Info about our recent trip to Spain regarding vaccination certificates etc.

Jilly47 wrote on Tue Aug 24, 2021 2:57pm:

Thank you this was so good to read and I understood it to. So you took your test fit to fly with you, but when did you Book your 2day test with and when , did you print off your forms? Get so confused! But looks quite easy really thank jill

Jilly47 wrote on Tue Aug 24, 2021 2:57pm:

Thank you this was so good to read and I understood it to. So you took your test fit to fly with you, but when did you Book your 2day test with and when , did you print off your forms? Get so confused! But looks quite easy really thank jill

KazG wrote on Tue Aug 24, 2021 3:05pm:

We had our test done in Almoradi (myself and my husband) which cost €40 but my daughter brought her fit-to-fly home test with her and had took take a photo of test result. This was £30.

We printed all our documents off to make things easier. We booked our day 2 test before we came home and had evidence of this but no one checked it. I’m still waiting for my day 2 test and it’s day 2 and DPD don’t have it yet so it won’t arrive on time so I wouldn’t recommend that compa...

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...ny. It’s confusing but still worth it to get out there. 

erniemossity wrote on Tue Aug 24, 2021 4:39pm:

The Day2 testing back in the UK is a complete farce tbh. Out of 6 of us who travelled, 2 have still not received their test kit (we arrived home on 14th August), and 3of us didn’t receive our test results until 8 days after! I know the UK govt have just said they are gonna review their recommen...

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...ded companies, but the whole thing is just tin pot. I for one will just take the free NHS lateral flow tests in future and argue the toss if I get called. Don’t know how closely the govt passenger locator forms are checked, but I’ll try reusing on old reference number and claim a typo.

KazG wrote on Tue Aug 24, 2021 11:38am:

Hi, just wanted to shed a positive light on our recent trip to Algorfa. We’re all fully vaccinated so we printed off those details (which were sent on request from the NHS app). We filled in the passenger locator forms and also printed those out. We flew with Wizzair from Doncaster without any ...

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...problems. On arrival to Alicante it was very well organised with desks set up to check your documents. 

We had our ‘fit-to-fly’ test to fly home in Almoradi the day before we flew home and had this documentation, along with our passenger location form and evidence of the booking of our day 2 tests for UK. We checked in at the desk and our ‘fit-to-fly’ test result was checked. Flight home was fine. On arrival to Doncaster airport none of our information was checked. We’re now on day 2 and are waiting for our test to arrive 🤞

Also, I don’t think many are aware that you can take your ‘fit-to-fly’ test with you, do the test and take a photograph of the result, which is then checked at the airport. This is easier than having to go to the chemist in Spain and also cheaper. I think the company is C19 testing and the tests are about £30.

There seems to be a lot of confusion about which tests etc are needed to hope this helps. 
Obviously travelling with children or for anyone unvaccinated this will be different to my experience. 

erniemossity wrote on Tue Aug 24, 2021 4:39pm:

The Day2 testing back in the UK is a complete farce tbh. Out of 6 of us who travelled, 2 have still not received their test kit (we arrived home on 14th August), and 3of us didn’t receive our test results until 8 days after! I know the UK govt have just said they are gonna review their recommen...

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...ded companies, but the whole thing is just tin pot. I for one will just take the free NHS lateral flow tests in future and argue the toss if I get called. Don’t know how closely the govt passenger locator forms are checked, but I’ll try reusing on old reference number and claim a typo.

erniemossity wrote on Tue Aug 24, 2021 4:39pm:

The Day2 testing back in the UK is a complete farce tbh. Out of 6 of us who travelled, 2 have still not received their test kit (we arrived home on 14th August), and 3of us didn’t receive our test results until 8 days after! I know the UK govt have just said they are gonna review their recommen...

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...ded companies, but the whole thing is just tin pot. I for one will just take the free NHS lateral flow tests in future and argue the toss if I get called. Don’t know how closely the govt passenger locator forms are checked, but I’ll try reusing on old reference number and claim a typo.

Graham c wrote on Wed Aug 25, 2021 9:03am:

Excuse my ignorance but when you mention taking the free LFT and using an old ref number, how would that work?

I heard someone mention they used their Sons code for the Locator form(he had been out a couple of weeks earlier) and was never questioned, are you talking about the same.

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Seems the right thing to do if you can get away with it.