Lowest cost Day 2 test

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Hi can anyone help with the lowest cost day 2 test following return to UK from France (Amber country).

I've found Randox at £43 with discount code but wasn't sure if there was anything cheaper. A lot on the gov website look like they're going to be £20 but are actually around £80.

Don't care about service or reputation as just need the code to sort the passenger location form.

What a farce this all is by the way!!

@EasterIssland, I will let you know how it goes. Dd1 and I fly back on 25th so hoping tests will be on doormat! Dh and 2dc get ferry 3 days later. Will keep posting when I have experienced it!

@PersephoneJames, I have no idea about that, sorry. Does seem like they only need it for locator forms.. It is all a big con as far as I can see. I'm just going for cheapest option! 🙄

@PersephoneJames

It’s such an embarrassing joke. I’ve just looked at what I need to go both ways (France on shuttle so not even going to be in the same room as another human as not leaving our car.)

To get into the UK my ds and the two of us need a day 2 + the adults also need a “fit to fly” antigen despite not flying….

To get back to France, nothing. As we’re vaccinated and kids are minors.

The UK won’t publish its reasonings and the guardian this morning was reporting that the travel tests were not even being sent off for sequencing. We are not even going to be there on day two but we still have to buy them. I’m glad the press seems to have started picking up on this now people are holidaying as us expats have been facing this for months.

Don't know if it's different if you started in France and you're just on holiday in England, but for us to travel to France next Saturday my 15 and 12 year old both need proof of a negative test, taken in the previous 24 hours. And I think the declaration sur honeur says they should take tests after two days in France too, although I haven't read that properly yet...

@EasterIssland we were asked to show cocid vacc proof plus the Spanish health care forms flying out from Gatwick. When we got there we were asked just to show the Spanish health care forms. On the way back in Spain when we checked in our bags she asked to see the PLF plus our negative covid tests. When we landed at Gatwick (which was quiet and normal queues ) and went to Border Control she just asked for our passports. I had the negative test results and PLF and covid vacc certificate all ready to show but she didn't ask. Then we got our bags

[quote Beebopawhop]@EasterIssland we were asked to show cocid vacc proof plus the Spanish health care forms flying out from Gatwick. When we got there we were asked just to show the Spanish health care forms. On the way back in Spain when we checked in our bags she asked to see the PLF plus our negative covid tests. When we landed at Gatwick (which was quiet and normal queues ) and went to Border Control she just asked for our passports. I had the negative test results and PLF and covid vacc certificate all ready to show but she didn't ask. Then we got our bags[/quote]
Yeah I think they only do now when boarding for uk. If you don’t have it don’t board. I’ve read people been rejected to board for Spain because of not having the form (this was Spanish people flying back with Ryanair from Italy )

Thanks @Janek this is something I need to check. I think mine don’t need to as they’re under 12? This is the French govt site. But there’s so much conflicting info out there, it’s clear as mud!

You are correct, I completely forgot that people have children of different ages to mine! Sorry.

@EasterIssland guess that makes sense? But they must have amazing communication across all the borders ...

Hope everyone has a great time wherever they are heading don't stress and enjoy !

Just to let you all know NWP were really good. We posted the tests on Friday afternoon around 530pm and then received one result (out of 4) yesterday and the other 3 this morning. All negative thankfully. But really good service!

Glad to hear that @bee

@Beebopawhop !
I might consider them then ! I think they are chaeaper than citydoc

Stressing out about the antigen tests argh shouldn’t travel :)

So I used qured and it was all ok with them but more expensive than others

Antigens were 33 which is good but you’ve to set up an appointment. For flying out not a problem. For flying back … I don’t know what time will I be at the hotel so it could be more a problem. I could set them up early morning but we’ve a child and someone needs to be with him whilst the other one does the test so it could be a 2h test process.

I thought about chronomics. Cheap 22£ and has a ba discount (I fly with ba) but seems like they’re useles. Not sending tests on time to be performed or being able to take them away with you.

C19testing seems like it’s good as well. There is no ba discount but seems like it’s approved for flying back home. It’s just £29. Just not sure whether the country I go to accepts it, I think it does. Just asked them so hoping they say yes, tho as they are approved for uk I should be fine

I know how you feel! I ordered chronomics for my dds to go the France. The website said they were despatched within 48 hours, but was given a much later despatch date once I'd ordered. I did query this with them, but the response seemed to completely misunderstand that I needed to complete them 24 hours before my outbound flight, not just stick them in my suitcase.

I'm now having conniptions that the 24h window doesn't allow any time if anything goes wrong, but they have now been despatched at least, and it says on the website that the whole process from testing to uploading photo to receiving certificate should take less than an hour.

Given my time again I would order c-19, but hopefully these will be okay. I presumed they would be because they are the official TUI provider, but perhaps this was naive!

I have googled antigen tests at East Midlands Airport as a backup...

for flying back, why do you need an appointment? I thought you could just use a LFT that you do yourself for that, so it wouldn't matter what time you get to the hotel, if you've brought them with you

@PeppermintMocha

for flying back, why do you need an appointment? I thought you could just use a LFT that you do yourself for that, so it wouldn't matter what time you get to the hotel, if you've brought them with you

Qured is via video call so you perform it in front of someone and then send the results. They check that whoever is doing it it’s actually who they say they are. But c19 or chronomics just trust you and only need the pic

Oh I see. And does the U.K. border not care whether you've done an observed one or just a DIY one on your own? It sounds much simpler to just do it on your own, but I'd worry about it not being accepted

The UK border doesn’t check anything.

Airline staff do before you get on the plane, and they obviously don’t have enough time or people to check 180 passengers’ type of test or procedure, whilst also boarding a fully booked flight in a 30 mins turnaround slot. They just want to see the QR code at the top of the PLF, they don’t check anything on it, maybe your name.

There’s no real way for the border staff to distinguish between whether you went to a lab, did a Zoom call or uploaded it yourself. If you have a fit to fly certificate signed by an approved company that is all they are checking. That’s why we did c:19. For ease, the end result is the same. It’s a government approved supplier.
I couldn’t be dealing with Zoom calls!

@EileenGC

The UK border doesn’t check anything.

Airline staff do before you get on the plane, and they obviously don’t have enough time or people to check 180 passengers’ type of test or procedure, whilst also boarding a fully booked flight in a 30 mins turnaround slot. They just want to see the QR code at the top of the PLF, they don’t check anything on it, maybe your name.

I flew back from Heraklion today and airport staff there very carefully checked the LFT fit to fly test for each person, cross referencing against our passports , as well as the PLF.

The airline also requested the name of the tester in order to access online check-in/boarding passes. No way would a self administered NHS one pass muster.

The qured one for example says it’s supervised.
Apparently USA doesn’t accept self tests (no idea only read in some reviews)
I was also reading how some people were refused boarding in Spain to Uk wirh c19 but can’t find why as uk acepts them

Btw I’ve been reading today reviews aboir c19 in trust pilot. The company got 1s because the nhs ones are free , because the people got confused and bought the wrong tests (so antigen for day 2) and were refused boarding and few stories like that and apparently this is all the companies fault :)

I’ve compared today chronomics 1 reviews and c19 ones. C19 ones were crap reasons like the above. Chronomics had a lot of tests didn’t turn up on time to take with us to the holiday or to even board out of the uk so def I’m not using them, surprised British airways recommends them (tho it’s just a discount code)

When flying to Spain I had to submit in advance all documents or they’d not let me check in so I think the airline was checking it. But as you say as long as it says negative / vaccinated / form filled which matches passport it’s enough.

I used NWP for the Day 2 tests which I bought online whilst in Greece a couple of days ago. All four tests were here when we got home today. £40pp.

Did them just now. Posting them tomorrow.

I flew back from Heraklion today and airport staff there very carefully checked the LFT fit to fly test for each person, cross referencing against our passports , as well as the PLF.

The airline also requested the name of the tester in order to access online check-in/boarding passes. No way would a self administered NHS one pass muster.

Oh yes, those definitely wouldn’t pass.

What I meant was, they don’t actually zoom in to read the sensitivity and specificity percentages, lab procedure and address of the certified provider on the testing certificate… They will check name (and the details linked to that - day of birth and ID) but won’t actually read everyone’s full A4 certificates word by word.

The UK is also one of very few countries where a test you take at home is considered valid - you could technically swab your dog, or if showing positive you could log it as negative… That’s why EU countries insist on a proper PCR/antigen certificate which is performed by another person, or at least analysed at a lab.

I’ve just seen that for the country I wanna go

Any kind of self-tests (PCR, antigen or LAMP) are not accepted.

So I take I can’t use c19 for flying out