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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All this is way too complicated with each of island having different requirements. We filled out the safe travels with proper covid test and flew into Honolulu on Tuesday. Sat. We flew to Maui and we’re informed we needed an additional test back on Honolulu before we could enter we had to rush around and get a flight back to Honolulu get tested get a hotel and flight back to Maui at a substantial cost. Irony was we had to stand in line three times with hundreds of travels from all over the world to make sure we were safe. How can that be safe? Never coming back.
Jim A -I am dumbfounded that people traveling to Hawaii right now aren’t able to figure out that it is hard for a reason and our state is being careful because we can be overwhelmed quickly, healthcare wise. Those same people stomp their keyboard feet when they haven’t done the proper research themselves and then scream “never coming back” as some sort of threat to our existence if you don’t return (like the people of Hawaii care if you don’t come back – we don’t, there are plenty of others that will). I hope you can find travel somewhere that doesn’t care about it’s residents or ability to care for them, so you can vacation freely. Aloha!
Hello,
Thank you so much for the information. My husband and I are hoping to fly from San Francisco or San Jose depending on flights, however wanted to confirm. If we’re flying into Kauai and have a negative COVID test and decide to visit Honolulu about 4 days later, would we need another test to enter Honolulu? We were considering this since there are more flight options in flying home from Honolulu. I tried researching and emailing online and couldn’t find any direct answers. Please advise, thank you so much!
Hi Linda.
No test is required flying from Kauai to Honolulu.
Aloha.
The CDC (echoed by the US President reading a teleprompter) announces: “Fully vaccinated people can travel without pre-testing and go mask-less indoors and outdoors (except on the airplane because reasons)”
Hawaii government says “Fully vaccinated people will be locked up in a hotel room at their own expense for ten days unless they pre-test from a limited list of often expensive providers and get results all within 72 hours of flying … and even then must still wear masks out on the beach (because reasons)”
Aloha Hawaiian Bro’s of the Mask
First there was the Mask, then The Son of the Mask, coming to theaters on June 15th, The CDC’s you don’t need a Mask if you’re vaccinated.
Not quite a Star Wars trilogy, but ok.
The next trilogy will start with Revenge of the Double Maskers!
Lmao!!! Thanks for this. I needed a good laugh!!!!!!
No, part 3 will be “The Revenge of the Variants” because we earthlings fight over masking for way too long and the Virus was able to stick around long enough to mutate. We earthings are a low-intelligent species, easy to get into non-essential spats over things like masking, and the species is so easy to overwhelm.
This is not going to go over well with the forever-maskers, aka “vaxer-maskers.”
I envision new virtual-signaling lawn signs with, “In this house, we all wear two masks, even in the shower”
In your Island by Island section above you note for regulations specific to interisland travel to Kauai, “a negative PCR test within 72 hours of arrival is required (fully vaccinated Hawaii residents are exempted)”. Should the negative test be administered within 72 hours of arrival or departure? We’ll be traveling to Kauai through Honolulu after being in Maui for about a week. We currently have appointments for COVID tests in Maui within a 72 hour window of our departure form Maui to Kauai. If we need to consider our arrival time in Kauai, we’ll need to move our appointments to later times. Please advise.
Hi Aaron.
Per County of Kauai: “Within 72 hours of departing to Kauai.”
Aloha.
on the Safe travels site it says you must do daily Check ins…is this still true?
I hope the gov will announce that people that travel from the mainland wont have to quarantine and testing with the covid19 vaccine in
June or July
.p.s keep me updated
Thank you
Curious if I am understanding correctly. Took a test today that is supposed to be back to me with results in 72 hours. If for some reason it is pending when I arrive, the results should be to me within hours of arrival! What would happen then?
Thanks!
Hi Paige.
If you don’t have the results when you arrive you will be in quarantine and, unfortunately, getting results later will not change that.
Aloha.
So, yeah, essentially the same song and dance as a year ago. Back in December, Ige announced a $1.4 BILLION budget shortfall every year for the NEXT FOUR YEARS due largely to his shoddy, fear-vs-fact-based handling of the COVID situation. And yet… STILL… they erect road block after road block after road block to prevent a quick and safe tourism recovery–not to mention the return of unfettered travel between the islands and the mainland by local Hawaiin residents–which also costs the state millions in revenue. (I haven’t been back to my house on the big island since September. I spend thousands of dollars monthly when I’m there. And I’m just one of MANY thousands of part-time residents that haven’t been back for months.
I’m sure somewhere on every island right now there’s also a crew of over-paid county employees driving around aimlessly, needlessly disinfecting park benches and bus stops and handrails… just like they were a year ago–despite the science that has proven that to be pointless and useless. Unless the local voting population finally votes the ignorant bums that run the state out of office at the next election, Hawaiians will just keep living in a failed state… with billions and billions of dollars in new public debts to pay for.
They don’t follow science in Hawaii. It’s not in the school curriculum
Aloha BOH Bro’s
Funniest line in the article: “Currently, the state has not finalized its plan for how and when Hawaii travel for vaccinated visitors will start” hahaahha
Anybody, surprised by this, anybody?
Shout out to the vaccinated, thanks for being part of the largest clinical study in the history of the world. Especially to those of you who got vaccinated thinking you’d avoid the 72hr Hawaiian covid travel pretest.
Another shout out to the CDC who put the decimal point in the wrong spot when saying less then 10 percent of people have gotten covid during outdoor activity when the real number is .10 or less.
You have more of a chance of dying boarding the rental car tram at OGG on a busy Saturday then contracting covid outdoors. It’s true I looked it up you have a about .2 percent of dying on the tram, but hay keep double masking……
did not get vaccinated JUST so I can come to Hawaii. I did it because I have many in my life who are immune compromised and I do not want any of them to die. I have already had several close to me die from this virus and some who are experiencing long term affects of having the virus.
I will keep double masking as long as I need to. Why are you even here? Are you planning a trip to Hawaii? If not go find somewhere else to whine about things and leave this forum to those of us who are actually coming to Hawaii
PAULC, Roy or Jeff or who ever is the moderator on BOH didn’t have a problem with my comment. Complain to them cause you’re wasting your key strokes on someone who mocks everything.
Maui October 2021!!!!
Richard C… As “someone who mocks everything”, getting vaccinated (or not) is not something to be “mocked”. Trying to travel to Hawaii while obeying the regulations is not something to be “mocked”. In the future, please notate your comments that you wish to be taken as “mocking” so the rest of us know how to read your words.
Hey Barb
The best part of being a great mocker is 6 months or maybe 5 years down the road it’s found that the mocker may have been right.
Like margarine remember margarine I mocked everyone who believed margarine was better for you then butter. Hmmmmmmm
Hey Richard… Margarine and people’s lives are not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison. Grow up! This isn’t a Comedy Store and people take comments seriously – as they are meant to be informative not a comedy career!
Richard C…. Please give us “vaccinateds” credit for taking our health seriously and taking the health of those around us into consideration. If you really think that we got vaccinated to we could go to Hawaii, think again (and there’s a word I’d like to add but it’s not politically correct).
BarbaraM thank you. Its nice to see a voice of reason on here. I would have gotten it either way.
Paul C… You are welome.
funny.. unvaccinated and don’t have a need to be…
Guess going to the gym 6 days a week, eating healthy and not smoking is no longer good enough?
Some.if.us have taken our health seriously all our lives so don’t have to worry about the .01-.03 chance I’d have a slight effect from Covid.
As far as “those around us”, it’s not mine nor my kids responsibility for random strangers who can isolate if they feel the need.
Sean. Lol your last sentence says it all. Not your responsibility. Just wow.
As for your health good for you. I had a friend who was just like you. He got very ill ventilated hospitalized and now cannot even walk fast without being totally winded. A full year after getting it.
Point is it’s a non discriminating virus.
“Especially to those of you who got vaccinated thinking you’d avoid the 72hr Hawaiian covid travel pretest.”
Sadly(?) this was my main reason (not just Hawaii but travel outside of the US). We were going to wait until this summer, since we are not going back to our Kauai house until late August, and the initial “only good for three months” rumors. Since the “three months” limitation was apparently dropped, and my wife not wanting to keep waiting, we went ahead and got them in April.
(And, thanks for the shout out!)