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And the £97-a-day regularisation Brits person to travel successful Spain
- Kara Godfrey, Deputy Travel Editor
- Published: 14:43, 20 Jan 2025
- Updated: 14:43, 20 Jan 2025
A NEW question informing has been enactment successful spot for Canary Island holidaymakers pursuing a fig of 'rogue' circuit operators.
The Professional Association of Tourist Guides (APIT) issued the informing owed to a fig of concerns implicit the companies.
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APIT warned that the pirate companies, which are unregulated, enactment tourists astatine hazard with unlicensed vehicles.
Dubbed "sardine cans" they are said to interruption road laws, and means tourists are not covered successful the lawsuit of an accident.
This is for some guided tours, arsenic good arsenic airdrome and cruise transfers wherever they hold for arrivals earlier offering the trips.
APIT President, Natacha López-Braña, said: "They are radical who connection their services connected Facebook oregon elsewhere and they accidental they are guides, but they are not and the tourer is being deceived."
"This paints an unacceptable representation for a destination similar ours, wherever untrained individuals provender tourists falsehoods astir our island.
"What prime bash we privation to springiness to the land erstwhile anyone comes and tin enactment arsenic a guide? What accusation is being given?"
Mainly an contented successful Lanzarote, they warned it is wide crossed the islands.
Local media website Canarian Weekly said: “Sources successful Lanzarote’s tourism assemblage person said that the occupation is not confined to the island.
"Similar amerciable operations are wide passim the Canary Islands, peculiarly during the precocious cruise play erstwhile ports spot a important influx of visitors."
Tourists are advised to publication tours and vacation experiences done their circuit operator, oregon via a credited agency.
Costa Cálida, which means 'warm coast', is simply a 250km agelong of coastline successful the southeast of Spain, successful the state of Murcia-
People connected societal media person backed this one.
One Spanish circuit usher wrote: "It is simply a disgrace to spot each these 'pirates' who abound successful galore Spanish cities offering their tours.
"[They are] destroying the dignity, price, prime and a 1000 different things of those of america who person studied and prepared to transportation retired with dignity this assemblage that we love."
Brits heading to Spain should beryllium alert of caller rules introduced past December.
Hotels and accommodation sites are present required to get further accusation from tourists connected arrival.
This includes radical sizes, location addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses.
And tourists indispensable person enough wealth to participate Spain arsenic well.
Holidaymakers indispensable beryllium capable to amusement that they person €113.40 (£97) per time they are successful Spain.
Everything you request to cognize astir visiting Spain
- Brits indispensable person astatine slightest 3 months near connected their passport from the time they program to permission the country.
- Tourists bash not request a visa if visiting for up to 90 days successful an 180-day period.
- Make definite your passport is stamped connected introduction and exit.
- Travellers whitethorn beryllium asked to amusement edifice booking confirmations and that they person capable wealth for their enactment astatine the border.
- Spain is 1 hr up of the UK.
- The state uses the euro with astir €10 moving retired to £8.55.
- Flights to Spain from the UK instrumentality betwixt 2-4 hours depending connected the destination.
Authorities astatine the airdrome are allowed to inquire for grounds of this, and tin crook anyone distant who doesn't.
And an adept has revealed however to debar the communal (and costly) mistakes tourists marque successful Spain portion connected holiday.
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