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BVI Travel - COVID Testing
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06/09/2021 04:25 AM
06/09/2021 04:25 AM
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Zanshin
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The BVI Travel requirements page ( https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/british-virgin-islands/entry-requirements) states that I need a rt-PCR test 3-5 days before travel. I wonder about the minimum 3 days part, it doesn't make sense that results closer to arrival than 3 days won't be accepted. Has anyone here traveled to the BVI recently with a rt-PCR test date less than those 3 days? I am asking because getting my test(s) in a row for my trip requires me to fulfil 3 different test rules (netherlands, Sint Maarten & BVI) and they all have mutually exclusive rules - particularly since my tests here all take 48 hours for results and if one adds the 24-hours before travel requirement for test results that brings me past the 72-hour limit for SXM! <sigh> Travel has become even less fun now.
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Re: BVI Travel - COVID Testing
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06/09/2021 09:04 AM
06/09/2021 09:04 AM
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Posts: 82,737 Central Florida!
Carol_Hill
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Zanshin--with regard to your question re the SXM entry requirements, I answered over there on the SXM board. Good luck!!
Carol Hill
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Re: BVI Travel - COVID Testing
[Re: Zanshin]
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06/09/2021 09:32 AM
06/09/2021 09:32 AM
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Carol_Hill
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Sorry, I don't know anything about BVI testing requirements. Good luck. We just had a real tribulation to get our test here, but am thankful to be heading out to SXM tomorrow..
Carol Hill
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Re: BVI Travel - COVID Testing
[Re: Zanshin]
#257669
06/09/2021 09:36 AM
06/09/2021 09:36 AM
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Posts: 3,359 Cane Garden Bay, Tortola
JasonHelmbrecht
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Carol - thanks, I saw that. But that answer prompted this question and if I can do a BVI test only 2 days before travel, I can reduce my tests from 3 to 1. Otherwise I need to do a free test tomorrow, a $120 test on Friday and another $120 on Saturday plus the 4-hour round trip by train for each one. While tests (both rt-PCR and quick-tests) here in Germany are free, they don't send results for 48 hours and don't work on weekends so I can't use those for this trip and need to do those special tests is it 2 days before travel or BVI arrival? If it's 3-5 days before arrival, you're fine. Also, Malcom was tested in STT on the same day as arrival so based on that I'd say you're going to be OK but would wait for official word...
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Re: BVI Travel - COVID Testing
[Re: Zanshin]
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06/09/2021 10:30 AM
06/09/2021 10:30 AM
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Zanshin
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Thanks Jason - things are looking up, as of a couple of hours ago the transit through Schiphol in the Netherlands from Germany no longer requires their specific COVID test, so now I just have to juggle the weekend and different SXM and BVI requirements and if the BVI allows a Saturday test for Monday travel then I should make it with just one test and one train trip. RW - Once I'm out of quarantine at Nanny Cay I'm hopping straight over to CRC, by then Mal should be back from his gallivanting around the BVI. And he's more of a Heineken or Red Stripe character than a Caribe so those limes would just go to waste But thanks for the offer!!!
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