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)
Dec 1, 2020, 5:37 pm
#1366
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: No. California
Programs: UA MP HH LTD
Posts: 2,040
Dec 1, 2020, 5:43 pm
#1367
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: New York / Hawaii
Programs: UA Global Services, HH Diamond
Posts: 5,178
FYI, Hawaii Island is back up to 100% second-testing those that come in with a negative pre-travel test. The Mayor of the Big Island acquired the necessary approvals and space to test all arrivals at both ITO and KOA airport. The KOA airport testing was scaled back to as few as 20% of arrivals but they decided to bring it back to 100% now.
Should be interesting to see how the new mayors for Hawaii and Honolulu change things up in the coming days.
Should be interesting to see how the new mayors for Hawaii and Honolulu change things up in the coming days.
Dec 1, 2020, 6:03 pm
#1368
Join Date: Jan 2013
Programs: UA, Some Others
Posts: 286
FYI, Hawaii Island is back up to 100% second-testing those that come in with a negative pre-travel test. The Mayor of the Big Island acquired the necessary approvals and space to test all arrivals at both ITO and KOA airport. The KOA airport testing was scaled back to as few as 20% of arrivals but they decided to bring it back to 100% now.
Dec 1, 2020, 6:25 pm
#1369
Moderator: Southwest Airlines, Capital One
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: California
Programs: WN Companion Pass, A-list preferred, Hyatt Globalist; United Club Lietime (sic) Member
Posts: 21,623
I am willing to cancel my vacation due to a false positive before travel, but no way would I take a 1.5% chance of 14 day imprisonment at my expense.
An arrival test makes sense for residents who did not pre-test, but not for tourists who did.
Dec 1, 2020, 10:18 pm
#1370
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: New York / Hawaii
Programs: UA Global Services, HH Diamond
Posts: 5,178
Not to mention the consequences of false positive results. With the pre-test I would expect MOST positive re-test results to be false.
I am willing to cancel my vacation due to a false positive before travel, but no way would I take a 1.5% chance of 14 day imprisonment at my expense.
An arrival test makes sense for residents who did not pre-test, but not for tourists who did.
I am willing to cancel my vacation due to a false positive before travel, but no way would I take a 1.5% chance of 14 day imprisonment at my expense.
An arrival test makes sense for residents who did not pre-test, but not for tourists who did.
Yet the process has proven that people who test negatively before travel are indeed arriving positive. Several of which need hopitalization, hence the Kauai lockdown.
Last edited by FlyinHawaiian; Dec 2, 2020 at 3:39 am Reason: Multi-quote
Dec 1, 2020, 10:52 pm
#1371
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: LAX
Posts: 10,908
HI can not afford to allow even a small fraction of cases in so it's a tiny investment on the scale of tourism.. ideally it would be best to space those tests by 5-7 days but from practical prospective a quick test on arrival will do and false positives be immediately retested
Dec 2, 2020, 9:12 am
#1372
Join Date: Dec 2004
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, Marriott Titanium, UA Silver, Hilton Gold, Hertz Pres Circle
Posts: 1,509
Any reason not to do rapid test at Walgreens over the 72hr PCR?
Dec 2, 2020, 10:58 am
#1373
Join Date: Oct 2019
Location: PDX, OGG or between the two
Programs: AS 75K
Posts: 2,864
As a resident of Hawaii that travels back and forth regularly for work I'm in favor of just about anything other than the 14-day quarantine. Testing after a few days? No problem. Sitting in my house for 14 days (I'm often not even on the island that long so it's my entire stay) is torture.
The tourism angle is tough for sure since I don't think most people will go for having to sit for 3-4 days before really starting their vacation. Resort bubble? Certainly better than being locked in their room but still not great.
The tourism angle is tough for sure since I don't think most people will go for having to sit for 3-4 days before really starting their vacation. Resort bubble? Certainly better than being locked in their room but still not great.
Dec 2, 2020, 11:12 am
#1374
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: MCO
Programs: DL PM, UA Silver, Marriott Titanium, Hertz Presidents Circle
Posts: 4,316
As a resident of Hawaii that travels back and forth regularly for work I'm in favor of just about anything other than the 14-day quarantine. Testing after a few days? No problem. Sitting in my house for 14 days (I'm often not even on the island that long so it's my entire stay) is torture.
The tourism angle is tough for sure since I don't think most people will go for having to sit for 3-4 days before really starting their vacation. Resort bubble? Certainly better than being locked in their room but still not great.
The tourism angle is tough for sure since I don't think most people will go for having to sit for 3-4 days before really starting their vacation. Resort bubble? Certainly better than being locked in their room but still not great.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/01/healt...nes/index.html
Dec 2, 2020, 12:20 pm
#1375
Join Date: Jul 1999
Programs: QF WP, AA EXP
Posts: 3,520
Doubtful. When information bureaucrats were using to make policy becomes wrong, they never update the policies favorably. They double down on the stupidity.
Dec 2, 2020, 12:32 pm
#1376
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: New York / Hawaii
Programs: UA Global Services, HH Diamond
Posts: 5,178
Meanwhile a couple ignored the rules and their test results and flew on UA1111 SFO-LIH on Sunday while they were positive (and while flying with a child.)
Not only were they arrested in Hawaii with endangering other passengers with death, but they ruined the vacations of so many people on that flight now trapped in quarantine at their expense waiting to see if they're infected and temporarily banned from leaving Hawaii to go home anytime soon.
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/...-arrested/amp/
Not only were they arrested in Hawaii with endangering other passengers with death, but they ruined the vacations of so many people on that flight now trapped in quarantine at their expense waiting to see if they're infected and temporarily banned from leaving Hawaii to go home anytime soon.
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/...-arrested/amp/
Dec 2, 2020, 12:38 pm
#1377
formerly wunderpit
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: ONT-SNA-LAX
Programs: UA1K-HHDiamond
Posts: 1,340
Meanwhile a couple ignored the rules and their test results and flew on UA1111 SFO-LIH on Sunday while they were positive (and while flying with a child.)
Not only were they arrested in Hawaii with endangering other passengers with death, but they ruined the vacations of so many people on that flight now trapped in quarantine at their expense waiting to see if they're infected and temporarily banned from leaving Hawaii to go home anytime soon.
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/...-arrested/amp/
Not only were they arrested in Hawaii with endangering other passengers with death, but they ruined the vacations of so many people on that flight now trapped in quarantine at their expense waiting to see if they're infected and temporarily banned from leaving Hawaii to go home anytime soon.
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/...-arrested/amp/
Dec 2, 2020, 1:34 pm
#1378
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Ontario, Canada
Programs: Westjet Platinum, Fairmont Platinum RIP, Accor Gold, Marriott Lifetime Silver, HH Diamond
Posts: 1,296
What makes it even more damning is that this couple are residents of Kauai, and knew before even stepping on the plane that they tested positive for Covid-19. It's easy to blame tourists and make them jump through the hoops while at the same time the locals can do whatever they please!
Dec 2, 2020, 1:45 pm
#1379
Join Date: Mar 2014
Programs: Mileage Plus Global Services 2MM
Posts: 1,200
Meanwhile a couple ignored the rules and their test results and flew on UA1111 SFO-LIH on Sunday while they were positive (and while flying with a child.)
Not only were they arrested in Hawaii with endangering other passengers with death, but they ruined the vacations of so many people on that flight now trapped in quarantine at their expense waiting to see if they're infected and temporarily banned from leaving Hawaii to go home anytime soon.
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/...-arrested/amp/
Not only were they arrested in Hawaii with endangering other passengers with death, but they ruined the vacations of so many people on that flight now trapped in quarantine at their expense waiting to see if they're infected and temporarily banned from leaving Hawaii to go home anytime soon.
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/...-arrested/amp/
Dec 2, 2020, 2:51 pm
#1380
Join Date: Jan 2007
Programs: UA 1MM, Avis Chairman, Four Seasons Elite, HA Pualani Gold
Posts: 452
How were they even able to board that flight with negative test results?
