Any updates on requirement for negative Covid test to enter US?

[tridacna]

If you have another passport, travel to Cuba is easy! I have three passports but no desire to dive there. Too bloody expensive.

 

[Dan]

If you have another passport, travel to Cuba is easy! I have three passports but no desire to dive there. Too bloody expensive.

I only have a US passport, unfortunately.

It is expensive, but still cheaper than Galapagos or Cocos. It’ll be a check on my bucket list. We’ll see after I come back home from the trip, whether it’s worth coming back there again in the future.

A buddy who just came back from there told me it’s like diving in Caribbean back in the 60’s.

 

[Ukmc]

I only have a US passport, unfortunately.

It is expensive, but still cheaper than Galapagos or Cocos. It’ll be a check on my bucket list. We’ll see after I come back home from the trip, whether it’s worth coming back there again in the future.

A buddy who just came back from there told me it’s like diving in Caribbean back in the 60’s.

Please post a trip report after you are back.

 

[Lorenzoid]

Please post a trip report after you are back.

And, uh, more on the topic of this thread, how the teleproctored covid test went. I'm impressed they have Internet access in Cuba nowadays. Wasn't so long ago that ... well, nevermind. OT.

 

[Dan]

And, uh, more on the topic of this thread, how the teleproctored covid test went. I'm impressed they have Internet access in Cuba nowadays. Wasn't so long ago that ... well, nevermind. OT.

We’ll be spending a couple of days in Havana after the liveaboard. The Iberostar Parque Central in Havana certainly does have wifi, not in down south around Jardines de La Reina marine park.

 

[Dan]

Please post a trip report after you are back.

Will do.

 

[Dan]

Airlines, travel industry push White House to end testing requirements

White House officials met Tuesday with travel industry leaders who pressed the Biden administration to end its requirements that vaccinated international travelers take a coronavirus test before flying to the United States.

www.cnn.com

 

[tridacna]

Airlines, travel industry push White House to end testing requirements

White House officials met Tuesday with travel industry leaders who pressed the Biden administration to end its requirements that vaccinated international travelers take a coronavirus test before flying to the United States.

www.cnn.com

"The United Kingdom was one of the first countries to lift all international travel rules in March and hasn’t experienced ANY DISCERNIBLE DIFFERENCE in COVID-19 rates. Since then, nearly all of Europe has abandoned entry rules for both vaccinated and non-vaccinated travelers."

Yet the theater continues here. I'm surprised they haven't installed rules to take all passenger's anal temps prior to boarding.

 

[Manatee Diver]

Yet the theater continues here. I'm surprised they haven't installed rules to take all passenger's anal temps prior to boarding.

Don't give them any ideas.

 

[Lorenzoid]

"The United Kingdom was one of the first countries to lift all international travel rules in March and hasn’t experienced ANY DISCERNIBLE DIFFERENCE in COVID-19 rates. Since then, nearly all of Europe has abandoned entry rules for both vaccinated and non-vaccinated travelers."

Yet the theater continues here. I'm surprised they haven't installed rules to take all passenger's anal temps prior to boarding.

And if circumstances change, European countries and maybe even the UK will be able to reinstate entry requirements with only minor grumbling and not the pitchforks and torches that we in the US would see.

Don't get me wrong. I believe it's time to end the test requirement for entry to the US. But I'm not holding my breath. My Binax Now tests arrived yesterday.