jonbgd Posted April 26, 2021 #1 Share Posted April 26, 2021 EU To Allow U.S. Travelers To Visit This Summer, If Fully Vaccinated (forbes.com) Its a start Royal cruises out of BCN 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broadwaybaby123 Posted April 26, 2021 #2 Share Posted April 26, 2021 YES, FINALLY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandebeach Posted April 26, 2021 #3 Share Posted April 26, 2021 This is great news! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biker19 Posted April 26, 2021 #4 Share Posted April 26, 2021 Sure, you can go there, but then everything is locked up due to a COVID spike. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyank Posted April 26, 2021 #5 Share Posted April 26, 2021 6 hours ago, jonbgd said: EU To Allow U.S. Travelers To Visit This Summer, If Fully Vaccinated (forbes.com) Its a start Royal cruises out of BCN Don't get your hopes up just yet. She can talk all she wants, each individual country has to make a decision to allow international tourists. And, each country has to decide when to open their cruise ports. The EU can advise but cannot force countries to do anything. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigeck Posted April 26, 2021 #6 Share Posted April 26, 2021 2 hours ago, Biker19 said: Sure, you can go there, but then everything is locked up due to a COVID spike. France is still in lockdown and Spain isn't much better. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyank Posted April 26, 2021 #7 Share Posted April 26, 2021 3 hours ago, bigeck said: France is still in lockdown and Spain isn't much better. Germany is in total lockdown and has a very strict 10pm - 5am curfew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokeybandit Posted April 26, 2021 #8 Share Posted April 26, 2021 54 minutes ago, crazyank said: Germany is in total lockdown and has a very strict 10pm - 5am curfew Germany is a great example on how masks and lockdowns don't work 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgmn Posted April 26, 2021 #9 Share Posted April 26, 2021 (edited) 4 minutes ago, smokeybandit said: Germany is a great example on how masks and lockdowns don't work Think the Kent variant is very easy to catch (which is why UK spike was so high over winter) and that'd why Germany has spiked also. Plus lockdown and mask fatigue is kicking in in most countries Edited April 26, 2021 by sgmn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare little britain Posted April 26, 2021 #10 Share Posted April 26, 2021 In Switzerland they did some reopening as of a week ago: terraces of bars and restaurants are open, cinemas etc open with limited audience, shops are all open and of course masks inside and on busy outside places. In Austria there are regional approaches depending on the situaion in the ICUs and their 7 day incidence rate. Vienna will remain on hard lockdown at least until middle of May, in the west of Austria they opened bars and restaurants a month ago with entry tests but now they have the highest incidents in Austria and you have to do a test when you try to leave the region.... Then they are expecting foreign tourists because of a lot of public holidays so hopefully quarantine rules are gone (at the moment all hotels are still closed unless for unavoidable business trips) - but in Switzerland hotels have remained open the entire time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare livingonthebeach Posted April 26, 2021 #11 Share Posted April 26, 2021 There are so many wonderful things to see and do in this country, I think I’ll stay in my neck of the woods until the case numbers go down to a significant level globally. Sure, I’ll miss traveling but waiting another year is probably the wisest thing considering what is going on in the world. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ace2542 Posted April 26, 2021 #12 Share Posted April 26, 2021 5 hours ago, bigeck said: France is still in lockdown and Spain isn't much better. It doesn't mean that the USA will reopen to Europeans you know. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph2017China Posted April 26, 2021 #13 Share Posted April 26, 2021 Many places have already been open to travel and their is no indication that it affected people. Vaccines work. It's time to start allowing travel for vaccinated people.....and non vaccinated people next year when the numbers really drop. The non-vaccinated are also afraid, so it wouldn't matter to them if they can't travel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare livingonthebeach Posted April 26, 2021 #14 Share Posted April 26, 2021 20 minutes ago, Joseph2017China said: Many places have already been open to travel and their is no indication that it affected people. Vaccines work. It's time to start allowing travel for vaccinated people.....and non vaccinated people next year when the numbers really drop. The non-vaccinated are also afraid, so it wouldn't matter to them if they can't travel. There is also the concern that the travel experience is not going to be what people are used to. I'm fully vaccinated and not afraid to travel but what I find when I get there -- lots of places closed, hours and capacity limited, masks, further spikes etc. etc. does not make for an enjoyable trip. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ocean Boy Posted April 26, 2021 #15 Share Posted April 26, 2021 2 hours ago, crazyank said: Germany is in total lockdown and has a very strict 10pm - 5am curfew I take it the virus is more active between 10PM - 5AM. Maybe a Transylvania variant. 7 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo Posted April 26, 2021 #16 Share Posted April 26, 2021 11 minutes ago, Ocean Boy said: I take it the virus is more active between 10PM - 5AM. Maybe a Transylvania variant. Probably spreads easier when people gather after dark, party scene, bars and such. Maybe they have government there monitoring things. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mek Posted April 26, 2021 #17 Share Posted April 26, 2021 28 minutes ago, livingonthebeach said: There is also the concern that the travel experience is not going to be what people are used to. I'm fully vaccinated and not afraid to travel but what I find when I get there -- lots of places closed, hours and capacity limited, masks, further spikes etc. etc. does not make for an enjoyable trip. Well, exactly - I miss traveling so much, but right now I know what I'm getting into in the US - besides, our economy needs my support right now and so I will stay home until things settle down - however long that may take. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare livingonthebeach Posted April 26, 2021 #18 Share Posted April 26, 2021 7 minutes ago, Jimbo said: Probably spreads easier when people gather after dark, party scene, bars and such. Maybe they have government there monitoring things. That's the thought process of the curfews that were put into place here -- especially South Beach. After a certain time, the drinking and partying and loosened inhibitions get out of hand and that's a recipe for Covid spread. The businesses did not like the curfew because they make a lot of money later in the night but for the sake of safety and health it had to be done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare livingonthebeach Posted April 26, 2021 #19 Share Posted April 26, 2021 1 minute ago, mek said: Well, exactly - I miss traveling so much, but right now I know what I'm getting into in the US - besides, our economy needs my support right now and so I will stay home until things settle down - however long that may take. I agree -- staycations never looked so good. It won't kill us to put off international travel when we've got all sorts of attractions right here in our own backyard -- many to be newly discovered. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parachutes63 Posted April 26, 2021 #20 Share Posted April 26, 2021 Great Britain and Ireland are not part of the EU. They will make there own decisions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMastodon Posted April 26, 2021 #21 Share Posted April 26, 2021 1 hour ago, ace2542 said: It doesn't mean that the USA will reopen to Europeans you know. Our borders are closed to you - everyone else allowed in though. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouhunter Posted April 26, 2021 #22 Share Posted April 26, 2021 1 hour ago, Joseph2017China said: The non-vaccinated are also afraid, so it wouldn't matter to them if they can't travel. There is a difference between fearing the vaccine and fearing covid. Many who won't get vaccinated are NOT afraid of covid and are travelling now and will continue to do so. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouhunter Posted April 26, 2021 #23 Share Posted April 26, 2021 48 minutes ago, Ocean Boy said: I take it the virus is more active between 10PM - 5AM. Maybe a Transylvania variant. Yeah, I'm sure there is "science" to support that curfew. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cured Posted April 26, 2021 #24 Share Posted April 26, 2021 2 hours ago, smokeybandit said: Germany is a great example on how masks and lockdowns don't work Can you imagine how bad it would be without the masks and lockdowns? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouhunter Posted April 26, 2021 #25 Share Posted April 26, 2021 Just now, cured said: Can you imagine how bad it would be without the masks and lockdowns? You're missing his point. And we'll never know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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