Are we there yet? Your second Travel Megathread (threadbans in OP}

mmclo

fran38 wrote: »

Dubai itself is running like a normal society should be run. Everything is open except the pubs but I can get a drink in a restaurant. Was at the Dubai Mall yesterday, shops open and place full of happy shoppers/browsers. Masks are mandatory outside at risk of a 800e fine I think.
Warm at 22/23 celcius. This is a city with a huge cosmopolitan population serviced by a metro which is continually packed

Isn't there a 14 day self quarantine on arrival?

Happydays2020

mmclo wrote: »

Isn't there a 14 day self quarantine on arrival?

To Abu Dhabi there is. Not Dubai.

TomSweeney

I wouldn't get too excited about the "lifting" of travel bans, all the quarantine and extremely expensive testing will still be in place, so travel may be back for rich elitists , but fcuked for peasants with families like myself ...

Red Silurian

antix80 wrote: »

Yes, the chinese did a great job containing covid...

Quite the disaster in the early days but they've got very few cases these days, local early tough Lockdowns that are properly barricaded work for them

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

If the gardai so much as put a checkpoint on the N7 for half an hour, the squeals of outrage about violation of human and constitutional rights would be heard in China!

Honestly, the dissonance that goes on in these threads is just mind-boggling.

People in this country are getting caught up on their civil liberties a bit too much at the moment, if we had a complete and full, no bull****. Lockdown back in November we'd be back in the pubs by Paddy's Day

josip

colmtheperson wrote: »

People in this country are getting caught up on their civil liberties a bit too much at the moment, if we had a complete and full, no bull****. Lockdown back in November we'd be back in the pubs by Paddy's Day

Just because you keep repeating it Colm, doesn't make it true.

Cartman78

mmclo wrote: »

Isn't there a 14 day self quarantine on arrival?

As Fred Flintstone would say they don't in Dubai but in Abu-Dhabi-they-do

faceman

Red Silurian wrote: »

Quite the disaster in the early days but they've got very few cases these days, local early tough Lockdowns that are properly barricaded work for them




People in this country are getting caught up on their civil liberties a bit too much at the moment, if we had a complete and full, no bull****. Lockdown back in November we'd be back in the pubs by Paddy's Day

How long is it acceptable for civil liberties and freedom to be majorly curtailed? 1 year? Two? Three? How long?

faceman

Looks like there are plenty of options for overpriced staycations this year...

https://jrnl.ie/5362502

Whiplash85

faceman wrote: »

Looks like there are plenty of options for overpriced staycations this year...

https://jrnl.ie/5362502

How could they be anything but at all time lows with booking. Government and health authorities couldn't even say intercounty travel would be permitted this summer. That is where we are now and quite frankly it is embarrassingly feeble. In their attempts to risk averse they have flattened the economy and with it many businesses.

Tazz T

faceman wrote: »

Looks like there are plenty of options for overpriced staycations this year...

https://jrnl.ie/5362502

Any up the north?

faceman

Tazz T wrote: »

Any up the north?

I hear there are some nice spots near the George Best International Airport...

Happydays2020

faceman wrote: »

I hear there are some nice spots near the George Best International Airport...

Belfast City Airport is also an option.

Red Silurian

faceman wrote: »

How long is it acceptable for civil liberties and freedom to be majorly curtailed? 1 year? Two? Three? How long?

It'll be over by July, mark my words

faceman wrote: »

Looks like there are plenty of options for overpriced staycations this year...

https://jrnl.ie/5362502

Just put a deposit on 7 nights in Achill Island self catering around the August weekend for €350 for the family of 4, could potentially fit 2 more adults in if restrictions allow at the time which would help split the price... Value is there if you look hard enough

PTH2009

Regarding Airports/sea ports could they not let the airport security check for documents providing that your travelling on essential business and they could turn you away if you can't provide it ?

dan786

PTH2009 wrote: »

Regarding Airports/sea ports could they not let the airport security check for documents providing that your travelling on essential business and they could turn you away if you can't provide it ?

No, they cant stop you from boarding the plane. Gardai cant turn you back either, they can only fine you.

RobitTV

RTE: Holiday bookings soar as UK hopes for travel restart

International holiday bookings surged by as much as 600% after Britain laid out plans to gradually relax coronavirus restrictions.

The news gave battered airlines and tour operators hope that a bumper summer could come to their rescue.

EasyJet said flight bookings from Britain jumped over 300% and holiday bookings surged by more than 600% week on week after the UK government indicated yesterday that travel could restart from mid-May.

Holiday company TUI UK said that its bookings surged 500%, while holiday and budget airline group Jet2 said its bookings were up 600%.

RTE News

Tenzor07

PTH2009 wrote: »

Regarding Airports/sea ports could they not let the airport security check for documents providing that your travelling on essential business and they could turn you away if you can't provide it ?

Where would Airport security check these documents?
What are the legal requirements for these documents?
And at what point and how do they stop you from boarding an aircraft?
Who grants the Airport security the legal right to do so?

faceman

RobitTV wrote: »

RTE: Holiday bookings soar as UK hopes for travel restart

International holiday bookings surged by as much as 600% after Britain laid out plans to gradually relax coronavirus restrictions.

The news gave battered airlines and tour operators hope that a bumper summer could come to their rescue.

EasyJet said flight bookings from Britain jumped over 300% and holiday bookings surged by more than 600% week on week after the UK government indicated yesterday that travel could restart from mid-May.

Holiday company TUI UK said that its bookings surged 500%, while holiday and budget airline group Jet2 said its bookings were up 600%.

RTE News

Sure what has Ireland got to complain about, you’ll be able to meet your granny on the beach by July!

Happydays2020

https://www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/six-eu-countries-warned-over-border-restrictions/

Make no mistake - COM will look in our direction in May if we are green and others are also yet we decide to hold restrictions.

ninebeanrows

Happydays2020 wrote: »

https://www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/six-eu-countries-warned-over-border-restrictions/

Make no mistake - COM will look in our direction in May if we are green and others are also yet we decide to hold restrictions.

Any move to compulsory quarantine any EU nation citizen in a compound will surely be met with resistance.

Scary so many pro EU citizens who lambasted and laughed at the UK for leaving are supporting this.

We are Irish Citizens and EU citizens, this is lost on some people it seems.

TobyHolmes

Happydays2020 wrote: »

https://www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/six-eu-countries-warned-over-border-restrictions/

Make no mistake - COM will look in our direction in May if we are green and others are also yet we decide to hold restrictions.

good!

Happydays2020

ninebeanrows wrote: »

Any move to compulsory quarantine any EU nation citizen in a compound will surely be met with resistance.

Scary so many pro EU citizens who lambasted and laughed at the UK for leaving are supporting this.

We are Irish Citizens and EU citizens, this is lost on some people it seems.

Can you imagine what the noises will be if the Brits are off to Greece and Spain with us stuck at home.

ninebeanrows

BTW Ireland is approaching green country status, we have a long way to go but not far off, today's positivity rate is 4.6% and with cases falling it is possible youll be accepted into an EU nation without a negative PCR by May or June if schools don't cause a massive resurgence.

Cases below 100 a day and positive less than 4% = green list.

RobitTV

Would be so handy if I could avoid an expensive PCR test when I head away in July.

ypres5

ive rebooked my hotels for trips to Paris and Berlin late this year in oct and dec. am i being overly optimistic or could it come to be ?

barbara anne

ypres5 wrote: »

ive rebooked my hotels for trips to Paris and Berlin late this year in oct and dec. am i being overly optimistic or could it come to be ?

Overly optimistic.

ypres5

barbara anne wrote: »

Overly optimistic.

surely if we've 82% of over 18s on their first vaccine by June why couldn't travel start? is that not what the vaccines are for?

barbara anne

ypres5 wrote: »

surely if we've 82% of over 18s on their first vaccine by June why couldn't travel start? is that not what the vaccines are for?

No it's still overly optimistic. Sorry.

ypres5

barbara anne wrote: »

No it's still overly optimistic. Sorry.

but the UK are starting international travel by may and we're only a few months behind them? i mean if we can't travel with that many people vaccinated we never can

RobitTV

Read this today:

(As of yet there is no suggestion of EU citizens needing a vaccination passport to move from one EU country to another whether for work, study or holidays. But, it is being discussed for residents who wish to travel from ‘third countries’ like the UK)

This could mean only a PCR test is required for EU travel. Like it has been for many months.

Vaccine passports may be required for international travel outside of the European Union.