We’re in the process of cancelling our reservation from 6/21-27. For the past month or so we’ve rolled with the punches of flight cancellations, rebooking, etc., but ultimately realized the people of Hawaii just don’t want us. This despite being fellow Americans who have faithfully social distanced for the past 2 months. So we’ve rebooked for WDW in July and Florida will once again be getting our travel dollars this year. Of course that’s not certain either, so we’ll just keep rolling with those punches.
This was to be our first trip to Hawaii and we may rebook in the future, or we may not. There are other beautiful and welcoming places I’d like to take the family to (such as Costa Rica) before we’ll likely reconsider Hawaii.
Good luck to everyone else facing difficult travel decisions! May everything work out for you, one way or another.
important thing to keep in mind (just like with forums, social media, and most other things)...not everyone does things for the same reasons. some of the protestors who wanted to "liberate" states did so by bringing assault rifles, not wearing masks, etc. to protests. but there were also some who tried to maintain their distancing, and had very sound, logical arguments, and wanted their concerns to be heard...same protest...wide variety of mind sets and reasons.
there have always been, and will always be some in hawaii who want all tourists to go away and never come back (same as you'd find on any other island(s) with high dependency on tourism). there really aren't that many...but they are around.
there are others who temporarily take this opinion situationally...relatively sure that many people would not want tourists coming to visit an area right after a tornado/flood/earthquake hits...after its safe sure, just not before then.
some aren't angry or resentful of tourists at all...but are angry/resentful at the lack of action or claims of actions being taken...when none were actually taken (contact tracing, quarantine enforcement, etc. neither was done until it was exposed publicly that they weren't being done). lack of faith in governments ability to act often gets misconstrued as anger at something else. if testing and contact tracing had been effectively carried out from day 1 of their announcements...protests may never have happened at airports, etc.
and its also important to note that its not just mainland visitors/tourists that are subject to 14 day quarantine rules...if a resident living on oahu wanted to go to kauai...14 day quarantine...resident comes back to oahu...14 day quarantine...double whammy. so unless a tourist wants to visit multiple islands...residents of hawaii actually get hit twice as hard with quarantines as residents of other states. (there are of course exemptions for essential travel, etc.)