Predictions for the island

[Si Tie]

Because this has gone on for as long as it has.  Also predictions for a vaccine being six months at best away.  Also assuming one is found
it then has to be administrered.  I think we could be looking a year before we get back to any kind of normal.  The impact on the island 
is difficult to measure as no one know the individual positions of each business.  But its not unrealistic to assume a lot of business will close.
Bar/restaurants/hotels and the companies who supply theses places. All that said Fuerte is still a great place and will bounce back the empty places
will be filled with new business and people will return.  I just hope it a soon as possible so as many places as possible can survive.

[Grampiangranny]

Not speaking for the island, but in the UK this year average age of COVID-related deaths is 82.4.  Average age of all deaths in the UK in the last couple of years is 81.16. From statistics it could be argued that the virus has actually done us a favour.  Please don't shoot the devil's advocate!

[Jason W]

Not speaking for the island, but in the UK this year average age of Covid-related deaths is 82.4.  Average age of all deaths in the UK in the last couple of years is 81.16. From statistics it could be argued that the virus has actually done us a favour.  Please don't shoot the devil's advocate!

It’s time to decide if we wait for a vaccine that may never arrive let alone be effective (and assuming the public will have the vaccine - i for one wouldn’t go anywhere near an untested vaccine) or we start living our lives again.

[Fabian]

Very interesting topic, I asked myself this question quite often in the last weeks.

Yesterday I finally made it and got on board on a flight from Frankfurt to Fuerteventura.
The flight I originally booked has been cancelled and I had to change the reservation multiple times.

It is absolutely crucial that airlines take responsibility and stick to the flight schedule. Or at least communicate with their customers as soon as they know that the flight has to be cancelled (unfortunately Tuifly did not do a great job).
I am planning to stay at least four weeks, so the organizational effort was clearly worth it. But I would never have spent so much time just to get one week of vacation.

I wonder what impressions I will get in the next days - maybe I will have a good answer to this question then.

[Will]

Where are you staying? How busy is it?

There are some photos being posted that make the beaches look like ghost town.

[Fabian]

Before I arrived I watched many vlogs about the current situation, but I have to admit that I was a bit shocked than I actually saw the empty stores, hotels, streets etc.
It is very different to actually feel the atmosphere than just sitting at home and watching the videos from the island. Still, I would say that it is not a ghost town (yet).

I stay at the Bristol Area at a complex that is a combination of owner-occupied flats and hotel. Therefore it is not easy to separate residents from the ones that are tourists. But Saturday and Sunday I got the impression that it was quite busy.
Almost all guests are Spanish, a very few are from the UK and I haven’t met another german yet. Which pretty much sums up the guest structure at the north at the moment in my opinion.

Yesterday I saw quite a lot of people at the beach around the Riu Hotels, but I think a great percentage of them were locals. But compared to a "normal" October, it still looks quite surreal.

[Ducks]

Yesterday I finally made it and got on board on a flight from Frankfurt to Fuerteventura.

What's the situation at FUE airport these days? Are they doing temp checks, or any kind of testing? Are the queues very busy, or the wait time very long? Was the experience different in Germany?

[Jason W]

Temperature checks when we arrived on Saturday. Seemed quite busy but seems we arrived just after some domestic flights as every car hire desk had long queues. The temperature check seems more a PR thing, I’d be surprised it picks much if anything up as it’s done from such a distance.

[Fizzy Lemonade]

As regards a vaccine, the sense is that if developed & the signs are encouraging that it will, it may be as low as 50% - 60% effective so we will all have to learn to live with COVID, vaccine or no vaccine for the foreseeable future, my gut feeling for 2021 is many of those who are used to traveling every year will travel, some of those who fall into the high risk catogory may well decide not too, there is definitely a chunk of COVID fatigue out there and many are desperate for a break, me included

It's up to the governments & all other relevant agencies, service providers, airlines, hoteliers, bar & restaurant owners etc etc to ensure that foreign travel whether for business or leisure gets up & running as safely as possible, as soon as possible, they may as well because there is no cure coming

Wash / sanitise hands regularly - keep 1/2 meters apart - good cough & sneeze etiquette will still have to be done post vaccine  roll out

[trex]

When I was there in September there were no temperature checks at all, not when we arrived at barcelona, and not when we arrived at fuerteventura.. it was like old times except for the face masks.. And the health locator form was never scanned, just had to show a qr code to the staff when boarding.. could have been any qr code since it wasn't scanned..