New rules to enter Spain

[rugbyken]

with all the drama about ****** we mustn’t loose sight of the reality over 95% of our compatriots won’t find the 90 days etc a problem as long as they ge5 a couple of weeks on the p*** they’re happy may be spain could be cuba mexico etc

 

[tidewatcher]

Border and custom staff are just people doing their job. Most rummages are from profiling of the vehicle or occupants from information either true intelligence or a nod from the people at the departure port plus the odd random pull if they are not busy. If you are really unlucky you may bump into a “training day”, that can be fun. Way back prior to the now defunct free movement of travel bliss when arriving in a uk port in a yacht from Europe you had to fly a yellow (quarantine) flag and remain on the vessel for a specified time which I have forgotten now. The customs would come along to check papers etc and if they hadn’t arrived by the specified time you were free to go ashore. We arrived on a “training day”. They took the boat apart inside and were quite open about the reason and to be honest we had a good chat and heard tales of the job from their side which were pretty amusing. We had arrived from St.Peter Port in guernsey where there was a store called Bucktrouts which sold draft whisky, gin and I think vermouth, anyway they never found the whisky in the apple pop bottle, vermouth in the Coca Cola bottle or the gin in the lemonade bottles by the childrens berths…….

 

[Apollo 13]

The Telegraph is reporting that Spain now require proof that UK citizens have £85 per day per person spending money for the duration of your stay, proof of a return ticket, proof of accommodation and vaccination evidence before you will be permitted to pass through customs.

So for our 90 day winter trip we will need to prove we have £15300 of spending money for the 2 of us, and pre booked site accommodation. And another booster jab will be required.

Not happy at all. What will Brittany ferries make of this?

And what about land crossings from France?

Struth, that's a pain. Any ideas what evidence they are expecting you to produce regarding the money? Clearly carrying cash is daft, so what evidence can you provide that they will accept without reveling bank details etc?

 

[Apollo 13]

To be fair, I didn't remember the exact amount - when it was quoted as €100 in the press I thought that was what we had been asked for. This was all alongside a number of other things they were checking - 20 minutes to check paperwork for us and dog, what we were carrying (such as knives - erm, yes, there's the cutlery drawer - he checked ...) etc.

How did you prove you had the funds?

 

[Jo001]

How did you prove you had the funds?

I had to show my banking app. Fortunately my pension lump sums had been paid into one of my accounts, and with all the stuff going on with Covid and Croatia I hadn't invested them elsewhere, i.e.in anything that seemed less safe. I don't know whether showing evidence of regular income would have been accepted.

 

[Vatsmith]

It might be worth bearing in mind that there's no way a foreign border checkpoint would be able to contact your bank to verify that any paper document you show them is genuine.