To ask if it’s likely that Spain will abandon its covid travel rules?

[Springandsummerarecoming]

We have an unvaccinated teen who needs to have a clear pcr test before we go. With numbers going up this worries me that he’s going to be positive and we won’t get to go. Wondering whether to swap to Greece or somewhere where there are no restrictions. Hoping that Spain will drop their restrictions but I think they would’ve done so by now if they were going to.

The whole thing is an absolute farce. The amount of people I know all triple vaccinated who have it right now including one who tested positive while on holiday and flew home with it anyway. The rules make zero sense, you can still get it and pass it on whether vaccinated or not. I certainly wouldn’t vaccinate a teen just to go on holiday and I would avoid anywhere that had such stupid rules where a vaccinated covid positive person is happily waved onto a packed plane but an unvaxxed negative person has to test. Either test everyone or no one.

I am ‘fully vaccinated’ but my most recent booster was given 3 months before my 13 year old’s first and only jab so I probably have less protection than them-but I don’t need to test.

An unvaccinated 13 year old traveling from an EU country could go to Spain without testing.

As the vaccine doesn’t stop them catching it, just reduces the severity a vaccinated teen who doesn’t test is potentially less likely to to know they have it as more likely to be asymptomatic. They don’t need to test.

So, if he caught covid, you would take him to Greece or Portugal. I wonder why covid infections are rising?

I go to Spain every few weeks to see family and I always get asked for proof of vaccination AND booster on arrival. If the vaccine was over 270 days ago, they need proof you've had the booster.

No I wouldn’t! Not knowingly. But a lot of teens are asymptomatic and if you don’t need to test to get into the country yh wouldn’t know if they had it or not!

If they tighten things up, what may that entail?

I think you just need to look into getting insurance that will cover you whatever happens, OP.

I am very pro vaccination, got vaccinated at the first possible opportunity, had my booster in December. Guess what, after two and a half years of avoiding it, I now have symptomatic Covid.

I’d swap now.

Id personally have done everything I can to persuade him to be vaccinated, so I do agree with those saying choices have consequences.

My teen has had three (as have i) and my younger one has had one jab. We all had Covid back in April 2020 - myself and the teen badly (in different ways - I was very ill in bed, she had a cough for many months- Covid diagnosed by a dr not the test but likely to have been correct), and little one only had a cough. Little one (now 8) just had Covid and neither of us caught it - he has ADHD so I couldn’t really isolate from him much, not that you would really with an 8 yo anyway. I’d say the three doses were useful - for me at least.

In the same position here. Going to Majorca, I’m vaccinated but two teens aren’t. What I can’t work out is how we get and register a test or can you just do a lateral flow one and show it?

I’m not sure. Think we will go and get a pcr done and I guess they will send results through so will have something to show.

@candle18
We went in April to a country which needed fully vaccinated plus test.

We ordered LFT from Chronomics (was through TUI I think)
Test arrives a few days before you go. You register it online, do the test and upload it less than 24 hrs before arriving in the country. Get emailed a certificate which can be shown on way into the country.

The only thing that Tesco won’t cover is if Spain change their entry requirements to everyone needing to be vaccinated.

Anyone found any insurance that will cover that too?

For anyone who is interested Spain has announced no change to entry rules for unvaccinated until 15th September.

No, he got a home kit in the post and just did it at home. Got a QR and didn’t get asked to show anything in Tenerife. He has had 2 jabs just not the booster.

I understand what you are saying about anyone can do the test, but anyone that is vaccinated can have it so the whole thing is a bit crazy anyway.

Thank you for letting me know.