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Tag: flying during COVID

On the Sunday, September 27th, 2020 edition of The Travel Guys… In the Travel News, you plan to head to Hawaii again, starting October 15, but Covid testing will be mandatory.  United and Hawaiian have announced on site testing at SFO only to start.  United’s instant test will be $250, Hawaiian’s is priced at $150.  In Honolulu, drive through testing will be offered, and both airlines offer a less expensive non-instant testing option. Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks have reopened as the smoke situation has gotten better.  Disneyland has not reopened yet and park management is getting antsy.   In our Smarter Traveler segment, we discuss the testing for travel situation.  What if everyone’s temperature is taken as they enter the airport? What is the traveling public willing to accept to get the ok to fly. Travelers are staying closer to home.  A great close-to-home destination is Berkeley.  Home to the University of California, it’s a funky town, with lots of great places to shop and eat.   Staycations, daytripping, nearcations, whatever you call them, we aren’t wandering far from home these days.  When will that change?
On the Sunday, July 5th, 2020 edition of The Travel Guys… In the Travel News, the list of places you can't travel to without a test or a quarantine on arrival is growing.  Europeans returned our "don't come here" policy, by instituting a travel ban for arrivals from the states.  Broadway is dark until the first of the year, Cirque du Soleil has applied for bankruptcy protection. The list is getting longer. You check into your hotel and go to your room.  The key won't open the door, so you go back to the front desk.  "You must have put the key in the pocket with your phone..."  So we answer the age old question...and make you a smarter traveler...Can your cell phone demagnetize your room key?  Just One Man's Opinion sheds some insight. The major airlines are going to try pre-boarding health screenings to try and make us safer when flying.  Will it help, or is it just an exercise in futility? Many travelers are staying closer to home this summer.  Luckily, in central California we have a lot of cool choices.  Join us on a visit to Tuolumne County, gateway to Yosemite and discover a few of them.