Covid surging in Bonaire

[TabeaK]

Such a bummer. And a waste of resources - at least for fully vaccinated travelers who need to get tested anyway coming into Bonaire.

5 day testing requirement will start on Sept 1. We are scheduled to go down for Labor Day week and now I am seriously regretting picking Bonaire as a destination with these changes…

But what do we not do to get in some diving. 3 tests within a 7 day period just for travel - 1 48h before arrival, 1 3 days before departure back to US and now the day 5 test, yay! And of course you cannot take the day 5 test as your return test as they will not provide printed results. Looking forward to probably spending hours waiting in line on Thursday with hundreds of other travelers showing up to comply with the testing requirement… yay! And why? Because of a hundred million idiots stateside who will not do the right thing and protect everyone by taking a highly efficient vaccine.

 

[ReadyDiverOne]

Has anyone determined definitively whether the 5-day test will suffice for return-to-US test if one is leaving on Day 7?

 

[tursiops]

Has anyone determined definitively whether the 5-day test will suffice for return-to-US test if one is leaving on Day 7?

You get no result you can use for US entry. It is solely for Bonairian use.

 

[rmorgan]

Extra test voor Amerikaanse reizigers geldt niet bij verblijf van 7 dagen |

no extra test for seven-day stays. This link should translate to English.

 

[ReadyDiverOne]

Thanks, the link didn’t translate but that would be awesome!

 

[tursiops]

Extra test voor Amerikaanse reizigers geldt niet bij verblijf van 7 dagen |

no extra test for seven-day stays. This link should translate to English.

I do not think this link says that. You must take the free 5-day test to satisfy Bonaire, and a separate test "with a commercial company " to get back into the US.

 

[uncfnp]

Can someone explain this …

 

[tursiops]

Can someone explain this …

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What needs explanation?

 

[rmorgan]

Tursiops, it’s certainly not clear. The headline is “Extra test for American travelers does not apply for stays of 7 days,” the article says there is an exception for 7-day stays, but it also includes the language you note.

Since so many people do one-week stays, having them do double tests would be mediocre policy and burden the testing resources, so I’ll bet the headline’s right . . . It’ll get sorted.

(DiverOne, there’s a language-selection list at top left, so you can join the confusion)

 

[uncfnp]

What needs explanation?

So if you test positive (on the pretravel PCR?) you just present a recovery certificate from the previous 6 months and you are good to go?