Med boaters - will you get to your boat this year?

[julians]

Rapid antigen tests are no longer ok to enter Spain, it needs to pcr or lamp. We are doing the 12 hour result pcr at East Midlands Airport the day before we fly out this time, £70 each.

The link in my previous post says that rapid antigen tests are acceptable - I quote

• Rapid antigen detection tests (RAT), which detect the presence of virus antigens. The accepted tests are those approved by the European Commission, which can be found in the following link.

 

[Clancy Moped]

Just before leaving Spain by ferry, 10 days ago, we arranged rapid Antigen tests (RAT). We visited a local lab, two tests, no waiting, 40 euros each and received the results within an hour. We have used Randox for our 2D and 8D tests via post back in the UK.

So, surely you can get something similar (RAT) in the UK before flying out, that is if not double vax'd. Proof of the latter and the QR Code once completing the on-line form is still all that is required as far as I know. Seems we are being ripped off in the UK for tests, so what's new!

I heard today there are growing concerns with increasing numbers of people infected in Catalonia, goodness knows if we will get out again soon, my concern is that if Spain moves to red status, the need to isolate in a hotel for 10D on return for me would be a major nightmare!

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[dune16]

The link in my previous post says that rapid antigen tests are acceptable - I quote

• Rapid antigen detection tests (RAT), which detect the presence of virus antigens. The accepted tests are those approved by the European Commission, which can be found in the following link.

Ok but Spains pm did recently make clear visitors from uk would need pcr tests to enter (due to uk covid delta variant) and uk.gov seems to agree with that new rule. I don't want to risk it and will stick to pcr until the uk advice changes.

Entry requirements - Spain travel advice

From 2 July 2021, the Spanish government requires all arrivals to Spain from the UK (excluding children under the age of 12 years old) to present on entry one of the following:

documentation issued within 48 hours prior to arrival in Spain, certifying that you have undertaken a COVID-19 test, e.g. PCR, TMA, LAMP or NEAR, and tested negative. Antigen tests are not currently accepted for the majority of travellers (see information on limited exceptions below).
proof of being fully vaccinated at least 14 days prior to arrival in Spain (date(s) of vaccination must be specified), with a vaccine authorised by the European Medicines Agency or by the World Health Organisation

 

[Hurricane]

Just before leaving Spain by ferry, 10 days ago, we arranged rapid Antigen tests (RAT). We visited a local lab, two tests, no waiting, 40 euros each and received the results within an hour. We have used Randox for our 2D and 8D tests via post back in the UK.

So, surely you can get something similar (RAT) in the UK before flying out, that is if not double vax'd. Proof of the latter and the QR Code once completing the on-line form is still all that is required as far as I know. Seems we are being ripped off in the UK for tests, so what's new!

I heard today there are growing concerns with increasing numbers of people infected in Catalonia, goodness knows if we will get out again soon, my concern is that if Spain moves to red status, the need to isolate in a hotel for 10D on return for me would be a major nightmare!

SWMBO and I just got back from doing our Antigen tests at Doctor Ferran in Benecarlo (a town local to Sant Carles).
40 euros each.
Waiting for the results at the moment.
This test is to allow us to travel back to the UK

 

[Peterlewis321]

Ok but Spains pm did recently make clear visitors from uk would need pcr tests to enter (due to uk covid delta variant) and uk.gov seems to agree with that new rule. I don't want to risk it and will stick to pcr until the uk advice changes.

Entry requirements - Spain travel advice

From 2 July 2021, the Spanish government requires all arrivals to Spain from the UK (excluding children under the age of 12 years old) to present on entry one of the following:

documentation issued within 48 hours prior to arrival in Spain, certifying that you have undertaken a COVID-19 test, e.g. PCR, TMA, LAMP or NEAR, and tested negative. Antigen tests are not currently accepted for the majority of travellers (see information on limited exceptions below).
proof of being fully vaccinated at least 14 days prior to arrival in Spain (date(s) of vaccination must be specified), with a vaccine authorised by the European Medicines Agency or by the World Health Organisation

Pretty sure I read somewhere that the Antigen is acceptable if you are a Spanish resident returning to Spain……for everyone else it must be a PCR or LAMP type test.

 

[Lightwave395]

I would like to drive out to Spain through France but looking impossible unless I find somewhere on the way to have a pcr. Any ideas?
Approaching bedlam season in Empuriabrava so maybe September anyway.

This is the list of all testing centres in France, pick whichever best suits your journey, you can also select which kind of test you want:

Santé.fr - Lieux de dépistage Covid-19

You can't book a test by phone, you need to sign up with 'Doctolib', the French online booking system and book it online:

Doctolib : Prenez rendez-vous en ligne chez un professionnel de santé

Seems to work well, although I recently got mine through the marina office and the local nurse came and did me onsite

Results from a 1000am test were emailed that evening

 

[DavidJ]

This is the list of all testing centres in France, pick whichever best suits your journey, you can also select which kind of test you want:

Santé.fr - Lieux de dépistage Covid-19

You can't book a test by phone, you need to sign up with 'Doctolib', the French online booking system and book it online:

Doctolib : Prenez rendez-vous en ligne chez un professionnel de santé

Seems to work well, although I recently got mine through the marina office and the local nurse came and did me onsite

Results from a 1000am test were emailed that evening

Thanks Lightwave
Exactly the information I was after

 

[longjohnsilver]

Thanks Lightwave
Exactly the information I was after

David, if you’re driving into Spain it seems pretty clear that you are not required to follow the same procedures as travellers entering by plane or ferry. This screenshot was taken just a few minutes ago from the Spanish govt website

If you want to be completely safe then filling out the health control form online and getting tested cant do any harm, but I very much doubt anyone will ask for it.

 

[Alicatt]

The complaint here is that there has been no checking at airports in Spain, my sis in law is just back from Malaga with a group of friends, she is double vaccinated and a hospital worker, her significant other has had one vaccination and had to do a PCR test flying out and back, none of them were checked at the airports either in Eindhoven or Malaga.

Belgium has just had a group of teenagers returned from Barcelona with over 120 of them testing positive, some of them flew home to Belgium rather than taking the arranged busses, none of the kids were checked before getting on the plane.
The families that organised the flights for the kids are now being taken to court over endangering the other passengers on the flights.

 

[Clancy Moped]

Take this as gossip, but a grain of truth might be running through it.

Balearics worried it could go amber tomorrow

 

[julians]

Take this as gossip, but a grain of truth might be running through it.

Balearics worried it could go amber tomorrow

Probably will go Amber tomorrow I think

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

This is the list of all testing centres in France, pick whichever best suits your journey, you can also select which kind of test you want:

Santé.fr - Lieux de dépistage Covid-19

You can't book a test by phone, you need to sign up with 'Doctolib', the French online booking system and book it online:

Doctolib : Prenez rendez-vous en ligne chez un professionnel de santé

Seems to work well, although I recently got mine through the marina office and the local nurse came and did me onsite

Results from a 1000am test were emailed that evening

If this is for return to UK antigen tests we took the Medicspot tests with us from the UK for our recent trip to France. You just administer the test yourself and upload a photo of the test and your passport to their website and you get a certificate by email same day. V simple and worked well

Tests for Travel | Medicspot

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Take this as gossip, but a grain of truth might be running through it.

Balearics worried it could go amber tomorrow

Well I think it is now clear to which country our Dear Leader Bozo is going on holiday this August. Amber listing the Balearics means they've got headroom to green list Italy. The Witch Carrie has obviously stamped her little feet and insisted they holiday in what is reputedly her favourite vacation destination

The countries that could be added to the green list at this week's travel review

 

[JB]

For anyone in the South of France, PACALAB in Golfe Juan do PCR test with results within 3 hours

 

[dune16]

I'm just hoping Spain doesn't slip to red list

 

[Portofino]

Well I think it is now clear to which country our Dear Leader Bozo is going on holiday this August. Amber listing the Balearics means they've got headroom to green list Italy. The Witch Carrie has obviously stamped her little feet and insisted they holiday in what is reputedly her favourite vacation destination

The countries that could be added to the green list at this week's travel review

Quite sensibly if you have been in country which has variants of concern ( currently delta ) like the U.K. there is a 5 day quarantine requirement when entering Italy .A further test to release can only be done by local arrangements ……there way no short cuts .

The numbers , deaths + hospitalisation seem to be dropping here in Liguria, zero cases most days for those two stats .
Contrast this policy + it’s results with Spain + France .

Folks mask wearing inside , social distancing and plenty of outdoor UV .
Then again the demo graphics are better , less younger unvaxed serum soup carriers flooding in and spreading it about , and they ( Italy ) have been quietly cracking on with the vax program reaching out and from what I can tell zero vax hesitancy whipped up .
After Bergimo last year they all seem to be in the program.

Clever move the 5 day quarantine for Brits .There own holiday season is working right now without them .

Guess Italians do not do the Baldricks having there own big islands , Sardinia and Sicily + A few smaller like Elba + Capri etc .

Arguable the baldricks ( Costas in mainland ) esp Ibiza are now acting as a formite * for Delta within the EU .


* Theres a new I suspect to many on here microbiological term.

* Fomites are inanimate objects ( in this case the Baldricks) that can become contaminated with infectious agents and serve as a mechanism for transfer between hosts. ... Infectious agents deposited by one person can potentially be transmitted to subsequent many more .

Could be the critical factor in the summer spread in the EU .….but only those countries who send thousand, hundreds of thousands.

 

[Alicatt]

Friend from Poland is currently on a coach holiday in Italy, she had to cancel her holiday last summer and was hopping it would go ahead this year.
She has been to Florence over the weekend and is now in Siena, this is her favourite type of holiday a coach tour through Italy with friends.
Will ask her how she got on with tests etc. but I know she has had both her vaccinations of Pfizer on the same days I had mine, hers in Poland and mine in Belgium

 

[Clancy Moped]

As of 4pm Monday the Balearics is back to amber according to Sky.

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[julians]

Rumours that France will be added to the red list

 

[mcanderson]

Rumours that France will be added to the red list

Rumours here in France that it will not.