Do you disapprove of people who are planning an overseas holiday this summer?

[bimble]

oi Bahnhof Strasse you spend time reading all this stuff can you advise?
My bestest friend was booked on a flight to fly home to UK tomorrow from Spain (she just did the camino thing for weeks). She just texted saying she's done a lateral flow just now and tested positive so obvs can't fly tomorrow. Not feeling well and doesn't know what to do, talking about getting a key-fob room somewhere & buying stash of food but doesn't have any idea what she's meant to do and for how long. Do you know / know where to look for this info - if you are positive & want to go home from spain basically.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

oi Bahnhof Strasse you spend time reading all this stuff can you advise?
My bestest friend was booked on a flight to fly home to UK tomorrow from Spain (she just did the camino thing for weeks). She just texted saying she's done a lateral flow just now and tested positive so obvs can't fly tomorrow. Not feeling well and doesn't know what to do, talking about getting a key-fob room somewhere & buying stash of food but doesn't have any idea what she's meant to do and for how long. Do you know / know where to look for this info - if you are positive & want to go home from spain basically.

She is supposed to quarantine in Spain for at least 10 days and only after that leave when she gets a negative test.

So yeah, get a room and food and stay put.

On the other hand, you don’t need any tests before travelling to the U.K., so even knowing she’s positive there is nothing to stop her travelling except her conscience.

 

[bimble]

She is supposed to quarantine in Spain for at least 10 days and only after that leave when she gets a negative test.

So yeah, get a room and food and stay put.

On the other hand, you don’t need any tests before travelling to the U.K., so even knowing she’s positive there is nothing to stop her travelling except he conscience.

This bloody virus. It is such a moral quagmire. thank you will pass this on.

 

[bimble]

Thanks Bahnhof Strasse she's grateful to know the ten day thing, is going to hole up with paracetamol for tonight and then look into getting a place with own bathroom tomorrow, poor sod.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Hope she gets well soon.

 

[bimble]

She's told the reception in the hostel she's in (that she has tested positive) and now she has to stay in her room and pee in the sink, which involves climbing on a chair. There's some sort of automatic travel insurance there, for covid positive tourists from Uk, which seems like it covers your accomodation and heath care if you catch covid whilst there.

 

[prunus]

She's told the reception in the hostel she's in (that she has tested positive) and now she has to stay in her room and pee in the sink, which involves climbing on a chair. There's some sort of automatic travel insurance there, for covid positive tourists from Uk, which seems like it covers your accomodation and heath care if you catch covid whilst there.

I have to ask - where is she supposed to defecate?

 

[bimble]

I have to ask - where is she supposed to defecate?

exactly! we are just hoping they move her to somewhere better to quarantine in before that.

 

[bimble]

bloody hell, the hostel called an actual ambulance for my friend (who just has slight flu symptoms) and now she's sat in a Spanish hospital awaiting a pcr test, she's no idea what all this is going to cost her. Seems a bit crazy, would understand if people chose to not report and just hole up in peace.

 

[The39thStep]

bloody hell, the hostel called an actual ambulance for my friend (who just has slight flu symptoms) and now she's sat in a Spanish hospital awaiting a pcr test, she's no idea what all this is going to cost her. Seems a bit crazy, would understand if people chose to not report and just hole up in peace.

If shes got a GHIC , the new version of EHIC, nowt. Private PCR tests are anything from 50-100 euros here

 

[_Russ_]

bloody hell, the hostel called an actual ambulance for my friend (who just has slight flu symptoms) and now she's sat in a Spanish hospital awaiting a pcr test, she's no idea what all this is going to cost her. Seems a bit crazy, would understand if people chose to not report and just hole up in peace.

I hope she is OK.
Wow they called an ambulance to take here for a test and it actually came (sounds like quite quickly too), contrast that to the UK situation and it makes me feel like Im in a third world country

 

[bimble]

If shes got a GHIC , the new version of EHIC, nowt. Private PCR tests are anything from 50-100 euros here

if you have to apply for that then she's not got it, but there is automaitic insurance of some sort which she's in conact with now - this, but looks like youre liable up to 500 euros still.


tbh i hadn't thought about this, the what do you do if you test positive whilst away problem, just because uk numbers are so much worse.

 

[The39thStep]

Always worth getting EHIC/GHIC. Some bank accounts have tourist cover as well.Hope it works out for her

 

[bimble]

seems totally mad that they brought her, covid positive with symptoms but not at all seriously ill, into a hospital building. She's in good spirits she'll be fine.

 

[Riklet]

Did she get travel insurance before going? Or has she got any kind of cover? If not then yeah she might have to pay some minor costs.

Sounds like she just needs to splash out on a nice apartment for 2 weeks and take it easy. Fuck staying in a hotel or a hostel.

Tbh they probably called the ambulance to get rid of her while infectious. The case numbers in Spain are like 14 times lower than the UK... maybe people are less used to positive cases everywhere like here.

 

[bimble]

no, she's saying she's got no insurance, the wally. if i'd known i'd have bullied her into getting some. I dont think she gets to choose now, where to stay, now that the authorities are involved they tell her where to quarantine.

 

[Riklet]

Uff an international hiking trip during a pandemic with no insurance. What a wally. She's definitely going to take a financial hit.

I doubt she could just fly back to the UK now as she will have to abide by Spanish national and regional rules. Hopefully they'll help her get somewhere to rest and recover. No point in booking a new flight for the moment.

 

[bimble]

Yep, absolutely daft, to go walk 500 miles across another country , right now, with no insurance.

 

[Riklet]

In holiday news - I've booked a trip to Madeira in January for a month btw. I'm hoping to be well enough to travel then (I am back driving and doing more now so fingers crossed) but will obvs do tests before during and after and be careful anyway. And make sure I have bloody insurance now, Jeez!

I have a friend who lives there with a spare room who I can stay with and a couple of grand in Euros from working in Spain still. And Madeira is pretty low risk. So I'm really looking forward to it!! I think the good weather will do me a world of good.

 

[MBV]

I'm going to Italy soon and booking travel insurance was one of the first things I did after sorting flights etc/

 

[The39thStep]

In holiday news - I've booked a trip to Madeira in January for a month btw. I'm hoping to be well enough to travel then (I am back driving and doing more now so fingers crossed) but will obvs do tests before during and after and be careful anyway. And make sure I have bloody insurance now, Jeez!

I have a friend who lives there with a spare room who I can stay with and a couple of grand in Euros from working in Spain still. And Madeira is pretty low risk. So I'm really looking forward to it!! I think the good weather will do me a world of good.

Have a good time , a bit of sunshine always helps . Never been but hope to go next year with my Portuguese neighbours .

 

[bimble]

Don’t catch covid in spain. She’s sat in the hospital still, hoping that someone will tell her a place she can quarantine for ten days which is not the hospital. She’s in a ward with non covid people.

 

[bimble]

If my friend wasn't who she is i'd be really worried now. She just sent these pictures of where she will be quarantined for ten days, some kind of empty auberge. Not a soul there apart from her, some guy who said he will bring food tomorrow, a kitchen but no cups no cutlery nothing, strip lights or darkness.


She will be ok but no good deed goes unpunished does it, she only did the test voluntarily to reassure self before flying home today that she was negative and now this, free meditation retreat / solitary confinement in spooky institutional building.

 

[nagapie]

If my friend wasn't who she is i'd be really worried now. She just sent these pictures of where she will be quarantined for ten days, some kind of empty auberge. Not a soul there apart from her, some guy who said he will bring food tomorrow, a kitchen but no cups no cutlery nothing, strip lights or darkness.
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She will be ok but no good deed goes unpunished does it, she only did the test voluntarily to reassure self before flying home today that she was negative and now this, free meditation retreat / solitary confinement in spooky institutional building.

Better than pooing in a sink I guess.

 

[bimble]

Better than pooing in a sink I guess.

not sure. i think i'd take pooing in sink over the blood splat footprints.

 

[nagapie]

not sure. i think i'd take pooing in sink over the blood splat footprints.

Oooh, I didn't realise that was blood. Damn, rock and hard place.

 

[bimble]

i'm not going anywhere for a while, risk of being stuck in solitary like that is a thing i'd not considered.

 

[Spymaster]

If my friend wasn't who she is i'd be really worried now. She just sent these pictures of where she will be quarantined for ten days, some kind of empty auberge. Not a soul there apart from her, some guy who said he will bring food tomorrow, a kitchen but no cups no cutlery nothing, strip lights or darkness.
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She will be ok but no good deed goes unpunished does it, she only did the test voluntarily to reassure self before flying home today that she was negative and now this, free meditation retreat / solitary confinement in spooky institutional building.

It's not a prison, is it? What's stopping her from walking out and checking into a hotel?

 

[Supine]

Oooh, I didn't realise that was blood. Damn, rock and hard place.

It’s not blood!

 

[bimble]

It's not a prison, is it? What's stopping her from walking out and checking into a hotel?

this is now government mandated quarantine, this is the place all covid positive tourists are sent just she's the only one at the moment. Massive fine for breaking quarantine.
On the plus side, its free, as part of their keeping tourists coming i guess.