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Is anyone else planning to go to Maui in the next couple of months?

we booked in Ko Olina Marriott October 1-8. This is our first visit to Oahu so we were planning to visit places. We stayed 11 days on Maui in May of this year and it was very very crowded. As we were on Maui many times we didn't go any places but spent time on the beach (Westin Nanea and Marriott Ocean club). I was so excited to visit Oahu for the first time but spending all day in mask as we did on Maui, not really excited. I'm a nurse and wear mask all day long. Don't know what to do but already considering re schuling as feel bad after the message to not visit island and out of respect to native Hawaii population.
 
Scheduled to arrive WKORV on Sept 5th. We are fully vaxxed and still planning to go. Started the Safe Travels process and also, just in case things change and we’ll need one, made an appointment for a pre-travel COVID test.

We have been to Maui a few times, so not concerned about doing much more than enjoying the beach. But that’s our go/no-go…if the beaches close, we will cancel.

Sadly, per my conversation with Vistana today, unless there are official travel restrictions imposed by Hawaii’s governor, standard cancellation policy applies.
 
I keep checking in on this thread to see what everyone is doing. I’m really waiting to see what my sister decides. She came very close to losing her son this year, and now her husband’s cancer has returned. This was supposed to be a getaway to celebrate life! Not sure how many chances we’ll have to all get to Maui. Covid really sucks.
 
I see a lot of messages with people wanting to blame or bash Vistana for not relaxing the cancelation policies.

Covid-19 is not Vistana's fault. We are all victims of the pandemic and its impacts on our world. We all own our weeks, which means that if an “act of God” like a pandemic makes it difficult or impossible for us to use them, it’s not reasonable to expect Vistana to somehow make us whole. It sucks, but when you own something, you can‘t expect to be bailed out when things go wrong. (Out of curiosity, what happened to owners at WSJ after the hurricane when the resort was closed for 2+ years?)

I’ll be quite unhappy if there is any further relaxing of the cancellation policy. They were quite generous last year and gave everyone two years plus to use restricted SOs… that’s part of what has led to today’s situation where every scrap of inventory is reserved, because people are booking 2021 and (soon) 2022 dates with 2020 SOs, and there simply isn’t enough inventory to fulfill all of that. I think they extended the expiration of those 2020 SOs in order to spread the problem out – if everyone had to use their 2020 SOs AND their 2021 SOs in 2021, the magnitude of the problem would be even greater – but they’ll create a huge mess if they do it again.

So don’t expect Vistana to relax the policy again, and be careful what you ask for. If they were to do that, 2022 (and 2023?) would be a nightmare In terms of being able to use your SOs, especially the restricted ones.
 
We have a week in Nanea and a week in Princeville booked for late Oct/early Nov. We're just taking it day by day at this point. We wanted to use our Nanea week last October, but it was right around the time they changed from the 10-day forced quarantine, and we weren't sure what was going to happen, so we banked the points and rolled the dice for this year.

It's a tough situation all around - we've heard how massively crowded Maui has been...that doesn't sound fun...and of course there's the much larger issue of everyone's health, hospital capacity, etc.

Certainly hoping things start to get better soon...
 
Maui’s mayor is now asking all visitors to stay in their resort bubble for the next three weeks. “Enjoy your resort’s beach, restaurants and shops, but please don’t leave.”

It’s only a request so far, while they work out new rules with the state.

Maui County asks residents, tourists to curb non-essential activities for 21 days

The county is working with Ige on new rules. Victorino is also asking employers to revert to working from home.
www.hawaiinewsnow.com
 
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Maui’s mayor is now asking all visitors to stay in their resort bubble for the next three weeks. Enjoy your resort’s beach, restaurants and shops, but please don’t leave.

It’s only a request so far, while they work out new rules with the state.

Maui County asks residents, tourists to curb non-essential activities for 21 days

The county is working with Ige on new rules. Victorino is also asking employers to revert to working from home.
www.hawaiinewsnow.com
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Again…I have done my part, delayed, vaccinated, and tested. If they want me to stay home then they need to compensate me for my costs.


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Ok, so they want everybody to stay in their resort bubble, but the restaurants at the resorts and observing shorter hours and some of the on-site stores are closed. Perhaps the resorts could work WITH them and extend hours so people don't all have to eat 3 meals in the same 5 hours? Just one thought.. I am scheduled to go mid October and watching closely. I was there November last year and January this year, and loved the quiet, but 'social distancing' is not encouraged when all the services shortened their available times.. just sayin'
 
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Maui’s mayor is now asking all visitors to stay in their resort bubble for the next three weeks. “Enjoy your resort’s beach, restaurants and shops, but please don’t leave.”

It’s only a request so far, while they work out new rules with the state.

Maui County asks residents, tourists to curb non-essential activities for 21 days

The county is working with Ige on new rules. Victorino is also asking employers to revert to working from home.
www.hawaiinewsnow.com
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We're not planning to go to Maui until March 2022, but our timeshare doesn't have any restaurants or shops.
 
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This is NOT the COVID Forum - if you want to go down that road, post over there.
 
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Maui’s mayor is now asking all visitors to stay in their resort bubble for the next three weeks. “Enjoy your resort’s beach, restaurants and shops, but please don’t leave.”

It’s only a request so far, while they work out new rules with the state.

Maui County asks residents, tourists to curb non-essential activities for 21 days

The county is working with Ige on new rules. Victorino is also asking employers to revert to working from home.
www.hawaiinewsnow.com
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We just stay on the resort beach anyway.
Will be there 9/4-18.
Too late not to go now - too many pieces in motion. And already had to eat too many expensive SOs (owning WKORV OFD and WSJ and WPORV) along with other travel costs.
We don’t plan to be around others anyway.
It work for us in June at WSJ - and that involved a 14 hour travel. People stayed masked and practiced social distance pretty well for the most part.

btw - make sure you upload your info in the HI Safe Travels website.

Make sure to wave Aloha!

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We have two weeks at Nanea beginning mid-September and plan to go unless the Governor locks everything down. We cancelled our Spring 2020, Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 trips due to COVID and we are ready to travel to Maui. We’ve contacted three friends in the Maui hospitality industry and they’re ready for tourists. We just received a text message from Trilogy changing the departure time for a cruise by 30 minutes so it appears they’re ready! We’re vaccinated and ready to travel.
 
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On a positive note, car rental prices have been slashed! They are now down to less than $50/day for the dates I need - they have been as high as $186/day!
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Lots of people are cancelling trips (and the car rental companies are slowly rebuilding their inventories) so suddenly they have plenty of cars again. I almost feel badly for them, trying to deal with the yo-yo of demand going up and down with the virus.

I'd keep an eye on the price as it might go lower still. I recently discovered autoslash.com which does the monitoring for you, it's pretty useful.
 
We are scheduled to go to Maui on October 6. We are fully vaccinated, will have our third shots 14+days prior to departure and are used to mask mandates and restrictions, living in California. Like others, we cannot use our SOs before the end of the year, so we are going absent a complete shutdown.
 
We were in Westin Princeville for the first two weeks of March and KORV for the last two weeks March 2020. It was eye-opening to watch KORV go from Spring Break maxed-out crowds to a practically deserted ghost town. All we could do was 1. hang out in our room, 2. lay-out in the chairs by the closed pool, or 3. go directly to/from the grocery store to restock our refrigerator. Social distancing wasn't a problem at the resort. Lucky to see 10 other people in a day. After dark the day before we were departing, I walked the "inner horseshoe" surrounding the pools. Only counted 5 other rooms with the lights on. Fortunately, for the flight home, my wife had two unused procedure masks in her luggage :banana:I picked up several months earlier at her request while at the doctor's during cold/flu season. We proactively avoided getting infected, got jabbed a month ahead of schedule, and plan on getting the booster as soon as available.

So we are planning on going back to KORV for just under 6 weeks starting Oct. 31st (Halloween - yikes). Will be monitoring the developing situation as the departure date approaches. The last day to bank our StarOptions (3*) is Sept. 30th. Afterwards, could holdout for a while longer and "bank" it with Interval (Thanks Denise - had not considered that alternative!:unsure:). Hopefully, the situation on Maui come November will not be as dire this time (for us and for the Locals).
 
We left Maui in March 2020 just before things were shutting down. The only change we saw was the the Honolulu Cookie Company removed all of the sample bins from their stores. The other thing we noticed was that we couldn't find antiseptic wipes in any of the stores we checked. It was even stranger in San Francisco, where we stayed for two nights on our way home. Things were starting to shut down, no crowds at the Ferry Building, not many cabs out. We got home on March 14, on the 16th the state was shut down.
 
We cancelled our month long trip to 3 islands that was to begin 9/22. We can definitely travel without a lot of interaction with others. But, As there were 2 inter island trips involved, I became worried that pre-flight tests and quarantines might start happening again. We cancelled the same basic trip last year. I was also worried about the possibility of beaches being closed. The best reason I've read so far to cancel is lack of hospital space should it be needed. Unfortunately, it is true here in Oregon as well.
Feel very fortunate that both Worldmark & Wyndham Club Pass have generous cancellation policies at 1 month & 2 weeks. With the $3k we were going to spend on cars this time, we are staying in the PNW and buying better wine :)
 
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