One Travel Editor Says Don't Book A Hawaii Trip...Yet!

Above, the battleship USS Missouri docked in Pearl Harbor. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Last summer, my "honorary sister's" daughter was going to get married in Hawaii. But due to the lockdown of the state because of the pandemic, she ended up getting married in Idaho instead.

So, instead of rice being tossed at the bride and groom, potatoes were thrown.

Just kidding!

Right now, Hawaii is opening up to tourists from the mainland and Japan. But there's one prominent travel editor who cautions against booking a Hawaiian trip now. He feels it is better to book in 2021.

Hawaii News Now reported:

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - More of Hawaii’s economy is slowly reopening with the return of tourism. But at least one top travel editor is cautioning his followers against booking a trip too soon.

CBS Travel Editor Peter Greenberg acknowledged most of the early kinks of the state’s pre-travel testing program have been worked out. The program allows tran-Pacific travelers to forgo a mandatory quarantine if they test negative for COVID-19 no more than 72 hours before departure.

But he noted that the visitor experience isn’t what many might expect.

“Remember not every store’s open, not every restaurant is open. Not every hotel is open,” he said.

“My guess is, and I’ve told you this before, is the Hawaii tourism folks think I’m anti-Hawaii tourism and I’m not. Book in January and February. Don’t rush over there now. Let them figure this out.”

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