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Bigyin wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 7:41 pm

weeksy wrote: Mon Mar 15, 2021 7:25 pm
I'm hoping it's not 10 days at home as that'd be a deal breaker for us. We could manage 5, but 10 would be a no go.

It's still not fully clear on the testing rules, especially for kids too. Both outbound and on return. That could still get very salty as it's £220*3 and £80-100*3 if it stays as currently set. That's £900 on the trip for us and I'm going to struggle to justify it.

It's all very much an unknown at this stage

Agreed, although things appear to be opening up and we have a few weeks yet before we need to pull the pin either way

On a positive note I didnt expect the Portugal "red list" pull this early in all honesty

Tricky wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:23 am Yep good news, although not counting any chickens yet until Portugal relax things for UK visitors.

And in other news we (that's me, my OH and 2xtwins here ) have just had our outbound Easyjet flights canceled - we were going out on Thursday 27th afternoon, but now there are no EZ flights that day or Friday from Gatwick now so it looks like we'll have to fly out from Luton

Tricky wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:30 am Looks like there's a decent time flight back from Faro to Luton on the Tuesday so I think we'll just switch completely to Luton, as you say, just creates hassle going in and out of different UK airports

Tricky wrote: Tue Mar 16, 2021 8:30 am Looks like there's a decent time flight back from Faro to Luton on the Tuesday so I think we'll just switch completely to Luton, as you say, just creates hassle going in and out of different UK airports

Dodgy knees wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 1:51 pm Still very much in the balance I reckon. Will we need 1 or 2 jabs to be allowed entry.?? and there's still time for it to go tits up again over there. Think we're doing well here but eu. ???

Done that for you Mr Weeks.

fil2 wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 2:06 pm

Dodgy knees wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 1:51 pm Still very much in the balance I reckon. Will we need 1 or 2 jabs to be allowed entry.?? and there's still time for it to go tits up again over there. Think we're doing well here but eu. ???

Done that for you Mr Weeks.

Jesus wept !!

indications from Europe are either vaccine passport ! or negative covid test within 72hrs !! all im saying is that it just got massively more likely now of the red list and no 10 day quarantine in hotel which is a non-starter for prolly 99%...…………...

Flights from the United Kingdom and from Brazil
All commercial or private flights between Portugal and the United Kingdom and between Portugal and Brazil are suspended. Except for the right of entry for national citizens and their families and holders of residence permits in Portugal, only on flights of a humanitarian nature for the purpose of repatriation of those citizens. These passengers will have to present, at the time of departure, proof of a RT-PCR test with a negative result, carried out within 72 hours prior to departure time. Upon arriving in the national territory, they must comply with a period of 14 days of quarantine at home, or in a place indicated by the health authorities.

Tricky wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 2:48 pm

fil2 wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 2:06 pm

Dodgy knees wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 1:51 pm Still very much in the balance I reckon. Will we need 1 or 2 jabs to be allowed entry.?? and there's still time for it to go tits up again over there. Think we're doing well here but eu. ???

Done that for you Mr Weeks.

Jesus wept !!

indications from Europe are either vaccine passport ! or negative covid test within 72hrs !! all im saying is that it just got massively more likely now of the red list and no 10 day quarantine in hotel which is a non-starter for prolly 99%...…………...

Agreed, Portugal dropping off the UK's red list is great news, but the current deal breaker is the requirement for anyone coming from UK to have to self isolate in Portugal for 14 days on landing, and we obviously need that to change.

This is still the current situation, according to visitportugal.com , last updated day before yesterday.
Fingers crossed the requirement to isolate on arrival will be relaxed after the end of this month

Flights from the United Kingdom and from Brazil
All commercial or private flights between Portugal and the United Kingdom and between Portugal and Brazil are suspended. Except for the right of entry for national citizens and their families and holders of residence permits in Portugal, only on flights of a humanitarian nature for the purpose of repatriation of those citizens. These passengers will have to present, at the time of departure, proof of a RT-PCR test with a negative result, carried out within 72 hours prior to departure time. Upon arriving in the national territory, they must comply with a period of 14 days of quarantine at home, or in a place indicated by the health authorities.

https://www.visitportugal.com/en/conten ... d-portugal

fil2 wrote: Wed Mar 17, 2021 4:40 pm
that will change I'm 100% certain !..as that pretty much wipes out tourism for Portugal.

We are waiting for the government update scheduled for 12th April before any decisions are made. The circuits will be open and ready to receive us however we will be guided by the government guidelines.



Thanks

weeksy wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 8:39 am Wow... quick reply

We are waiting for the government update scheduled for 12th April before any decisions are made. The circuits will be open and ready to receive us however we will be guided by the government guidelines.



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Bigyin wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 7:53 pm

weeksy wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 8:39 am Wow... quick reply

We are waiting for the government update scheduled for 12th April before any decisions are made. The circuits will be open and ready to receive us however we will be guided by the government guidelines.



Thanks

Pretty much what i got a few weeks ago ....they wont make any decision till then and the only way they will defer/cancel the event is if UK Gov keeps travel restrictions in place or places restrictions on return quarantine. The way PR is coming out of the foreign office at the moment seems to be a precursor for making us a closed island for a couple of months to avoid importing any foreign variants into our nice vaccination programme and putting up barriers to the Europe "third wave"