Fly me to the Moon - your 3rd travel Megathread - read OP

Newuser2022 wrote: »

You put into words what i couldnt articulate. Vax have a pass (Privileged). Go and spread covid. Unvaxed (non privileged) get tested on each exit and reentry to country but because their unvaxed their seen as scumbags.

Yay!

I’m waiting to hear this too.

Anyone been to the airport in the last few days?

Im off out tomorrow, hoping wont have much hassle i assume its busier now with tourists coming in and out

I'm guessing there has been no update on transatlantic flights to the US yet? Looking like my September trip to NYC won't be going ahead 😪

I think Ireland is switching to Aged 12+ for PCR for entry here from next Monday 19th

Hey everyone,

Have an upcoming flight at 6:30, planning to arrive at airport around 3:30.

No vaccine but purchase a test kit from letsgetchecked, has anyone had any experience with these? There's no test center close to me. I seen them reccomended on Dublin airport's website.

Gonna look through this thread to see if anyone has.

Coming back into Ireland from the UK on the 27th July, have been vaxed and have my cert, will I need a PCR for this, I've been unable to confirm.

Got my DCC emailed to me on Tuesday (2nd pfizer jab occurred 2 days beforehand) . Strange that I got it so soon as the needle woman said I wouldn’t be fully vaccinated until 7 days from the actual injection .

regardless , I’m not flying until the 28th of July so am delighted to escape the testing malarkey at both departure/arrival ends.

For European travel, you need at least 14 days since your second vaccination if you are relying on the digital cert to get you into the country. If you got your second jab on Tuesday, then it looks like you will reach 14 days the day before you are going to fly. Got there by the skin of your teeth!

Was Pfizered back in January in the hospitals, paper cert is in my hands now. Good to see it turn up in advance of the 19th, none of us thought it would actually happen but credit where credits due, they are doing it.... although it came in a Revenue envelope which caused a panic!

Only problems left -

• HSE lock on travel is in place still, PRESUMING that expires on the 19th, but they sent around a reminder about current HSE home quarantine rules only last week. Not sure what'll happen Monday but I can't see updated guidance appearing in an email at 9am.
• I've already had the "Well you can go on holiday if you want to risk killing your vaccinated parents" from the oldies I live with. Marvelous. Thanks RTE.
• I won't be going away for a few weeks until we see how these checks bed in reality, and what immigration queues are like. And we maybe see what delta does in the short term.

Here’s our experience of EU travel in Covid times from 2 weeks ago. A lot has changed since then I expect, even Boards.

Dublin (Fri 2nd) gosafe24 deep in the depths of the Rosemount Business, PCR test in the evening, 5 laps of the lower nostril, results exactly 4 hours later.

Rosslare (Sat)   Gardai parked up, but in the cars not checking, we were the last car to arrive 1 hour before departure.

Stena Check In guy apologetically asked for a PCR for our 11 year old (which we had)

France (Sun)     We were delayed getting off the boat and by the time we left, there were no police to be seen anywhere in Cherbourg.

                        Most people on the streets in Cherbourg seemed to have masks at least partially on their faces

                        Hotel in Strasbourg did not require test or vaccine results to checked.    

                        Same as Cherbourg, most people on the streets in Cherbourg seemed to have masks at least partially on their faces, probably going to work on public transport.

(Mon)                Got a free tourist PCR test in a Laboratoire 3 mins walk from the hotel, nasal swab was the brain tickling variety. Hopefully the last I’ll need

Germany           Same as Rosslare, Polizei parked up at the German border but nobody being stopped.

                        N95 (no cotton/paper surgical) masks required for autobahn McDonalds, staff in surgicals. 3M make a lot of N95 masks :)

                          Any kind of mask ok for Hotel before the Austrian border. Everyone eating outside the local restaurant, staff had masks, no masks evident on the street unlike France, but rural location in Germany

                        French PCR results came through in English before midnight

Austria (Tue)     No Polizei visible at the German-Austrian border

                        Polizei parked up but not checking on the Austrian-Slovenian border, long queues on the other side for traffic entering Austria from Slovenia

Slovenia            Transit Slovenia via non-tolled roads and filled up with (30c) cheaper off motorway fuel.

                        When I returned to the car I suddenly realized that the girl behind the counter had smiled (politely) at me.

                        I hadn’t copped that nobody working there had a mask, normality !

Croatia              Entered Croatia via very quiet border crossing, offered PCR tests to Policija, but knew we didn’t need them for transit, as did Policija who noted our entry time and gave us our 12 hours. Policija didn’t have any mask and asked us about our trip.

                        Dourest (unmasked) Policija in Croatia does the passport check leaving Croatia.

Serbia               Staying overnight in Serbia, so show PCR results to unmasked Policija on the Serbian side

                        Masks in big supermarket in Serbia, but not by staff or most guests in our hotel and in some small shops.

                        Lidl employs people to spray and sanitize trolleys and people at the entrances.

Macedonia (Wed) PCR results requested and accepted by unmasked Policija on the (North) Macedonian border.

                        Mask wearing in Macedonia seems similar to Serbia

 38C here again today.

Too hot, missing our nice Irish clouds and westerlies.

Anyone have any experience travelling home from Spain recently. We are flying out from Dublin on Sunday for week. Fully vaxed but no covid certs. We got vaccinated in NI. They have yet to issue certs. Will Ryanair staff accept the vaccine cards ?? Are Ryanair asking for them at boarding gates when returning to Ireland ?

Would like to avoid a PCR test for 5 of use (all vaxd) if I can help it !