No tourists until after summer

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Re: No tourists until after summer

Postby Pamela1 » Tue May 18, 2021 10:37 pm

Well i have no idea Gus...Fed up of listening to the news tonight, BJ says that people should not be going on holiday to amber list countries, then why allow them if that's the case and why hand the cake out and then guilt trip people who wish to eat it... it's the same as saying the pubs can open but don't order a drink. They now have a society of many people working from home and those who are willing to pay for tests don't have a problem with self isolating, if the door has been opened to let them out then what did he expect the outcome would be. :lol:

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Re: No tourists until after summer

Postby ashtondav » Thu May 20, 2021 9:25 am

Can someone enlighten me. I thought Spain’s borders were closed to Brits unless they are residents. But I know of at least two families who have ferried across to visit their 2nd home. What exactly is or is not being enforced at the border or ferry terminal.

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Re: No tourists until after summer

Postby Paddy Pumpkin » Thu May 20, 2021 2:37 pm

What you say is correct it is illegal but like all rules in Spain there are many exepmtions and ways around them

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Re: No tourists until after summer

Postby elusive » Thu May 20, 2021 3:07 pm

ashtondav wrote: Thu May 20, 2021 9:25 am Can someone enlighten me. I thought Spain’s borders were closed to Brits unless they are residents. But I know of at least two families who have ferried across to visit their 2nd home. What exactly is or is not being enforced at the border or ferry terminal.
France is letting people in so go in there and theres no land borders

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Re: No tourists until after summer

Postby Lyric » Thu May 20, 2021 3:38 pm

Two of my neighbours, not particularly close, are Belgian and they just come and go seemingly as they please. Ditto building work, they have not had time to get a license.

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Re: No tourists until after summer

Postby gruff » Thu May 20, 2021 6:58 pm

I'm a little confused. We saw the message on May 10th. about people being refused boarding unless they were residents but this must have happened to hundreds of people and nobody appears to have made much fuss about it.

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Re: No tourists until after summer

Postby peteroldracer » Thu May 20, 2021 7:20 pm

Maybe it just doesn’t suit the gutter press to either support lawbreakers, or to bash Euro governments.
They can always fill a few pages on BBC/Bashir, or the latest ginger-whinger sermons from the mount.
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Re: No tourists until after summer

Postby elusive » Thu May 20, 2021 7:25 pm

Lyric wrote: Thu May 20, 2021 3:38 pm Two of my neighbours, not particularly close, are Belgian and they just come and go seemingly as they please. Ditto building work, they have not had time to get a license.
All EU nationals can come and go as they like bar their countries own restrictions. We have had Belgium neighbours here in the last few weeks aswell

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Re: No tourists until after summer

Postby olive » Thu May 20, 2021 9:38 pm

EU digital COVID certificate agreed !

Includes funds to subsidise cost of tesing.

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Re: No tourists until after summer

Postby maureenscot » Fri May 21, 2021 1:20 am

Who is the latest ginger-whinger?

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Re: No tourists until after summer

Postby Cupcake » Fri May 21, 2021 9:50 am

I have a flight booked for June, I’m totally confused as to whether I can fly or not. I’m a UK resident with a house in Seville, I understand the FCO advice and that it’s for essential travel only at the moment I get that, but I am totally unclear as to the entry rules for Spain? Will they let me in? Do I need a pcr test?

Help :shock:

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Re: No tourists until after summer

Postby Wicksey » Fri May 21, 2021 10:11 am

Things seem to be changing hourly so it's difficult to say what will be happening next month.

The UK indicates today that Spain will not go onto the green list in the next lot of announcements, so may not be on it until the end of June. Easyjet have said they are reducing their summer schedule now. But then it also depends on what Spain will allow. From what people have written, non-residents may be getting in at the moment (with a PCR test I presume) although I thought they weren't allowed in until at least the end of May. There's talk of allowing non-EU citizens in with proof of full vaccination, but now there's the Indian variant in the UK, the Brits may be excluded from that when non residents are able to come here. I think it's very difficult to plan ahead at the moment.

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Re: No tourists until after summer

Postby firsttango » Fri May 21, 2021 10:14 am

Cupcake this may help......just seen elsewhere.
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Re: No tourists until after summer

Postby Cupcake » Fri May 21, 2021 10:21 am

Thanks for the replies, I’m glad it’s not just me who is unclear! Rightly or wrongly I don’t mind travelling against foreign office advice (as long as it isn’t illegal), sounds like I’ll need to keep my ear to the ground wrt Spain entry although firsttango your post looks promising!

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Re: No tourists until after summer

Postby katy » Fri May 21, 2021 10:27 am

Breaking news. UK visitors allowed from Monday and no negative test needed.

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Re: No tourists until after summer

Postby markwilding » Fri May 21, 2021 10:40 am

More info here

https://english.elpais.com/society/2021 ... -2020.html
The article also shows a real slowdown in infections. Odd really because in my municipal, the electronic board outside my offices still show 499 infections, which would be almost 10 per cent of the whole country. I would suspect the next update will show a dramatic fall.

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Re: No tourists until after summer

Postby Enrique » Fri May 21, 2021 11:17 am

Hi,
This just popped up from Auntie.............

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57199791
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Re: No tourists until after summer

Postby Pamela1 » Fri May 21, 2021 11:21 am

They say people will not need a pcr test, nothing about a vaccine certificate.

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Re: No tourists until after summer

Postby firsttango » Fri May 21, 2021 11:24 am

Pamela1 wrote: Fri May 21, 2021 11:21 am They say people will not need a pcr test, nothing about a vaccine certificate.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -list.html

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Re: No tourists until after summer

Postby Pamela1 » Fri May 21, 2021 1:15 pm

Goodness! So whats the big deal about the Eu having vaccine certificates for their own citizens to travel within Europe if Spain is allowing a 3rd country in without the need for either a pcr test or proof of vaccine.


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