Negative Tests for Tourists ?

[Robbo]

Numerous other questions also arise:

- Will there be a requirement for a specific test?  
- Which are the most accurate? 
- Can the results be guaranteed in the small window before before departure?
- What evidence is to be presented at the destination? (presumably some kind of result notification?)
- What about forged 'evidence'? 

Etc, etc...

[el caballo hambriento]

Getting one in the UK for travel? What a laugh! No chance until something special can be set up and that would take time.  You can't even get a test here quickly if you suspect you are ill and then you have to be prepared to travel a distance.

[Rome77]

Getting one in the UK for travel? What a laugh! No chance until something special can be set up and that would take time.  You can't even get a test here quickly if you suspect you are ill and then you have to be prepared to travel a distance.

Indeed many practical questions arise - like the one you bring up. So if most can't get tested in the UK, then they arrive at their accommodation without a test certificate and need to be tested privately locally. During xmas/new year peak season you could easily imagine certain peak days with thousands of people arriving into the Canaries from Spain/Italy/France/UK/Germany etc. If even say 30% of people need to be tested after arrival - is there even capacity for such testing locally? What will the rules be for tourists in the interim until test results are back? Who will be at hand to enforce those rules?

Is one option that airlines would do a check for negative COVID certificates at the point of departure?

Don't get me wrong, I am all in favour of testing and requirements being put in place. But work needs to start ASAP on how this is going to work in practice - and indeed hopefully this is already ongoing! It will be interesting to see how this pans out.

[Emmi Smith]

Am I right, that if travelling to Fuerteventura to our own second home, that we don't need to take a pre flight test?  If so, what paperwork does one need to prove that?

[Robbo]

Am I right, that if travelling to Fuerteventura to our own second home, that we don't need to take a pre flight test?  If so, what paperwork does one need to prove that?

From what I can see, no, no such requirement in what is planned. They only talk about those who present at accommodations receptions?

[Felipe Geraldo]

Only a proposal at this stage so we can only speculate, however from the article:

"This means that a negative test result will not be mandatory to enter the islands at this point, but it is necessary when checking into:
- Hotels
- Aparthotels
- Rural hotels
- Timeshare Resorts
- Holiday apartment complexes
- Any accommodation with a ‘VV’ classification. (does anyone know what this means?)

This applies to international travellers, EU travellers, national travellers from the mainland, and even local residents if they want to stay in a hotel or ‘holiday’ accommodation, as when they check in, they become ‘tourists’."

I agree with all the questions already raised on here with regards to the practicalities of this, when I first read it I did do a bit of searching and concluded it would be very unlikely for me to be able to get a confirmed test result within 72 hours of check in for my upcoming hotel booking if I was required to. Only other related news so far is that TUI are planning to test there customers from the Netherlands before departure. If this actually happens then I expect the tour operators will have to assist in some way or else nobody will book their package deals.

[Emmi Smith]

VV = Vivienda Vacacional.  It is the licence required to officially rent out your property for holiday lets.  The properties with these legal licences have to display a plaque on the front of the property.

[Robbo]

VV = ViviendaVacacional - the new rental licence for touristic properties (including lets)

[Felipe Geraldo]

thanks Emmi & Robbo, was wondering what that meant and couldn't find out via Google.

[el caballo hambriento]

Am I right, that if travelling to Fuerteventura to our own second home, that we don't need to take a pre flight test?  If so, what paperwork does one need to prove that?

A shortened copy of your escritura - copia simple.  I think I have these words correct but I did not check.  My suggestion, not official.