Mar 22, 2020, 4:26 am
Last edit by: FlyinHawaiian
Comprehensive Overview, With Questions and Answers:
https://www.gohawaii.com/travel-requirements
CURRENT POLICIES
List of Hotels that are currently closed:
https://www.gohawaii.com/special-alerts-information
For interisland travel:
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hawaii/2041823-interisland-travel-unrestricted-starting-june-15th.html
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https://www.gohawaii.com/travel-requirements
CURRENT POLICIES
- JULY 8 - Fully vaccinated U.S. travelers flying domestically — including island residents returning home — will be allowed to bypass Hawaii’s quarantine and pre-travel restrictions, as long as they upload their vaccination records to the state’s Safe Travels website and arrive with a hard copy of their vaccinations records. https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hawaii/2044877-those-fully-vaccinated-anywhere-us-eligible-bypass-quarantine-july-8th-new-post.html
- JUNE 15 - Fully vaccinated travelers who received the vaccine in Hawaii are now exempt from Safe Travels
- JUNE 15 - Regardless of their vaccination status, travelers are allowed to fly between islands without having to take a COVID test or quarantine.
- AFTER JANUARY 3, 2022 The mandatory 5-day quarantine is required for all unvaccinated passengers (visitors and returning residents) arriving into the state of Hawaii.
- Additionally, operations, including peer-to-peer platforms or sharing services, may not rent vehicles to any person who is subject to a 5-day traveler quarantine order unless an exemption is granted.
- Travelers flying into Hawaii are required to register personal information into the Safe Travels application; the information will be used to aid officials in contacting travelers via phone, email, and SMS. It does *not* currently enable GPS-tracking of travelers via their mobile devices.
- Travelers are exempt from the mandatory 5-day quarantine if testing is completed no more than 72 hours before the departure time of the final leg of your flight to Hawai‘i with proof of a negative result.
- The state of Hawai‘i will ONLY accept Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (NAAT) from a certified Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment (CLIA) lab test results from TRUSTED TESTING AND TRAVEL PARTNERS. A negative COVID-19 test result is required prior to departure to avoid quarantine in Hawai‘i.
- If results are not available by time of arrival, quarantine necessary until test results received.
- All travelers (returning residents and visitors) of all ages subject to pre-test requirement.
- Individuals are responsible for testing costs.
- Travelers (returning residents and visitors) are not able to test upon arrival in Hawaii because this is a pre-travel testing program.
- No commercial COVID-19 NAAT testing will be provided upon arrival at the airport. Travelers without the pre-test will be in quarantine.
- https://hawaiicovid19.com/travel-partners/
List of Hotels that are currently closed:
https://www.gohawaii.com/special-alerts-information
For interisland travel:
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hawaii/2041823-interisland-travel-unrestricted-starting-june-15th.html
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Mahalo,
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State of Hawaii "Safe Travels" Program 5-Day Quarantine (Ends March 25, 2022)
Mar 23, 2021, 8:04 pm
#1786
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Yikes. Glad we're not headed back to KOA until November. Much of this should be over by then (he says with many fingers crossed).
Cheers.
Cheers.
Mar 23, 2021, 8:23 pm
#1787
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I don't remember receiving a disk in January. They had configured the long arrival line that snaked around the outside of the terminal and corralled you to the desks with the questionnaires and then arrival test. Everything else was as you described it.
Mar 23, 2021, 9:30 pm
#1788
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This is either optional or not enforced at all. I've arrived on Maui roughly a half dozen times since it was first talked about and have never heard a peep about it after the initial announcement a few months ago. Just went through the whole process and landed today and not a word at any point.
Mar 23, 2021, 11:05 pm
#1789
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Hara nixes early use of Vaccine Passport
On tonight's KHON news, Major General Kenneth S. Hara, Adjutant General and Director, Hawaiʻi Emergency Management Agency said that he did not foresee a vaccination passport due to verification not being possible at this time. Sorry, no link to supply.
Mar 24, 2021, 12:07 am
#1790
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But someone uploading test results and answering a questionnaire is verifiable proof of negative tests?
Mar 24, 2021, 5:38 am
#1791
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If you talking about the Kona situation, that is because the various islands have some leeway in adjusting the protocols (and have very generous donors will to fund stricter protocols).
Mar 24, 2021, 2:34 pm
#1792
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The general statement is you can't get on a plane without a negative test. But there has been no proof that it is consistently enforced by the airlines...they don't want to be in that enforcement position. But, if you get put into quarantine, which WILL occur if you don't have a negative test, you can't buy your way out with a late test result or a fast test at or near the airport. Just get the test.
Mar 24, 2021, 2:46 pm
#1793
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I believe you are mostly correct. Again...the airlines aren't actually checking to see if everyone has a negative test. But, as we fly Saturday (and got our test done this morning), we have received numerous (4 or 5 each) communications, plus all the info on the booking and website, from United reminding us of the test requirement. They are trying to make sure you test, without threatening you.
Mar 24, 2021, 4:01 pm
#1794
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Yes, it would be very hard not to know you should test beforehand. We were getting ready to board in SFO-KOA and a pax turned to me and asked if she needed a covid test before the flight!
Mar 24, 2021, 5:28 pm
#1795
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Wondering what the percentage is that actually fulfill the quarantine? I'd speculate that it's pretty low. There is pretty much no enforcement on travelers.... likely even less for residents. Last I heard it was a complaint driven system. They threaten random checks but I've never been able to catch a news story of one of these random checks occurring and turning up a violator. All the stories are from hotels turning people in.
Mar 25, 2021, 3:49 am
#1796
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If tested in airport, what do you get? Paper results? Link to online results ? And how best to convert to PDF and upload with only a mobile device?
Mar 25, 2021, 5:45 am
#1797
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Why test at the airport? Typically the most expensive option. We tested yesterday at T-72 hours...got results 11 hours later, Worksite Lab, near SFO. Great operation, fast, efficient, $90 per person. Printed and uploaded two sets of results. Took total maybe 15 minutes. Now just waiting for medical questionnaire to come available at T-24.
Mar 25, 2021, 11:16 am
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Can't answer the loading question, but the results come pdf, at least from the four tests I have done. So no need to convert.
Why test at the airport? Typically the most expensive option. We tested yesterday at T-72 hours...got results 11 hours later, Worksite Lab, near SFO. Great operation, fast, efficient, $90 per person. Printed and uploaded two sets of results. Took total maybe 15 minutes. Now just waiting for medical questionnaire to come available at T-24.
Why test at the airport? Typically the most expensive option. We tested yesterday at T-72 hours...got results 11 hours later, Worksite Lab, near SFO. Great operation, fast, efficient, $90 per person. Printed and uploaded two sets of results. Took total maybe 15 minutes. Now just waiting for medical questionnaire to come available at T-24.
Mar 25, 2021, 11:27 am
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Mar 25, 2021, 12:32 pm
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