getting a covid test to travel from Spain back to the UK

[pcatterall]

We are keen to get back to the boat in Spain for a holiday and essential checks etc. We will need a test before traveling back. Has anyone any information on how to get a test and the cost please? I guess these will be private companies so are there issues in travelling to get the test done?

 

[colind3782]

We're in the same position and interested in any information.

 

[syvictoria]

I'm also very keen to see my boat too. But I also don't want there to be another wave of covid cases in the UK (or indeed, anywhere) and so I wonder if, morally, we should be travelling internationally? It's a dilemma, personally at least.

 

[Graham376]

Assuming Spain is similar prices to Portugal, it cost us €101 each for pcr test before flying and then £199 each for the 2 & 8 day tests during home quarantine. To get the tests, Google "Covid tests for travel" in your local area.

 

[RupertW]

Assuming Spain is similar prices to Portugal, it cost us €101 each for pcr test before flying and then £199 each for the 2 & 8 day tests during home quarantine. To get the tests, Google "Covid tests for travel" in your local area.

Prices are starting to tumble for tests following TUI’s move to provide them as part of tickets for £20 per test so I’d watch this space.

 

[RJJ]

I'm also very keen to see my boat too. But I also don't want there to be another wave of covid cases in the UK (or indeed, anywhere) and so I wonder if, morally, we should be travelling internationally? It's a dilemma, personally at least.

Assuming you stick to UK laws regarding testing (x3), travel and quarantine (2 weeks), and assuming we're capable of applying judgment while abroad to minimise the risk of getting infected, how great do you think the risks are?

Noting also that tens of thousands of workers in various industries, probably leaving and entering the UK several times a month, are "only" taking a single Lateral Flow Test.

Why the travel ban must be lifted - spiked (spiked-online.com)

 

[Graham376]

Noting also that tens of thousands of workers in various industries, probably leaving and entering the UK several times a month, are "only" taking a single Lateral Flow Test.

Care needed with tests as we found out, some airlines require pcr whereas the country you're travelling to may accept lateral flow. Manchester airport advertise testing but pcr results take 3 days!

 

[pcatterall]

I'm also very keen to see my boat too. But I also don't want there to be another wave of covid cases in the UK (or indeed, anywhere) and so I wonder if, morally, we should be travelling internationally? It's a dilemma, personally at least.

Yes, you are right. In our case we are both fully jabbed up. Valencia has a 'green country infection rate' ( 40 per 100k) and we dont have close contact with the locals. Plus with 10 days isolation back here it sounds pretty low risk?

 

[pcatterall]

Thanks all. It is the test we need in Spain prior to being allowed to fly home that is our real issue. Going out Spain are happy to have us without tests as of the 20th May

 

[syvictoria]

You would certainly hope that the rules and sensible personal precautions should be enough, and yet the news this morning (Sky) is of increases in cases in a number of areas of the UK, at least in part blamed on international travel. And that's when travel is banned! It's bleak which ever way you look at it. We either continue with the opening up, and risk further lockdowns and and increasing death rates, or we continue to self-isolate on a national basis and hope to keep transmission and mutations down. I appreciate that this is desperately difficult on both a personal level and economically for the travel sector, etc. There is no easy answer. I'm torn, but I know that the more people travel, the more I and others will be tempted to say, if they can, I will... and sooner or later, rates will almost inevitably increase again.

 

[colind3782]

We are keen to get back to the boat in Spain for a holiday and essential checks etc. We will need a test before traveling back. Has anyone any information on how to get a test and the cost please? I guess these will be private companies so are there issues in travelling to get the test done?

Just trying to keep this thread on track!

 

[PlanB]

This might help
Spain - PCR and rapid test locations
Don't forget you'll need tests in the UK too on return

 

[lustyd]

sooner or later, rates will almost inevitably increase again.

If you believe that then sell your boat and buy a bunker. The rest of us are getting the vaccine and getting on with our lives, and I hope the OP doesn't listen to this doom and gloom. Otherwise what's the point in the vaccine program?

 

[colind3782]

Just heard back from a friend in Empuriabrava where our boat is and one of the doctor's surgeries in the town is offering PCR testing so that may well apply where the OP is travelling to.

 

[pcatterall]

Thanks all. PlanB that's a great start! We could book to get a PCR test in Valencia and get the results on line within 24 hours. Also they seem to have clinics which may do the test a little closer to us in Castellon. I will ask the Marina if there is private testing even nearer to us at Burriana.

 

[Buck Turgidson]

Thanks all. PlanB that's a great start! We could book to get a PCR test in Valencia and get the results on line within 24 hours. Also they seem to have clinics which may do the test a little closer to us in Castellon. I will ask the Marina if there is private testing even nearer to us at Burriana.

Will be interested to hear your news as I'm going to Valencia in July to spend a month on my boat and will need a test before I can fly home.

 

[RJJ]

You would certainly hope that the rules and sensible personal precautions should be enough, and yet the news this morning (Sky) is of increases in cases in a number of areas of the UK, at least in part blamed on international travel. And that's when travel is banned! It's bleak which ever way you look at it.

Since January, if you zoom in on the UK's Covid map, almost every day has seen some regions experiencing a "bounce" sometimes lasting for a few days, before declining again. It's non-news of the highest order. The overall trend remains decidedly downwards;

The claim of community vaccination (as a form of herd immunity) has never been "nobody will get infected"; rather it was exactly this: there will still be cases and local outbreaks, but they won't be severe (in impact or number) and they'll tend to be geographically contained.

A fortnight ago, the news (Sky) was wailing and gnashing of teeth because some cake factory in Wales had 80 cases out of a few hundred workers. oo ahh! What we haven't heard since (but we can all guess) is that there was no record of onward spread nor impact on hospitalisation and death rates.

Now, shall we get back to Spain? I'm also interested in how to do a PCR test in Spain, which was the question. As soon as I want to go, given the inconvenience, I'm going to do so (as, it seems, is everyone else)

 

[colind3782]

I've just looked at Martin Lewis' website and he states that Lateral flow tests would be OK before leaving Spain. If yes, that's great as they are available free from the UK government and you can take them with you.

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[pcatterall]

Will be interested to hear your news as I'm going to Valencia in July to spend a month on my boat and will need a test before I can fly home.

The link provided by PlanB supplies ( when translated and worked through) details of how to book your test at their Valencia clinic. Its around 90 euros. coming back you will have to organise in advance tests in UK for day 2 and day 8. Currently I see these offered via the Goma. web site at anywhere between £90 and £500 for both the tests.
I would hope to see the Uk costs coming down and better info from the Spanish tourist board if they want to encourage us back?

 

[capnsensible]

Since January, if you zoom in on the UK's Covid map, almost every day has seen some regions experiencing a "bounce" sometimes lasting for a few days, before declining again. It's non-news of the highest order. The overall trend remains decidedly downwards;

The claim of community vaccination (as a form of herd immunity) has never been "nobody will get infected"; rather it was exactly this: there will still be cases and local outbreaks, but they won't be severe (in impact or number) and they'll tend to be geographically contained.

A fortnight ago, the news (Sky) was wailing and gnashing of teeth because some cake factory in Wales had 80 cases out of a few hundred workers. oo ahh! What we haven't heard since (but we can all guess) is that there was no record of onward spread nor impact on hospitalisation and death rates.

Now, shall we get back to Spain? I'm also interested in how to do a PCR test in Spain, which was the question. As soon as I want to go, given the inconvenience, I'm going to do so (as, it seems, is everyone else)

I googled it for where I live.,

There is a Covid testing service now open at Cesar Manrique Airport in Lanzarote.
They are located in terminal 1 on the first floor, and they can offer either a PCR test (€70) or an antigen test (€30). The former takes up to 12 hours and the latter 20 minutes.
Appointments must be booked in advance either via the app or on the website: Airport Tests.