Southern California Residents - Noticed this thread has not been updated in awhile, so thought I would share our testing experience as we are flying to Hawaii tomorrow. We live in Orange County, but were visiting San Diego during the 72 hour pre-testing period, so that added one extra point of complexity.

We took 2 sets of Walgreens PCR tests for the kids just in case the first test got delayed or lost in transit. Both sets of tests were free -- no out of pocket costs and just had to submit insurance information or specify no insurance during online registration.

- 1st set of tests at 71 hours before departure. Test taken 8/26 at 10am pacific at Walgreens (San Diego County). They send their tests to a local Labcorp processing lab in San Diego. Technician mentioned tests get picked up at 7pm daily by courier, so we could have done the test anytime prior to then. The tests results showed up on the Labcorp patient portal on 8/28 (2 days later). First child's test posted at 8/28 7am (pacific) and the 2nd Child's test posted at 8/28 10am (pacific).

- 2nd set of tests at 66 hours before departure. Test taken 8/26 3:30pm pacific at a different Walgreens store (San Diego County). This store (close to San Diego Airport) send their tests to Aegis processing lab on East Coast. Technician mentioned we just missed their pickup and test would not be picked up until following morning. As of 8/28 evening (12 hours prior to departure), still no test results for either child. Here's the message from the Aegis site "Sample XXXXXX has been received and testing is in progress. Please check back later for your report. Reports are typically available within 24 hours after receipt."

For us local Walgreens store that uses the Labcorp lab in San Diego delivered the fastest results (less than 48 hours) and gave us ample time to submit the necessary PDF files to the Safe Travels Website. The Walgreens store that used Aegis testing took us 1 extra day since we missed the cutoff time for same day pickup. Would recommend the Walgreens/Labcorp combo as it was fast, easy, and free! You can call the Walgreens pharmacy to check which lab they use and the cutoff time for same day pickup. If the Walgreens results did not show up in a timely manner, our backup plan was to visit City Health Urgent Care at Long Beach Airport (https://covidtesting.cityhealthuc.co...ons/long-beach). For $20 per person, you can get results within 2 hours by taking Abbott Rapid Molecular (NAAT) Test. Thankfully, we didn't have to go to this option.