By Abigail Lowe. What exactly are the rules for holidays to Ibiza this year? This is what we know. Is Ibiza on the amber list? Gallery 26 Slides. View Slideshow. Ibiza's new farm-to-table food scene. Gallery 51 Slides. The best beaches in Ibiza. But package holiday firm Tui said the "continued lack of transparency" about the methodology and data behind the changes was making it "incredibly difficult for customers to book far in advance with confidence".
EasyJet said it could not understand why people were going to be allowed to attend nightclubs from Monday without a mask or social distancing but the government was "not comfortable with people going to the beaches of Europe where the infection rates are lower than in the UK". Virgin Atlantic called for the government to "act decisively" and add nations with high vaccination rates, such as the US, to the green list at the next review.
Labour criticised the government for not publishing the country-by-country data that informs its traffic light system. Shadow transport secretary Jim McMahon said: "People are booking holidays in good faith and now face the prospect of losing out because ministers refuse to be straight with the public.
Medi Jones Williams, from Bristol, booked a holiday to Majorca on Friday and said she still planned to fly there on Saturday for her seven-day trip. The year-old had her first vaccine three weeks ago, and is now looking to get a second dose as soon as possible. I feel like if I don't it will never happen because things keep changing. Mr Shapps defended the government's traffic light system, saying that the categories mean "people can see, broadly-speaking, where these countries are classified".
He added: "We're not in control of this virus, particularly in how it affects other counties, their levels of vaccinations, their level of genomic sequencing, their testing regimes. Travelling to green list destinations was likely to be a "better bet" than those on the green watchlist, he said, but cautioned "there are no guarantees". He urged people to come forward and get both vaccine doses to give them "one more piece of security when you do go off to travel". The changes will come as bad news for travellers who are over 18 and not yet double vaccinated.
The government says they can still pay for additional tests on day five as part of test-to-release and are advising everyone to get their jabs as quickly as possible. Under the change to amber list travel rules, announced last week , fully-jabbed people will still be required to take a test three days before they return and on the second day after they are back - but they will now be exempted from a day eight test. From Monday - when most Covid rules in England end - the guidance that people should not travel to amber list countries will be removed.
Fewer than 30 destinations are on the green list, which do not require people to quarantine on their return. More than 50 countries are on the strictest red list, which requires arrivals to pay to self-isolate in a hotel. Those heading to the UK from amber list destinations, such as the Balearics from 19 July , must present a negative Covid test lateral flow, rapid antigen or PCR before departure.
For fully vaccinated travellers, on arrival into the UK there is no mandatory quarantine, but travellers must take a PCR test within two days of entering the country. For unvaccinated travellers, they must self-isolate for 10 days at home and take an additional PCR test on day eight.
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