Oh, the PLF form to Spain was easy -
The Spanish Locator Form is NOT easy. NOT IN ANY WAY.
First, you have to upload your vaccination certificates from the NHS app. It should be easy, but it really isn't. I spent about 4 hours trying to do it before giving up and taking a paper copy to be processed at the "Sanitation Station" which is just past passport control. The white coated women scanned the QR code and eventually let me go. But it was another 15 minutes of questions and trying to scan QR codes that just didn't seem to want to be scanned.
Second, the Locator Form requires a seat number. I wasn't offered a seat number when I booked. I had to pay another £9 for a seat number, and in the event the plane was changed and my seat was changed. I moved 20 rows back. Inevitably someone fairly close to my original seat tested positive, so the Spanish Sanitation Service thought I was likely to have been infected. They bombarded me with phone calls for 7 days whilst I tried to explain the seat change issue.
Third, on arrival at the airport to return, I had to go back through the Sanitation Station because my double vax record still wasn't uploaded.
The Scotland locator form (don't know if it's different in England) wasn't so hard. I did manage to upload my vax certificates, and didn't need a seat number to fill out the form. Nobody checked the form on arrival. I had to do the 2 day test, and mail it back, but it was not too hard. £75 though, so pretty expensive.the one back to the UK was a right chew on, as was the unnecessary day 2 test, but that's our Government for you. If track and trace worked properly there should be no need for a test.
The motto is - at the moment - if you want to travel, then you have to work for it.
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