I heard the pandemic really hurt the place. Discouraged lots of people from interacting out of fear. They even closed the beaches at one point I hear. It’s much more lively now, when I first showed up the mask mandates were still on and activity functions off. but now there are a lot more activities and concerts and things happening again. Maybe you’ll get a chance to come back and feel the aloha.
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Yeah when I arrived hotels were at less than 1% capacity it was only people stuck there for 2 week quarantine. They give you a single entry key and hotel door would lock behind you tried to leave…
I remember when they tried to close the beaches. That’s didn’t last long tho because the locals wouldn’t have it. There was lots of finger pointing at tourists and vacationers but the then the locals wouldn’t give up their 50-100 person beach cookouts every Thu, Fri, Sat, and Sun. I don’t blame them for that I just didn’t like the divisiveness and hypocrisy.
I left when they started asking for vaccine proof to go inside buildings even though I had been on the island for months. It was too much…