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Old 03-12-2020, 23:17
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Newcastle airport are offering PCR tests at their new short term parking arrival office for £99.I'm sure more airports will soon follow suit.
but when do you get the results you cannot wait at the airport for 2 days ? or even 24 hours. unless you get the results within a couple of hours the airport is not really an option. unless of course you live very close to an airport.
Its a good idea once again here by the government but I am afraid poorly executed and not thought out properly so to help everybody wanting to travel here
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We are going ( we hope) to Lanzarote for Xmas and have our tests booked with Boots about 30 miles from home but since we have booked them they are starting to do tests at Southampton cricket ground which is only 10miles away and several more Boots are now doing them to

By next summer I am sure there will be more places doing them if still needed
Some of the Airlines TUI Jet 2 are recommending postal services with a Discount but a couple of days ago 60 passengers werent able to fly to Tenerife as the ones Jet2 suggest didnt get the test results back in time !!

We have our fingers crossed for ours Fingers crossed will be back in PP too have really missed it this year
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Had read about Boots doing Travel Tests for COVID but I expect they are still expensive and the big question is will you get the results in time? All the companies I have researched give NO guarantees that the results will get to you by the time you travel. Lets hope they get cheaper and more available so we can get back to the place we all love! on Travel Tests at Southampton Cricket Ground I can find nothing about this online - I know there is a drive through at Southampton Airport but this is for NHS tests for people with symptoms - not for people who want to travel.
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Ageius Bowl starts on 8th December and it is with Wren Travel

Have just read a review about Boots and someone had their test back in 24hrs and cost is £120 each ( Boots in Fareham is nearest to us )

So fingers crossed all will be well
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Thanks for the information - have now found the Wren site at Ageius Bowl. Hope all goes well with the testing.
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Exclamation Visiting?.....Brexit not just Covid!! Needs to be considered

Covid is not the only thing you need to consider if you wish to spend time in Paradise next year!
Brexit brings in new regulations for the amount of time and when you can visit.

Interesting article by Spanish Property Insight,
Mark Stücklin [URL="https://www.spanishpropertyinsight.com/2020/12/0]

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When the Brexit transition period ends at the end of the year, UK residents won’t be able to come and go as they please, which is bound to affect demand for second homes in Spain.*

As of the first of January 2021 Britons can only spend 90 days out of every 180 days in the EU without a visa. As the Gov.uk website explains “From 1 January 2021, you will be able to travel to other Schengen area countries for up to 90 days in any 180-day period without a visa for purposes such as tourism. This is a rolling 180-day period.”

Many British residents with second homes in Spain like to spend just under half a year here, especially in the winter months. That will no longer be possible. Three months will be the longest you can stay.

You need to find online calculators to work out when you can travel regarding your visits?
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Surely 90 days in every 180 days is the current rule and therefore unchanged by Brexit? We bought our place in 2018 and that was my understanding then.
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Surely 90 days in every 180 days is the current rule and therefore unchanged by Brexit? We bought our place in 2018 and that was my understanding then.
Not the case, currently you can come and go as you like. If your cumulative visits are more than 183 days then you may become liable to pay your taxes in Spain.
I'm not an expert by any means but currently you can
Stay 6 months in one go before it's a problem!
Now it's 90 days max, then you cannot come back for 90 days. It's not even as simple as that as the 180 days is a rolling figure

Schengen Calculator....
The above link may help!!!
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Further to the last post...
Here is another article .... The Local.es
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Does anyone know if the same rules will apply to any Spanish citizens living/working/holidaying in the UK ?
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This article in the Guardian last night pretty much kills all UK holiday travel to the EU

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...edium=referral

"British holidaymakers will be barred from the European Union from 1 January under current Covid-19 safety restrictions, with the EU commission indicating there will be no exemption for the UK.

Only a handful of countries with low coronavirus rates are exempt from rules that prohibit nonessential visitors from outside the EU and European Economic Area (EEA) – with the UK included only until the end of the Brexit transition period."

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I see that the Guardian’s journalistic and more precisely, pictorial, standards haven’t declined.

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Im not an expert on such matters. Is it fake?
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This story is TRUE
Its all over the news channels today.
To be Honest No Body should travel ( unless Really Necessary )at these bad times. We should Stay in our Bubbles and protect one another.
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This article in the Guardian last night pretty much kills all UK holiday travel to the EU

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...edium=referral

"British holidaymakers will be barred from the European Union from 1 January under current Covid-19 safety restrictions, with the EU commission indicating there will be no exemption for the UK.

Only a handful of countries with low coronavirus rates are exempt from rules that prohibit nonessential visitors from outside the EU and European Economic Area (EEA) – with the UK included only until the end of the Brexit transition period."
Well off to Turkey or Morocco then bye PP
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