Musings on Bonaire reopening to tourists

[sidemount]

Nice! Did you happen to hear anything while on island about how they may handle entry requirements for those who have been vaccinated?

[ChrisL]

Nice! Did you happen to hear anything while on island about how they may handle entry requirements for those who have been vaccinated?

No discussion - it’s all about testing and Bonaire just got stricter while I was there now requiring Curaçao visitors to arrive with PCR negative test results in hand. I’m thinking by the time we have all had access to the vaccines and the number of active cases has declined world wide it will be a moot point. We are many months away if not a year away from that happening.

[sidemount]

Understood....but won't the vaccine make the PCR test positive? Vaccinations in the U.S. "could" begin in mid December.

[ChrisL]

Understood....but won't the vaccine make the PCR test positive? Vaccinations in the U.S. "could" begin in mid December.

I’m not a medical expert but I would imagine you would only test positive for a week or so after being inoculated.

An Australian friend told me the other day that Australia is going to require proof you have been vaccinated before they reopen to tourists. The world abides.

[sidemount]

Hopefully Bonaire will have that same requirement....seems to me proof of vaccination requirement would be easier to deal with than the PCR Test requirement...

[Bob T]

I hope by the middle of March when we go to Bonaire vaccinations will help getting onto the island less of a problem too.

[tholland]

We had air tix Newark-Bonaire for Dec. 4, 2020, but United cancelled all December flights about a week ago.
just fyi
seems the USA-bonaire via Curacao is still possible???

[tholland]

if you fly EWR->CUR->BON will you have to get two PCR tests? since they must be <72 hours prior to flight departures?

[dive junkies]

Made it down on dec2nd mia-cur-bon.i would say make copy's of everything twice as they hold on to one in cur and you need too show a copy on bonaire to.first owners from the us back to sand dollar.

[Canuck52]

The wife and myself should be on Bonaire about 7PM on Dec 17th. We have our Covid testing scheduled for late on the 14th, which should meet the Bonaire 72 hours before departure rule. Our detailed routing is still being worked on. We are coming in on a private jet from Canada, but we still need to do one technical fuel stop on US soil. That takes about 45 minutes. The charter company is working with the various authorities to see if they will allow a private jet to bypass Curacao. It makes little sense to us to stop over but we are dealing with ‘Government’ so we will do what they ask.

Boy this is complicated.