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For this trip, our first long-haul since Covid, we picked the Seychelles both because they allowed international visitors without too restrictive travelling/entry restrictions and by being able to fly direct from London with British Airways meant we could take advantage of the Seychelles being one of the UK approved quarantine-free travel corridors. Initially the plan was to spend 5 nights each across three different resorts/islands, but the rules changed slightly from when we originally booked (as did the flights a number of times) when you had to get your test in the Seychelles (day 6 rather than day 5), so we decided just to spend a week here to make sure that our initial test period was covered. As the rules stand at the moment, coming from a Category 2 country meant that we could not leave the resort until we had received another negative Covid test. Have just had it this morning (day 6) and if we don’t hear within 24 hours we can leave the resort.
Different resorts (although all have to be on a Government approved list to be able to stay) seemed to apply different rules for that initial quarantine period, until you get a negative test result on day 6 of entry into the Seychelles. Some applied rules that you could only stay in certain parts of a resort and guests were moved once they had their negative test result, to only use certain restaurants and not use the gym/spa etc. (which ruled out some places for us as the experience would be so restricted) but at Raffles (though applying all safety and hygiene measures) the only restriction was to not leave the resort for the first 6/7 days (not too much of an imposition, considering how wonderful it is) and different country categories used the gym AM/PM alternating on days of the week. All restaurants were open and available to us as was the (albeit limited for all) spa treatment selection and none of the guests had to wear masks (although some did, in limited numbers) but all staff did. There was a temperature check each morning on arrival at breakfast, but apart from that everything seemed fairly normal.