Flying to Portugal and driving to Spain

ruamar

Hi all

I'm hoping someone can help on this one. I am travelling to Northern Spain shortly, all flights to Santiago Compostella were booked so the alternative was to fly to Porto and drive up. Happy to comply with all COVID guidelines but the Portuguese Passenger Locator Card form (https://portugalcleanandsafe.pt/en/passenger-locator-card) does not allow for addresses outside of Portugal even though they state that all travelers, including those in transit complete the form. The Spanish information states that you do not need their equivalent form if you drive from Portugal to Spain.

Has anyone been through this or similar? We have asked our own DFA and have looked around a good bit but all official advice states to look somewhere else, usually ending up at the Portuguese locator card page again.

Thanks in advance

Sam W

We were in Portugal earlier this month and initially decided to travel to Spain, but later abandoned the idea.

Anyway, nobody has ever checked the locator form whatsoever during the flight, in immigration and in hotels etc. The immigration officer was more concerned about COVID certs rather than locator forms.

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117905613#Comment_117905613

Spanish airports scan your PLF. They don't appear to in any way interrogate it, but that isn't much use if you end up on a flight with an outbreak and they go looking for you.

MAULBROOK

Just book a night in a very cheap hotel for one night and now you have an address and proof of a booking. Yes its money lost but it takes away the worrying.

Fann Linn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058209275/flying-to-portugal-and-driving-to-spain

I went to Spain a few weeks back by ferry and was transiting to France straight away by car. I had to put in an address for my onward stay but all locations pre ordained on the form were for Spain.

The Spanish PLF form has a way around this however were I was advised to just put the address of the Brittany Ferries office in Bilbao Port into their PLF and that satisfied their requirements. I handed everything over in Bilbao and was waved through with an 'ola'!

Perhaps it is a 'wayaround' for the OP if they just enter the airport address in whatever place they are transiting through.

ruamar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117931055#Comment_117931055

That's great, we are planning to go with the address of the airport and will fill in the Spanish one too, just in case

Thanks for that.

ruamar

Just in case anyone else is in the same position.

When we went through the passport check in Porto airport we were asked for random certs. Some were asked for Covid cert, some for the locator form. It did appear that the covid cert was the most requested. We drove straight out from the car rental and were never asked for documentation again.

All of us had completed the Portuguese form, entering the address of the airport. Just in case, we all completed the Spanish locator form too.