Covid restrictions anywhere on Oahu?

[ten822]

I know that HI dropped their vaccine/test requirement a while back, but, anyone been there recently and found any individual businesses still requiring passports or requiring masks?
I just booked the Polynesian CC and the website says masks required indoors. Is this still being enforced at PCC or elsewhere? I wasn't planning on bringing any masks originally.
Thanks

 

[_auroraborealis_]

I did see places enforcing mask use while there last week. Many locals are masking by choice.

 

[OKW Lover]

I did see places enforcing mask use while there last week. Many locals are masking by choice.

Interesting observation. Was there any pattern as to what places were enforcing mask use? Restaurants? Hotels? Malls?

Just want to be prepared when we visit in June

 

[AustinTink]

any individual businesses still requiring passports

This is our first time to Hawaii. Businesses required you to show your passport?

 

[nycdisneygal]

I know that HI dropped their vaccine/test requirement a while back, but, anyone been there recently and found any individual businesses still requiring passports or requiring masks?
I just booked the Polynesian CC and the website says masks required indoors. Is this still being enforced at PCC or elsewhere? I wasn't planning on bringing any masks originally.
Thanks

I cant say what is happening now but we went in June and also to the PCC and there were really no places that masks were really required. A lot of places we have gone to this year did have masks required still on their websites...

 

[JC1984]

In January no place enforced masks and no place required any proof of vaccination.

 

[ten822]

I did see places enforcing mask use while there last week. Many locals are masking by choice.

Do you remember which places just curious?

 

[Lilsia]

This is our first time to Hawaii. Businesses required you to show your passport?

I have never heard of any business asking to see a passport, especially from another American citizen. For what purpose would they ask?

 

[ten822]

I have never heard of any business asking to see a passport, especially from another American citizen. For what purpose would they ask?

"passport" meaning vaccine passport

 

[J-Dog]

Do you remember which places just curious?

I am also interested in this.

 

[AustinTink]

"passport" meaning vaccine passport

Vaccination card. Got it. I haven’t read about any businesses in the US requiring vaccination cards for entry anymore.

 

[bcwife76]

We just got back from Oahu, we stayed at Aulani and traveled parts of the North Shore and windward side of the island too. No masks required anywhere we went though we did see more people wearing them (voluntarily) than we see back here at home (we are from Vancouver). Didn't do PCC as I did that years ago with my parents and my dh has no desire to do it. But we were at places like Ko Hana Rum, Dole Plantation, Byodo In Temple, and Ala Moana shopping center, to name a few and no masks or vax passport required

 

[Lilsia]

"passport" meaning vaccine passport

Oh, I have not heard it called a passport. You can see how that can get confusing referring to it that way. No, you do not need to show your vaccination card. They were not even asking for it anywhere when we went in summer of 2021.

 

[OKW Lover]

we were at places like Ko Hana Rum

Sorry to hijack the thread, but how was your stop there? We wound up joining their rum club the last time we visited.

 

[bcwife76]

Sorry to hijack the thread, but how was your stop there? We wound up joining their rum club the last time we visited.

This was our second time there (first time was 2020 right before everything shut down) and it was just as good We purchased one rum this time (Kokoleka) as well as a bottle of honey. Did the tour again too. They are so friendly and helpful there!

 

[Great3]

I only encountered one business that required masks to enter to purchase food. Queen Street Cafe, nearby Pearl Harbor area, which I make a point to stop and eat at every time I visit Oahu. I just love their food, so I probably sound like I am advertising for them. Other than that, no masks require anywhere anymore at the places I visited.

Great3

 

[AustinTink]

I only encountered one business that required masks to enter to purchase food. Queen Street Cafe, nearby Pearl Harbor area, which I make a point to stop and eat at every time I visit Oahu. I just love their food, so I probably sound like I am advertising for them. Other than that, no masks require anywhere anymore at the places I visited.

Great3

Recently?

 

[Great3]

Recently?

I don’t know if you consider early Jan 2023 to be recent considering it’s late March now, but that’s the last time I was in Oahu. However, it still sure feel like yesterday to me. LOL!!!

Great3

ETA: I was in Oahu about 4 weeks from Dec 2022 - Jan 2023, so it wasn‘t a brief stay for my family. I think almost a month stay is long enough experience to say, pretty much mask mandates are over in HI, although many people still wear masks voluntarily, including me.

Debate about mask effectiveness aside, my family and I manage to avoid catching COVID for 3+ years in the States, but we recently all caught it 2 weeks ago while traveling in Asia, and I ended up with high fever of 103 degrees for a couple days and being sick for over a week, so not fun!!!

 

[WillGan]

Aloha! No restrictions! Of course there may be some family establishments who may have mask mandates and usually do so by posting a sign on their entrance. Butother than that, it’s free rein. Be safe and spread the aloha!

 

[AustinTink]

I don’t know if you consider early Jan 2023 to be recent considering it’s late March now, but that’s the last time I was in Oahu. However, it still sure feel like yesterday to me. LOL!!!

Great3

ETA: I was in Oahu about 4 weeks from Dec 2022 - Jan 2023, so it wasn‘t a brief stay for my family. I think almost a month stay is long enough experience to say, pretty much mask mandates are over in HI, although many people still wear masks voluntarily, including me.

Debate about mask effectiveness aside, my family and I manage to avoid catching COVID for 3+ years in the States, but we recently all caught it 2 weeks ago while traveling in Asia, and I ended up with high fever of 103 degrees for a couple days and being sick for over a week, so not fun!!!

Thanks, that is recent. I was just wondering. I wear masks still too in some situations and would have no problem wearing one as needed in Hawaii.