Any unvaxxed gone to Spain recently?

[Gooose]

I’m trying to get me head around the entry requirements and I’m struggling to get and absolute answer really.

The gov website say you can do a rapid antigen test no more than 24 hours before departure. So I have to buy one of these and do it home? Does Spain accept a home test? A rapid antigen site that sells them say that the canary’s accept them but further down they say only countries that accept non supervised tests allow these?

Also isn’t 24h cutting it a bit fine? What if the website goes down? Or they just don’t get back to you? I can’t rely on that surely?

Any non vaxxed done this trip recently? How did you do it?

[otolith]

Fully jabbed and documented - but we weren’t spot checked going into Spain. Many were.

I’d be surprised if a self administered test is acceptable?

[toastyhamster]

Order test from fit to fly mob, self test, send photo of negative test off, receive automated text/email back with the result. Fill in the Spanish Health form and you're in.

Flew into Reus in August, they checked the health form but didn't want to see the neg result email.

Unsurprisingly plane was full, who is actually going to jeopardise a family holiday for a positive test?

[Gooose]

toastyhamster said:

Order test from fit to fly mob, self test, send photo of negative test off, receive automated text/email back with the result. Fill in the Spanish Health form and you're in.

Flew into Reus in August, they checked the health form but didn't want to see the neg result email.

Unsurprisingly plane was full, who is actually going to jeopardise a family holiday for a positive test?

Thanks for this, it settles my mind a bit! Does the Spanish health firm have to have you negative result info input onto it?

[toastyhamster]

From memory you just have to confirm you've had a neg test, there's no way of them verifying it, you just say you've had one.

Be careful filling the health form in, there's no way of correcting an incorrect entry, I completely messed it up, but eventually cottoned on that registering allowed editing/deletion of previous health forms, so was able to start again, It's all automated, so as long as you get a Q code on that then it can be scanned at the destination airport, Reus weren't bothered about anything else and BHX didn't care on the way back either.

[gtidriver]

I drove straight into Spain at the end of July, no border control, French couldn't be bothered to check this side as I left Dover.I flew back out of Spain, no one asked for my covid jabs app. I flew back to Spain a few days later, no one asked either end to see my Covid jab app. Have things changed since July?? Back in April I had to have a day before Covid test before we left for a Cruise departing Majorca.

[gtidriver]

Gooose said:

I’m trying to get me head around the entry requirements and I’m struggling to get and absolute answer really.

The gov website say you can do a rapid antigen test no more than 24 hours before departure. So I have to buy one of these and do it home? Does Spain accept a home test? A rapid antigen site that sells them say that the canary’s accept them but further down they say only countries that accept non supervised tests allow these?

Also isn’t 24h cutting it a bit fine? What if the website goes down? Or they just don’t get back to you? I can’t rely on that surely?

Any non vaxxed done this trip recently? How did you do it?

Be careful with the home testing ones, some airlines don't accept them. Waiting to board a flight just after Christmas last year a lady was denied her flight as she had an NHS covid test that was recommended by the airline, she had even got through the check in desk with it.

[gtidriver]

Most airports offer a fit to fly service, it takes a few hours but maybe that's an option if its needed.

[stevemcs]

In July, they were checking every covid pass at Mallorca airport

[Gooose]

gtidriver said:

Be careful with the home testing ones, some airlines don't accept them. Waiting to board a flight just after Christmas last year a lady was denied her flight as she had an NHS covid test that was recommended by the airline, she had even got through the check in desk with it.

This is what a confusing me, it’s all so vague out there, there’s no line step by step guide with recognised test suppliers and stuff. Just wanna take the family away for a week. Lol

[Boringvolvodriver]

Gooose said:

gtidriver said:

Be careful with the home testing ones, some airlines don't accept them. Waiting to board a flight just after Christmas last year a lady was denied her flight as she had an NHS covid test that was recommended by the airline, she had even got through the check in desk with it.

This is what a confusing me, it’s all so vague out there, there’s no line step by step guide with recognised test suppliers and stuff. Just wanna take the family away for a week. Lol

Chronomics are the ones to use - very easy test at home upload a photo and you get a certificate which has been accepted when we went to Fuerteventura last year.

TUI wen site quite good to explain and IIRC some airlines are not checking at check in

[croyde]

My 16 year old unvaxxed son went on his first trip abroad with mates to Spain last month.

I thought it'd be a ballache. I booked him a fit to fly LFT test at a clinic which had to be taken within 24 hours of departure. Cost £20.

He went, got texted certificate and QR code within half an hour, filled in the Spanish health form in minutes and was sent the QR code for that.

I thought I'd be doing that for him as he's a lazy blighter but he did it himself.

There's a couple of YouTube videos of a guy filling in the Spanish on line form if you just want to see how it works.

Like you need to fill in city you are going to and the State. So it just made it easy to have looked it up before as I had no idea that Barcelona is in Cataluña.

Por favor, mi español no es bueno.

[steveo3002]

some wrong uns are using photoshopped test papers - dont be tempted to do that

chances are you get waived straight past

[toastyhamster]

Boringvolvodriver said:

Gooose said:

gtidriver said:

Be careful with the home testing ones, some airlines don't accept them. Waiting to board a flight just after Christmas last year a lady was denied her flight as she had an NHS covid test that was recommended by the airline, she had even got through the check in desk with it.

This is what a confusing me, it’s all so vague out there, there’s no line step by step guide with recognised test suppliers and stuff. Just wanna take the family away for a week. Lol

Chronomics are the ones to use - very easy test at home upload a photo and you get a certificate which has been accepted when we went to Fuerteventura last year.

TUI wen site quite good to explain and IIRC some airlines are not checking at check in

That was the one we used, couldn't remember when i answered earlier. Tests arrived in plenty of time, text after neg photo sent was instant, it really was painless. Reus definitely scanned the QR code from the health form for everybody off the plane but it's a pretty quiet airport so there may be a different experience at somewhere else. Like the previous poster it took a few minutes filling in the health form working out what region Salou was in.
Back again at half term, kids now addicted to Portaventura.

[oilslick]

steveo3002 said:

some wrong uns are using photoshopped test papers - dont be tempted to do that

chances are you get waived straight past

Arrived in Fuerteventura on Tuesday, they were checking everyone. There was one lane for vaccinated where they scanned COVID passes, another lane for unvaccinated where I assume they were scanning the Spanish passenger locator forms.

[dunkind]

All sounds like a lot of faff to me, wouldn’t it be easier to have the vaccines? Unless medically unable.

[Biggus thingus]

If you can't read the thread title you need to get yourself to specsavers

[steveo3002]

oilslick said:

Arrived in Fuerteventura on Tuesday, they were checking everyone. There was one lane for vaccinated where they scanned COVID passes, another lane for unvaccinated where I assume they were scanning the Spanish passenger locator forms.

which scan fine as genuine

[Brummiebeau]

A friend of mine went to Menorca last week. He had to pay for a test £40 from Boots/Lloyds etc and they didn't check ir on arrival. Same as when we went to Portugal in June.
He didn't mention any locator type forms.

He also got sent a PDF so we have that for editing on future trips.

[Biggus thingus]

We're 3 un-vaxxed and had been hoping spain would see sense but still waiting

Portugal have zero restrictions so we're heading there in 4 weeks for some late season sun...can't wait!