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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"No plans to go overseas this year, too much unknown and the thoughts of being on a plane at the moment with all that shared air gives me sweats "
cabin air exchanges every 2-3 minutes. Its safer than most public transport/pub/shops air |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Happy with the amber. 10 days working from home will be fine by me. "
You can bring it down to 5 days with a negative test. We are happy to travel to amber as well 
We are both fully vaccinated, can't do anymore |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My understanding is you should only travel to Amber countries for essential reasons and not for leisure.
A friend was going to go to Spain next week as thought it would be fine as you can go just Quarantine and test on return, she has now cancelled though because it is against government advise to travel to amber countries and her travel insurance would be null and void so that's something to consider. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"My understanding is you should only travel to Amber countries for essential reasons and not for leisure.
A friend was going to go to Spain next week as thought it would be fine as you can go just Quarantine and test on return, she has now cancelled though because it is against government advise to travel to amber countries and her travel insurance would be null and void so that's something to consider. "
Some companies will insure you, it's just a case of shopping around.
Its governments advise, then you are free to make your own choices |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My understanding is you should only travel to Amber countries for essential reasons and not for leisure.
A friend was going to go to Spain next week as thought it would be fine as you can go just Quarantine and test on return, she has now cancelled though because it is against government advise to travel to amber countries and her travel insurance would be null and void so that's something to consider.
Some companies will insure you, it's just a case of shopping around.
Its governments advise, then you are free to make your own choices "
You are only covered if its for essential travel and not just leisure.
You can get cover for leisure but if you need to claim because of covid so for example you test positive before your flight home you are not covered.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"My understanding is you should only travel to Amber countries for essential reasons and not for leisure.
A friend was going to go to Spain next week as thought it would be fine as you can go just Quarantine and test on return, she has now cancelled though because it is against government advise to travel to amber countries and her travel insurance would be null and void so that's something to consider.
Some companies will insure you, it's just a case of shopping around.
Its governments advise, then you are free to make your own choices
You are only covered if its for essential travel and not just leisure.
You can get cover for leisure but if you need to claim because of covid so for example you test positive before your flight home you are not covered.
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And that's the risk people are prepared to take, each to their own |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My understanding is you should only travel to Amber countries for essential reasons and not for leisure.
A friend was going to go to Spain next week as thought it would be fine as you can go just Quarantine and test on return, she has now cancelled though because it is against government advise to travel to amber countries and her travel insurance would be null and void so that's something to consider.
Some companies will insure you, it's just a case of shopping around.
Its governments advise, then you are free to make your own choices
You are only covered if its for essential travel and not just leisure.
You can get cover for leisure but if you need to claim because of covid so for example you test positive before your flight home you are not covered.
And that's the risk people are prepared to take, each to their own"
And I don't have a problem with that.
What I do have a problem is is what happened last summer.
People booked holidays knowing the risks and uncertainty then while on holiday the rules changed and they moaned and blamed the government and holiday companies who couldn't get them home. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"My understanding is you should only travel to Amber countries for essential reasons and not for leisure.
A friend was going to go to Spain next week as thought it would be fine as you can go just Quarantine and test on return, she has now cancelled though because it is against government advise to travel to amber countries and her travel insurance would be null and void so that's something to consider.
Some companies will insure you, it's just a case of shopping around.
Its governments advise, then you are free to make your own choices
You are only covered if its for essential travel and not just leisure.
You can get cover for leisure but if you need to claim because of covid so for example you test positive before your flight home you are not covered.
And that's the risk people are prepared to take, each to their own
And I don't have a problem with that.
What I do have a problem is is what happened last summer.
People booked holidays knowing the risks and uncertainty then while on holiday the rules changed and they moaned and blamed the government and holiday companies who couldn't get them home. "
A lot of people did a lot of things in our own country they shouldn't of which meant we had to go back into lockdown. People are vaccinated, tested and better prepared this time round |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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I feel only a bit for those people over in Portugal but don’t come back till after Tuesday as they will have to self quarantine and do the pcr tests…
Other than that… staycations it is! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"My understanding is you should only travel to Amber countries for essential reasons and not for leisure.
A friend was going to go to Spain next week as thought it would be fine as you can go just Quarantine and test on return, she has now cancelled though because it is against government advise to travel to amber countries and her travel insurance would be null and void so that's something to consider.
Some companies will insure you, it's just a case of shopping around.
Its governments advise, then you are free to make your own choices
You are only covered if its for essential travel and not just leisure.
You can get cover for leisure but if you need to claim because of covid so for example you test positive before your flight home you are not covered.
And that's the risk people are prepared to take, each to their own
And I don't have a problem with that.
What I do have a problem is is what happened last summer.
People booked holidays knowing the risks and uncertainty then while on holiday the rules changed and they moaned and blamed the government and holiday companies who couldn't get them home.
A lot of people did a lot of things in our own country they shouldn't of which meant we had to go back into lockdown. People are vaccinated, tested and better prepared this time round "
The reason we went back into lockdown was because of variants not because some people were braking the rules. |
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"My understanding is you should only travel to Amber countries for essential reasons and not for leisure.
A friend was going to go to Spain next week as thought it would be fine as you can go just Quarantine and test on return, she has now cancelled though because it is against government advise to travel to amber countries and her travel insurance would be null and void so that's something to consider.
Some companies will insure you, it's just a case of shopping around.
Its governments advise, then you are free to make your own choices
You are only covered if its for essential travel and not just leisure.
You can get cover for leisure but if you need to claim because of covid so for example you test positive before your flight home you are not covered.
And that's the risk people are prepared to take, each to their own"
It's a big risk. If you get ill in a foreign country and your insurance decides you're not covered, the resulting bills can bankrupt many people (talking travel insurance in general here, not just regarding covid and the last 18 months). It's not just a case of having to pay for a new air ticket, or for a few prescriptions; in some countries a heart attack or a car accident could result in bills to the tune of hundreds of thousands. However as you say, each to their own, even if it might wipe out their life savings and make their family homeless... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I feel only a bit for those people over in Portugal but don’t come back till after Tuesday as they will have to self quarantine and do the pcr tests…
Other than that… staycations it is!"
Totally agree. |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
Newcastle and Gateshead |
"My understanding is you should only travel to Amber countries for essential reasons and not for leisure.
A friend was going to go to Spain next week as thought it would be fine as you can go just Quarantine and test on return, she has now cancelled though because it is against government advise to travel to amber countries and her travel insurance would be null and void so that's something to consider.
Some companies will insure you, it's just a case of shopping around.
Its governments advise, then you are free to make your own choices "
That is the problem with amber… you feel as if you can but there is zero chance of you getting insured because you are in effect going against government advice…
That is why it needs to be either green or red.. no in between |
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By *ugby 123Couple
over a year ago
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It is best you leave your abuse away from the forum. Even if you are not brave enough to actually quote people when saying these things, you can still be banned from the forum for it |
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"I think it’s a wise and sensible decision. We can all wait a little longer until it’s safe.
It’s not safe ANYWHERE until it’s safe EVERYWHERE! "
Oooh that's a catchy slogan - can tbe Government borrow it? |
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"I think it’s a wise and sensible decision. We can all wait a little longer until it’s safe.
It’s not safe ANYWHERE until it’s safe EVERYWHERE!
Oooh that's a catchy slogan - can tbe Government borrow it?"
Sure for a fee  |
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By *ugby 123Couple
over a year ago
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It makes no difference to us OP as we are not desperate to go abroad. Plenty of places at home we can go to and we normally do anyway ( although we did have abroad booked last year that obviously got cancelled )
If we did go abroad we probably wouldn't at the moment anyway, I know we all have to get on with life, but I think the risk is too big at the moment.
Has the data changed that much since two weeks ago for Portugal? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Happy with the amber. 10 days working from home will be fine by me.
You can bring it down to 5 days with a negative test. We are happy to travel to amber as well
We are both fully vaccinated, can't do anymore "
5 days plus 48 hours test results is 7 days so only 3 days earlier than actual quarantine.
Although I just checked the .gov site and some companies do 24 hr turnaround so maybe that would be worth it.
Thank you for making me look it up again. |
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I would normally travel (a lot) for work. So I generally don't travel for holidays (I really hate airports now).
So it's actually good news for me. Keeps the company from sending me all over the place. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Let’s give up summer to save Christmas... we fell for that last year so let’s try it again
I didn’t have a summer or a Christmas last year.  "
Stayed in to save summer last March, stayed in with the autumn lockdown to save Christmas, stayed in over Christmas to save spring, stayed in spring to save summer.... and around and around we go.
Lies lies lies. Get the vaccine for holidays abroad this summer... the vaccine status has no bearing on you travelling, you can go out, but don't go out.
Last year people was allowed to travel unvaccinated with no tests. This year we've both had 2 jabs, ready to abide by the traffic light system, yet unable to travel. It was all about saving the nhs, but now about been controlled. Enough, let me off this merry go round!!! |
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"You can go to Gibraltar and cross the border, I'm not saying anyone should but it is possible"
But you would have to declare on return that you had been to Spain and would need to quarantine, unless you stayed in Gibraltar for ten days after your trip to Spain |
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"You can go to Gibraltar and cross the border, I'm not saying anyone should but it is possible
But you would have to declare on return that you had been to Spain and would need to quarantine, unless you stayed in Gibraltar for ten days after your trip to Spain "
I heard a lot of people saying last year that they'd just lie  |
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"You can go to Gibraltar and cross the border, I'm not saying anyone should but it is possible
But you would have to declare on return that you had been to Spain and would need to quarantine, unless you stayed in Gibraltar for ten days after your trip to Spain
I heard a lot of people saying last year that they'd just lie "
its not like they checked. When I flew back from Sicily last August, we were in a queue with people from Spain which had been declared a country to quarantine from ( Italy wasnt ). The airport staff were just asking us which flight we had been on and if people said from Italy they weren't checking.
They didn't even check if we had done the paperwork xx |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"You can go to Gibraltar and cross the border, I'm not saying anyone should but it is possible
But you would have to declare on return that you had been to Spain and would need to quarantine, unless you stayed in Gibraltar for ten days after your trip to Spain
I heard a lot of people saying last year that they'd just lie its not like they checked. When I flew back from Sicily last August, we were in a queue with people from Spain which had been declared a country to quarantine from ( Italy wasnt ). The airport staff were just asking us which flight we had been on and if people said from Italy they weren't checking.
They didn't even check if we had done the paperwork xx"
And people wonder why it's a 'global' pandemic |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Let’s give up summer to save Christmas... we fell for that last year so let’s try it again
I didn’t have a summer or a Christmas last year.
Stayed in to save summer last March, stayed in with the autumn lockdown to save Christmas, stayed in over Christmas to save spring, stayed in spring to save summer.... and around and around we go.
Lies lies lies. Get the vaccine for holidays abroad this summer... the vaccine status has no bearing on you travelling, you can go out, but don't go out.
Last year people was allowed to travel unvaccinated with no tests. This year we've both had 2 jabs, ready to abide by the traffic light system, yet unable to travel. It was all about saving the nhs, but now about been controlled. Enough, let me off this merry go round!!!"
The government never said get a jab to go on holiday so no lie, the government never said stay in to save summer either. |
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"You can go to Gibraltar and cross the border, I'm not saying anyone should but it is possible
But you would have to declare on return that you had been to Spain and would need to quarantine, unless you stayed in Gibraltar for ten days after your trip to Spain "
Didn't have to declare anything at the border in October, either Gibraltar or UK to be honest |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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You only have to look at how our fellow countrymen behaved in Portugal last week to see that we're not fit to be unleashed on the world. Common sense went out the window when wanderlust engaged. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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But you would have to declare on return that you had been to Spain and would need to quarantine, unless you stayed in Gibraltar for ten days after your trip to Spain
Didn't have to declare anything at the border in October, either Gibraltar or UK to be honest
It's all change now, can't even get on a flight back to the UK from an amber country without a passenger locater form. Can't get a passenger locater form without your PCR test booked. Then they'll ring you every day during your 10 day isolation period. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Let’s give up summer to save Christmas... we fell for that last year so let’s try it again
I didn’t have a summer or a Christmas last year.
Stayed in to save summer last March, stayed in with the autumn lockdown to save Christmas, stayed in over Christmas to save spring, stayed in spring to save summer.... and around and around we go.
Lies lies lies. Get the vaccine for holidays abroad this summer... the vaccine status has no bearing on you travelling, you can go out, but don't go out.
Last year people was allowed to travel unvaccinated with no tests. This year we've both had 2 jabs, ready to abide by the traffic light system, yet unable to travel. It was all about saving the nhs, but now about been controlled. Enough, let me off this merry go round!!!
The government never said get a jab to go on holiday so no lie, the government never said stay in to save summer either. "
Ok, I can see you will argue me every step, for some unknown reason. It was said last year we extend lockdown to save Christmas, that went tits up, it was said in lockdown that they would try save spring, then it was extended to summer. False hope, misleading information. It's not just holidays, people need to see family abroad, they have other business in other countries, it's made so difficult for them, its upsetting to see. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My understanding is you should only travel to Amber countries for essential reasons and not for leisure.
A friend was going to go to Spain next week as thought it would be fine as you can go just Quarantine and test on return, she has now cancelled though because it is against government advise to travel to amber countries and her travel insurance would be null and void so that's something to consider.
Some companies will insure you, it's just a case of shopping around.
Its governments advise, then you are free to make your own choices
You are only covered if its for essential travel and not just leisure.
You can get cover for leisure but if you need to claim because of covid so for example you test positive before your flight home you are not covered.
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There is travel insurance available that still covers you for leisure and covers you for any COVID related issues while away. |
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By *ik MMan
over a year ago
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"Let’s give up summer to save Christmas... we fell for that last year so let’s try it again
I didn’t have a summer or a Christmas last year.
Stayed in to save summer last March, stayed in with the autumn lockdown to save Christmas, stayed in over Christmas to save spring, stayed in spring to save summer.... and around and around we go.
Lies lies lies. Get the vaccine for holidays abroad this summer... the vaccine status has no bearing on you travelling, you can go out, but don't go out.
Last year people was allowed to travel unvaccinated with no tests. This year we've both had 2 jabs, ready to abide by the traffic light system, yet unable to travel. It was all about saving the nhs, but now about been controlled. Enough, let me off this merry go round!!!"
And some folk still think it’s about a virus / public health |
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