ChatterBank1 min ago
Travelling To Spain From The Uk.
Do I need an Esta or Visa if travelling from the UK to Spain in 2024?
TIA. x
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.It won't be an ESTA, it'll be an ETIAS (and you won't need one until mid-2025 anyway):
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At present you can travel without either an ETIAS or a visa as long as
(a) your stay (in Spain or within any other country within the Schengen Area) won't exceed 90 days in total within any 180 day period ;
(b) you won't be travelling to work in Spain (although business meetings are permissible) ;
(c) you won't be travelling to study in Spain ;
(d) your passport was issued less than 10 years before the date of your entry into Spain ; and
(e) your passport will be valid for at least 3 months after your planned date of departure from Spain.
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Note, in particular, that it's entry into the Schengen Area that's important, rather than entry into Spain alone. So, for example, if you've already spent time in, say, France or Germany within the 180 days prior to you entering Spain, that time will count towards the 90-day limit for remaining within the Schengen Area.
You really are a nasty person hymie, you revel in the hope of other's pain if it can in any even minute way be laid at the door of Brexit.
However we are not a nation of thickos, it will just be a form and all holiday companies, airlines, ferries, travel agents, you name it, will tell you to do it - and at the end of the day it will requre only a little more info than we've putting on our APIs for years.
You are sad.
Many UK citizens who have been travelling to and from EU countries for decades with only their passport in hand, will be blissfully unaware of these changes.
Why did windywillow feel the need to ask the question – and Buenchico given a fulsome answer that contains many pitfalls we face as a result of Brexit, in travelling to EU countries?
"Why did windywillow feel the need to ask the question..."
I expect because, unlike you, she accepts that the UK is no longer an EU member. Rather than harp on about it ad nauseum she understands that some slight changes are necessary to bring the country UK into line with the other 160-odd normal countries throughout the world. Far better being part of the normal majority than part of the minority freak show that the 27 EU nations participate in.
This is the Travel section and the question was going perfectly well until you put your usual oar in.
Sorry to disturb your question, windy. Glad you found out what you needed to know.