Originally Posted by Frequentflyer99

We also have to take account of the fact that with the quite justified concerns about variants, today's Green can easily become tomorrow's Amber. This is not, perhaps a big risk for a 7 day trip, but for anything longer it surely must be. One is then in the position of paying - whatever the trip - a relatively large amount for the testing for potentially quite short trips, or trips that get cut short to avoid a need to quarantine on return. I am paying £35 plus a few Avios for flights + £100 for car rental for a 7 day trip to Spain next week, which costs will be dwarfed by the £275 odd that I will be paying for my testing (and that's without TTR).

Originally Posted by Frequentflyer99

I am not sure where you get this from. Whatever promises HMG may make, and whatever the normal review cycle, HMG is always free to act very quickly if the circumstances justify it. Do you think that if a significant upsurge of the Indian or Brazilian variants appeared in Portugal in the next few days, HMG would now wait 2 weeks to re-categories it?