UK-US travel, 2021/2022

[Welsh_Dragon]

Good grief. Welsh First Minister wants an eight 8!!!!! day return quarantine period.

 

[chefski]

Good grief. Welsh First Minister wants an eight 8!!!!! day return quarantine period.

Have they announced this as happening or just what they want.

 

[Welsh_Dragon]

No pre departure still booked although I have conflicting emails so called again and they are looking into it.

I couldn’t get through on the telephone so I have e mailed. To be honest I am surprised that they are refunding anything. @BanPinkTink has a convincing argument about the US not requiring quarantining on arrival, and I can’t see the US closing its borders again, so hopefully any announcement from Biden later today, will be for PCR tests. I suppose it does mean that we should be that much safer on the aeroplane.
I booked Randox on line and just used BREATHE for the discount.
@tennisfan, I had no idea that we had U.K. mods. Hurrah.

edited @BadPinkTink. Not a campaign to have her banned!

 

[Welsh_Dragon]

Have they announced this as happening or just what they want.

It’s what he wants, along with NS. They always have to participate in oneupmanship.

 

[chefski]

I couldn’t get through on the telephone so I have e mailed. To be honest I am surprised that they are refunding anything. @BanPinkTink has a convincing argument about the US not requiring quarantining on arrival, and I can’t see the US closing its borders again, so hopefully any announcement from Biden later today, will be for PCR tests. I suppose it does mean that we should be that much safer on the aeroplane.
I booked Randox on line and just used BREATHE for the discount.
@tennisfan, I had no idea that we had U.K. mods. Hurrah.

edited @BadPinkTink. Not a campaign to have her banned!

I couldn’t get through on the telephone so I have e mailed. To be honest I am surprised that they are refunding anything. @BanPinkTink has a convincing argument about the US not requiring quarantining on arrival, and I can’t see the US closing its borders again, so hopefully any announcement from Biden later today, will be for PCR tests. I suppose it does mean that we should be that much safer on the aeroplane.
I booked Randox on line and just used BREATHE for the discount.
@tennisfan, I had no idea that we had U.K. mods. Hurrah.

edited @BadPinkTink. Not a campaign to have her banned!

Ive booked click & collect as there is one quite close to me.

 

[Plague]

I also hope that it is opened up to anyone 18 or over

JCVI are recommending it ...
This just on BBC news:
All UK adults should get Covid booster, say advisers

 

[Welsh_Dragon]

JCVI are recommending it ...
This just on BBC news:
All UK adults should get Covid booster, say advisers

Be careful because I have just been notified on another thread that I have violated the disboard COVID rules, which probably means that this entire thread is a violation.

‘PLEASE review the covid discussion thread pinned at the top of this board since early June.’

 

[mamamia2005]

Waiting to see what Biden says ...

 

[Plague]

that I have violated the disboard COVID rules,

Now it's mentioned, I'd say yes.
Perhaps you should edit posts #481 & #484 to get back inside quickly

I don't think mine is political or commenting on efficacies, etc.

But yes, a timely reminder now it's all going to the dogs again.

 

[bavarian princess]

Waiting to see what Biden says ...

Any news?

Regarding the pre flight testing. Do they count the 72 hours until the departure to the US or until the arrival in the US?

 

[mamamia2005]

He didn't say a lot really. Just get vaccinated and boosted!

As far as I know its not 72 hrs exactly, its 3 days before your flight departs that you have to (currently) take a supervised lateral flow test.

 

[Plague]

Regarding the pre flight testing. Do they count the 72 hours until the departure to the US or until the arrival in the US?

Don't take this as gospel, but:
Most of the testing rules use days, not hours, with day 0 being travel day. For the USA it's "no more than 3 days before the flight’s departure from a foreign country", not 72 hours.
So you can take the test anytime on or after day 3.

Some things, the UK PLF for example, do use hours. This must be submitted no more than 48 hours before arrival in the UK, and that is tied to the scheduled landing time. You can't do it 48 hours before take-off.

 

[scottishgirl1]

Looks like I am going to have to find somewhere doing tests near Universal to get home again. Ireland want to bring in testing for everyone before they fly in. Nightmare and total change to travel on an EU digital cert

At least with the testing on arrival in UK you dont have the chance of not getting to fly home due to testing issues

 

[BadPinkTink]

Looks like I am going to have to find somewhere doing tests near Universal to get home again. Ireland want to bring in testing for everyone before they fly in. Nightmare and total change to travel on an EU digital cert

At least with the testing on arrival in UK you dont have the chance of not getting to fly home due to testing issues

I expected this months before the travel ban ended on 8th November, so I have budgeted for it and been following the Canadians here on Disboards. On the Disneyland California section here on Disboards, the Canadians have posted tons of information about testing for travel both in Anaheim and LAX and I have been following their trip reports in the Canadian section here on Disboards.

Me and mum are travelling to England for Christmas and again I expected PCR tests to return to Ireland, so again its been part of my budget and I have researched tests for travel near where my sister lives. I will be booking them this afternoon.

I am not stressed at all for either my Christmas trip to England or my end of January trip to California. Today I am booking my restaurant reservations for Disneyland.

This is what travel will be like, so thinking ahead and budgeting for PCR tests and allowing time for results and adjusting your behavior is the name of the game.

 

[itf]

This is what travel will be like, so thinking ahead and budgeting for PCR tests and allowing time for results and adjusting your behavior is the name of the game.

You're right and there's literally nothing we can do about it, but there has been a whole lot of budget goal-post shifting between testing requirements, Genie+ paid individual rides etc for our upcoming trip already!

 

[BadPinkTink]

You're right and there's literally nothing we can do about it, but there has been a whole lot of budget goal-post shifting between testing requirements, Genie+ paid individual rides etc for our upcoming trip already!

but what do people expect, its a global pandemic and we want to travel, therefore we need to take personal responsibility and be forward thinking, adaptable to change and have a back up for the back up. And unfortunately that means many people wont be able to travel like they did in 2019, thats the way the world is right now.

 

[bavarian princess]

Looks like I am going to have to find somewhere doing tests near Universal to get home again. Ireland want to bring in testing for everyone before they fly in. Nightmare and total change to travel on an EU digital cert

At least with the testing on arrival in UK you dont have the chance of not getting to fly home due to testing issues

I can feel your pain. It’s much easier to test once you are back home! A friend of mine told me there is a facility at the Orlando airport. Maybe that would be an option. Feel free to share what you come up with

 

[scottishgirl1]

I can feel your pain. It’s much easier to test once you are back home! A friend of mine told me there is a facility at the Orlando airport. Maybe that would be an option. Feel free to share what you come up with

Thanks, I had a few places noted down already to take with me in case anything happened whilst away, I think it will be airport or a place called Fasttest is very close to Universal in Courier Drive I think, also a company called Beeper MD in Florida. We have no car there and I heard there werepossible issues with no insurance for drive through at Walgreens or CVS

It is just something else to worry about with timing and whether you are getting an acceptable test and for travelling to US we have time to almost isolate so a positive test is less likely but that is certainly not the case on the way home!! Again if the test was on arrival here we could have isolated at home no problem, we have 3 weeks before University starts again and DH works from home. So potential to be stuck there really is the worst case scenario for us (other than not going at all of course!!)

 

[scottishgirl1]

Well the testing has been brought in but at least like UK there has been an inital timeframe on this requirement of two weeks from Friday, not sure if that takes it to the same time as UK 3 week review or not. Whilst this may well be extended at least vaccinated also have option of antigen as opposed to PCR. Have to take any tiny bit of potential positive news I can!!!

 

[schumigirl]

Posted on the December travel thread too.

Chronomics have emailed us with a link to upgrade our original order for 2 day return test, now going to send out PCR as required. New PLF code too.

Good communication from them and in decent time.