15/12/2021
We tell you about our experience with trips to New York and COVID: NEW YORK IS TOTALLY SAFE. 🇺🇸 ✈ 🗽
We have already been to New York 3 times since the borders were opened: one that Daniel did first just to check how everything was and then another two with groups of travellers.
Complying with the rules to fly that we have already informed you about, which are very easy, wearing masks for the subway and other interior places, as well as the COVID passport to enter places where they request it, we have not had any problem to be and access to any restaurant, attraction or museum. In addition, outdoors you can go without a mask and almost everyone does it naturally.
There are new restrictions that will affect children and young people, to access certain places, they are the following:
- From yesterday (12/14/2021), minors between 5 and 11 years old must show the COVID passport with at least one dose of the vaccine that has been assigned to them.
- As of December 27, young people between 12 and 18 years old must show the COVID passport with the complete schedule of all the doses of the vaccine that has been assigned
- Unvaccinated minors under 5 years of age must wear a mask and be accompanied by a parent.
These measures affect entry into aquariums and zoos, convention and exhibition centres, entertainment and recreation venues, including movie theatres, music or concert venues and casinos, professional sports stadiums, commercial events and party venues, gyms, gardens. botanicals, museums and galleries, restaurants and bars, lounges, performing arts theatres, bowling alleys, game rooms and billiards.
There is an additional restriction on Broadway and that is that children under 5 years of age may enter the theatre accompanied by a fully vaccinated adult, but the child must present a negative PCR performed 72 hours before the start of the performance or a rapid antigen test performed 6 hours before the start.
In any case, our recommendation is that the children who come to our trips are at least 10 years old. We walk a lot and they are very intense days, so it may be that the little ones get tired very soon and do not enjoy the same. Another thing is that we make a group of kids, which then we do personalize everything for them.
Finally, we want to review all the measures and requirements necessary to travel with full guarantee:
- Are you traveling with children under 2 years of age? They are exempt from all kinds of tests and vaccines.
- Over 2 years: must be vaccinated and present the vaccination certificate. In addition, we have to get tested for COVID-19. before travelling. This test must be done a maximum of 1 day before the flight departs. PCR or antigens do.
- Over 2 years old NOT vaccinated. They cannot travel.
- If you have passed the COVID-19 up to 90 days before the flight departs, you can also travel. You must present an official medical report authorizing you to travel.
- Acceptable proofs of vaccination against COVID-19 in the United Kingdom are the United Kingdom National Health Service COVID Pass, which can be requested online at https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/covid- pass/
* Remember that these are the 7 vaccines announced as approved by the CDC: Janssen / Johnson & Johnson (single dose), Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, Oxford-AstraZeneca, Covishield, BIBP / Sinopharm and Sinovac.
Official information of the Centers for Disease Control And Prevention of the USA: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/noncitizens-US-air-travel.html