Are vaccinations required for entry into Ecuador?

[Steve_A]

Hi Bloodoftheberry,

Vaccines here in Brazil are not necessary except in the Amazon region where malaria is rife. Even if you are Brazilian you have to have malaria shots to travel up there.

Here in the Northeast, everything is fine, Polio, Rickets and Ringworm are things of the distant past (well perhaps not Ringworm!).

You receive your tourist visa in the aeroplane, in the way of a slip of paper which you fill out and get stamped at immigration. These visas are valid for 3 months, prolonged for another three months at the Federal Police in the airport (in the case of Recife).

I imagine Equador is relatively similar as are most South American countries. Check with your travel agents or, if you feel they don't know, call the Equadorian Embassy in London.

Have a great trip.

Best regards,

Steve

Originally Posted by Bloodoftheberry

Thanks. I had come across that information myself. The only problem is, sites say the same about Brazil, yet my sister and her group were checked. I think I'd have more peace of mind if a Westerner on this board knew - from recent experience - that vaccinations are not required.

[Bloodoftheberry]

Originally Posted by Steve_A

Hi Bloodoftheberry,

Vaccines here in Brazil are not necessary except in the Amazon region where malaria is rife. Even if you are Brazilian you have to have malaria shots to travel up there.

Here in the Northeast, everything is fine, Polio, Rickets and Ringworm are things of the distant past (well perhaps not Ringworm!).

You receive your tourist visa in the aeroplane, in the way of a slip of paper which you fill out and get stamped at immigration. These visas are valid for 3 months, prolonged for another three months at the Federal Police in the airport (in the case of Recife).

I imagine Equador is relatively similar as are most South American countries. Check with your travel agents or, if you feel they don't know, call the Equadorian Embassy in London.

Have a great trip.

Best regards,

Steve

Thanks for that information, Steve. Regarding visas, you don't actually need one if you're traveling from the UK to Ecuador and aren't staying in the country longer than 90 days. It looks as though the procedure will be smooth for me.

One final question: can you receive vaccinations at the airport? Obviously this is an absolute last resort for me, but if it were suddenly declared that a vaccination for [insert disease here] were required before I could board the plane back home, are there centres within the airport that can vaccinate me so I don't had to find a doctor in Quito?

Thanks

[Cymatic Veilbegone]

Originally Posted by Bloodoftheberry

Thanks for that information, Steve. Regarding visas, you don't actually need one if you're traveling from the UK to Ecuador and aren't staying in the country longer than 90 days. It looks as though the procedure will be smooth for me.

One final question: can you receive vaccinations at the airport? Obviously this is an absolute last resort for me, but if it were suddenly declared that a vaccination for [insert disease here] were required before I could board the plane back home, are there centres within the airport that can vaccinate me so I don't had to find a doctor in Quito?

Thanks

As we understood it, they would have made us re-book the flight (an extra few days or a week for example) and then we would have to find a doctor on our own and get the vaccinations and the card.

Perhaps the Yellow Fever issue is over now, and there wont be any problem. I don't personally know how to check that, as we were never notified when we came in to Ecuador that that would be an issue.