Is It Safe for Brits to Travel to Spain & Portugal Due to War in Ukraine?

Is It Safe for Brits to Travel to Spain & Portugal Due to War in Ukraine?

Despite the ongoing war in Ukraine, traveling to Spain and Portugal from the United Kingdom is fully safe. Britons can travel to these two countries without fussing about their safety. Europe and Russia have closed their airspace to one another for quite some time now. Still, a trip to Spain and Portugal from the UK remains innocent as the route between the UK and Spain as well as the route between the UK and Portugal is geographically on the contrary part of the region.

 While trippers from the UK can reach Spain and Portugal without having to worry about their safety, everyone still needs to meet the COVID-19 restrictions that the two countries presently have.

 Spain presently requires all Britons over the age of 17 to present a valid vaccination or recovery instrument upon their appearance.

 A vaccination instrument is considered valid when entering Spain only if it proves that the holder has completed vaccination with one of the approved vaccine boluses within the last 270 days or if the holder has entered a fresh vaccine cure.

As for the recovery instrument, the Spanish authorities have explained that they recognized this type of document as long as it indicates that the holder recovered from the contagion in the last 180 days.

 Else from grown-ups, children between 12 and 17 can enter Spain without holding a vaccination or recovery pass as long as they present a negative COVID-19 test taken lately.

 Piecemeal from the below-mentioned conditions, trippers from the UK also need to fill in a Health Control Form before entering Spain.

 Unlike Spain, Portugal presently applies more relaxed rules for trippers from the UK.

Britons are allowed to enter Portugal for all kinds of purposes as long as they present a valid vaccination, recovery, or test instrument upon entry as well as filler in the Passenger Locator Form.

 Portugal has the same rules as Spain regarding the validity of vaccination and recovery instruments. A vaccination pass must be issued within the last 270 days, and a recovery pass must be issued within the last 180 days.

 As for the negative COVID-19 test result, Portugal accepts both PCR and rapid-fire antigen tests. The PCR test must be taken within 72 hours before the appearance in Portugal, whereas the rapid-fire antigen test must be taken within 24 hours before appearance.

 Indeed though it's fully safe to travel from the UK to Spain and Portugal, experts advise that everyone takes the necessary measures by copping the right trip insurance. Those who buy trip insurance don't need to worry about their trip getting canceled as the insurance covers everything for them.

 Trip insurance for Brits traveling to Europe can be bought online at AXA Schengen and Europe Backing.

 Trip to other European countries is safe too, and trip experts are pushing for the recovery of the trip and tourism sector.

 In malignancy of the current situation in Ukraine, migration experts atSchengenVisaInfo.com suppose that the EU countries need to be economically strong in order to support incoming deportees, therefore suggesting that the recovery of the tourism and trip sector would profit everyone and not only those who wish to spend some good spring and summer days outside their country.

 “Once the tourism sector completely recovers, not only will these workers get back to work, but there will also be new workplaces for the deportees so that they can work while staying for the war to end,” the experts asserted.

In addition, the experts also claim that there's no reason to defer or cancel any passages to the EU.