How to get in and out of France for the Le Mans Weekend in 2 weeks time
/I could say what a bloody mess. The Government web sites are hopeless.
Anyway here is the end result of our research today, concise and clear to get in and out. The working assumption is you don’t have COVID and you are double tapped with access to a vaccine cert. This is for a English resident. We go in and out on Eurotunnel.
Best advice get the Uk lateral flow test in advance and take with you to France and use this to get the 3 day negative test done by using the UK provider to handle the test protocol. Last thing I needed was finding a French covid test centre. This is the most important step to take control of, such you don’t need to touch the French system at all. After all this is meant to be a holiday not spending hours waiting in a queue to get a Covid test!
The other key fact is the 3 days day test can be either PCR or Lateral Flow BUT cannot be a NHS test……….we assume to give the private sector a chance and avoid swamping the NHS which is kept to handle UK based activity. So all those spare NHS test you have…..can’t use them.
It also sensible to load up the French equivalent of the NHS App to load your vaccine certificate onto given any gathering over 50 you are expected to show and demonstrate you have been double tapped.
Below is our Checklist and also in doc form (PDF)
