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

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• Gaetano Ferrante says:

  4 Jul4 July 08:45

  So I can to travel to Rome in Italy and not have to quartine on my return to the UK. But the Foreign office advises against travel to Vatican City?

• Andrew says:

  4 Jul4 July 09:28

  £480 fine.

  £5,000 is only if you are a persistent offender, get reported to the procurator fiscal for potential prosecution, and are fined by the courts the maximum £5,000

  I doubt if there’s going to be much opportunity to persistently travel abroad without quarantining.

  • Jamie says:

    4 Jul4 July 10:11

    I guess my point was it would be against the rules. I hope people don’t read this article and think it’s ok to just fly back to Newcastle and head up the road and carry on as normal as it wouldn’t be right. Sounds like the SG are going to assess the list from a public health perspective – who knows what Boris did…

• Stuart says:

  4 Jul4 July 09:42

  Where is the source for this statement in the article –
  if you have previously returned from a country on the list below, you can end your quarantine on 10th July

  I’m in Spain due to fly back on Monday but when the government said restrictions lifted from 10th July I bought a second flight for Friday but would prefer to go home on Monday and self isolate til Friday.

  • Simon Cross says:

    4 Jul4 July 09:51

    I have read it on one of the gov website links – I forget which one but it is definitely correct.

• YKW says:

  4 Jul4 July 10:03

  Hello. I’m due to take an easyJet fight at the end of July. As the guidance hasn’t changed does this mean easyJet will refund my flight?

  • Travel Strong says:

    4 Jul4 July 11:14

    No, not unless they cancel it. If you don’t want to wait and see if that happens, they will usually have options for fee free changes or vouchers though. See easyjet website for your options.

    • YKW says:

      4 Jul4 July 13:33

      Thank you for the reply – I thought if the FCO advise against all but essential travel then I would get a refund?

      • Joseph Heenan says:

        4 Jul4 July 13:45

        Only from your travel insurance , if covered

• Tom says:

  4 Jul4 July 10:22

  It all seems arbitrary, Estonia has one of the lowest active cases and numbers per 100k in Europe, but it is not on the list, why? No idea

  • James Vickers says:

    4 Jul4 July 10:39

    Think they still require quarantine on arrival though with exemptions? If you are exempt though you can go there..

  • Julian says:

    4 Jul4 July 13:05

    I think the mentality in Estonia is the same as in Australia and NZ. Namely we are a long way from any major centres of COVID and haven’t got a big problem with it so keep the foreigners out in case they bring it here.

    By contrast somewhat culturally xenophobic countries like Spain can’t afford to take this little islander approach for long because far too much of their economy is reliant on tourism………..

    • Jeff 99 says:

      4 Jul4 July 13:29

      I’m surprised Spain have let Brits in though. We obviously account for a big chunk of tourist spend but if we weren’t allowed in then they might have an increase in numbers from domestic tourists or tourists from other countries.

      There’s surely people who don’t go to some of the islands in Spain because they don’t want to be surrounded by 18-30 holiday lowlifes from England urinating in water fountains.

      Ibiza, for example could reinvent itself as a designation for non-idiots now that clubs will be shut for the rest of the year (I’ve not been but apparently it’s actually quite a picturesque place).

      • TGLoyalty says:

        4 Jul4 July 13:32

        There is a lot more to the island than San Antonio and Playa d’en bossa even when the clubs are open but most likely have to put up with the 18-30 crowd on the flight still.

        • Jeff 99 says:

          4 Jul4 July 13:47

          “ There is a lot more to the island than San Antonio and Playa d’en bossa”

          Fair enough but many people who don’t know this will assume the worst based on what they’ve seen on tv (who remembers Ibiza uncovered on sky one in the 90s 🤯) and heard from others so they won’t want to go there.

      • Julian says:

        4 Jul4 July 14:53

        Jeff99,

        You are living back in the Ibiza and Mallorca of the 1990s in your head and the places just aren’t like that now.

        The reason is that the introduction of the Euro caused huge inflation in prices of things involving labour like restaurants and hotel rooms with the net result that the young lout classes (AKA Club 18-30) found it was no longer cheap enough and so moved on to Bulgaria, Turkey and elsewhere.

        Even Magalluf as the old epicentre of trouble and drunken-ness and falling off balconies is way quieter and the only time of the year in any way reminiscent of the old days is May and very early June but there still isn’t the same trouble as its still too expensive for the super yobs and the Spanish Police tend to crack down on troublemakers a lot harder than they did 20 or so years ago.

        • Harry T says:

          5 Jul5 July 01:17

          Is there a special club for people aged 18-30 who despise the kind of 18-30 year olds who go partying in Ibiza? If so, consider me a committed member. I can’t stand that crowd, and the other forms of British tourists who behave poorly abroad and make no attempt to experience or respect other cultures.

        • pauldb says:

          5 Jul5 July 09:50

          You just need to have a bit more imagination than those you are trying to avoid. In the Med, assuming you still want to be by the sea, I can recommend Corsica and Montenegro with very few Brits, and yes Ibiza at quieter times.

      • Erico1875 says:

        5 Jul5 July 20:37

        Theres just as many 18 -30 germans and Dutch urinating in fountains in Arenal
        and Playa de Palma. – resorts Brits don’t generally go to.
        I’ve also seen Danes, Dutch and Italians behaving badly on the Venecian Riviera

  • Attila says:

    4 Jul4 July 17:03

    Same with Slovakia!

• TGLoyalty says:

  4 Jul4 July 10:31

  Just because people can come here from
  There doesn’t mean more people from
  Here should be travelling there

  I also suspect the FCO advice may be staying due to the fact they are tiny nations without easy access to medical care.

  • Lady London says:

    4 Jul4 July 13:33

    +1

• Jeff 99 says:

  4 Jul4 July 10:38

  “ I am planning to escape the UK lockdown”

  What lockdown? Pretty much everything is open now?

• Ian says:

  4 Jul4 July 10:57

  Yes, the whole long sad story has been one of total chaos. Just bear in mind that you are not (with few exceptions) allowed into Thailand yet.

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