New Travel Rules
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It's just given me the confidence to book a ferry, I'm just looking now at Harwich to Hook of Holland as we speak for May/July next year. Hoping to go Holland, Germany to Austria and back via Belgium. They are all green at present but now with the latest news I can book and using Stena's Flexi fare you can cancel without penalty up to the day before.
Is freedom here at last? Well I think the time is right.
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Is freedom here at last? Well I think the time is right.
It certainly feels like it. The only negative is the potential for the new testing arrangements to mask developments concerning new variants and they will always remain a huge threat.
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Yes, this is excellent news. We are planning on going the same time as you Harry but will not book a ferry (well tunnel using my 4 times postponed Tesco vouchers booking!) until the New Year. At our ages (closer to 80 then 70
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Hi Harry, We too are looking at Harwich, possibly just one way, but a return out April back May is £154 booked with the club.
Stena Flexi is £342 for the same crossings.
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It is indeed good news and not before time. Already got some ideas for a trip away in the next couple of months. The only thing that doesn't appear clear is exactly when in October the PCR tests on return will be replaced by LF tests.
(Then again, there seem to be different rules for entry into the countries we might decide to head to as well, PCR tests before entry for some from what I can make out. But a number of travel companies are offering to provide those free of charge.)
Just Mrs M to persuade now!
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Yes it's a good step forward but I'll don't fancy the idea of travelling with a mask on and really can't wait when real normality returns. I expect 2022 to get better in these last few hurdles like masks and tests.
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Yes certainly made it easier for our return through France.
We didn't book our UK tests before coming out in the hope that things might change
Just need the Nippy one in Scotland to fall into line with the rest of UK, she's being stubborn at the moment in sticking to PCR tests.
Won't bother us coming back from this trip as we come into England but later this year we will fly back into Scotland from Lanzarote. Still plenty of time for that to change though.
Enjoying our time over here, feeling safe and normal. Next year getting planned while on this trip
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Is it really good news to allow visitors from Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan and Bangladesh to arrive in UK and only take a simple lateral flow test when they land - and which will miss a number of infections..
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But if they fail the LF test they will have to do a PCR so new variants will still be picked up.
If numbers go up rapidly in a country surely the Gov. will put them on the Red list until its known if its a new variant or just a spike due to lack of vaccination.
I know its all a risk but we have to learn to live with it at some point.
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Indeed it will! Both my sons are in occupations where regular lateral flow tests are required, and both have recently caught Covid19. The youngest started being ill about six weeks ago, and had been doing lateral flow tests every other day. A morning one was negative, an afternoon PCR test, done because he felt ill, was positive. There's no doubt he has had Covid19 and is still suffering from no sense of smell or taste and 'Covid Brain Fog'.
Same story with the eldest on Tuesday this week/ He tested negative on his Tuesday morning test, and a PCR test done Tuesday afternoon was positive. He too now has all the symptoms.Whilst I fully appreciate that people don't want to pay for tests, if you have any doubt that you might have Covid then do get an NHS PCR test early on when you first start feeling to stop you spreading it further. It is still a very nasty illness in young very, very healthy men.
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