Travel to Philippines from US and Back

[Bochog 10]

Anyone who travelled to the Philippines recently?

 

I was hoping to get feedback regarding the following:

 

• Testing: Since they require a 72 hour negative test prior to departure, did they check the time and count 72 hours exactly? Or they just based it off the day?
• Testing: Where did you get tested?
• Vaccination: Did they accept the vaccine card from CDC or the State Vaccine record?

 

Thanks in advance to anyone who will respond! Happy Thanksgiving!!

[Crazy Cat 42,202]

My wife just traveled to Taiwan.  She got her test at CVS.  We were very impressed.  She received PCR results in 26 hours (on a Saturday) after giving the sample. 

[Bochog 10]

20 minutes ago, Crazy Cat said:

My wife just traveled to Taiwan.  She got her test at CVS.  We were very impressed.  She received PCR results in 26 hours (on a Saturday) after giving the sample. 

That's awesome!! Was it a self administered test? I'm scared of poking my own nose. LOL

Edited November 23, 2021 by Bochog

[RO_AH 1,662]

43 minutes ago, Bochog said:

Anyone who travelled to the Philippines recently?

 

I was hoping to get feedback regarding the following:

 

• Testing: Since they require a 72 hour negative test prior to departure, did they check the time and count 72 hours exactly? Or they just based it off the day?
• Testing: Where did you get tested?
• Vaccination: Did they accept the vaccine card from CDC or the State Vaccine record?

 

Thanks in advance to anyone who will respond! Happy Thanksgiving!!

PAL provides drive through testing at the PAL training center in Manila. It is real close to the US Embassy. That's where I got my test mostly due to it being an accepted testing facility by the state of HI so that we would not need to quarantine once we got home. We took our tests in the afternoon and got our results the evening. We did the PCR test.

[Bochog 10]

18 minutes ago, RO_AH said:

PAL provides drive through testing at the PAL training center in Manila. It is real close to the US Embassy. That's where I got my test mostly due to it being an accepted testing facility by the state of HI so that we would not need to quarantine once we got home. We took our tests in the afternoon and got our results the evening. We did the PCR test.

Did you pay for it? If so, how much?

 

I'll probably be going there too before my flight going back here.

 

Thanks!

[Crazy Cat 42,202]

33 minutes ago, Bochog said:

That's awesome!! Was it a self administered test? I'm scared of poking my own nose. LOL

Yes.  They watched as my wife collected the sample in our car at their pharmacy drive-thru.

[RO_AH 1,662]

27 minutes ago, Bochog said:

Did you pay for it? If so, how much?

I'll probably be going there too before my flight going back here.

Thanks!

I am thinking it was 3300 PHP but I can't remember for sure. When I just checked I didn't see the info on their website so I am not 100% sure they are still doing it.

[Kby175 115]

I just arrived today and they accepted my cdc white card and the pcr-rt test I got a CVS I got the day before I flew. The results came back from CVS in about 26 hours the same as others have experienced.  

 

My One Health Pass is showing I have a 3rd day swab test but did not pay or register yet I may have missed a desk or something, they were herding us like cattle through the different stations. Going to ask the front desk of the hotel to see if they know.  

[temptemptemp 0]

@Kby175, please keep us posted.  I'm thinking of visiting too but I'm also afraid it might be too much hassle with getting quarantine and scheduling a test to get back.

[Talako 789]

14 hours ago, Kby175 said:

I just arrived today and they accepted my cdc white card and the pcr-rt test I got a CVS I got the day before I flew. The results came back from CVS in about 26 hours the same as others have experienced.  

 

My One Health Pass is showing I have a 3rd day swab test but did not pay or register yet I may have missed a desk or something, they were herding us like cattle through the different stations. Going to ask the front desk of the hotel to see if they know.  

As Tempx3 requested, please keep letting us know your progress.  I know where you are going, so I'm curious to know what you went through to get there.

[Kby175 115]

On 11/26/2021 at 12:00 AM, Talako said:

As Tempx3 requested, please keep letting us know your progress.  I know where you are going, so I'm curious to know what you went through to get there.

So far it's not too bad, I was in a bit of a panic since I did not sign up for a covid test at the airport like they used to have you do. 

 

Apparently when I registered for One Health Pass I had to choose a lab for my test at that time, I just picked a random one it turned out that is the largest covid testing lab in the Philippines.  Padlab, Philippine Airport 

 

Bacolod has dropped the S-Pass requirement now Talako, you can apply and you are automatically approved, at least that is what the system says for an unrestricted city.  I am still going to apply to Bago City's LGU with the proper address and information just in case. There is some infighting between the mayors office and another person in Negros Occidental right now one party says you need S-Pass while the mayor of Bacolod says no you don't need the S-Pass.  Either way in the system now it is showing green unrestricted and auto approve when you apply.  

 

The lab will be here some time today to do my covid test since it's day 3, they sent me an email yesterday confirming my name, hotel, payment cash, card or paypal. The results are due by 6pm the following day, from what I have seen it's usually sometime the next morning and you can show this to the hotel and you can go out and about like a normal person while you wait for your flight to another island if you are not staying in Manila.  

 

EDIT: Forgot to add the quarantine info for Tempx3, I grabbed this from another post I made.

 

There is a 3 day, 5 day and 7 day.

 

You can get the 3 day  for fully vaccinated travelers and if you have a vaccination card that they accept and you must have a covid test taken within 72 hours of arriving. Upload both your vaccination card and negative test to the One Health Pass system 24 hours before your flight. Since I took my covid test the day before my trip my results did not come until I was already mid flight. I showed the BOQ person who was checking my information and he took a picture of the negative test and added it manually. He said you will have a 3 day quarantine with day 3 swab test.  

 

5 day quarantine for fully vaccinated travelers and if you have a vaccination card they accept and without a covid test.

 

7 day quarantine for unvaccinated or a vaccination card they can't confirm. 

 

The funny thing about the vaccination card it all depends on who is checking your card in the One Health Pass system, it's not the person at the airport which I thought for the longest time. When you apply for your One Health Pass 24 hours before traveling you upload your vaccination card as well as your covid test if you have one.  

Edited November 26, 2021 by Kby175