Corona test before entering each EU country?

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Advice Please.
Crossing to EU, will have a PCR test in 48 h before boarding the ferry, driving through 4 countries before reaching the second ferry to Greece.
Is the EU as one country in relate to Corona tests or we will need to have/show a Corona test before crossing to each country?
 
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I dont think you need one to enter spain ,but you need proof of vaccination
 
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You need to check the regs for each county, for Belgium you did just need to register online but I think you now need a test and fairy certain you need one for Germany, Austria and Italy.
But depending on time scale if you need one within 48 hours of entry you may get through 2 or 3 counties in the 48 hours. You could do that last year but rules are changing every week at the moment.
 
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Dogsense said:
Advice Please.
Crossing to EU, will have a PCR test in 48 h before boarding the ferry, driving through 4 countries before reaching the second ferry to Greece.
Is the EU as one country in relate to Corona tests or we will need to have/show a Corona test before crossing to each country?
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Who would you show it to? There are no boarders now. Haven’t been for years. Who will even know you have crossed from one Shengen country to another? I do think you are trying to create problems that don’t exist. This is happening with a lot of people. Many are trying to make travel harder than it already is.

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glenn2926 said:
Who would you show it to? There are no boarders now. Haven’t been for years. Who will even know you have crossed from one Shengen country to another? I do think you are trying to create problems that don’t exist. This is happening with a lot of people. Many are trying to make travel harder than it already is.
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Thanks.
Please don’t make me the villain 😄
 
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Sorry because spain in eu ,i thought they would all have eu rules ,
 
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Lenny HB said:
You need to check the regs for each county, for Belgium you did just need to register online but I think you now need a test and fairy certain you need one for Germany, Austria and Italy.
But depending on time scale if you need one within 48 hours of entry you may get through 2 or 3 counties in the 48 hours. You could do that last year but rules are changing every week at the moment.
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I can use the PCR taken in48h befor the ferry to Holland which will cover the crossing to Germany inside the 48h, just wonder if to do another PCR in Germany to cross to Austria and crossing to Italy, but the second PCR will delay our crossing to Austria, waiting for the test results.
 
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pampam said:
Sorry because spain in eu ,i thought they would all have eu rules ,
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What, like Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and England are all in the UK so they have all the same rules! :think:

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Dogsense said:
I can use the PCR taken in48h befor the ferry to Holland which will cover the crossing to Germany inside the 48h, just wonder if to do another PCR in Germany to cross to Austria and crossing to Italy, but the second PCR will delay our crossing to Austria, waiting for the test results.
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Unless you've got an EU passport, Holland is currently closed to UK residents, they are in lockdown. You must have seen that news somewhere surely? There are also stringent regulations in Germany for travellers.
The only motorhome route out of uk at the moment for tourism purposes is Spain but the BF route is solidly booked until mid March.
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Dogsense said:
I can use the PCR taken in48h befor the ferry to Holland which will cover the crossing to Germany inside the 48h, just wonder if to do another PCR in Germany to cross to Austria and crossing to Italy, but the second PCR will delay our crossing to Austria, waiting for the test results.
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Be careful with Austria, they changed the rules on Christmas day didn't publish it on the Internet and yesterday refused entry to a plane load of people from the UK.
 
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Lenny HB said:
Be careful with Austria, they changed the rules on Christmas day didn't publish it on the Internet and yesterday refused entry to a plane load of people from the UK.
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The change from Antigen test to ONLY PCR test.
 
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Wabs said:
Nice to ask a question for help, and be flayed in public,,,ease up,,,
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Agreed but why ask a question when unless you float your vehicle on six rubber dinghies (plenty in storage on the south coast) and reverse migrate, there's no way out of the UK for tourism purposes at the moment. We've just cancelled our 2 month Spanish trip for that very reason and feeling pretty p***ed off about it. Rant over and I feel a little better 😆
 
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Wabs said:
I just think it’s nice to be nice,,,ain’t that what the Funsters are all about?
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Kups said:
Agreed but why ask a question when unless you float your vehicle on six rubber dinghies (plenty in storage on the south coast) and reverse migrate, there's no way out of the UK for tourism purposes at the moment. We've just cancelled our 2 month Spanish trip for that very reason and feeling pretty p***ed off about it. Rant over and I feel a little better 😆
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It is very unfortunate but don’t pillory the guy for asking a question
 
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Well im off to spain 🛫next week 🤞🤞🤞🤞
dogsense according to the ones in the know on here it looks like you wont be going to greece in your van,im sorry for that, perhaps make an adjustment and rent an apartment and fly there?
i shudda been caribbean but its spain instead ,
”bring me sunshine”
 
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Kups said:
Agreed but why ask a question when unless you float your vehicle on six rubber dinghies (plenty in storage on the south coast) and reverse migrate, there's no way out of the UK for tourism purposes at the moment. We've just cancelled our 2 month Spanish trip for that very reason and feeling pretty p***ed off about it. Rant over and I feel a little better 😆
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Spain is the one you can go to at the moment.

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jongood said:
Spain is the one you can go to at the moment.
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Yes thanks to Brittany Ferries but last time I tried to move my flexi ticket there were no spaces until March so that was when I moved it to June 22. I first booked this crossing in November 2019, this is the 8th iteration!
 
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chaser said:
So if you are really desperate, what's to stop you going ferry to Spain and just driving into other parts of Europe.
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Im already here mate, got through the tunnel just before the shutters came down and been enjoying the sunshine at Benicasim, 22c and sunny yesterday. Imo its much better being in a place where you can be outside more.

Struggling to understand all these posts where people are cancelling trips direct to Spain citing travel bans etc when there isnt one yet.
 
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chaser said:
So if you are really desperate, what's to stop you going ferry to Spain and just driving into other parts of Europe.
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You can "just drive" but crossing the borders between different countries in the EU requires different tests, plus double jabbed status all changing over time as the pandemic evolves. We went to France in July 2021, and again to France and Italy in Sept, and I did a solo trip Uk, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy, France, UK in October. For each trip the regulations were different because individual countries have control of their border policies as they relate to COVID. You just need to check before each trip and make the necessary arrangements. From memory in Oct France required double jabs, Belgium double jabs and just registering your arrival if you were staying less than 48hrs (I was), Germany was double jabbed and registration, Austria double jabbed but no registration because I was there less than 24hrs, Italy was registration, a LFT (antigen) test 48hrs before arrival and double jabbed, that LFT was taken in Germany via a pharmacy (but actually at a very efficient Fire Station), and France on the return trip just double jabbed, and then the UK Passenger Locator Form to re-enter plus a 2 day PCR after arrival. You could of course ignore this all and hope you neither caught Covid, had an accident of some sort, or had any other kind of interaction with the local state, but who knows how that would play out, in terms of legal proceedings, costs, confinement? Easier just to get the forms filled and take the tests. And I'm scheduled for Spain next month - who knows what the regs will be then, but currently I appear good to go apart from the dreaded Spth form. And if you can't be arsed then stay at home. Plenty of recommendations here for UK sites.
 
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So basically as of today there is no way to Spain, as routes are full on Brittany Ferries
Cant go via Holland etc ?

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chaser said:
So if you are really desperate, what's to stop you going ferry to Spain and just driving into other parts of Europe.
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Nothing stopping you trying but you have to get through France for anywhere apart from Portugal. Drive a UK plated motorhome will be very obvious and no doubt the gendarmes will be flagging you down before too long. My sister who lives in southern Germany but shops in the Strasbourg Cora Hypermarket tells me that the French police are creating unannounced checkpoints and turning all non French cars around before they get too far into France. They also have a strict set of Covid rules in Germany so you're not going to get very far in a big white vehicle with UK plates:(
 
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Kups said:
Nothing stopping you trying but you have to get through France for anywhere apart from Portugal. Drive a UK plated motorhome will be very obvious and no doubt the gendarmes will be flagging you down before too long. My sister who lives in southern Germany but shops in the Strasbourg Cora Hypermarket tells me that the French police are creating unannounced checkpoints and turning all non French cars around before they get too far into France. They also have a strict set of Covid rules in Germany so you're not going to get very far in a big white vehicle with UK plates:(
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Wasn't suggesting it, and wouldn't dream of trying it, just pointing it out (y)
 
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