You can cancel the SMS service at any time. You will also receive daily alert reminders to comply with the daily check-in under the State of Hawaii 10-day mandatory quarantine order.
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"Hawaii's popularity is only going to grow. The Safe Travels Digital Platform will send SMS messages during the mobile phone verification phase of your traveler profile setup.
“Pack your patience and plan on everything being busy,” Cote says. Kennedy to Honolulu beginning December 17.īut even with added airline capacity and plenty of hotels to choose from, tourists should still expect crowds. Most recently Delta announced last month three new Hawaii routes to launch at the end of the year, with Atlanta to Maui and Detroit to Honolulu, both starting on November 19, and New York's John F. This only applies to travel within the State of Hawai‘i. In anticipation of the increased interest, airlines are also adding more flights to Hawaii. Passengers traveling from O‘ahu, Maui, or Hawai‘i Island will no longer be required to complete a Safe Travels profile or provide proof of a pre-travel test or vaccination when arriving on Kaua‘i. “Dining reservations are a must, with some of the most popular and desired dining spots filling up six months in advance.” It's also a good idea, according to Cote, to plan well ahead (now for fall and winter travel) in order to secure spots on tours and score better rates on hotels.
She suggests working with a Hawaii travel expert to help navigate the demand. While things are under control now, the loosening of restrictions will draw even more visitors to the islands. Travelers came in such droves last summer that Ige issued a plea in August 2021 for them to not visit as the state's hospitals and ICUs were filling up. “But we believe that it would be better to have the mandate or drop the mandate.”Įven during its strictest measures, travelers saw Hawaii as a pandemic-era paradise, perhaps because of its outdoor offerings. “We are aware that we could make a spot decision and try and decide in a situation-by-situation basis,” Ige told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser on Friday. The State of Hawai‘i Safe Travels Hawai‘i program is a multilayered approach designed to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in our community from trans-Pacific visitor and resident passengers arriving at airports/ports across the Islands. state to announce plans to drop its mask mandate. “Given how strict they have been and how seriously they have taken COVID, I think people trust that they've done all they could to protect the people coming to the islands.”Īnother protective measure that will end on March 25 is indoor masking requirements: On Tuesday Hawaii became the last U.S. “People feel comfortable going to Hawaii because of the increased precautions they've taken,” travel specialist Hannah Cote of Legacy Travel, Inc. Ige said he was not yet ready to promote travel to Hawaii, but that as case counts continue to trend lower (they are at their lowest since early September despite the extension of the COVID-19 restrictions), “we will be considering getting to a point where we will be inviting visitors back to the islands,” Ige said.Travelers have long been drawn to the islands' approach to the pandemic. However, the state is currently just below that at 68% fully vaccinated with 71% having received at least one dose. David Ige, was to drop it once the state reached the 70% vaccinated mark. The plan for that program, according to Gov. Vaccinated tourists, however, will not be forced to quarantine. Those who are unvaccinated and don't show proof of a test will continue to be forced to quarantine upon arrival. That includes the state’s indoor mask mandate along with COVID-era capacity restrictions on indoor and outdoor dining.įor travelers, Hawaii is also extending its Safe Travels testing program that requires all non-vaccinated tourists to show a negative COVID-19 test taken at least 72 hours prior to departure.
In a news conference on Friday, Ige said that the state’s emergency COVID protocols will now last until at least the start of December. David Ige announced that the state was extending some restrictions for another 60 days as the infection rate continues to cause concern. Starting today, September 1, a new Safe Travels application becomes mandatory for all trans-Pacific and inter-island travelers to/in Hawaii. Hawaii’s COVID-19 era restrictions aren’t going away just yet.
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