LEARN THE PROCEDURES FOR PASSENGERS ARRIVING AT MADEIRA AIRPORT AND HAVING TO BE QUARANTINED

Tobi Hughes·
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The Regional Government is making the procedures that its customers will have to follow to the hotels of Madeira reach, through the state of alert in which the Region is.

“They have to fulfill the mandatory quarantine period, that is, stay in the room, without leaving, for 14 days”.

“They are responsible for the additional costs and will be a crime if they do not obey” with a fine or possible prison.

Also “a minimum service (change of bed clothes) to be defined by IASAÚDE will be done”.

From JM

This raises more questions though.

Who will be checking on this.?

If passengers are coming to stay in hotels which I think will be very few now, what about the person who collects them from the airport and others at the hotel they will have contact with.?

If a passenger is coming here to stay in an AL apartment or villa, what about the taxi driver or hire car representative they have been in contact with.?

Also these people coming home or to stay in rented accommodation will need to buy food etc, so could already be spreading the virus before they self isolate?

So many unanswered questions.

If anyone coming in and is going through the quarantine period, please let us know how this is being put in place.

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18 Responses

  1. As I understand it the Madeiran government wanted the government on the mainland to authorise a ban on planes flying to Madeira. That authorisation was not forthcoming so the Madeiran government has achieved it by bringing in the quarantine rule. The very few people that now arrive will come into contact with far fewer people than would have been the case if the quarantine rule had not been introduced.

  2. From an AL perspective. Clients will need to do a self check in. No meet and greet can happen. Also its not possible to shop for a 14 day food supply. Who will do their shopping?

  3. I can understand the Authorities they want to keep the people of Madeira safe, rightly so. Why don’t they, therefore, close the airport to all foreign nationals instead of making life difficult for themselves & visitors with this 14 day quarantine ruling!!

  4. Many small hotels do not have room service nor cooking fascilities in the room. How would this work?

  6. What about tourist already on the island
    Will they be able leave on schedule?

  7. Flights from UK are cancelled with full refund(Jet2) accomodation can be rebooked without charge (time share) still to sort out car hire.i understood from an earlier post that they closed the airport because there were no flights? We were due to come the 30th

  8. Easyjet holidays have refunded my holiday this morning was due to fly tomorrow.

  9. The trouble we all have is this is a moving target, I’m holding conference call meetings almost daily with my head staff to try and work something up that is both workable and fits a time scale for implementation. We had a physical presence meeting last week and came out with the “plan” only to receive a call from our biggest client that stated ” a job we were to start this coming monday was cancelled and any work for foreseeable future was to be aligned to emergency repairs only” turn round back into meeting to discuss the implications of that. These are light switch off decisions that are being made but when this is finished it won’t be light switched back on, more dimmer switch I’m afraid.

  10. My wife and I were due to fly from LGW to Madeira with EasyJet on Friday 20th for another week’s stay (it would be our sixth or seventh visit to the island); thus far we’ve received nothing at all from EasyJet to indicate that flights might/will be cancelled whereas other carriers, eg. Jet2, already seem to be well on top of the situation. I guess we’ll have to wait until business hours tomorrow (Monday 16th) to see how EasyJet and also the travel company our holiday, including hotel accommodation, is booked through respond.

  12. I was due to arrived on 31st – I run a fitness retreat with my clients – who are due to arrive on the 2nd of April…

    As it stands they would not be quarantined right? But I would as I arrive in March…? However if I change my flight to arrive on 1st of April – I would avoid the quartantine?

    However what is the likelyhood the date In which passengers landing in Madeira are quarantined be extended from March 31st into April…

    Should I cancel my client retreat and reschedule or can I be optimistic that we can still come??? There is 14 of us total..

  13. We have been in Madeira since 9th March intending to stay for four weeks.
    From today, our hotel is discouraging any guests from venturing out as they say the police will be continually questioning everybody, despite being here before the quarantine. This will be bad for all the shops and restaurants, as presumably there will be no tourists on the streets.

  14. Ok thanks for the reply… I’m Gona remain optimistic and hope things change in the coming weeks for the better across the whole world…which somehow allows me to come to Madeira and hope this date isn’t extended into April… how long can Madeira really have this rule and shut the airports for? Although I do agree with protecting Madeira – it is the right decision… but how long can they stand by it?? Can they really go further than end of March?

    I have my own home to go to in Madeira – so really wondering how the quarantine is policed…. hard for me to accept I’ll have to reschedule for later in the year… I will pray and hope that Nossa Senhora heals the world asap!!

  15. If you dont live on Madeira please stay away. I think you will not have a giod holiday in quarantine. Come to madeira another time and have a good time without this coronavirus restrictions. Anyway here all bars closed and restaurants open only for lunch. Please do yourself and the people living in Madeira a favour and stay home.

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