If we need to do a PCR before travel, how will that work ?

[Posiesmum]

Originally Posted by aprilshack

If its pcr you will have to pay through the nose at the airport or even stay at the airport the night before.

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Not necessarily. We’ve booked same day result Pcrs at a testing centre near Edinburgh airport. Not cheap, £99 each, and I know the US hasn’t demanded them (yet!) but I had to get something sorted to retain my sanity!
They had loads of testing centres of this type.

[SamH88]

Originally Posted by aprilshack

I'm leaving Thursday so i don't have the time to wait for a postal kit and get it processed.

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If a PCR is required it's unlikely that a postal kit that you do yourself would be accepted. Canada don't accept antigen tests so you need a PCR and they say "Travellers should have their test performed at a reputable laboratory or testing facility".

For our Canada trip last week we had ours done by Randox in Dublin on the Sunday afternoon for flying Wednesday. They said results would be emailed by 23.59pm the following day but we had ours by 2am on the Monday morning.

[Softy]

Originally Posted by aprilshack

I'm leaving Thursday so i don't have the time to wait for a postal kit and get it processed.

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But your post was suggesting to others they’d have to do that. It didn’t mention that that was what you had to do given your time constraints.