Travel Updates

After almost 2 years of the pandemic without letting in visitors, we're excited to see Fiji opening to travellers from December 1st, and we're not the only ones who are excited for this awesome news. Faiyaz Koya, the Minister of Tourism in Fiji, said, “It’s been almost two years since we welcomed international visitors. And…

In September we were graced with the awesome news that the US would be opening their borders in early November. The travel industry and travellers alike have been anticipating a confirmed date since, and on Friday the 15th of October it was finally announced that the US open to vaccinated travellers on the 8th of…

After the first mention of the introduction of lateral flow tests for vaccinated travellers in early October, Grant Shapps has finally announced when we can see a switch from PCR day-2 tests to cheaper lateral flow. There is a lot of excitement as the switch will come on the 24th of October, in time to…

A popular winter destination, Thailand will be allowing vaccinated UK travellers in from the 1st of November. This is great news for the coming months after the recent restriction lifts for UK travellers. After the UK government announced 47 countries coming off the red list last week, and a massive 83 countries and territories had…

After a stellar week of travel updates last week, there is even more good news. On Friday, October 8th, the FCDO lifted their advice against all but essential travel on 51 more destinations. These are all destinations that are on the Rest of the World travel list already. This means that travellers will be able…

As we have all been anticipating since Monday, October 4th after the announcement of the Red and Rest of the World lists to replace the traffic light system, Grant Shapps has presented to us the move of 47 countries off the red list and onto the Rest of the World list. This leaves only 7 destinations left…

As of yesterday, October 6th, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) have lifted their advice against 32 travel destinations. Now that the FCDO have lifted advice against these destinations, this means that travel insurance will begin to cover these countries again. Lifting the advice based on the Covid rates in these countries and territories…

Some fantastic news came out today, October 1st, as Turkey and Croatia both revealed that they will no longer require PCR tests for entry from vaccinated UK travellers. This is great timing, with Turkey having left the UK's red list on September 22nd and Croatia an awesome destination that many UK travellers flock to. The…

On the 28th of September, the FCDO officially lifted the advice against all but essential travel to Egypt, Maldives, Sri Lanka. The lift of this advice from Egypt, Maldives, and Sri Lanka is excellent news both for the travel industry and the consumers. Removing the conflicting advice not only means that travellers can have more…

With October 4th coming up, the PCR testing updates and scrapping of the traffic light system is soon to be put into action. Yesterday, September 27th, we got some great additional news from the Welsh government confirming their plan to follow most of these changes and remove pre-departure tests from the 4th of October. After…