Best of Hawaii small groups 4/20/22

We’re here now! Soooo beautiful!

Our Best of Hawaii tour begins on 2/2. Currently, in L.A. visiting family, then on to Honolulu.

Well as it turns out, while visiting family in CA, my husband tested positive Covid (only mild, cold-like symptoms), so had to cancel Best of Hawaii. Maybe in 2023? Currently, quarantined and isolated in separate rooms in our CA hotel. We’re totally bummed.

Thanks, Travel Maven. We rescheduled Best of Hawaii for January 17, 2023. Fortunately my husband only has mild symptoms and I have none. We hope to head home to Chicago on Thursday at best, Sunday at worst. We are both double vaxxed and boosted, consistently wear our N95 masks, and are around very few people. It’s nuts!

Aloha! Gosh too bad Jan as our TD Heidi is wonderful and she is leading that one as well. We are now in Maui. Hotels are great with too many pools to choose from and the weather is phenomenal , nary a drop of rain. We can see humpback whales from the veranda, in Kuai also. They are forceful here about masks which is annoying because so much of Hawaiian experience is in very airy places where it is really not necessary.
By the way, read n the forum about island vintage wine and coffee n Waikiki It is mere steps from hotel “pink palace” royal hawaiian and I can recommend the salad with grilled prawns. Really great. Also butterfish at Roy’s.
The tour now takes you to Iolani palace so don’t bother going on your own if you arrive early.
If you arrive early and go to visit Bishop museum arrange for return transportation as it is in the middle of nowhere. Same if you go to climb Diamond Head.

To be specific about masking on the islands because we are all concerned about staying healthy, everyone wears masks on buses, in public places, to or from rooms to vents or dining, during lectures, on elevators, in shops, The hotel I’m in now is a beach resort. No walls in the huge lobby, similar to other hotels we have been in. Constant breezes. So here the masks are not purposeful though some of us wear them. Concierge Staff does not wear,, but waitstaff does. In Waikiki they took our temps, but not in other places. All wore masks. I see more masking in Hawaii than I do in the US. Hope that helps.

This gives us a lot to look forward to for our rescheduled trip in January 2023, in spite of our disappointment at having to cancel. Maybe by next year masks won’t be as necessary and Covid will only be a bad memory. One can always hope. Aloha!

Mazalea

Thanks for your comments regarding masks!

Mahalo