Heading To Spain For Your Summer Holiday This Year?

[Hymie]

Make sure that you have budgeted for 109 Euros/day spend – you might need to show authorities this in cash or travellers cheques, or a credit card having the available credit.

Let’s say you’re taking your family (wife & 2 kids) on a two week holiday – you could have to show that you have access to over 6,000 Euros, otherwise you will be denied entry.
Yet another Brexit benefit.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/little-known-daily-charge-spain-30288672

[royfromaus]

So the Spanish being nobs is the fault of Brexit?

Exactly how much of the EU's nobishness are you happy to take?

[ToraToraTora]

Nothing new, we do it too.

[ToraToraTora]

In fact more or less every country in the world does some sort of check you can support yourself whilst there.

[retrocop]

I would sooner go to a Non EU country like Turkey in any case. Hasta
la vista Espanol.

[royfromaus]

I'm actually going to Canada and America.
The Americans want to know if my ancestors fought in the war of independence.

[bobbinwales]

Scraping barrels now hymie. If Spain want to make life difficult for tourists that's there fault

[Zainakhtar12]

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[theshedman]

Just got back from Spain and none of the checks you mention were carried out. In fact it was quicker going through customs than usual this time.

[bobbinwales]

I done Spain last October and family done it this year ... none of us was asked but maybe we were booked accommodation before we landed

[Prudie]

You should post this in B&S because your sour grapes and chips on this topic are verging on obsessive. What you've pasted from the article is in fact balderdash in reality. Doesn't happen.

[theshedman]

I notice Hymie as usual only mentions the bit about Brits going to Spain and nothing about further down in the article where it says “When entering Spain, these checks are not systematically carried out for every traveller." He pointed out that there are similar rules for visitors entering the UK, adding: "Likewise, travellers coming to the UK are also required to show that they have specific means to support themselves and any dependents for the duration of the trip and the ability to pay for the return or onward journey." So it seems we do exactly the same but Hymie chooses to miss that out as it doesn't suit his agenda.

[calmck]

Hymie have you ever watched any Customs and Immigration programs on TV? All countries can do this. USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and the UK to mention a few!

[royfromaus]

B&S


Does that stand for Bull and shti, Prudie?

[gulliver1]

Hymie the AB Brexiteers will swear black is white, and white is black, just to prove they are right. They picked it up from the Boris school of Radicalisation

[10ClarionSt]

TTT @ 22.56:

"In fact more or less every country in the world does some sort of check you can support yourself whilst there."

I've been to the USA a number of times and can't remember being asked this. Maybe it was in the small print of the ESTA, but I don't recall it.

[emeritus]

Absolutely nothing to do with Brexit. This is a requirement in most countries. You really should do some research Hymie before posting nonsense about Brexit.

[New Judge]

One of the purposes of Brexit was to return the status of the UK to that of a normal country( i.e. not a vassal region of the European Union). The EU may be perfectly happy to allow all manner of penniless hobos to wander across its members’ mutual borders; normal countries usually are not.

The regulations you mention are simply designed to stop vagrants pitching up on EasyJet and spending their nights sleeping under the pier in Benidorm and their days asking residents and tourists if they have any “spare change”. Furthermore, from the article:

“This is not a new requirement and has been in place for some time for visitors from outside of the European Union or Schengen area.”

Since the UK was not a Schengen member, the regulation was applicable whilst we were members of the EU and so Brexit has made no difference to it.

“More information is available from the Spanish Ministry of Interior (in Spanish).”

This suggests the information is available only in Spanish. It is not. A drop-down list of alternative translations (including English) is provided.

And finally:

“It's unlikely but it could happen, Birmingham Live reports.”

Indeed. I would say very unlikely. Spain is a pragmatic nation and relies on tourism for much of its income. I have visited Spain numerous times since Brexit and neither I nor anybody I know has been subject to any of these checks (nor were they pre-Brexit, when the same regulations applied). The whole business of scaremongering over border checks post-Brexit is laughable. On my last two trips to the EU it has taken me longer to regain entry to the UK than it did to get into my destination – as is often the case. I have notice no appreciable difference in border controls since Brexit.

I appreciate your disappointment that the UK has left the EU. I would have been bitterly disappointed had we remained. But I think by now I would have resigned myself to the fact and not continually attempted (unsurprisingly, often unsuccessfully) to highlight problems which do not exist. To continue to do so, especially when you are usually shot down in flames, will, I fear, eventually drive you crackers.

[Bobbisox1]

Oooh, I’m going to Mijas in September, should I be worried?

[douglas9401]

Only if you rock up dressed as a tramp and your luggage is a Tesco bag for life, Bobbi. :-)

[Bobbisox1]

Thanks for the heads up Dougie , if I go with a beret ( tiltedof course) a red neckerchief ,a striped top and a pencil skirt split to my thigh, will I pass as being French and will I just ‘ glide’ through leaving all those nasty Brits to their fate?