What exactly do I need to do to travel to Portugal?

What Covid tests do I need to do to travel to Portugal?

What Covid tests do I need in Portugal to return to UK?

Hopefully these clear simple instructions will help.

BEFORE YOU GO WHILST IN UK

7 DAYS BEFORE FLIGHT Order your covid tests. Make sure they will arrive in next 48 hours. Green pack, or equivalent with accredited lab that your airline accept: 2 tests, one to take 72 hours before travel, the second, a Day 2 test for 48 hours after you return back to the UK (has to be called a Day 2 test or you will not receive a Day 2 test booking reference which you must have for your Passenger Locator form which you will fill in whilst in Portugal and will not be allowed back to UK). Must be the accepted PCR tests, check on Government or Airline websites.

72 HOURS BEFORE FLIGHT Take your home test and send or drop off - receive result within 72 hours before flight to Portugal.

48 HOURS BEFORE FLIGHT Fill in Portuguese Government Passenger Locator form 48 hours before travel to Portugal.

WHILST IN PORTUGAL

72 HOURS BEFORE FLYING BACK TO UK Book test in your resort in Portugal within 72 hours of your return to UK, have your covid test, get result by e-mail.

48 HOURS BEFORE FLYING BACK TO UK Fill in UK Government Passenger Locator form - you need to fill in the test booking reference of your day 2 covid test on this form or you cannot return to the UK. If you have not booked a Day 2 covid test for the UK do it now to receive your ‘Day 2 test booking reference’ unless you are exempt from taking tests which you still will need to complete this form with details of exemption to get your passenger locator certificate.

48 HOURS AFTER RETURNING TO UK - Do your pre-ordered Day 2 test on day 2 of arrival back to UK.

Note:

You MUST book the Green pack or a specific ‘Day 2’ test before you fly back from Portugal to the UK - because upon doing this you will receive a TEST DAY 2 BOOKING REFERENCE and this HAS to go on your Passenger locator form on the way back to the UK which has to be shown at check-in in Portugal. Any other test booked, even the accredited PCR tests will not give you this booking reference number if it isn’t a ‘Day 2 test’ - people were refused boarding back to the UK.

Always check with your airline or Government website for the most up to date information, this is just for informational purposes only with our experience and rules can change fluidly without our knowledge. Always check the official information for your destination and country of departure, Ocholo can not be held responsible for any incorrect information or actions that you make.