefully this one does.
Hi Claudia.
The rule is within 72 hours of your flight from California to Maui. The flight from DFW is irrelevant to this. Thus your two days in advance should be fine.
Aloha.