Covid and travel discussion

Pezzer2 said:
Just got back from Lanzarote the other day. If you do your homework beforehand its not too bad getting through the airports. What I will say though is, if you can print your forms off as well as having them on your phone you will sail through quickly. At Lanzarote on the way back they didn't want to touch your phones for obvious reasons and some people were there for ages looking for QR codes etc. So apart from Boarding passes try to print everything off

Me and my wife and 2 kids aged 6 and 9 went. Me and the misses were double vaccinated . Don't forget to book your day 2 PCR test on the way book

Obviously the below is for the Amber countries. I know I'm teaching people how to suck eggs but thought it might help in what we experienced

Manchester airport

- Went with Ryan Air - took about 20 mins to check in our cases. Self service luggage machines. Scan boarding pass, weigh cases it gives you a tag for the bag . Just give them to woman on desk and they chuck them straight through and quick check of passports.
- 20 mins waiting to get to security . As per usual electronics and bags on tray
- All done in record time. (albeit airport was quiet)
- Usual at the gate itself. Boarding passes and Passport check

Arrival in Lanzarote

- Quickly through border control. Just a check of passports
- Got luggage
- Random spot checks in checking Spanish Health form. Temp check on both kids

Whilst in Lanzarote

- Me and Wife got the Antingen within 72 hours of leaving. Walked into local clinic 20 euro's each . just the swab up the nose. We got a barcode on a piece of paper with our passport numbers. We could then check our results 2 hours later online and got the hotel to print off the results as well as our passenger locator forms.(If printed off, easier to navigate through airport)
- Approx 45 min wait in checking in. Slow moving with the staff checking phones.
-If you have documents printed you will sail through.
-Once through usual security check

Arriving Manchester

-As per normal except at border control they'll check passenger locator forms as well as passports

Forms needed;

Leaving

Passports
Boarding passes (done online, use QR code on phone)
Spanish Health form (Print off if you can)
Proof of Vaccination via app (Print off if you can)

Coming back home

Passports
Boarding passes
Proof of negative antingen test (Print off if you can)
Passenger locator form (Print off if you can)

We booked our 'day 2 PCR Test' to be delivered to our address . £200 in total for the 4 of us which is probably as cheap as you'll get it. Company called Biograd we got ours from

Hope this helps some people
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Very helpful to know how it was in practice versus the advice on paper
 
doots said:
It's with Jet2 pal and up to now it looks like the flights still going and/or available to book.
The holiday company have said the hol will go ahead as normal.
I argued the fact that with all the uncertainty, extra charges etc it's far from normal but if the flight goes I'll be flogging a dead horse I reckon.
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Apologies I'm a little late to the party, and this might have been resolved already, but the screengrab is Jet2s current stance on Amber destinations, including the option to cancel for those not fully vaccinated for anyone departing in the next fortnight or so.

Obv it's a rolling policy in line with the bullshit traffic light updates, so if you ain't travelling for a few weeks then you might have to sit tight for a bit.

Quick edit to say this is Jet2Holidays policy and only applicable to their own package holidays they operate....if it's a different tour operator package using Jet2.com flights (love holidays, teletext holidays etc) then you could well be snookered.

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feedthegoat27 said:
Apologies I'm a little late to the party, and this might have been resolved already, but the screengrab is Jet2s current stance on Amber destinations, including the option to cancel for those not fully vaccinated for anyone departing in the next fortnight or so.

Obv it's a rolling policy in line with the bullshit traffic light updates, so if you ain't travelling for a few weeks then you might have to sit tight for a bit.

Quick edit to say this is Jet2Holidays policy and only applicable to their own package holidays they operate....if it's a different tour operator package using Jet2.com flights (love holidays, teletext holidays etc) then you could well be snookered.

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Very helpful, ta pal.
 
Can anyone help please. Going Majorca tomorrow. Obviously you need to do a test 2 days before flying back. But they say the lateral flow test is fine. Can I take my own? Assume not?
 
johnmc said:
Can anyone help please. Going Majorca tomorrow. Obviously you need to do a test 2 days before flying back. But they say the lateral flow test is fine. Can I take my own? Assume not?
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Don’t think you can. Many hotels do the test and if your hotel doesn’t then most resorts in Majorca have somewhere. I’m off to Cala D’or in a week and I know my hotel does the test. €20 I think
 
johnmc said:
Can anyone help please. Going Majorca tomorrow. Obviously you need to do a test 2 days before flying back. But they say the lateral flow test is fine. Can I take my own? Assume not?
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You can take your own, but it needs to be a paid for one, you can't use the free NHS tests for travel.

Wouldn't worry about it, will be very easy to source an antigen test out there and shouldn't cost more than 25/30 Euro. You can do that test in any of the 3 full days before you fly home, and shouldn't take longer than an hour to do and get results so it doesn't eat into your day.

Enjoy!
 
feedthegoat27 said:
You can take your own, but it needs to be a paid for one, you can't use the free NHS tests for travel.

Wouldn't worry about it, will be very easy to source an antigen test out there and shouldn't cost more than 25/30 Euro. You can do that test in any of the 3 full days before you fly home, and shouldn't take longer than an hour to do and get results so it doesn't eat into your day.

Enjoy!
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What’s the rules on kids? Under 18 don’t need a test until back in the UK? (Over 4s)
 
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