As Kauai returns to Safe Travels, the Maui Mayor is pulling away due to COVID increase.
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As Kauai returns to Safe Travels, the Maui Mayor is pulling away due to COVID increase.
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Skipped Maui this year because of the rules unpredictably changing. We have been coming for January and February since 2008. Spent my money in Florida this year. I’d love to come back, but that’s up to Maui officials and their rules.
What about those of us that are fully vaccinated?
When can we expect all restrictions to be lifted?
We have a trip in August first to Kauai then to Maui.
I can’t see needing a test to go inter island.
Please let me know your thoughts on when this can finally resolved?
Thanks
Hi Chuck.
As we’ve mentioned, that if likely to happen sometime between late spring late summer. That’s all that we know at this time.
Aloha
Hello are you are sure about your facts ? You wrote in the above article that at present HONOLULU does not required the 72 hours NEG test. The Hawaii safe program said you needed it. Please reply thanks
Hi Douglas.
Honolulu only requires a test for trans-Pacific passengers. What we are referring to is interisland flights, and Honolulu has no testing requirement for those passengers.
Aloha.
I have booked for hawaii 3 time’s and every time you change it on me would love to visit your island but I am not willing to pay for a covid-19 test that would mean 5 people of 156.00 dollar’s and I am not willing to pay that I had to change my vacation where I don’t have to pay I hope you are happy you are loosing people right and left
Aren’t COVID tests free (covered federally)? Not sure why you think you have to pay for them
Do you pay federal taxes? Then you also pay for the ‘free’ testing. The tests done on the BI upon arrival are NOT paid for by the Feds…they are paid for by a private, and very generous, donor….a private citizen. We require a negative test before entry onto each island…are the Feds paying for those? No…the traveler is paying for it. Not sure what your point is, but the Feds don’t pay for testing nor vaccinations
So what are the guidelines for travel from the mainland to Maui for a fully vaccinated person?
We will be fully vaccinated too by the time we arrive April 22, 2021 but so far, still require a negative COVID test 72 hours prior to departure time as per Maui’s DOH. Here’s the website as we check every week for updates!
gohawaii.com/islands/maui
Two of us are planning to travel to Oahu on Monday, March 15. We have both had the two required COVID vaccines, but are now aware we still have to be COVID tested within 72 hours. Since we are traveling on Monday from Houston with no stopovers, we won’t get our results from the COVID test before we reach Hawaii. What now???
Thank you for your reply.
Sharyn
Hi Sharyn.
Suggest you check with other Hawaii trusted test providers who can assure you will get results before you depart Houston.
Aloha.
Check Walgreens in your area! I have two locations in my town that have the required testing! You get your results back 2 – to 24hours.
Sharyn, I believe Houston airport offers testing. If not, check out Walgreens online to schedule your appt. Make sure you select the correct test type so you’ll have your results to upload into the Safe Travels app. Happy vacay!
I have made this recommendation to the state (on deaf ears) but they should follow what The Bahamas are doing.
1. You take a pre test up to 5 days before (this gives the testing partners more time)
2. You sign up for their Safe Travels program which costs $160 but includes travel insurance and post testing costs
3. When you arrive in the Bahamas you take a rapid test. It takes 5 minutes for results and they have it down at the airport
4. IF you are positive, your insurance kicks in and it pays for your quarantine hotel up to a certain amount
I agree if you want to travel anywhere in the world, you should pay for the testing and not the government at a reasonable rate. We have enough to pay back. Testing kits are common now and better ones and cheaper ones are being made right now.
5. Another newer suggestion from the Bahamas is activities become covid approved which means their employees are vaccinated and or tested weekly. Its almost a marketing idea to make safe travels even safer and get that industry back on their feet.
We’ll get through this. Stay safe, travel safe. It can be done.
Mahalo.
Hi Joan.
Thanks for sharing how the Bahamas is handling testing.
Aloha.
The Bahamas get many of their visitors from Florida. That state is one of the worst in COVID prevention, thanks to their Governor who doesn’t believe in science. They force everyone to get a COVID test upon arrival because they basically “don’t trust” the American tourists. Mahalo!
Can you blame them!
Mahalo!!
I booked a trip for mid May and have been vaccinated. I will cancel the trip which is fully refundable if the ridiculous 72 hour test is still required regardless how you fix this inter-island crap. If I cancel I won’t be back anytime soon. Your call guys.
Being vaccinated does NOT mean you still aren’t an asymptomatic carrier. If you choose not to come back, that’s on you, the majority of us couldn’t care less. Thanks for playing
The null hypothesis is that being vaccinated prevents asymptomatic transmission. From a scientific perspective, the null hypothesis has to be proven wrong i.e. it starts as the accepted truth. The reason it is the null hypothesis is because every other vaccine has prevented asymptomatic transmission. A novel behavior for the vaccine therefore requires evidence, while standard behavior does not.
There’s still not a single shred of evidence to prove your statement.
There’s plenty of evidence if you Google it…it’s a proven, scientific fact vaccinated persons can still carry and transmit(shed) the virus just as asymptomatic individuals carry and shed it. Thanks for playing tho….
There certainly is. My doctor daughter has been fully vaccinated in December and tested positive end of February. She had no symptoms and went to test only after her husband got sick and very symptomatic. I don’t need any more evidence but you of course will call it anecdotal and will keep your opinion, alas. I just hope the state of Hawaii is more responsible than that. I for one am coming to HI precisely because of strict requirements. If you don’t care – Mexico is wide open.
So I can’t go to Hawaii because of your daughter’s doctor? The CDC still hasn’t taken a stand on whether vaccinated people are able to spread the virus, even though millions of Americans have been vaccinated. When does this lunacy end? Kauai has had more people die from auto accidents than from Covid. They’ve also had a year to expand hospital ICU and ventilator capacity but have declined to do so.
I’m sure Wilcox hospital would be grateful for the millions of dollars you want to donate to add the necessary number of ICU beds to accommodate your vacation. Mahalo!
Bye
Sorry, Sir. The 72 hour test requirement has to stay. You can still carry the virus and transmit it to others including me. Don’t be so selfish and think of others, too.
Getting close to normal.
Immunized people should not need a 72 hour test.
Basic logic
Thanks