ESCAPE PLANS
cyprus gives the green light for vaccinated brits
Cyprus has said it will open its borders to vaccinated Britons from the beginning of May – although UK government restrictions on foreign travel will still be in force.
Nearly a million people in the UK have received two doses of a Covid-19 jab, and the Cypriot government said those who had both jabs could travel without restrictions from May 1.
However, the date Cyprus has set to open its borders to Britons is still more than two weeks before the earliest people in England will be able to leave the country for holidays.
Cyprus’s deputy tourism minister Savvas Perdios said the country would allow Britons who had been given vaccines approved by the European Medicines Agency the right to enter without the need for a negative test or to quarantine.
Tourists would be required to have had their second dose at the latest seven days before travel, the minister added.
arvia gets ready to set sail
Sunny skies and blue seas yearround will be at the heart of P&O’S newest ship when she makes her maiden voyage late next year.
Now revealed as the Arvia – from the Latin for ‘from the seashore’ – the Southampton-based line’s second Lng-powered Excel class ship will join the fleet in December 2022.
Voyages on 184,700 gross tonnage Arvia, a sister to Iona, will go on sale next month with the focus expected to be the Mediterranean, Canaries and Caribbean.
P&O Cruises president Paul Ludlow said: “Arvia has been designed to travel to the sun yearround and to maximise views of the ocean and the seashore from everywhere on board.’’
More ship details will be revealed in the coming months.
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