If you've been to the Balearic Islands in the last month can I ask you some questions?

[RollerSkating]

We are going in a week (unless the gov turns them red on Thursday). I'm a slightly anxious person and just wanted to ask a few things to anyone who's there now or just come back, so I'm prepared.

• did you just need your vaccination pass on the NHS app or gave you also required paper evidence? (If so how did you obtain that?)

• what was it like at the airport? (UK and Spain) I'm imagining chaos??

• what's it like out there in terms of Covid restrictions. Do you have to book everything or can you walk up eg restaurants / beaches?

• how did you find arranging your pcr tests? It's Amber right now, so we do one test 3 days before w me come home and another at home, right?

• did anyone ask to see these results? How did you present them?

Thank you!

[Augtwo]

@cptartapp

Sorry to hijack but another query. If a person is vaccinated say 12 days before travel to an amber country for a week, the fourteen days will have passed by the time they return. So for testing purposes, they would then be classed as fully vaccinated and only do the day 2 test??

I don't think so. Because surely you need to prove your double vaccinated in the airport and it states 14 days. The dates would be on your app or letter

[cptartapp]

So you have a second vaccine on 7th August. Fly back from holiday on 23rd August. Fully covered by 21st August just prior to return.
If your contact on the plane was on the flight back on 23rd you wouldn't need to self isolate if another passenger tested positive.
But you wouldn't have been fully covered for the full duration of your holiday so could have caught Covid prior to the 21st whilst away?
Confusing.

[JosephineDeBeauharnais]

@cptartapp

josephine even for the double vaccinated and under 18's, from 16th August I thought these close contacts don't self isolate. Presuming it will apply to air travel?

I’m assuming nothing. I’d have to see that explicitly stated before I’d believe it. We have tentative plans to go again in September but we won’t if there’s any risk of having to quarantine.

[TigsytheTiger]

With the Spanish form, can you do one family/group form or is it one each?

It says one each but then offer you the opportunity to do a family form. It's just DP and I travelling.

[JosephineDeBeauharnais]

@TigsytheTiger

With the Spanish form, can you do one family/group form or is it one each?

It says one each but then offer you the opportunity to do a family form. It's just DP and I travelling.

We did one form each - there was no other option (couple).

[happytoday73]

You can do a family form if same address.... It lets you add people once completed your details

[happytoday73]

It's faster to do as one family and my parents and friends had no issues with 2 adults at same address

[TigsytheTiger]

Thanks @happytoday73 that's what I understand, so one form for two people living at the same address and one QR code to cover us both?

[Passthecontrol]

You then take a pic of result and upload it to the link they give you and then then email your fit to fly certificate v quickly.

How on earth will they know who's test is it, couldn't it just be a photo of any negative test?

The question about the double vaccinated, they still have to isolate until a negative pcr I believe or if symptoms are present, obviously.

[serenenadine]

I have just returned from Ibiza.
Nothing checked in uk departures.
Only passenger locator QR code scanned in arrivals at Ibiza.
Unnecessarily paid £125 each for PCR test 72 hours before departure when you can take £35 antigen tests out with you and have online verification and fit to fly certificate with a £35 antigen test.
No checks whatsoever flying out of Ibiza airport.
2 day PCR TEST FOR £99. Result took 8 days to return
Got pinged on the flight home and had to self isolate.

[alh26]

@Passthecontrol well there is a unique ID on each test linked to the person who ordered. Most test providers make you do it over a zoom call to oversee you taking it but some don't:/

[ArabellaPilkington]

@RollerSkating

We are going in a week (unless the gov turns them red on Thursday). I'm a slightly anxious person and just wanted to ask a few things to anyone who's there now or just come back, so I'm prepared.

• did you just need your vaccination pass on the NHS app or gave you also required paper evidence? (If so how did you obtain that?)

• what was it like at the airport? (UK and Spain) I'm imagining chaos??

• what's it like out there in terms of Covid restrictions. Do you have to book everything or can you walk up eg restaurants / beaches?

• how did you find arranging your pcr tests? It's Amber right now, so we do one test 3 days before w me come home and another at home, right?

• did anyone ask to see these results? How did you present them?

Thank you!

1. If you're in England you can just use the NHS pass on the app but I printed it out as it's easier to present quickly than the app, especially when juggling passports boarding passes etc
   
2. Gatwick and Palma not chaotic at all. Gatwick quiet - Palma busy but very well staffed and all v efficient
   
3. Masks required indoors eg shops hotel lobby but not whilst eating at table - booking normal ie the best places get full so book but most places not necessary
   
4. Return tests both arranged whilst we were there. Easy to find local place offering LFT 2 days before foe flat fee of €30. Booked PCR online for Day2. (Although we did it Day 1, as long as you do it by Day2 it's fine
   

1. No one checked anything when we landed at Gatwick !!

[happytoday73]

@TigsytheTiger....you will get a form for each member of the 'family' with qr code on... We printed everything off... They scanned them at the airport in Spain but didn't ask to see proof of vaccine or negative results.

The email address we used then got a welcome to Spain email... And what to do if got covid symptoms...

[ineedaholidayandwine]

It’s the whole plane. We asked TnT that and I also asked a pal who’s a pilot with one of the holiday companies.

Shit :-( that's us not going then. Due to work we can't get time off until later in Aug meaning if we got T&T she'd miss the start of school

[JosephineDeBeauharnais]

@ineedaholidayandwine

It’s the whole plane. We asked TnT that and I also asked a pal who’s a pilot with one of the holiday companies.

Shit :-( that's us not going then. Due to work we can't get time off until later in Aug meaning if we got T&T she'd miss the start of school

But don’t the rules change on 16th?

[alh26]

@ineedaholidayandwine

From 16th august contacts of positive cases don't need to isolate of they are double vaccinated

[ineedaholidayandwine]

Thank you @alh26 so if someone on the plane tests positive the rest of us don't have to isolate? We are both double jabbed

[alh26]

@ineedaholidayandwine so yes those are the rules coming into force in the UK - you can read about it here www.gov.uk/government/news/self-isolation-to-be-eased-for-fully-vaccinated-adults-in-step-4

It doesn't mention that this excludes air travel so I am assuming it means you wouldn't be contacted if there was a positive case on the plane

[ineedaholidayandwine]

Thank you!
Anyone know if you get contacted if there is a positive case on the flight to destination??

[JosephineDeBeauharnais]

[quote alh26]@ineedaholidayandwine so yes those are the rules coming into force in the UK - you can read about it here www.gov.uk/government/news/self-isolation-to-be-eased-for-fully-vaccinated-adults-in-step-4

It doesn't mention that this excludes air travel so I am assuming it means you wouldn't be contacted if there was a positive case on the plane[/quote]
I’m not assuming that, I’m going to try to find a definitive answer.

[Rollergirl11]

@JosephineDeBeauharnais please update here if you manage to find!

[Annexlife]

As per my comments in another thread, we are in the Balearics right now and would urge anyone travelling here to think through how they would manage if they test positive before their return to the UK. I know lots of people who have caught very mild covid and were double vaccinated. As you have to be tested before you get on your flight this can and is catching many people out with tales of nightmare stays in covid hotels

[isitspringyet]

We booked an antigen test & PCR with Wren Healthcare they came top for reviews in an article in the Guardian. Our son had COVID earlier this year and was quite stressful anticipating the result as can test positive for 90 days due to virus shedding. I see Grant Snaps advises for a pcr to return.. even tho a day two test on returning tests for variants?

[JosephineDeBeauharnais]

[quote Rollergirl11]@JosephineDeBeauharnais please update here if you manage to find![/quote]
Will do!

[littlequestion]

Has anyone actually tested positive while on holiday there? What happens if you do - are you sent to quarantine hotels?