We Traveled to Kauaʻi with a Vaccine Passport and Here’s What Happened

It was a strange sensation, to sit on a plane next to a stranger, so close our elbows almost touched.

I hadn’t traveled anywhere exterior Oʻahu in 14 months—my final trip Hawaiʻi Island proper in advance of COVID-19 pressured the shutdown of the state—and here I was, wiping down the armrests with an alcoholic beverages wipe handed to me by a masked flight attendant and wondering how journey vacation to Kauaʻi was likely to go.

I remaining on Could 19, about a week right after Hawaiʻi released a new vaccine passport method, element of the present-day Harmless Travels Hawaiʻi entry portal, which enables vacationers that have been totally vaccinated in Hawaiʻi to journey interisland without having the need to have to get tested or quarantine.

That signifies anybody with proof of vaccination in Hawaiʻi can vacation concerning the Islands without the need of the inconvenience of receiving COVID-19 examined or spending 10 times in quarantine. Correct now, this program is only out there to people who have gained their vaccines in Hawaiʻi. The state is preparing to extend the system to trans-Atlantic travelers—those who obtained vaccines outside the house the Islands—sometime this summertime.

All counties in Hawai‘i are collaborating in the vaccine go application other than Honolulu County (Oʻahu), which does not need interisland vacationers take a COVID test or quarantine.

This is excellent information for the 47% of Hawaiʻi inhabitants who are now fully vaccinated (as of Might 21)—and the course of action isn’t as challenging as it may well seem to be.

I know. I just went as a result of it.

Here’s what you require to do:

• Get vaccinated. (This program is only obtainable to these who are vaccinated in Hawaiʻi right now, but there are designs to extend.) You can journey on the vaccine passport program 15 times following your closing dose. For case in point, if you bought your previous dose on May possibly 1, you are viewed as absolutely vaccinated on Could 16 and can vacation on this method from that day ahead.
• Scan your formal CDC COVID-19 Vaccination File Card—right now, issued on the Condition of Hawaiʻi—with all the right information and facts stuffed out. Help you save it as a JPEG or PDF.
• Log onto the state’s Safe and sound Travels Hawaiʻi portal. (See below.) Simply click on “Trips” and fill out your flight info. You Will have to have your flight and resort/lodging info completely ready, which include flight amount and address of exactly where you will be being.
  

 

• Once you fill out the required facts, upload the impression of your vaccination card to the electronic system.
• The working day prior to your scheduled excursion, you will will need to log back again into the portal to fill out the wellbeing questionnaire. Right after you do this, the portal will produce a QR code for you. (It will be sent through electronic mail.) You need to have this.
• On the working day of your journey, have this QR code helpful, as you will have to have this when you get there at your desired destination (excluding Oʻahu). Some car rentals and motels could call for this, also. You also will need to carry the primary CDC Vaccination Report Card or VAMS printout with you when you travel. You will require to display this to airport and protection personnel.
• Hawaiʻi nonetheless has a mask mandate in place—likely right up until summer—so you will want to don good face coverings in general public and indoor spaces for now.
• If you’re traveling to Maui, you will also want to down load the AlohaSafe Notify app in addition to other specifications. Pay a visit to here for details.

I did have to show the QR code from the Safe and sound Travels Hawaiʻi web-site to the workers at the rental motor vehicle firm, but no one particular else questioned for it. I place my vaccination card in a pretty safe place—I never want to reduce it!—and experienced a excellent continue to be on Kauaʻi.