Here are the countries where you can travel without quarantine …. if they let you in

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• The Lord says:

  3 Jul3 July 15:49

  Summer 2020 back on

• John says:

  3 Jul3 July 15:50

  Derisive comments from Michael O’Leary in 5,4,3,2…

• BJ says:

  3 Jul3 July 15:51

  There are countries on this list that we currently cannot even travel to 😀 I wonder how long it will be before the sh*t hits the fan.

  • Anna says:

    3 Jul3 July 15:54

    Exactly – also a lot of these countries are also open to travellers from countries like the USA with much higher infection levels, so how long they remain safe to visit is another issue.

• Baji Nahid says:

  3 Jul3 July 15:54

  This is so going to cause a massive second wave.

  • ChrisBCN says:

    3 Jul3 July 16:04

    Evidence?

    • Baji Nahid says:

      3 Jul3 July 16:07

      mark my words, ill refer the article to you once it all kicks off x

      • ChrisBCN says:

        3 Jul3 July 16:20

        I’m not questioning if you are right or wrong, just curious as to how you came to this opinion. There are many countries which are several months ahead of the UK that havent seen a significant second wave, so what makes you think this?

        • Andrew says:

          3 Jul3 July 16:41

          Just look a Florida. We are weeks away from a second lockdown.

        • ChrisBCN says:

          3 Jul3 July 17:56

          Florida is in its first wave, not second.

    • BJ says:

      3 Jul3 July 16:46

      Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson…all the evidence you should need!

  • The Lord says:

    3 Jul3 July 16:09

    Just like the bank holidays, the protests, the people going back to work, people going to beaches etc. re-opening shops etc.

  • Rob says:

    3 Jul3 July 18:07

    Only if you fly with a coach party from Leicester 🙂

    Current infection rate in West London is 8 per 100,000, so 1 in 12,500. I doubt there are 12,500 people flying BA per day at the moment, so you would probably be unlucky if a single person with CV passed through Terminal 5 on the same day as you, let alone had to shake your hand or do whatever would be necessary to infect you!

    • Chris Heyes says:

      3 Jul3 July 20:25

      Or Bradford, or Kirklees, or Western Super Mere, OR London next Month lol

    • Jeff 99 says:

      3 Jul3 July 23:19

      Tube use is still only around 15% of last year’s level (hardly any change from before the shops opened again) so most people are working from home (most will continue to do so for a while). There’s no imminent threat of an increase in London.

  • J says:

    3 Jul3 July 19:12

    This won’t cause a second wave, but will allow the government to blame other countries/foreign visitors when more of their own incompetance causes one.

  • Jeff 99 says:

    4 Jul4 July 07:35

    How long before some idiot Brit in eg Spain carries on with their holiday even though they’ve got symptoms? “It can wait until I get home”

• Gruntfuttock says:

  3 Jul3 July 16:12

  There goes our BA Holidays fly drive trip in early September to Albania 🙄 sigh

  • GinSling76 says:

    4 Jul4 July 08:27

    We also have a road trip in Albania booked but in the first week of August. We were also going to include Kosovo and north Macedonia but abandoned that idea a few weeks ago. Looks unlikely we will go and now wishing we hadn’t accepted our LGW to LHR flight switch earlier in the week as I expect we are now stuck with the travel voucher option unless BA cancel the flight

• Fraser says:

  3 Jul3 July 16:35

  Clear as mud, as usual, from this government. The omission of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from the first list seems to suggest a 14 day quarantine is necessary if arriving from those countries. And they’re not on the second list either, so you can’t travel there.

  So if you change flights from Edinburgh in London to connect, do you need to quarantine for 14 days both on the way out, and the way home? Or is this not allowed at all?

  When you leave the airport, who is checking where your home is if you’re travelling by road to Newcastle or Gretna?

  • Paul says:

    3 Jul3 July 16:51

    “Coronavirus regulations mean that you must self-isolate for 14 days if you return to the UK from a country outside the common travel area.”

• Jeremy I says:

  3 Jul3 July 16:39

  Hi all, we’re currently in Portugal on holiday for the last week. It’s lovely. Anyway we had a small bash in the rental car yesterday. Do you think amex car hire insurance won’t cover us because we travelled to Portugal against the FCO advice ? Thanks so much Jeremy

  • monsieurcurt says:

    3 Jul3 July 16:47

    As much as I believe it should only not cover medical care – I don’t think you’re covered for anything I’m afraid…

  • Anna says:

    3 Jul3 July 17:07

    Is this a joke?! If not, you must be relieved you weren’t seriously injured and looking at a 5 figure bill for repatriation.

    • meta says:

      3 Jul3 July 19:06

      It is a reasonable question though. I enquired with Amex/Axa for a trip to Iceland in September and it seems they would cover car hire. The only thing they won’t cover is anything covid related i.e. quarantine due to covid, hotel in case of lockdown, flights back home, etc.

    • Gormlesstraveller says:

      3 Jul3 July 19:17

      Why would you want to be repatriated if you were seriously injured? Better to stay in Portugese hospital on your EHIC.

• monsieurcurt says:

  3 Jul3 July 16:46

  I’ve got a trip to Greece booked for September. Good to see the restrictions have been decreased but will I be insured if it was BOOKED during the non-travel advisory period? I don’t see why that would matter but I’ve seen contrasting opinions…

  • Anna says:

    3 Jul3 July 17:12

    The best thing is probably to clarify this with your insurer!

    • Lady London says:

      3 Jul3 July 19:55

      …or in an extreme case I suppose you could scrutinise the wording in the terms and conditions.

  • Chris Heyes says:

    3 Jul3 July 20:49

    Monsieurcurt@insurance if you ignored FOC Advice.
    Your Insurance has the Legal right to reject all or most claims even if FOC ADVICE is lifted
    Now whether they would is up in the air
    If you take out Insurance after FOC Is lifted or before, (as of now) you should be covered
    Taking out Insurance when FOC Is in place is a very gray area

  • jc says:

    3 Jul3 July 23:28

    e.g. in the case of Amex Platinum the wording of the terms is totally ambiguous. Which means your options are to ask them (where anecdotally I believe they’ll tell you you’re not covered) or risk it and take it to complaint / FOS if necessary on the grounds of interpreting the terms a certain way / common sense…

  • Dubious says:

    4 Jul4 July 02:50

    The typical process is whether you proceed with the travel during the ‘no travel’ advice…i.e. you should be covered for medical issues when you travel because the FCO restriction is no longer there.

    However you would not be covered for COVID-19 related cancellations because it is a known event.

    Exact situation dependent on the insurer though as others have said.

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