Posted on 1st April 2021 Covid-19
As the situation regarding European International Travel continues to evolve, and messages are starting to get clearer we are answering some of your COVID travel questions!
Q> What do we think about the UK Government Travel Ban until June?
A – It is arguably not actually as bleak as it looks – the “Travel Ban” is really an administrative measure, which the government have already described as being a way to ease legislative decisions. In other words, June is the date they have chosen initially – but once the review is undertaken in mid April they can then choose when to lift it, and it could very well be earlier than the June date…
A- Well, the status of this is arguably the key factor in flux right now as figures are currently on the rise in many countries, but could well be coming back down again by this time in 2 months. However, what we don’t expect to see is a particular spike in Andorra itself. Andorra is proactively testing 17% of it’s population weekly, and they are finding a lot of cases that other countries would miss as a result. They have an R of 1.14, and their mortality rate is one of the lowest in the World according to their own government, at only 1%. In other words, what they are doing is working well.
A- Last summer saw “Travel Corridors” being established across Europe – and the systems of prevention, diagnosis and treatment are now much more robust. Therefore we fully expect to see a similar travel corridor-style plan to be reconfirmed soon. Andorra currently has reciprocal agreements with France and Spain regarding movement – so you can expect that anyone permitted to travel to those countries will also be allowed to enter Andorra eventually. Furthermore they have established a “Green List” of countries which have more than 5000 tests per 100,000 inhabitants , or a positive test rate of below 9% (UK rate on 24/03 was 8.23%). In fact, the UK vaccination programme means British Travellers are one of the most desirable nations for other countries to open up to in future…
A- If your week does end up not being viable due to either Travel Restrictions, or due to the European mainland third wave, we have a very robust, fully published Covid travel policy and guarantee. This allows you to defer to later dates – and we still have plenty of availability in July and August which people booked for June can move into free of charge if they are nervous about early summer travel. Please visit https://www.singletracksafari.com/2021-coronavirus-policies/ for all the details.
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A couple of days ago we finally had the news we have been waiting for all year - travel is returning to a much more accessible and normal system from next month! The good news is that for your 2022 trip you can expect international travel to be much SIMPLER, much CHEAPER and much more SECURE for the first time since covid appeared.
**We have immediately seen a significant upswing in enquiries and bookings - so the time to book is now, as we are already at 55% capacity for 2022. Remember that if you don't get booked early you might not get booked at all!**
Everyone is going to want to get back to dusty trails, huge mountains, blue skies and that magical feeling that comes from riding in a truly awe-inspiring, bike-focussed location....we can't wait to get back to Andorra ourselves too!
Yes, for the vaccinated, travel is unlocking at last - and 2022 is looking amazing, with restrictions set to ease very significantly thanks to the end of the confusing and expensive testing requirements which we have seen throughout the past year...
All of our dates, prices and availability for 2022 are already live on our website for both our guided, uplifted Enduro trips and our budget-friendly bike park trips...the guided trips are limited capacity, and are what we are famous for - so they book up quickly!
We simply cannot wait to get back on the trails with our guests after two seasons away - and we are going to treasure every moment we get to ride with you all as we make a return towards normal. We have missed you all so much!
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In some very POSITIVE news, we have today uploaded our DATES FOR 2022 to our website – and over the coming days we will also ensure that the availability is accurate once we incorporate all of our deferred guests!
We expect that the current muddiness of the International Travel situation will be resolved once the 2021 summer season ends (we in the industry suspect the current situation is being engineered to dissuade UK travellers to leave the UK) – and with our now world-leading vaccincation rates we expect travel to be allowed to return towards normal, with testing requirements very much reduced, a reduction of amber lists and far cheaper testing becoming available.
It is also highly likely that fully vaccinated travellers may not longer have to test at all in the near future…all of these things should allow travel to resume with almost normality in the very near future! If you book now you can do so at current-year prices, and miss any price rises that may be applied soon!
Head over to any of our booking pages to see the weeks for 2022 – such as our guided, uplifted apartment options here!
Unfortunately we sadly continue to see the enormous impacts of Covid-19 on International travel this summer (2021), and following recent delays, announcements and consumer confidence falling within the travel industry we have been communicating once again with our booked guests regarding their plans and thoughts, and have been forced once again to come to a devastating decision.
The remainder of our weeks in 2021 will no longer be going ahead – meaning that this is our second year without being able to operate due to Covid, and more recently due to a lack of UK governmental support to assist consumers in resuming travel with any real reassurance. It really should not be this hard – but the government seem determined to add complexity, expense and uncertainty to the situation. Many people want to travel, but are not certain of how to do so, or are fearful of sudden changes to the system making trips non-viable, or even worse, leaving them stranded outside the UK. This lack of certainty is having a huge knock-on effect on our sector – even major flight operators are continuing to cancel or change dozens of flights.
Once you factor in the above with the continuing cancellation of flights by many airlines it is very easy to see why confidence in ability to travel abroad this year is very low- despite our excellent vaccination programme.
Therefore, as mentioned, we have now communicated with all of our guests who are booked to visit this summer to discuss their thoughts, worries and preferences for the summer ahead. It’s a devastating situation to once again find oursleves in, but we can absolutely understand why so many people are not wanting to leave international travel plans in place during such a period of indecision and uncertainty – and, as always we have worked very hard with the many, many guests who we had booked in for 2021 to ensure that we offered solutions to suit them. As a result, nearly all of our guests for 2021 have now postponed their trips to 2022.
In the meantime many of our guests have expressed an interest in our UK-based guiding, so we have reintroduced our Snowdonia-based North Wales trips, on a guiding-only basis. We have now run several of these on our amazing local trails, and interest continues to be high! We live in North Wales, and have been riding here for decades (our first ever STS guided guests came here back in 2010) – and as a result we know all of the local secrets, the best of the wild mountain routes and lots of hidden riding just away from the trail centres which you’d never discover alone…details are all on our website right here – prepare to ride some amazing singletrack without leaving the country! And yes, you can transfer onto this from an Andorra trip if you prefer!
Many thanks to all of our friends and guests from around the World for standing by us, and we cannot wait to get to Andorra with you in 2022!
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We are putting 2021 behind us, and we are now taking bookings expecting much easier travel in 2022! Book early to guarantee a space!Tich Kent MTB holiday 👌😉😇
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