khinkali said:
I think that both the day trip destination and your citizenship need to be on the list.
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Indeed, that's the case! A day trip to Istanbul on a Swiss passport would be admissible from a Georgian perspective. A day trip to Serbia on the very same passport would not work, simply because Serbia is currently not on the list of admissible countries. Only exception: You already received the full course of
any COVID-19 vaccine.
khinkali said:
I'm in two minds: visa hop now and hope that vaccination opens to non-permanent resident non-citizens, or do a month in USA or somewhere.
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Plan your visa hop first. May be a two or three days in a good hotel in Istanbul - day trips are too much stress ;-) .
Thereafter you can plan a separate trip to the US for late summer. You will have more flight offerings with better prices and less stress. With a bit of luck there may be another country a bit closer by which offers a vaccine until then. Russia is/was planning to give Sputnik V in the transit area of SVO
https://twitter.com/x/status/1377636906343743490
-> Outbound transit through SVO = 1. jab, Inbound transit through SVO = 2. jab .
Note: Georgia only does what their "
European partners" are doing. As long as the European Union does not open vaccination to residents and citizens alike, Georgia will not lift a finger to vaccinate non-permanent residents!
khinkali said:
The appetite for lockdowns and inhibiting tourism has waned in Georgia.
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As soon as their is only a remote chance that the Indian variant gets a hold in the country, they will immediately start a new lockdown. Understand: There will be no significant number of tourists this summer. Nobody spends his holiday in a country were a
09:00PM to 05:00AM curfew has become a
permanent institution. This years summer season won't be any better than the one of last year.
khinkali said:
The Minister of Economy today announced that land borders should open "in the next few weeks".
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Armenia did it long ago. Georgia would have fared much better to follow the Armenian example. Nevertheless, I do not see them opening land-borders before 30-June-2021. So, a quick Marshrutka ride to Yerevan won't do the trick.
