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Four Seasons Maui in Hawaii May Create a Resort Bubble, as may other Maui and Kauai resorts. While Hawaii has delayed its reopening to October 2020 or later, most of the recent surge in coronavirus cases has occurred on the main island of Oahu; Maui, Kauai, and the Big Island have fewer active COVID-19 cases. That prompted Governor Ige to sign an emergency proclamation on 8/20 to allow counties to establish resort bubbles.
At the Four Seasons Maui at Wailea, this would involve a RFID wristband that would serve as a keyless entry method to the guest's room and other resort areas, and work with geofencing technology to ensure guests remained within the designated areas. Outside guests would not be permitted at the resort.
RFID wristbands are already used at Four Seasons Lanai, and even come in kid sizes.
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Guests would sign a waiver allowing the resort to track their movements and health, and this would have to be clearly disclosed during the reservation process.
Resort bubbles would not substitute for a negative PCR test result prior to boarding a flight for Hawaii, which will still be a prerequisite to avoid Hawaii's 14-day quarantine. But the resort bubble could help make the resorts some of the safest places on the island.
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Other Health and Safety Measures
Already, the Four Seasons Maui has invested in standalone ionizer air purifiers, and each room has a UV sanitation box for the remote control, to sanitize it; the box can also be used to sanitize cell phones and car keys. Employees and guests are temperature screened, and social distancing and enhanced cleaning protocols are being implemented.
The resort is also hiring an onsite medical professional and is designating a special 5th floor annex as a quarantine area, to quarantine any guests who do become ill.
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Yeah those steps at a Four Seasons. The Four Seasons is high enough on the totem pole to actually do these accommodations. The resort bubble is a ridiculous concept. We are desperate for travel but I do not plan on dropping 10-15k for a prison experiment. Every meal on property at a Four Seasons also. Maybe for a 25 year old kid with a backpack but not for a family. There are only a couple of resorts that could even handle this on the islands if folks wanted to bother. Why not just go to other beach places? You certainly… Read more »
The Hawaii resort bubble is still in planning stages, but agree that it will be a self-selected group who will do this. That said, Hawaii isn’t the only one. Thailand is planning to allow long stay visitors who will visit for 1 month or more, with the first 14 days in quarantine in their hotel and have two negative coronavirus test results before they can visit the rest of the island, and Anguilla will also mandate that visitors stay the first 10 days in their villa or hotel and have two negative covid-19 test results (at the airport and on… Read more »
Just to ask but where is the elective only Covid testing even going to come from? Fast Covid PCR testing I don’t believe is even available for elective purposes like this? I believe Anguila offers it on site with a more realistic game plan but Hawaii has been averse to doing anything more than policy solutions. Am I missing something?
As far as I’m aware, the resort bubble wouldn’t offer Covid PCR testing. What the resort bubble would accomplish would be the ability to enjoy the resort during Hawaii’s mandatory 14 day quarantine, rather than be stuck inside one’s guest room, as is currently the case. As you note, at time of writing, Hawaii doesn’t have the testing capacity to be able to offer Covid tests at the airport to all passengers. That’s why the plan was to only permit those with negative PCR tests prior to boarding the flight to Hawaii to avoid the 14 day quarantine, then have… Read more »