2021 Travel Plans
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I have recently amended my crossings with BF to fit in with the 90/180 day requirements. My original booking was made back in late 2019, a flexi ticket, and has been moved several times but when I tried to change it again using the on-line system, the response was "cannot do it online, contact by phone". I rang BF and a very helpful lady did the changes and explained that the 12 month rule has been dropped at present but the on-line system doesn't yet handle the change. Whether we can actually get to Spain in 3 months time remains to be seen otherwise the flexi ticket will be flexed again.
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Speak to them. We had a standard single ticket booked Feb 2020 for travel March 2020, which I moved to late August 2020. When we were unable to travel then, I feared I would lose it, but rang and it was then extended by a further year to travel within 2 years. Hope this helps
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No Rufs, its the T&Cs for the Eurotunnel.
I may be wrong but I think that BF take the 12mth date from the date you were originally due to travel. Where as the Eurotunnel take the date from the date you made the booking. That's what the C&MC have said.
We have a booking with BF for April 21st to Bilbao, doubt it will happen and even if is possible we won't be going, as we won't have had our 2nd vaccine by then, so going to move it to the end of the year more than likely.
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Does anyone know if there is a time limit for using vouchers from Tesco to buy a ticket for the tunnel? We have some vouchers approaching use by date and thinking of using them to get said ticket but don't want to buy the ticket until we're sure when we're going.
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I can read your question one of two ways, that both basically have the same answer.
Have you surrendered the vouchers you get by post/e-mail every three months from Tesco for a tunnel voucher. If this is the case then phone Tesco Clubcard up and they should be able to refund the vouchers back into your account to be surrendered at a later date.
Likewise if you have not exchanged them and they are near the use by date then contact Tesco Clubcard. We had this issue and I explained to them the vouchers I would normally use for 2021 crossing I would not need until 2022 as I had credit notes from 2020 crossings due to CV19. No problem. They cancelled the vouchers in question and have re-issued with a new extended date. This re-date option was mentioned somewhere in thee small print on there website.
Colin
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Always do it direct as no charge for altering.
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Thanks for replying, we would normally do it direct but the C&MC had a better price and an offer of no charge for amendments.
Will contact the club if it looks like we still can't go, no point at the moment as no one can say one way or the other. I know the tunnel have been saying they are really struggling with costs at the moment.
Saga have said they are starting up their cruises again in May and June but only to those who have had the vaccine. Wonder how we are supposed to prove that.
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Saga have said they are starting up their cruises again in May and June but only to those who have had the vaccine. Wonder how we are supposed to prove that.
check out the below, in the good old days when i did a lot of travelling i simply had a medical card that i took along to a clinic where I was to be vaccinated, they stamped it, and i showed it with my passport at passport control, in those days we had to pay for most vaccines you needed for foreign countries
www.digitalhealth.net/2021/01/live-testing-of-digital-covid-19-immunity-passport-launched
But if you have got France or Spain on your radar anytime before May/June, think carefully in both cases the new variant of covid-19(UK) is on the rampage.
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this could put a damper on things
"EU leaders will hold talks on Thursday to discuss ways to limit the spread of new Covid-19 variants throughout Europe. One proposal that will be considered is a complete ban on passenger traffic between non-EU countries - including the UK - and the EU for limited periods.
Under a proposal put forward by Germany, the EU would be allowed to halt passenger traffic from "third-countries" where the virus variants are prevalent in order to protect public health."0 -
I have a vaccination booklet which I used when working and they will always enter new vaccines if asked. Sometimes they produce a printed slip and staple it in. My wife has similar.
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Some places in England are not giving the cards out JV, and none of them in Scotland at all.
No doubt your GP could be persuaded for a fee to confirm it. I do seem to remember when we had the Yellow Fever, Cholera and Hepatitis for Africa we had a card marked for each but dont recall anyone looking at it.
Yes I suppose the GP could do a letter at a cost but why should we have to, the DRs are busy enough without hundreds of folk asking for proof. It should have been thought about by the Government. As it happens we do both have our Vaccination Medical cards, had to have them in the forces.
What about those who haven't had the vaccine, there will be lots of the younger folk wanting to go away but nowhere near due to have one.
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All very efficient here in rural Cornwall.
A number of scattered GP practices have pooled resources and shared their staff and are running a vaccination hub at a central point in the area. We were phoned and offered a fixed time appointment to go there, and afterwards were given a card saying which vaccine we had been given (super cool Pfizer), plus when, where, batch number etc. - and told to bring it with us when we got the next phone call to come back for the second shot.
No problems here.
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Lucky you
The Scottish FM, will just not accept that the vaccines are not getting to some of the GPs. She got a hard time in Holyrood yesterday, why do politicians never give a straight answer
Our GP is all set up and ready to go but can't arrange the next batch of appointments as they don't know when they will get anymore vaccine.
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That's exactly the same up here in S.Cumbria. Just waiting now for the second phone call.
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We get our first dose today and the second is promised for the 11th April. My current thinking is even if this all goes to plan and we have a good immunity by the end of April, I think the world has to settle down a bit before we make any plans to leave the country. The exception might be a cruise booking carried over from 2020 to 2021. If it goes ahead I suspect, like Saga are doing, unless you can produce evidence of having been vaccinated you will not be allowed to go. I still have a few months to consider the options without losing too much money.
peedee
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+1 PD, the World does need to settle. The facts from the WHO is-‘until everyone is safe(vax’d) no one is safe’. It’s just common sense & logic, I too will not venture overseas.
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For us, once vaccinated, it will be about perceived risk and what hurdles are put in the way by France. If we are going to wait until the French are vaccinated we will never go. Surveys show they have the lowest rate in Europe of folk wanting to be vaccinated at only 40%. We have until we go in September to make up our minds, or move the flexi BF booking to 2022.
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Yes the same for me too regarding travelling.
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I think France and Spain are a big concern right now
"OVIEDO, Spain
For the second day in a row, Spain broke its record for daily coronavirus contagion, with the Health Ministry reporting 44,357 new infections."
"On Thursday, the government released a statement saying 157 cases of the British variant have been detected in Spain and that the risk of it spreading "is very high"
and now their hospitals are overflowing, my daughters school is still open but she thinks they will close today she lives near Torrevieja
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anything else is not in her blinkered vision
