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

brickster69 · 14-05-2021 06:12PM

UK put on Germany's red travel list

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-germany-britain/germany-classifies-uk-a-coronavirus-risk-area-idUKKBN2CV1IE?edition-redirect=uk

M_Murphy57 · 14-05-2021 06:20PM

hynesie08 wrote: »

You scan your boarding pass twice, once to get through to security, once at the gate, so in this hypothetical scenario you either scan 2 separate boarding passes or you scan one to a country with a fine.

So show the gard the London one, scan the tenerife one twice.

What will happen when you scan it ? Alarms? Cops jump out? What ?

Scaremongering nonsense.

hynesie08 · 14-05-2021 06:21PM

M_Murphy57 wrote: »

So show the gard the London one, scan the tenerife one twice.

What will happen when you scan it ? Alarms? Cops jump out? What ?

Scaremongering nonsense.

In this completely hypothetical scenario? Robot enema.

In reality, probably a letter in your door when you get home.

Micky 32 · 14-05-2021 06:21PM

M_Murphy57 wrote: »

So show the gard the London one, scan the tenerife one twice.

What will happen when you scan it ? Alarms? Cops jump out? What ?

Scaremongering nonsense.

I can’t see the CTA opening up now due to the indian scariant. It’s going to be never ending. It will be the Mongolian scariant next.

M_Murphy57 · 14-05-2021 06:25PM

hynesie08 wrote: »

In this completely hypothetical scenario? Robot enema.

In reality, probably a letter in your door when you get home.

So they dont question you to find out your reason for travel (else youd get the fine in person), but somehow get your details from airport IT (are the personal details of every scanned boarding pass emailed to the local cop shop? Very worrying if so) and post you a 2k fine?

That sounds not true.

M_Murphy57 · 14-05-2021 06:26PM

Micky 32 wrote: »

I can’t see the CTA opening up now due to the indian scariant. It’s going to be never ending. It will be the Mongolian scariant next.

Travel from Belfast is legal without the CTA from ROI?

Micky 32 · 14-05-2021 06:31PM

M_Murphy57 wrote: »

Travel from Belfast is legal without the CTA from ROI?

Sorry i worded that wrong. I meant Travelling directly to the UK without home quarantine could be off the cards now.

KanyeSouthEast · 14-05-2021 06:35PM

https://www.thesun.ie/news/6994480/ireland-masks-scrapped-holidays-lockdown-covid-leo-varadkar/

Micky 32 · 14-05-2021 06:37PM

KanyeSouthEast wrote: »

https://www.thesun.ie/news/6994480/ireland-masks-scrapped-holidays-lockdown-covid-leo-varadkar/

Great to see on a miserable Friday evening

Tenzor07 · 14-05-2021 06:39PM

Ray Donovan wrote: »

Ireland enters into restriction free travel with UK in next 3 weeks. €2,000 travel fine remains for any other destination until introduction of EU travel cert. Whats to stop anyone getting the cheapest possible flight from Dublin to London, showing that boarding pass to the guard at the Terminal but actually hopping on the plane to the Canaries with a flight they have previously purchased.

The "Ryanair booking Garda" in the local station will be immediately alerted to your cunning plan as he monitors all the sneaky goats who are making bookings for two separate destinations!
A text will then be sent to Garda Billy who's waiting at the airport gates to foil your cunning plan when you scan both your boarding pass for London And your boarding pass for Lanzarote!
If that doesn't give it away then your bermuda shorts, flip flops and penny's vest may cause you to receive a fine in the post when you get home from London!

Tenzor07 · 14-05-2021 06:41PM

KanyeSouthEast wrote: »

https://www.thesun.ie/news/6994480/ireland-masks-scrapped-holidays-lockdown-covid-leo-varadkar/

Oh wow if the people's hero "Leo" says it then let's all vote for our savior eh?

Ray Donovan · 14-05-2021 07:05PM

hynesie08 wrote: »

You scan your boarding pass twice, once to get through to security, once at the gate, so in this hypothetical scenario you either scan 2 separate boarding passes or you scan one to a country with a fine.

I'll be scanning one to the country with a fine but I'll be showing the guard my one for London. I obviously wouldn't be scanning that one. That one is literally to show the guard to get past pre security garda checkpoint.

VG31 · 14-05-2021 07:07PM

KanyeSouthEast wrote: »

https://www.thesun.ie/news/6994480/ireland-masks-scrapped-holidays-lockdown-covid-leo-varadkar/

It's pointless really, they might as well just scrap them all together. It would be unenforceable.

Ray Donovan · 14-05-2021 07:07PM

hynesie08 wrote: »

In this completely hypothetical scenario? Robot enema.

In reality, probably a letter in your door when you get home.

I doubt it very very much.

ngunners · 14-05-2021 07:15PM

KanyeSouthEast wrote: »

https://www.thesun.ie/news/6994480/ireland-masks-scrapped-holidays-lockdown-covid-leo-varadkar/

Does Leo give a different interview with different information every second day?

Ray Donovan · 14-05-2021 07:29PM

ngunners wrote: »

Does Leo give a different interview with different information every second day?

Depends which way the wind is blowing. Run with the hares and chase with the hounds as the expression goes.

sy_flembeck · 14-05-2021 09:43PM

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

Nothing stopping you but your double booking would be considered suspicious

It wouldn't and you know it. Don't even pretend that anything like this is being monitored. Fact of the matter is, even if it were being monitored, there is nothing illegal - even in these times - in booking two flights at the same time.

You do know you don't actually have to tow the party line here, you are anonymous.

Scaremongering nonsense

dalyboy · 15-05-2021 12:29AM

VG31 wrote: »

It's pointless really, they might as well just scrap them all together. It would be unenforceable.

Exactly.

How would it work in reality?
You go into shops or planes or the barbers holding out your vaccine cert saying “I don’t need to wear a mask mr security man”

Sounds like Leo’s having a Friday brain fart

Unthought Known · 15-05-2021 12:45AM

ngunners wrote: »

Does Leo give a different interview with different information every second day?

He says the same thing every day. "Erm, we could see <insert current headline topic> opening up in July, but, erm, I can't promise that will happen"

lcstress2012 · 15-05-2021 04:01AM

Quick question. If I am fully vaccinated and travel to Spain (during non essential travel) am I still allowed to travel or would I risk the €2k fine?

Ray Donovan · 15-05-2021 04:21AM

lcstress2012 wrote: »

Quick question. If I am fully vaccinated and travel to Spain (during non essential travel) am I still allowed to travel or would I risk the €2k fine?

Fine still applies to you. You Got vaccinated, thought you’d get your freedoms back straight away?? Nope!

Del Griffith · 15-05-2021 04:47AM

Niner leprauchan wrote: »

Nothing stopping you but your double booking would be considered suspicious

Valhallapt · 15-05-2021 07:27AM

On BBC news they had some expert on saying he now believes that the Indian variant will become the dominant strain, not sure yet but they believe it to be more transmissible.

Could be a spanner in the travel works....

Lumen · 15-05-2021 07:55AM

Interesting thread about the politics of travel restrictions

https://twitter.com/EdConwaySky/status/1393271922595667971?s=19

IQO · 15-05-2021 08:33AM

https://twitter.com/MinBZ/status/1393450796705058816

https://www.nu.nl/coronavirus/6133435/nieuwe-reisadviezen-je-mag-weer-naar-curacao-malta-en-nog-14-bestemmingen.html

Confusing messages (use google translate) from the Dutch authorities.. they have adjusted some destinations to their code 'yellow', including Ireland. Which is beneficial when traveling from Ireland to The Netherlands, it looks like no PCR test is even necessary anymore from next week.

The second link and article (the largest news website in The Netherlands) even reads "Naar deze bestemmingen kan per direct weer worden afgereisd:" meaning "You can travel to these destinations immediately:" which includes Ireland, not mentioning the two weeks of home quarantine that is required on arrival here.

Lumen · 15-05-2021 08:51AM

IQO wrote: »

The second link and article (the largest news website in The Netherlands) even reads "Naar deze bestemmingen kan per direct weer worden afgereisd:" meaning "You can travel to these destinations immediately:" which includes Ireland, not mentioning the two weeks of home quarantine that is required on arrival here.

It's right there on the page!

"Mandatory quarantine period after arrival: In Ireland, Finland, Portugal, Thailand and Rwanda. The duration of the quarantine varies by country."

IQO · 15-05-2021 09:01AM

Lumen wrote: »

It's right there on the page!

"Mandatory quarantine period after arrival: In Ireland, Finland, Portugal, Thailand and Rwanda. The duration of the quarantine varies by country."

I stand corrected, thanks! Still a confusing statement on the top of the page that all of these countries are now open for traveling, which they are not.

15-05-2021 10:09AM

Lumen wrote: »

It's right there on the page!

"Mandatory quarantine period after arrival: In Ireland, Finland, Portugal, Thailand and Rwanda. The duration of the quarantine varies by country."

I thought we were the only country with quarantine?

mmclo · 15-05-2021 10:11AM

Van.Bosch wrote: »

So Irish people could visit and not need even a test? Or is it just for Dutch residents?

Think you generally need 2 tests!

mmclo · 15-05-2021 10:13AM

Corholio wrote: »

I wonder if it's to do with the info on this page and Ireland just hasn't been added on there yet?

https://www.government.nl/topics/coronavirus-covid-19/visiting-the-netherlands-from-abroad/eu-list-of-safe-countries

Most EU countries going with the ECDC list so Ireland high enough but two regions orange usual exempts from home quarantine but not testing. I passed through Schipol 2 weeks back and tests are checked but nothing else

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

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