Canada to USA

[Mick S]

I’m struggling to a find a reward flight to LAS for end of June, in Club. Its a bit of a last minute work conference.

I’ve been looking at other options such as LAX, SFO, SJC, PHX, SEA and SAN but nothing suitable. I dont really want to wait until last minute and hope that something appears, although I suspect it will.

I’m considering flying to Vancouver, and then getting a the short flight over to LAS. This should be straightforward, but covid requirements add complexity. Has anyone had recent experience of something similar?

[Tariq]

Yes, I flew into Vancouver in April and then a few days later took a short flight Vancouver to Portland. Used Qured remote video testing. If you only have to be in Vegas though, personally I would avoid the complexity and just fly to somewhere in the USA directly.

[Finn]

Tariq wrote:

Yes, I flew into Vancouver in April and then a few days later took a short flight Vancouver to Portland. Used Qured remote video testing. If you only have to be in Vegas though, personally I would avoid the complexity and just fly to somewhere in the USA directly.

@tariq, did you arrange this before you left the UK? I’m travelling from LHR – YVR and then from YYC – JFK and this sounds like the optimal way of doing it.

[Andrew.]

You don’t need an ESTA or to Test to cross into the USA by land. So you could always fly into Vancouver and train/bus it to Seattle, or fly into Montreal/Toronto and take the Greyhound across the border.

[Tariq]

Yes, with retrospect we would have taken the train if we had known it was more advantageous ref testing (crossed from Niagara by train a few years ago and was a bit of a protracted process which put us off). Couldn’t get a one-way rental car from Canada to USA.

I ordered the tests from Qured a couple of weeks before we went, booked the video slots pretty much as soon as the tests arrived – quite an easy process. At the appointment time, you just click a link and wait in a queue and you seem to get allocated to the first available agent – my wife and I both got different people. Fairly straightforward process but take a permanent marker with you (you have to write a reference number and date/time on the LFT cartridge and then photo it with your passport for them to issue the certificate).

We took NHS tests as well to do a pre-test before the main event, just to be on the safe side.