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Stick with your mates.

Going abroad with your mates is all about having fun. Lounging by the pool, catching the rays and partying into the early hours.   

It should be a trip you want to remember for the right reasons.

Sadly, for a small number of Brits, their holiday ends in a hospital ward or a police station.  

But we are here to share with you a few simple tips that can help you have a holiday to remember, not one to forget.  

Here are five things that can help prevent things going wrong on the strip:

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Serious incidents often happen after drinking alcohol when you are alone and isolated.

◊ TIP: Stick with your mates throughout the night. Stay in contact and if you’re staying at the same accommodation, go home together.

Drinking abroad can be different than back in the UK. The quality and measurements of alcohol can be larger, cheaper and deals can result in you being drunk quicker than intended.

Drinks spiking can also take place on holiday. Spiking is adding alcohol or drugs to someone’s drink without them knowing.

S piking is commonly used to distract you from theft or impair you before an assault .

◊TIP: Do not leave your drink unattended and do not accept drinks from complete strangers. This is the best strategy to prevent the possibility of your drink being spiked.

◊TIP: Consume water in-between alcoholic drinks. This will help pace you throughout the night and help keep you hydrated.

◊ TIP: Drink at your own pace. Everyone’s tolerance to alcohol is different. Consider avoiding rounds or having a break from drinking alcohol if you are feeling uneasy.

Remembering where to go at the end of the night can be tougher than you think. It’s a new environment, a different climate, and drinking alcohol could make this harder.

TIP: Keep details of your accommodation on you. Consider taking a screenshot of the hotel’s address before going out. Or ask reception if they have an address card you can take and store in your wallet.

◊ TIP: Use messaging apps to set up a group chat. This way you can send your location to your friends if you get lost or check they are safe if you lose them.

It is easy to get lost in a foreign country. Add alcohol and sun and it’s now even easier to get lost.

◊ TIP: If you are on the strip, before your first big night, familiarise yourself with the area. Exploring your surroundings will help you remember where you are later.

◊ TIP: Agree a meeting place in case you lose your friends and cannot get in contact (e.g. phone out of battery or lost etc.)

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Travel insurance is important. It provides protection and coverage for unexpected events that can happen on holiday. Travel insurance can cover a range of scenarios, such as:

• medical emergencies and repatriation
• lost or stolen baggage
• trip cancellations or interruptions
• natural disasters

You must purchase insurance cover that is appropriate for your travel plans. Travelling without the right cover can be very expensive if things do go wrong while you are abroad.

There are many reasons why travel insurance may be invalidated.

If you buy a basic policy that does not provide enough medical coverage, you may get a big bill if you have an unexpected health issue on holiday.

You may buy a policy that does not cover your planned holiday activities such as water sports or quad biking; or does not cover cancellations or delays. If you’re injured doing activities, or your trip is disrupted, you may have a big bill to pay.

So, before you go on holiday, you can do some small things in only a few minutes which could save you a lot of money.

You must declare all pre-existing medical conditions when buying travel insurance. If you already have cover, you should check that your list of medical conditions is up to date before each trip abroad.

Failure to do this could mean your claim is rejected if you have a medical emergency while travelling.

Therefore you must be honest about any medical conditions you have, to avoid risking a big bill.

Check your policy to see what you need to declare. Medical conditions can include, but are not limited to:

• heart conditions
• high blood pressure
• respiratory conditions (such as asthma)
• mental health conditions
• any form of cancer

When buying travel insurance, consider the type of coverage you need. If you intend to engage in adventure activities, like quad-biking or water sports, you may need specific insurance cover. Check your policy before you travel to make sure all your activities are covered.

Make sure you buy travel insurance that covers the entire duration of your holiday. Some insurance policies have a limit on the amount of time you can be abroad; if you exceed it, your policy may be invalidated.

You may assume you will not need to be brought home for medical reasons whilst on holiday. But, if you become ill or injured while travelling, you may need to be transported to hospital, or back to the UK, for treatment. Medical evacuations can cost thousands of pounds.

Check your policy covers medical evacuation before travelling. This is especially important if your trip includes adventure activities like climbing, quad-biking or water sports.

Before you go on holiday, share your insurance policy details with travel companions, and friends or family at home. This can be helpful in case they need to contact your insurance company on your behalf, if you get into trouble abroad.

When you travel, take a paper copy of your insurance policy with you. If you lose your phone abroad, this paper copy will provide the information you need, including your policy number and insurer’s emergency 24 hour telephone number.

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Hopes that holidays to popular tourist destinations could soon restart have been boosted after the government scrapped advice that said people should avoid all but essential travel to areas including mainland Portugal and Spain’s Canary Islands.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said the updates meant the level of Covid risk in some places was no longer “unacceptably high”, prompting speculation about which countries will be put on the “green list” when international travel is allowed again.

Ministers are putting the finishing touches to their traffic light system, that will grade countries green, amber or red, determining whether travellers returning from those countries need to quarantine at home, in a hotel or not at all. The final lists are expected to be signed off on Thursday and announced on Friday.

Covid passports have also been promised by the government to help travellers prove their vaccine status but on Tuesday, Downing Street hinted the repurposed NHS app may not be ready to carry them by 17 May.

The Foreign Office’s update this week appeared to give a glimpse at which countries could be on the green list – meaning people will not need to quarantine when they arrive in the UK from them. The advice against all but essential travel was lifted for countries including Malta and Israel, as well as several Greek islands, including Rhodes, Kos, Zakynthos, Corfu and Crete.

While the government said it would give seven days’ notice for allowing foreign trips again so the aviation and tourism industries can have some time to prepare, the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, could give them a few days’ extra notice by making the announcement on Friday, when the green list should be unveiled, instead of next Monday.

Department for Transport sources stressed the Foreign Office advice was drawn up separately and not indicative of which countries would be on the green list. They added islands were unlikely to be included on the green list to start with, but could be “separated out as the summer proceeds”.

There may only be about a dozen countries on the green list when it is released, but it is understood that those are likely to include very small nations that not many people travel to from the UK. Government insiders stressed the initial list would be “cautious” and “limited” and could be bolstered with more popular destinations at the review points every three weeks.

Meanwhile, concerns were raised about digital vaccine passports being developed by the NHS not being fully ready for 17 May.

Henk van Klaveren, head of public affairs at the Airport Operators Association, said he believed the app being developed did not include proof of a traveller’s negative test result, that countries may require to let people skip quarantine.

He added that the passenger locator form – used to monitor where arrivals say they will be staying and quarantining in the UK – also needs digitising quickly, to avoid people potentially spreading Covid while they wait for the documents to be manually checked.

“We see queues out on to the tarmac in certain airports because the Border Force is simply not able to cope with the limited resources that they are putting at the border and the lack of e-passport gates,” van Klaveren said.

He said the government is only planning to open its e-passport gates in the autumn, which was a “preposterous deadline” and instead needed to be done “really rapidly, because the queues at the moment are unacceptable”.

The government did not deny that the NHS app would not, at first, display Covid test results. The prime minister’s spokesman also suggested the app may not be ready for the resumption of international travel and an alternative could be rolled out instead.

He said the government would “set out what measures are used for those initial countries that are available for travel, be it the app or another approach”.

When pressed, the spokesman said: “There are other routes to achieving the same end-goal. We are working on the app at the moment, at pace, to have it ready, and we will be able to confirm ahead of the 17th at the earliest what approaches we will be using.”

The shadow home secretary, Nick Thomas-Symonds, said safety has to come first when international travel resumes and that ministers’ record on Covid border security so far has been awful.

He called the hotel quarantine system for travellers arriving from red list countries too lax and said it had led to dangerous new variants reaching the UK.

Thomas-Symonds said: “The government needs to set out full details of any proposals, including what criteria will be used and what countries will be in each band. They also need to bring forward the long promised international vaccine passport, as well as sorting out test, trace and isolate. The worst possible thing would be an unprepared government rushing ahead of itself and allowing a vaccine resistant strain to reach the UK.”

Earlier this week, Johnson said “there will be some openings up” on 17 May, but said: “We have got to be cautious and we have got to be sensible and we have got to make sure that we don’t see the virus coming back in.”

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One of the key determinants of whether Brits can travel abroad this summer following the global coronavirus pandemic is the Foreign Office travel advice.

The FCO keeps individual country pages on its website regularly updated, with all the latest information and warnings about potential risks, such as political unrest, natural disasters and terror attacks.

If the FCO advises against “all but essential travel” to a country, it invalidates travellers’ insurance, and visiting there is at your own risk.

Here’s everything you need to know about the current advice.

What is the latest Foreign Office advice?

The FCO has been advising British nationals against all but essential international travel since 23 March. However, this advice was lifted for 67 destinations as of 4 July.

This list was updated later in July to include a further 19 destinations , but two were removed after further spikes in coronavirus cases: Spain and Serbia. There was much confusion for holidaymakers after the FCO initially left Spain’s Balearic and Canary Islands on its exempt list, before changing its advice again less than 48 hours later.

Luxembourg was also given the boot, along with Belgium and Andorra, after a spike in coronavirus cases.

The FCO list is separate from the one issued by the Department for Transport (DfT), which details “travel corridor” destinations from where travellers can now enter England, Wales and Northern Ireland without having to quarantine for two weeks (Scotland published its own list).

If the FCO advises against travelling somewhere, is it illegal to go?

No. The warning is not a “ban” as such – but going there against Foreign Office advice means nearly all travel insurance policies are invalidated (unless you buy special – and expensive – high-risk “war zone” insurance). It also might make things more complicated if you needed to be repatriated in the event of an emergency.

Why can I book a flight to a country if the FCO warns against travelling there?

Many airlines have restarted operations – for example, easyJet had its first flight post-lockdown, a hop from London to Glasgow, on 15 June after 11 weeks of being grounded.

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Others continued to operate flights throughout April and May, much to the confusion of consumers, considering most countries’ borders were closed at that point and the FCO advised against all international travel.

Wizz Air, for example, restarted flights from Luton to 15 destinations in May, including Budapest, Belgrade and Tenerife. Ryanair started selling seats to numerous European destinations, including Barcelona, Athens, Bologna and Nimes, from mid-May.

Wizz said the flights were “to provide an essential service to those who need to travel”, reported Forbes – presumably referring to returning citizens and permanent residents or medical staff, the only people who would be exempt from the rules.

Which? claimed at the time that it looked like airlines were cynically still running flights so that those who had already purchased tickets but were unable to fly because of FCO advice would be unable to claim a refund.

Ryanair, for example, is continuing to run scheduled flights to Cyprus throughout July and denying passengers a refund, despite the fact the country’s borders are currently closed to those travelling from the UK.

As countries in Europe start to open their borders again, and the UK announces the relaxation of both the FCO blanket travel warning and the mandatory two-week quarantine for inbound travellers from certain countries, catching a flight abroad purely for leisure purposes finally seems feasible. But Britons should be aware that travel advice can change at the last-minute – as was the case with Spain being removed from both the DfT and FCO “safe” lists – and that when this happens, airlines are not legally obliged to refund flight-only passengers. However, those who’ve booked a package holiday will be protected from some changes; if the FCO suddenly says it advises against travelling to a destination, tour operators will generally cancel holidays there and are required by law to refund customers in full.

Can I travel within the UK?

From 4 July, up to two households have been allowed to stay overnight in “self-contained accommodation” together – including hotels, bed and breakfasts and campsites – as long as social distancing guidelines are followed.

Many English hotels reopened on 4 July, complete with stringent new cleaning measures.

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However, recently reinstated lockdown rules in parts of the north of England mean people visiting family or friends in the affected areas are not allowed to stay in their homes or the same accommodation, such as a self-catering apartment, together (unless they have previously formed a support bubble).

Northern Ireland was a day ahead, with hotels, pubs, restaurants and tourist attractions all able to open with suitable social-distancing measures from 3 July, while Scotland reopened many tourist facilities on 15 July. Aberdeen is currently experiencing a local lockdown , with people told not to travel there and residents banned from travelling more than five miles from home for leisure purposes.

Travel restrictions in Wales were lifted on 6 July and self-contained accommodation has been able to re-open as of 13 July.

Up until 17 July, anyone without a car was pretty stuck when it came to domestic travel, as the government advised against all “non-essential” public transport journeys. But Boris Johnson has now said travelling by public transport is permitted throughout England, whatever the reason for your journey.

When is the advice against international travel likely to end?

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The FCO travel warning has been lifted for more than 60 destinations as of 4 July. More destinations have since been added, while others have been removed – click here for the latest list.

The need to quarantine has also been removed for travellers entering the UK from countries and territories regarded as “low-risk” by the Joint Biosecurity Centre, as well as 14 British Overseas Territories and the Common Travel Area (Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man).

Popular holiday destinations that are exempt from both restrictions include France, Italy, Greece and Turkey.

The FCO says of its list: “All our advice will remain under constant review to take into account the latest situation in each country.”

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Not every country welcomes visitors and some trips may be ill-advised.

F or intrepid travellers, the list of destinations is pretty expansive. There are, after all, close to 200 countries and territories around the world. While most destinations are open to tourists — that is, if you can get there — there are places in the world where travel is ill-advised or dangerous. It’s important to check Foreign Office travel warnings before you go abroad. Remember that your travel insurance could be invalidated if you travel against Foreign Office advice and in some cases there may be a lack of consular support. Here are some of the places Brits shouldn’t visit.

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Due to the conflict in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, the Foreign Office is advising against all but essential travel to both destinations. Additionally, the Foreign Office is advising against all travel to specific regions including but not limited to Gaza, the West Bank, and areas that border Syria and Lebanon. You can see the full updated list on the Foreign Office advice pages.

If you are currently in the country, you are advised to register your presence with the Foreign Office. This will allow you to receive information that will help you leave the country.

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The Foreign Office has added eight countries to its “do not travel” warning list.

The government urges UK holidaymakers not to travel to the eight new countries added to the list as they have been declared “too dangerous”.

The Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) issues advice to holidaymakers and regularly updates its travel advisories based on how dangerous countries are perceived to be and what particularly to look out for when visiting them. In total, 66 countries - or parts of countries - have been declared "too dangerous" for British tourists by the FCDO.

Eight nations have been added to the list by FCDO, these are Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Sudan, Lebanon, Israel, Belarus and the Palestinian territories.

These nations are categorised as either on the 'red list' or 'black list' by experts in the UK Foreign Office.

The FCDO does not ban UK citizens from travelling to these countries but it says they may find themselves without any government support if something were to go wrong.

The advice given for each country is slightly different but the same warning is given that help may not be offered to those who travel.

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The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) provides advice about risks of travel to help British nationals make informed decisions. Find out more about FCDO travel advice .

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• advice on preparing for travel abroad and reducing risks
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Singaporeans advised to defer all travel to Iran: MFA

SINGAPORE - Singaporeans are advised to defer all travel to Iran, while those in the country should remain vigilant and monitor developments closely, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on April 14.

The travel advisory, which noted the “latest security situation”, follows Iran’s attack on Israeli territory late on April 13 , when it launched a swarm of explosive drones and missiles.

Iran had vowed retaliation for what it called an Israeli strike on its Damascus consulate on April 1 that killed seven Revolutionary Guard officers, including two senior commanders. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility for the attack.

“Singapore has no diplomatic mission in Iran, which constrains our ability to extend consular assistance in an emergency,” said the ministry.

Singaporeans are strongly encouraged to register online with the MFA at https://eregister.mfa.gov.sg so that the ministry can contact them should the need arise.

Those who need consular assistance while in Iran can contact the MFA Duty Office.

MFA Duty Office (24 hours)

Tel: +65-6379-8800/8855 E-mail:  [email protected]

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