Canaries holiday - can't get tests

[MozzchopsThirty]

What would you do??

We're booked to go to canaries on 28th dec
We need to prove a negative covid test done 72 hours before travel

Which would be Xmas day
Boxing Day is Saturday
Nowhere is offering private tests over Xmas period
Postal tests not an option due to the Xmas post, time etc

Does anyone have any ideas on how we can do this??
TIA

[Dowser]

Haha
I don’t know why I’ve written we were there in November
When we got back just before halloween

Doh!
Brain fail!

Well it was nearly November!

[Dowser]

So, test money is now in our bank.
Time to get writing to see exactly what happened to my test so I shall be pursuing this further.
Also antigen v pcr

Do you know, it’s still unclear.
Some airlines are accepting the antigen others aren’t.
But the word from Spain is that the pcr is the one that is lawfully accepted

I was going to see about rebooking with the antigen but now I’m in a quandary about it

I think this is from Janet anscombe

• To enter the Canaries:
  YOU WILL STILL NEED A PCR NEGATIVE TEST certificate as per the Spanish BoE decree law dated 10/12/2020 www.boe.es/boe/dias/2020/12/10/pdfs/BOE-A-2020-15878.pdf
  
  
• To enter licensed tourist accommodation:
  You will still need either an antigen test or a PCR negative test certificate as per Canarian BoC decree law dated 09/12/2020 sede.gobcan.es/boc/boc-a-2020-252-4794.pdf
  
  So still lots of rumours, misinformation and conflicting advice.

[Theredjellybean]

Thank you dowser
That was kind words.

[Dowser]

So very sorry jelly red bean
You really need it
I think that’s why I’ve coped well with the disappointment, it would’ve been lovely but not desperate as we were there in November
The testing firm are refunding our money and tui will let us rebook flights and as we aren’t going we don’t have to quarantine for Christmas
Although as this government are ruling by knee jerk reaction there’s no guarantees I’d have complied anyway

[MozzchopsThirty]

Safe flight home @JudgeRindersMinder

[AnyFucker]

Very fortunate timing there

[JudgeRindersMinder]

Really sorry for the folk who won’t be able to go now😢
My flight lands at 23:30
Tomorrow night so fortunately I won’t need to quarantine

[Redcherries]

I’ve been moving the same flights for months, it’s almost like a new hobby. To be fair I’ve stopped thinking about the actual time away and now see the booking as a game. Rebooked yesterday for jan (highly unlikely). If we get the jan dates I’m likely to have been vaccinated by the time we fly if all goes well.

Sorry for your situation op.

[MozzchopsThirty]

Sorry here's the chart

[MozzchopsThirty]

Sorry to all the other posters due to travel soon this decision seems to be totally unreasonable when you look at the chart

Lots of calls for Canary Islands to be split like Greek islands were

What an utter cunt of a year

[Theredjellybean]

We were due to fly Sunday
Gutted
My dsd has spent 12 months in hospital, then lockdown, then been amazingly brave going back to school.. She was really working hard on going on a family holiday... We have had awful two years, no time away anywhere as a family, my dp and me not had time away together as one of us always with her...
And now we can't go, because her older siblings need to go to work and I am front line staff.. So I can't quarentine.
Tears all round here.
I also have yet another holiday to unpick, cancel, sit on phone for hours...

[AgentProvocateur]

This thread has been a rollercoaster. So sorry to see your latest update, OP.

[AnyFucker]

Canaries off the travel corridor. So sorry, op.

Similar happened to me in Nov. Canaries went on the travel corridor then lockdown # 2 happened. The same holiday that was rescheduled due to lockdown #1.

Third time lucky May 2021? Or not

[MozzchopsThirty]

The excitement was short lived

[Dowser]

Certainly is a d will miss seeing the English friends we meet at the same time of year from Manchester, iom and Ireland
Plus Tenerife friends

[MozzchopsThirty]

Also my favourite, I also need some sunshine and can get very depressed in the winter months.
Last years trip to fuerteventura was so good we immediately booked for this year

Just lovely to be riding bikes in shorts, stopping for tapas or a beer

[Dowser]

That should’ve read ..Sobs!
This is my favourite time of the year to go.

[Dowser]

Exactly!!

@MozzchopsThirty I’m in Tenerife just now and it’s glorious...and for anyone judging even my GO encourages me to come as I suffer terribly with depression and also SAD at this time of year

sons. We should’ve been there on Tuesday night.
All that packing and unpacking with no holiday in between.
The stress we went through was through the roof
I spent most of Tuesday sleep.

I wouldn’t care we hand delivered to the lab, followed the instructions to the letter.
As far as I can see ..the test stopped a healthy woman going on much needed sunshine break.

Tui will let us rebook and we can move our apartment date forward..everyone has helped ..except the people who caused the problem ..assured screening

[MozzchopsThirty]

@JudgeRindersMinder lucky you!!!! 😎 good weather then

I can't wait to get away, although compared to a lot of people we've been very lucky and had 3 short breaks abroad
But I am really looking forward to eating, drinking, and lying down a lot in the warm

[MozzchopsThirty]

Oh @Dowser I'm so sorry you didn't get to travel that sucks!
Not so restricted here with options for testing as can easily travel to Birmingham or London within a couple of hours

[JudgeRindersMinder]

@Dowser

As for judgey mnetters who don’t like other mnetters going on holiday T this time

We went in October to Tenerife and it was lovely
They definitely need our custom.
80 per cent of the big hotels in las americas were closed as were many bars and restaurants..but there was still plenty going on to enjoy ourselves.

I felt perfectly safe, no more at risk than here and with 36 on the plane it was like being on our own private jet

This virus is going to be around for a very long time and I’m not prepared to put what precious few years I have left on hold.
We live quietly here and quietly there and I will visit every chance I can.

If you don’t like it, you’re on the wrong thread.

Exactly!!

@MozzchopsThirty I’m in Tenerife just now and it’s glorious...and for anyone judging even my GO encourages me to come as I suffer terribly with depression and also SAD at this time of year

[Dowser]

As for judgey mnetters who don’t like other mnetters going on holiday T this time

We went in October to Tenerife and it was lovely
They definitely need our custom.
80 per cent of the big hotels in las americas were closed as were many bars and restaurants..but there was still plenty going on to enjoy ourselves.

I felt perfectly safe, no more at risk than here and with 36 on the plane it was like being on our own private jet

This virus is going to be around for a very long time and I’m not prepared to put what precious few years I have left on hold.
We live quietly here and quietly there and I will visit every chance I can.

If you don’t like it, you’re on the wrong thread.

[Dowser]

Randox use dx couriers who don’t pick up after 10 am on Saturday
Till Monday and are Northern Ireland based
We had a Tuesday flight so couldn’t use them.

[Dowser]

I’m sat at home instead of sunning myself at Tenerife as the assured screening lab in barnard castle
A took ages to process our tests
B when they did send our results at midnight, 11 hours before the flight , mine came back as no results which wasn’t even a category

We emailed the company and 58 hours later have still had no answer as to what it meant.
Nothing came through the night , so at 6-30 am cancelled the taxi

Such a rip off.
It’s really put me off rebooking

Whatever you do don’t book confirm, they are messing people about even more

[MozzchopsThirty]

Best news I've had in weeks  where were you flying @JudgeRindersMinder ??