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Gran Alacant Forum => General Discussions => Topic started by: Derek on April 07, 2022, 18:12.
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Hi
Is it like old times re entry into Spain meaning nothing apart from your passport?
Derek
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https://www.spth.gob.es/
The new rules are in the above link, a valid vaccination certificate is certainly still required .
If you have the certificate No SPTH form required
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Thanks for the clarification.
Derek
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Appreciate not Alicante but we flew into Tenerife Saturday and the rules were passport, boarding cards and a current full vaccination certificate. Spanish health officials still present and checking certificates of everybody. Flew out of Bristol airport and only interested in passport. Flying over to Alicante next week so see if same applies.
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Flew out to Alicante end of last month from Bristol, was just asked if fully vaccinated. Flying back just passport and boarding pass.
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Flew into Alicante last night after easyJet delays/ lot of turbulence and sitting on plane waiting for slot.
Anyway there was a queue for stamping passports, no electronic gates. Still need to show Spainish locators, although I had all vac certs I done one anyway save a lot of messing around until they do away with them.
There was a few people getting past the barriers where the baggage comes out and just waking out with cases, no one stopping them .
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Still need to show Spainish locators,
Really Steve - I misunderstood the earlier threads - traveling tomorrow so I'll do one (I wasn't going to)
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The Spain site is still "open" for you to fill in a health declaration form.
You are then advised to follow the "BLUE" signs, something that wasn't on the form before - whatever that means, I'll find out !
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Despite the fact it says on the Spanish website that you don't need to fill in the locator form if you're full vaccinated it won't accept my certificate which I downloaded today from the NHS so I'll have to do the form anyway.
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Don’t think that comes in until the 20th April.
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Don’t think that comes in until the 20th April.
On the 20th April, you will no longer be required to wear masks indoors - apart from on public transport, hospitals etc
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On the spth.gob.es website, there is a link to check the validity of your vaccination certificate. You put in your date of travel and attach a copy of your certificate. It approved straight away and says you don't have to fill in a health form. Follow the orange directions at the airport.
I'm not travelling until the 23rd, so would be grateful if anyone has any comments.
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Has anyone else had problems getting their covid certificate from the NHS download approved by the Spanish website. Mine's rejected everytime.
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I flew into Alicante last Saturday. I had checked to see if my nhs covid pass would be accepted and was told that it was and to follow the orange route. I filled in the health form just sent in case. There are no signed anywhere in Alicante directing you to a blue or orange route. Got to the desks in baggage reclaim and handed them my nhs covid pass. Woman scanned it and then looked confused. Asked where I was from. More confusion. So I gave her my health form QR code. From my experience, I’d fill the health form in.
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Has anyone else had problems getting their covid certificate from the NHS download approved by the Spanish website. Mine's rejected everytime.
Yes has same issue last week turned out my vaccine certificate didn’t have my middle name on it and on the form I put my middle name take your middle name out of form and it works
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Has anyone else had problems getting their covid certificate from the NHS download approved by the Spanish website. Mine's rejected everytime.
Try making sure you upload the booster shot code, that happened to me until I used the third vaccine code.
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Do we have to fill out and complete the Spanish locator form. Seems to be conflicting messages on here. Some are doing it. Thought all restrictions have been lifted ?
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I've just flown in from BHX. At Alicante after passports I headed through the automatic doors towards the blue/orange split to get my NHS cert checked. I was asked if I was vaccinated - said yes and was directed through the orange side. Bloke at the end before the desks said keep walking as the checks are 'random' so I walked past all the blokes/girls on the desks without being challenged and then outside into the rain.
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I've just downloaded my NHS Covid pass before I'm off on my next jolly and noticed the expiry date is 01.12.2022, 6 months away.
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Bloke at the end before the desks said keep walking as the checks are 'random'
Has anyone here actually been checked in the last couple of months? I ask everyone I know who flies in, and from more than a dozen reports I am hearing it's "keep walking, don't stop" every time?
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This might help :-
EU & Schengen Area travellers to Spain no longer required to show Covid status.
Travellers arriving in Spain from elsewhere in the EU or the Schengen Area, including Residents travelling back to Spain, will no longer be required to present proof of vaccination against Coronavirus, recent recovery or a negative test result, it was confirmed on Thursday (2nd June).
For those arriving from outside the EU or Schengen Area, however, the requirements remain in place.
The Spanish Health Ministry pointed to the ‘improvement to the epidemiological situation’ in Spain and other European countries, as well as the country’s high vaccination rate, as the reason for its decision to relax the rules.
The announcement was published on Thursday meaning Spain’s Covid-19 travel rules have changed with immediate effect.
‘Due to the high rates of vaccination coverage in Spain, above the European Union average, and the favourable situation of the health system, it is considered appropriate to eliminate travel restrictions for people from countries belonging to the European Union as well as associated Schengen countries,’ states the BOE.
‘People who arrive in Spain by air or sea from countries that do not belong to the European Union or are not considered Schengen associated countries may be subject to a health check at the first point of entry that will include, at least, the taking of temperature, documentation control and a visual check on their physical condition,’ the Spanish government clarified about the fact that the Covid pass rule remains in place for non-EU/Schengen travellers.
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Forgive my ignorance, but as I understand it, the UK is not in the Schengen Area. Or does Spain simply grant the UK the same rights those in the Schengen Area as some kind of legacy "bonus"?
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The last paragraph refers to the UK as we are not in the EU or Schengen area.
Gov Uk advise here
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/spain/entry-requirements
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When you fill in the SPTH form the name you enter on that form must exactly match the one on your NHS Covid Passport otherwise it won't accept it , my wife has a double barreled name, a damned nuisance.
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We came out last night. 6 people were sat at desks in baggage randomly picking out people and checking their certificates or lateral flow tests as required
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Thanks for that Nicki - It's an impossible question of course, but in your opinion, what would happen if you failed? Anyone? Given I am resident here, surely I just go home right? Full disclosure, I am vaccinated (I did that for "the good of everyone" I suppose), but over a year ago, and have not felt the need to be boosted given this thing is now essentially a bad cold, and I am not in a risk group. So technically, I would fail the test unless I go through the rigmarole of testing in Gatwick on the way back (£30 and time). I have never had Covid.
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I’m assuming if you are a resident of Spain they won’t worry and yoh will go in okay. I’m assuming they will completely drop all restrictions very soon. We are out again in October and although I’ve had a 4th booster my husband will be 12 months since his last vaccine so I’m guessing if they haven’t dropped this he will have to take a lateral flow test and get a fitness to fly. Unless he gets covid in the meantime which we have both so far escaped 🤞
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Hi Nicki, Yes I agree, and will chance my arm! I will let you know how it goes. I have been broadly happy with the way Spain handled the entire Covid nightmare, but right now, at the last moment I think they've fumbled keeping the restrictions on the UK this long. Maybe it's some political gambit or something (Gibraltar?) but it certainly feels more punative than scientific. Oh well, sure it will end soon.
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We arrived at Alicante airport on Monday just gone, they were randomly picking people to check their covid documents, I had my NHS Covid Passport printed out over three pages, a guy scanned the QR code for my third jab and I was through in seconds, wife and I didn't fill in SPTH forms.
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Just coming over for long weekend so only having Cabin Baggage with Ryanair. I am assuming we dont have to go to check in for Covid Vaccine checks etc and just go through security ?
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Hi JB, That's not correct as I understand it, although read on for my update....
As it stands Spain requires you to have vaccination documentation (links are above). That means a vaccine that is less than (I think) 270 days old, or a recent booster or recovery certificate. We can debate the merits of why Spain are amongst the last countries in the world requiring this, but they are. (Not for EU countries though...and that's another even bigger debate haha)
That said, people here on this thread are reporting "random checks". So you get off the plane, go through passport control and then walk through a corridor lined with "doctors" tables where a young lady is (tending) to say "Keep walking".
I myself came back yesterday. I did not have this documentation (I am vaccinated last year, but not boosted). My reasoning was:
1) I have come back twice before, with the £80 of rapid Gatwick test certificates for my wife and I, and been told "Keep walking", and never saw anyone being picked out - I am sick of wasting money. I am down £160 already.
2) I am a Spanish Resident, and I (think/hope) that would make a difference if I was "caught"
3) The plane is supposed to be face-masked, and no one bothers (I did, I always thought planes were filth pits) - an indication that this whole thing is well past its sell by date, and I think the airport have all but given up while we wait for the inevitable news that the checks have finished.
4) I was only there for three days. Not even time for an infection to show up on a test.
Here's what happened to me:
I got of the plane, went to passport control. One time I gave the passport, and it was stamped. The next time, as an experiment, I gave the TIE card. The official smiled and handed it back - no stamp. I went along to the corridor of doom, and was told "keep walking". However, this time I DID see a lady picked at random. So make of that what you will.
I have scoured the FAQ's and although they cover every eventuality, they mention NOTHING of what is supposed to happen if you do not have the docs. So I can only guess, but my gamble is that "being sent back to the UK" is not on the list.
I can only say "make your own decision", but you ARE required to have this documentation.
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What I meant is at UK airport do I need to go to check in to have my vaccine status checked … I am boosted etc & have the proof on phone etc
Or can I just head to go through security like the old days :)
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No - straight through security as before. Ryanair checked passports and boarding passes in UK and at Alicante we were sent straight to passport stamp booth without using the machines. Vaccine status not checked either end although it is stated as random in Alicante.
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What I meant is at UK airport do I need to go to check in to have my vaccine status checked … I am boosted etc & have the proof on phone etc
Or can I just head to go through security like the old days :)
We took hand luggage only as we always do. Just went straight to security in Bristol airport showed passport and boarding cards only. No one checked vaccination or tests etc. I assume they leave it to Alicante to check if they wish. Don’t think any UK airport would be that interested. Only about 10% wore masks on the plane despite being told it was a requirement. We wore them as didn’t want to catch anything at the start of our holiday and my there were loads coughing on there 😂.
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Quick question just downloaded my vaccine passport and I’ve worked out that my return to UK date is actually 272 days since my booster jab. The passport says it’s valid until 16th Dec . Am I still allowed to travel ? If I am will I be able to go again in Aug ? As I’m not over 80 or vulnerable I can’t get a fourth jab . What do I do now ? Any help would be appreciated
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If you have received a booster, you are considered fully vaccinated for entry into Spain. There is currently no expiry date for booster jabs.
From the FTA site.