Level 4 - US Worldwide Travel Advisory - Dropped

Good Friday, and some good news.

Yesterday afternoon the US Dept of State officially withdrew it's worldwide Level 4 Travel Advisory. Instead informing that each country will be individually level rated, and some countries did remain Level 4.

The Depart. of State press release:

“With health and safety conditions improving in some countries and potentially deteriorating in others, the Department is returning to our previous system of country-specific levels of travel advice (with Levels from 1-4 depending on country-specific conditions), in order to give travelers detailed and actionable information to make informed travel decisions. This will also provide U.S. citizens more detailed information about the current status in each country. We continue to recommend U.S. citizens exercise caution when traveling abroad due to the unpredictable nature of the pandemic."

What does this mean? Well it basically means the US Government is telling us the public go ahead and start traveling internationally again, and that they are no longer 'advising' US Citizens not to travel internationally worldwide. In reality a Level 4 Advisory is not a ban, and US Citizens were actually never banned from international travel at all. Instead countries either prohibited international entry completely or nation specific entry bans by that country not by the DOS. So even though we could fly anywhere we wanted (if we could get there), we were and remain limited to where can we really go?

Who remained Level 4?

This is by no means a list of countries that have a ban on US Citizens Entry.

I do think the DOS dropping many countries from level 4, may see some reciprocal action by some governments to withdraw their ban on us slowly, but be surprised if this has any immediate effect on those bans. In my opinion I do not feel some countries should really be level 4 anyways, and find it hard to justify why they are on the list. Such as Bahamas, Belize, Costa Rica. Dominican Republic, Mexico & China. While others on this list are on it & have been on it due to non-COVID reasons, violenice, unrest, terrisom, etc, etc..

It's not a COVID list, it's a Level 4 list.

To wrap this up, along with the week, a summary of where can us American's currently go, that is open to us?

• Antigua & Barbuda - (Antigua's beaches and resorts are just creme de la creme, love it!)
• Aruba - (always popular, great beaches)
• Bahamas - (requires 14 day quarantine)
• Bermuda - (Unlike The Bahamas, this British Isle is not requiring quarantine)
• Croatia - (The only country in the EU allowing US Citizens entry, besides Ireland.)
• D. Republic - (The Caribbean's all inclusive mecca & most common vacation.)
• French Polynesia - (yes Tahiti, Bora Bora, Moorea is allowing us!)
• Ireland - (requires 14 day quarantine)
• Jamaica - (Yaa man, you come to Jamaica man, you be alllright!)
• Maldives - (YES!!! Let's go!?)
• Mexico - (Great beaches, great resort areas, easily accessible from US Airports)
• Rwanda - (Gorilla Trekking bucketlist destination must!)
• St. Barts - (Awesome, Beautiful little beaches & boutique luxury resorts & great chic life atmosphere)
• St. Lucia - (One my favorite Caribbean islands!)
• Serbia - (A bit of that old world eastern Europe feel & history)
• Tanzania - (Safari's in Africa! rawrrrr)
• Turkey - (Istanbul, stunning & incredible)
• Turks & Caicos - (Snorkeling and beach paradise!)
• UAE - (Dubai anyone, liv' it up)
• UK - (requires 14 day quarantine & is not part of EU travel ban, as it's not part of EU)

& that's a wrap! Have a great weekend and reach out please if you want to discuss any kind of travel arrangements! I'm always here for you.

Derek Schemonitz

Avenue Two Travel

Luxury Travel Advisor

412-345-7569

derek.schemonitz@avenuetwotravel.com