UPDATE: The Netherlands has backtracked on a new quarantine quarantine requirement for vaccinated travelers from high-risk countries, including the United States. Effective September 22, 2021, fully vaccinated travelers will be allowed to enter the Netherlands without quarantine.
Live and Let’s Fly originally reported that the quarantine requirement would not be strictly enforced and from accounts on the ground, that did appear to be the case for those who entered Dutch territory. The original story is below.
As vaccinated American citizens face new entry restrictions into the Netherlands, two insiders tell Live and Let’s Fly the mandatory quarantine policy will not be enforced.
Netherlands Quarantine Requirement Relies On Honor System
The United States is moving into a “very high-risk” category in the Netherlands on Sunday, September 5th, which will include a:
- Ban on unvaccinated travelers who have been in America the last 14 days
- 10-day quarantine for vaccinated travelers
- may be shortened to five days after negative test on fifth test
- exceptions apply, including for transit and work
- Negative COVID-19 entry test requirement (starting September 6th)
- PCR or antigen
- Less than 72 hours old
- children six and under are exempt
The new rules do not include Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten.
Passengers checking in for their flight will also need to provide a quarantine declaration to the airline.
Here’s where it gets interesting. Two sources have told Live and Let’s Fly that there will be no follow-up or enforcement mechanism for the new travel restrictions. None.
You’ll provide airlines with an address where you quarantine and never hear from anyone again.
Another points out that land borders with countries like France and Germany, which do not impose similar restrictions on vaccinated American travelers, will remain open and unmanned. Entering via train or car from another country in Western Europe will result in an even lower level of scrutiny as no form will even be collected.
To be very clear, I am not advocating you go to the Netherlands and break Dutch COVID-19 protocol. Quite the contrary, I do not think the honor system should be abused and point out the Kingdom of the Netherlands is free to enact the sort of regulations it sees fit.
But I do point out, for what it is worth, that there likely will not be enforcement of the new quarantine requirement in any practical way.
CONCLUSION
The Netherlands is adding quarantine restrictions for Americans starting tomorrow. While you can and should respect them as a guest there, it nevertheless strikes me as interesting there will likely be no actual enforcement of the new COVID-19 measures once inside the country.
Thank you for the further information. I always appreciate your posts. I have a flight booked to AMS in 3 weeks (super cheap AM/KL J ticket) where I was going to spend the night in NL and head to Paris and then back the night before. Since I will only be at the hotel near AMS/won’t venture out and am vaccinated and will take a test with 72 hours, I feel more comfortable about the trip now.
Hope more countries follow NL by banning the anti-vaxxers…all they have to do is look at the overflowing hospitals in US Red states and it should be a no-brainer.
People from New York talking about other states “overflowing” is, well, a typical look.
What a troll you are
UA offered to suck me off for $50 or 5000 United Airlines miles in a restroom at JFK recently. Prove me wrong it wasn’t him as the guy claimed he posted here as UA-NYC. Which of course can’t be proven. It could have been another desperate junkie using his online persona.
Get a life, mouth breather
Funny back when Cuomo was in office killing seniors in homes by forcing Covid patients in with them everyone in New York was saying “Better Red than Dead!” How many of the unvaccinated in the red hospitals are Biden’s illegals, since we are hearing as high as 20% may be infected?
Right. It’s all the illegals streaming over the Mexico/Florida border that are causing the overflowing FL ICUs. Same of course for Idaho.
Gotta love the far right ecosystem divorced from reality.
@ UA-NYC – they are.
Germany, Belgium – all now requiring you to be vaccinated for non-essential travel.
There are on paper quarantine rules in many countries which are never enforced. Everyone ignores them
This is NOT true. There are 2 quarantine regimes in the Netherlands. The one you describe in your post and a more strict one that is enforced. The US is placed on the list for the latter. So travellers from the US WILL be checked by a team. Non-compliance will cost € 395.
You will be called by the number +31882692949 to check on you and you have to pick up, otherwise law enforcement will be sent to the address on your quarantine declaration and will fine you if you are not there.
https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/coronavirus-covid-19/nederland-inreizen/in-quarantaine-na-aankomst-in-nederland/quarantaineplicht
Sint Maarten?
Not worth it at all to try to find out. Go elsewhere.
Hmmm….Gee, I wonder why???
Yeah, I thought that was a little too much. Vaccinated/no quarantine/no PCR seems to be a good compromise. Now can creepy Joe please reciprocate?
Agreed! Time for USA to reciprocate.
Why? They don’t want our tourism dollars fine. Screw their economy. We can still take theirs.
Because there is no rational reason to block Europeans but allow Indonesians, Turkish, Russians, and South Africans (and dozens of other nations with a far higher rate of new cases and lower % of vaccinated citizens). It’s politics. And it was old in 2020…