Here are the countries where you can travel without quarantine …. if they let you in

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• Pogonation says:

  3 Jul3 July 18:06

  Do you have a list of countries where UK citizens can visit as well (or a link to a really good website for this)? I have been following a few websites online but they don’t have much detail and a lot of the info appears to be out of date or not entirely correct.

  • Sundar says:

    3 Jul3 July 18:17

    Wikipedia ?

  • Bearded crusader says:

    3 Jul3 July 19:49

    Wanderlust does a daily update. Just google.

  • Vit says:

    3 Jul3 July 19:51

    If you meant “during and just-post covid” then would be tough finding a reliable sources which summarise all of that as each country has its own policy and indeed a very fast-evolving topic as well. Such sources might be credible today but could be out of date by next week. Suggest browsing through that particular official country website that you would like or interested to visit (i.e. visitCOUNTRY . com for example) as it is normally the most up to date one.

• Nick_C says:

  3 Jul3 July 18:07

  “These rules only apply for residents of England. If you live in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland different rules will apply, and are likely to be more stringent. This means that you may prefer to fly from an English airport.”

  It doesn’t matter which airport you use. Currently, if a Scottish resident decides to have a holiday in Spain, flying from and returning to a London airport, they must go into quarantine once they return to Scotland.

  • Darren says:

    3 Jul3 July 18:28

    and if they don’t?

    Not condoning it at all, just wondered what the implications are of not following the rules.

    • Nick_C says:

      3 Jul3 July 18:37

      A Police Constable may tell you to go home,or take you home, or take you to a hotel or quarantine centre, using reasonable force if necessary.

      And if prosecuted and convicted, you could be fined up to £5000

      http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2020/169

      • Darren says:

        3 Jul3 July 18:43

        Thanks.

        my next flights (which are due a cancellation any time soon) are the other way round, EDI and back into England.

    • Bagoly says:

      4 Jul4 July 13:16

      Other countries have shown that it can be done.
      E.g. In Poland the police turn up unannounced (in uniform, but in an unmarked car) every two or three days and call your mobile to tell you to present yourself outside the house (nearly all houses in villages have doors only at the back) so they can see you.
      Our neighbour got ticked off for coming outside first time without wearing a mask!

  • Sharron says:

    4 Jul4 July 05:58

    Absolutely rught this article needs a correction. You can fly out from airports in Scotland no problem. The main difference would be at present you would have to quarantine on return.

    Personally I think Sturgeon is a bit of a ditherer and the devolved administrationa need to get on board with this and hell save jobs.

• Jon says:

  3 Jul3 July 18:07

  I’m pretty annoyed with BA related to this. I booked CW reward flights to St Lucia early June anticipating this and they cancelled them a few days ago only to reinstate them on different days a few days later. Of course I’ve lost my cracking deal to St Lucia now.

  • Marcw says:

    3 Jul3 July 18:38

    Does st lucia allow visitors?

    • Anna says:

      3 Jul3 July 19:12

      Yes, opened in June but with social distancing and masks etc. But I don’t understand why Jon can’t still go? Unless he means he cancelled his accommodation as well? (Though I imagine there are still good deals to be had as a lot of people won’t be travelling and summer is low season in the Caribbean).

      • Jon says:

        3 Jul3 July 22:02

        I can technically still go but there are no reward flights.

        One reason I picked St Lucia was their Covid policy is you must have a test within 48 hours departure which struck me as very sensible and would mean you were on a plane full of people who had recently tested negative.

        • pauldb says:

          4 Jul4 July 06:48

          Did you accept a refund – was there any rush to do so. BA will , or would have, put you on alternative flights.

    • Jon says:

      3 Jul3 July 22:03

      Ver6 much so. Just need a Covid test 48 hours before departure.

  • jc says:

    3 Jul3 July 23:21

    Have you explicitly accepted a refund? If not you’re legally entitled to choose rerouting onto the replacement flight instead (per EC261 Article 8 Section 1, from memory)

• Rosie Bailey says:

  3 Jul3 July 18:53

  We are travelling to our holiday home in Spain but fly to Faro. We will be in Portugal for about an hour. Is there anything we can do to avoid the quarantine? This seems ridiculous.

  • Nick_C says:

    3 Jul3 July 19:02

    As things stand at present, if you return from Spain via Faro you will be required to quarantine once back home. But expect this list to reviewed regularly. Portugal may be on the list by the time you return. But equally, Spain could drop off it if there is a second wave there. Nothing is certain, and you are taking a risk.

  • Nick says:

    4 Jul4 July 06:19

    Avoiding the quarantine is easy. Just fill in the form, go home and carry on as normal. The chances of being contacted are very slim and they only have the mobile number that you give them. You are of course allowed out to get food and for medical reasons so if they phone just confirm that you’re at home and if by some miracle they arrive at your home when you’re out for one of the essential reasons then you will be fine.

• Alex says:

  3 Jul3 July 19:06

  A lot of work but I wish one of these write ups included whether 14 day quarantine is required on arrival at each of the countries. Seems like something someone would want to know yet no one really covers it other than a few European countries.

  • Anna says:

    3 Jul3 July 19:15

    It can change at any time! You need to check with the official guidance from each country, but as it CAN change at any moment, travelling anywhere is risky.

    • Alex says:

      3 Jul3 July 20:02

      I agree. I would just find an article more informative with such information despite needing to be regularly updated.

  • jc says:

    3 Jul3 July 23:23

    This article links to a Wanderlust article which spells this out in detail for each destination

• Wally1976 says:

  3 Jul3 July 19:23

  Initially delighted to see we can go on our planned trip to Turkey. However, I see that the region we’re due to visit (Icmeler in the Mugla region) is on a list where you have to wear a mask whenever you’re ‘outside the home’. If this means we need to wear a mask round the pool in 35C temperatures I might give it a miss (actually, my wife would definitely say we should give it a miss!).

• Doug says:

  3 Jul3 July 20:12

  Flying back to the UK tomorrow after 3 weeks hols in Portugal, it was completely empty and we had every single tourist attractions to ourselves =) Now I noticed that gov UK website was updated so we can’t go to supermarket during our upcoming quarentine… Bizarre as we don’t know anyone locally that will shop grocery for us and all laots are taken for this Sunday.

  • Rob says:

    3 Jul3 July 20:24

    You can go shopping if you don’t have anyone to go for you.

    No-one has actually been fined for skipping quarantine. A small % are rung up and asked if they are at home. If you say ‘Yes’ then you’re sorted.

    • Jeff 99 says:

      3 Jul3 July 23:23

      Yep. Not sure why so many people are bothered about if they “have to” quarantine. It’s a complete farce.

      • jc says:

        3 Jul3 July 23:25

        Because some people keep the law for reasons other than whether they’d get caught?

        • Jeff 99 says:

          4 Jul4 July 07:39

          Just to be clear. I wasn’t saying that people shouldn’t quarantine.

          I don’t see why someone would be that bothered about it. It’s not exactly a difficult thing to do unless you’re a weak/pathetic snowflake who can’t handle a couple of weeks in the house.

          The farcical element is that the “law” is essentially not enforced. There’s no check of name and address and if someone calls you up on your mobile whilst you’re on the golf course you can just say you’re at home.

      • Nick_C says:

        4 Jul4 July 00:27

        Yeah. We are down to 36000 deaths a year now. And it’s mainly old and sick people dying. Nothing to worry about. Unless you work in hospitality, travel, the arts etc.

        • Rob says:

          4 Jul4 July 09:06

          Scotland is now on negative excess deaths. We could see fewer UK deaths this year than usual, oddly, especially if everyone gets a flu vaccine, which would be a bit bizarre but looking possible.

        • Jeff 99 says:

          4 Jul4 July 09:19

          “ We could see fewer UK deaths this year than usual”

          Do you think there’ll be over 60k fewer deaths than usual in the second half of the year to offset the first half?

          Lol

          (I’m not saying there’ll be more or less by the way as I don’t know. I’m just not pretending to be an expert at predicting deaths).

        • Rob says:

          4 Jul4 July 10:32

          It’s already happening in Scotland – into negative excess deaths and every week it chips into the extra ones from March to May.

          I accept that it would need virtually zero deaths from ‘normal’ Winter flu to be sure you’d net out coronavirus deaths, but if there is compulsory vaccination as is being discussed and distancing it may happen.

        • Jeff 99 says:

          4 Jul4 July 12:05

          Scotland accounts for less than 10% of the U.K. population. It’s irrelevant as far as making such predictions about the entire U.K. is concerned.

          Zero people dying from flu in the winter/thinking everyone will get vaccinated (5G conspiracy theories anyone?).

          Good one.

  • P says:

    4 Jul4 July 09:50

    Maybe wear a mask though if you can get one given supposed to be quarantined and nobody knows if they happen to be asymptomatic unless tested.

• MT says:

  3 Jul3 July 23:35

  Interesting the Maldives didn’t make it!

  • JP_MCO says:

    4 Jul4 July 06:51

    That’s what I was thinking! Would have seemed like the ideal destination.

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