GREEN LIST: Malta, Madeira, Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Caribbean added

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• Tom says:

  24 Jun24 June 20:34

  I am currently in Antigua. I have a day 5 test to release booked which I will no longer need, operator says I can only get a voucher, only booked it a week ago so am I able to cancel for a full refund under distant selling regs?

  • stevenhp1987 says:

    24 Jun24 June 20:41

    This is why you should book these tests at the last minute.

    You should be able to cancel under distance selling regulations.

    Check the terms and conditions of your provider.

    • IanM says:

      24 Jun24 June 21:05

      I can’t imagine why the DSRs would apply outside the UK

      • stevenhp1987 says:

        24 Jun24 June 21:08

        I read that as a day 5 test to release for the UK.

        Depends when they bought them and where they were etc.

  • Mrs_Fussy says:

    24 Jun24 June 23:08

    Sorry cant help there Tom but just booked Antigua ( Royalton ) early July. Bit nervous as reviews are mixed. Was the immigration painful?

• Scottydogg says:

  24 Jun24 June 20:45

  What I could do with is a website that tells you which countries let you in unvaccinated , with just tests / minimal quarantine? Sure someone must have created a website that’s updated regularly.

  • H says:

    24 Jun24 June 21:21

    https://www.covidchecker.com/en/ – not sure if accurate / up to date

• Wollhouse says:

  24 Jun24 June 20:53

  I have a 241 Avios booking in sept to BKK which BA has cancelled. Having had many a call where they have so far refused to rebook me, I’ve just left the booking sitting there whilst I wait to see what happens with Samui and sandpit options. I know that legally BA has to rebook me, but I fully anticipate this being a MCOL. So, 2 questions: currently for the dates I have, BA is now showing availability using Qatar, but this transits through Doha, a red zone. I feel it is reasonable to argue that this flight doesn’t put me in the same position as ncl/lhr/bkk which is what I have w BA? Is this a “fair” argument if I end up MCOLing (is that a verb.. 😉 2) assuming bypassing a red zone is fair, am I able to pick say, KLM, as they don’t go via a red zone and/or the fact that BA’s partners are 26+ hours against competitors who are similar travel times to my original booking of approx 16 hours. What would be deemed reasonable? Can they say 30 odd hours is a reasonable replacement? Fully expecting yet another row…so just want to be prepared, thanks

  • Wollhouse says:

    24 Jun24 June 21:02

    Sorry- should perhaps be in the general thread. Will post there

• Alan S says:

  24 Jun24 June 21:04

  Ryanair very prematurely cancelled our Edinburgh to Malta flights for the 13th July. Wonder if they are regretting that now…

  • Anna says:

    24 Jun24 June 21:15

    Have you requested re-routing?

    • Alan S says:

      25 Jun25 June 06:48

      No, but I think the options from Scotland are pretty non-existent and I’ve made an assumption that Ryanair will be worse than BA when it comes to delivering on re-routing rights. Maybe that’s unfair?

  • Tracy says:

    25 Jun25 June 14:20

    I have flights booked for 3rd August with Ryanair, thinking they might be ok fingers crossed. Booked them in April hoping by August we might be allowed to go, paid peanuts so was willing to lose the money if it didn’t work out….hilton booked on points too, starting to look forward to it.

  • Tracy says:

    25 Jun25 June 14:24

    @Alan S are ryanair cancelling July flights to reinstate them at a higher price? Wouldn’t put it past them….

• patrick C says:

  24 Jun24 June 21:13

  British nonsense comtinues … month 20 now… in the meantime the lack of any measures within the UK bring the highest case rate in Europe cancelling the entire vaccination lead. At least some countries are possible now to UK travelers… though you might habe to quarantaine there now 🤔

  • Anna says:

    24 Jun24 June 21:17

    The case rate is because the UK is doing more testing and gene sequencing than anywhere else. All it means is that we know about it sooner than other countries.

    • Anna says:

      24 Jun24 June 21:31

      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/24/britain-punished-germanys-restrictions-mass-testing-strategy/

      UK is doing 10 times more testing than Germany.

      • Robin says:

        25 Jun25 June 21:01

        Suggest you watch Dr John Campbell’s analysis rather than read Torygraph propogranda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JETqBIl4mOo

    • David says:

      24 Jun24 June 22:52

      Nonsense. This country doesn’t have mandatory testing, people with symptoms are getting tested because they have symptoms.

      • Anna says:

        24 Jun24 June 23:02

        Rubbish – many cases are being picked up via surge testing and testing of school children, neither of these require people to have symptoms.

        • David says:

          24 Jun24 June 23:41

          What are your qualifications? Where did you train as a virologist or epidemiologist? Are Germany not.doing such testing where they have (much smaller) outbreaks?

        • Anna says:

          25 Jun25 June 04:12

          David it’s the scientists telling us this. You don’t need to be an epidemiologist to be able to read numbers on a chart!

      • Aaron C says:

        24 Jun24 June 23:53

        Absolute nonsense from David here. The U.K. is doing millions of tests a week. The positive rate is really very small at <1% compared to 2-3% in Germany.
        https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/positive-rate-daily-smoothed?tab=table
        David shouldn’t be allowed to spout his drivel here.

        • David says:

          24 Jun24 June 23:59

          And you think that is drivel, rather than armchair experts telling us that the UK high covid rates are only due to increased testing, and not the FACT there are higher numbers and Johnson letting in the Delta/India variant to run wild and lead to the extension of restrictions?
          Oh dear.

        • Anna says:

          25 Jun25 June 04:26

          https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104645/covid19-testing-rate-select-countries-worldwide/
          These figures aren’t compiled by armchair experts. They show very clearly that the U.K. is way ahead in terms of testing (and gene sequencing which is why so many Delta variant cases have been identified). I realise that this doesn’t fit in with your anti-government narrative though!

        • Anna says:

          25 Jun25 June 04:28

          To put it in perspective, if Spain was doing the same amount of testing, it would be recording around 30k new infections per day!

      • Rhys says:

        24 Jun24 June 23:57

        Tell that to the asymptomatic testing centre on my way to work!

      • Dave says:

        25 Jun25 June 09:04

        As somebody who works in a school, I can tell you that just this week they have ‘asked’ everyone here so over 1000 people to have a PCR test on top of the Lateral Flow tests, so yes they are mass testing people without symptoms, which is what the WHO advises against.

        Though I stopped playing this crazy game back in January. Just as you can get bad plumbers, bad mechanics and bad electricians, you can get bad scientists and bad science and you have to seriously question if bad science has happened with COVID, and its very obvious SAGE is not fit for purpose and needs a second team of scientists to question them who may have differing theories or opinions. Thats before the can of worms is opened at how bad Public Health England is as an organisation and cannot be trusted.

• mutley says:

  24 Jun24 June 21:22

  Whoever said Carrie wanted a Honeymoon in Barbados earlier on, got it spot on, no doubt the Charlatan and his latest wife will pitch there when parliament goes into recess.

  A more appropriate destination would be Saint Helena, the final destination of another height challenged, misogynistic narcissist.

  • Anna says:

    24 Jun24 June 21:30

    That was me! But will they take the nanny and little Wilf? 🤣

    • mutley says:

      24 Jun24 June 21:40

      Who knows, but I suspect next years best holiday read will be Marina Wheelers memoir of being married to Boris for 25 years, currently being written.

• YC says:

  24 Jun24 June 21:29

  How quickly did BA schedule more flights to Portugal last time round?

  • Rhys says:

    24 Jun24 June 22:25

    easyJet have just announced they are putting on an extra 50,000 seats to the Balearics and Malta from next month…

    • Keely says:

      24 Jun24 June 22:40

      I hope that’s not for the week I’ve booked!!

    • Chaz says:

      24 Jun24 June 23:51

      Good luck finding anywhere nice to stay. Malta is a tiny island and not much to choose from.

      • Rob says:

        25 Jun25 June 08:56

        Turning Left For Less just did 4 hotels in a week.

      • Keely says:

        25 Jun25 June 09:58

        Ha I was ahead of the game , already booked !

• Graeme says:

  24 Jun24 June 21:42

  From what I can find online, as a double-jabbed UK resident I’ll be able to enter Ireland without quaranting or testing after the 19th of July (as things stand, accepting they may not). Is that right, does anyone know?

  I’m struggling to find a proper answer, I’m finding more what they WON’T allow and working it out from there.

  • Nick G says:

    24 Jun24 June 22:21

    From 19 July 2021, depending on the prevailing public health situation at the time, Ireland will operate the EU Digital COVID Certificate (DCC) for travel originating within the EU/ER lm

  • Sukes says:

    24 Jun24 June 23:42

    Graeme I don’t think you will find a definitive answer because one doesn’t (yet) exist.

    EU has agreed the rules for its citizens and these will be implemented by the Irish gov from 19 Jul. But the EU continues to be in the process of figuring out the rules from entrants from ‘third countries’ which is how the UK is categorised post Brexit. This is why we have this piecemeal approach across EU currently with different Member States applying different entry requirements to Brits, & Merkel trying to get the EU to agree a single unified approach. Ireland gov say they will broadly align themselves with any single EU approach for third countries…but as yet there is none.

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