Help with Understanding Tahiti Entrance Requirements

[gwenmarie]

1 hour ago, patty1955 said:

Thank you for the information. Unfortunately, it puts me in a quandary. We fly from Seattle to Honolulu on 4/1 and from Honolulu to Tahiti on 4/2. We'll be in Hawaii for around 20 hours and our hotel is nowhere near a testing site. 

I emailed Hawaiian Airlines and they referred me to the Tahiti website so no help there.

When we flew to Europe in October, no one looked at our covid test. I don't suppose we'll be that lucky this time. 

We are in the same situation as you but starting in Portland, Oregon. I have done massive research on the emed tests, Honolulu testing, airport, pharmacy and walk in clinic. I purchased the emed Covid-19 AG card home test. This is not the Now test of the same company. I wrote to Tahiti tourism and my hotel connection in Tahiti where we will be for 10 nights prior to the April 6 cruise. 
The Covid-19 AG card test is with a person during FaceTime from beginning to end. I have verified the test is allowed for entry ad an antigen type test. I am using these for entry to Tahiti and Oceania. I have my emails to verify that it is excepted.

[patty1955]

26 minutes ago, gwenmarie said:

The Covid-19 AG card test is with a person during FaceTime from beginning to end. I have verified the test is allowed for entry ad an antigen type test. I am using these for entry to Tahiti and Oceania. I have my emails to verify that it is excepted.

I've already bought the test as well. We used them before we went to Europe and it was very easy. I'd like to use them for the trip to Tahiti too. 

 

[dandee2]

On 3/12/2022 at 1:35 PM, Mercruiser said:

Is your Canada to LAX flight on the same reservation as the LAX to PPT flight? This is important because it determines when the 24 hours starts.

 

If both flights are on the same reservation, the 24 hours starts before your first flight in that reservation, e.g. 24 hours before the Canada to LAX flight. Conversely, if your LAX to PPT flight is on a separate reservation, the 24 hours starts from the LAX departure.

 

 it does not. They are both separate ticket (Canada-LAX on my points)

 

[kibutzer]

On 3/13/2022 at 7:24 PM, patty1955 said:

I've already bought the test as well. We used them before we went to Europe and it was very easy. I'd like to use them for the trip to Tahiti too. 

Please let us know if the proctored tests work. 

 

[patty1955]

Tahiti has discontinued the etis requirement for visits after 3/28. If you paid for the authorization,  you can apply for a refund.

[gwenmarie]

I used the emed test for our flight to Tahiti today on Hawaiian Air. No problem with the test and I printed the results.

[patty1955]

1 minute ago, gwenmarie said:

I used the emed test for our flight to Tahiti today on Hawaiian Air. No problem with the test and I printed the results.

Thank you. 

[Leela]

2 hours ago, gwenmarie said:

I used the emed test for our flight to Tahiti today on Hawaiian Air. No problem with the test and I printed the results.

Thank you for the update! Now I'm thinking I'll cancel the RT-PCR test because I don't really want to drive over an hour each way to the testing clinic the day before our departure to PPT.

[gwenmarie]

On 3/26/2022 at 3:46 PM, Leela said:

Thank you for the update! Now I'm thinking I'll cancel the RT-PCR test because I don't really want to drive over an hour each way to the testing clinic the day before our departure to PPT.

We arrived in Tahiti last night using Hawaiian Air from Honolulu, no question regarding our testing. Whew! I’ll use is to board the ship April 6

[patty1955]

On 3/17/2022 at 10:13 AM, kibutzer said:

 

 It worked without a problem. Hawaiian Airlines accepted the email response we received from  eMed

[mispi]

New entry regulation valid from 4.1.22

https://tahititourisme.com/en-us/covid-19/

 

[kibutzer]

Arrived 5am took about an hour to get through immigration. Think three planes arrived within 90 minutes. Had O arranged air, they parked us at Pearl Tahitian about an hour from town but will not transport us back to ship till after noon. No matter what boarding time you have. So shout 200 hundred people will be clamoring to get to ship. Don't  expect to board and get to waves till 2 given the way they are returning us. Oh well it is gorgeous. 

[Leela]

I have just returned from French Polynesia and let me tell you I am SO GLAD I was paranoid about the COVID-19 testing requirements. We departed from Kona, Hawaiʻi, on Saturday April 9th...connecting in Honolulu to the weekly Hawaiian Airlines flight to Pape'ete. There was supposed to be a (informal, traveling on separate reservations) group of 14 of us traveling to Tahiti for two weeks.

 

Because I had read so much confusing and conflicting information regarding what was required for entry to French Polynesia, and because the rules seemed to be changing every week, I decided to follow the most strict/pedantic interpretation of the rules so as to lessen the chance of some misinformed airport agent or harried immigration bureaucrat denying us boarding or entry. We opted for RT-PCR tests, done at a medical clinic, within 24 hours of the departure of our first flight leg (from Kona to Honolulu). My boyfriend and I made sure our tickets were all on a single reservation, and also verified that the test we would be taking was a nasal test and not a saliva test.

 

When we checked in at Kona we had absolutely no problems. We handed the agent the results from our tests, along with our vaccination cards and our passports. ETIS had just been ended, so we had to fill out an attestation regarding the rules etc. of entry into French Polynesia. The agent put all of this information into their computer, wrote OK TO BOARD on our boarding passes, and off we went.

When we got to the gate we only saw two of the other people we thought were traveling. EVERYONE who had used the eMed proctored at-home antigen self-test was denied boarding! One lady had tried to check in so early that she managed to be able to run and get an instant antigen test from the same medical clinic where we had gotten our RT-PCR tests, so she made the next flight to Honolulu and got there in time to board the connecting flight to Pape'ete. Everyone else had to cancel/move all their plans for the first week, and rebook their flights to Tahiti for the next Saturday because Hawaiian Airlines only flies to Pape'ete one day per week. Somehow, two other people who *had* taken the Abbot Binax Now test via eMed WERE allowed to board; they have no idea why they were let on while the other people were not, and were worried all the way to Pape'ete the they'd be turned away at the border...but somehow that all worked out.

 

My boyfriend and I had an AMAZING time in French Polynesia. We went diving in the Tuamotos the first week, then went back to Pape'ete for an outrigger canoe racing camp. Camp capped off with my boyfriend and our friends competing in a outrigger canoe race off Teva I Uta.

 

Good luck in your travels, everyone! 

Edited April 25, 2022 by Leela

[patty1955]

1 hour ago, Leela said:

I have just returned from French Polynesia and let me tell you I am SO GLAD I was paranoid about the COVID-19 testing requirements. We departed from Kona, Hawaiʻi, on Saturday April 9th...connecting in Honolulu to the weekly Hawaiian Airlines flight to Pape'ete. There was supposed to be a (informal, traveling on separate reservations) group of 14 of us traveling to

That's interesting. We flew the same flight on April 1st using the  Abbot Binax Now test via eMed test and had no problem at all. Nobody even looked at the attestation regarding the rules etc. We still have the form.