[Nevermark]

Hawaii required vaccinations to visit from the mainland.

At one point, Hawaii State had one set of rules, and the Big Island another, which was ridiculous. But worse, when preparing for the former according to all the official instructions and forms there was no mention of the latter.

A multi-island visit of myself and two loved ones turned into quite a disaster as a result of the confusing redundant duplicative restrictions. Despite great pre-trip efforts to have all documentation (vaccines taken, State acknowledgment forms completed and returned as accepted, etc.)

We were not informed of the Big Islands special requirements until we arrived on the Big Island. If we left the airport for any reason we would immediately have gone into a two week quarantine - despite having all our vaccines.

It required a lot of pushing and pressing to let us get our luggage and buy and take last minute flights to Oahu (also gettting last minute accommodations) without being forced to leave the airport and go straight into quarantine. Because our luggage, as is usual when you arrive at what you believe to be your destination, was now outside departure security.

I was angry beyond all reason by the time we got out of there alive. Complete incompetent mess.

[malcolmgreaves]

You’re complaining that you wanted to go to someone else’s home for your own personal enjoyment during a deadly pandemic and they made you take precautions so you didn’t end up killing or severely harming people?

Why do you value your fun time over people’s safety?

[Nevermark]

Wow. I don’t make assumptions often, but either you didn’t read what I wrote, or found it difficult to understand.

We carefully followed all State rules and regulations.

We got vaccinated.

We got vaccinated specifically by providers they limited us to. Which was not geographically easy for all of us.

We waited for provider approvals.

We filled in all State forms, provided all evidence and information.

We waited and eventually got State notifications that we were each validated to go.

That was on a challenging short schedule, because they wanted new vaccinations within a short window before the departure date. And twice we had to wait for delays by providers and the State we had no control over.

But we scrambled through their timeline and completely complied.

We brought printed copies ov everything. We had the site links to everything saved too, in case of any confusion.

We entered Hawaii going through a long line, cooperating with everyone and were then allowed to leave and enjoy Maui.

Then… well read what I wrote above again, if you need to.

And for reference, this was my second post-COVID trip to Hawaii, with the same itinerary, but I carefully checked all the same information and rules, made all the same preparations and we were all validated by the State in exactly the same way.

One island subsequently decided to handle things differently. A fact that was not reflected or mentioned in all the State’s information or forms that we encountered, and competed.

They introduced novel requirement that also needed to be made days in advance.

But they did not get any information about the islands break with the rest of the state, or the nature of those changes, posted anywhere State travelers got and submitted their information from the state. Nor did the States approvals mention any provisional aspects.

We were cleared by the State. As far as the State was concerned, we could go anywhere.

The result of one islands decision not to accept State approvals wasn’t just a disaster for us but many other travelers and the beleaguered staff at the arrivals of one airport, on the one rogue island, who had no idea what they were supposed to do while they held unhappy people in an airport, and only had ridiculously bad official options for them.

When we flew to Hawaii from the mainland, the airline verified ouur preparation for landing before giving us boarding passes to depart. Completely professionally handled by the State.

When just going from island to island, as I had recently done before, no mention of any second set of new one-island regulations were mentioned, until we and other unhappy people arrived after a 30 minute in-state island hop.

Where the heck did you read any lack of appreciation for “hospitality”?