Travel to France advise please ….

It is pretty clear on the gov.uk website.

Yes - you are right Kali also I am not sure if it is still the pressing reason only or residency that is allowing visitors from U.K. into France still. I know a couple of weeks ago they were turning away people at the border posts of the airports etc.

Welshwife

As far as I know you are allowed into France if you have had both vaccinations and a negative test - no quarantine.
Getting back to U.K. - at the moment you need the negative test - up to 72 hours before travel but also need to have proof of buying tests for days 2 and 8 in U.K. - these are expensive and only some tests are allowed. I think the French do not charge for tests and you can go to a convenient lab to where you are staying.

No charge for tests for residents with health insurance card- but possibly not for visitors and not for 'safe to travel' certificate. But remember you will also have to quarantine on return to UK.

Hi DeeDe
It's all so confusing isn't it?

From what I can see, France is still on the Amber list -so only essential travel is advised, and as it stands at the moment, they'll need to take tests before they return and quarantine when they get home.
As the FCO is advising against all but essential travel to France, any travel insurance that they have, will be invalid.

If the projection about the rise in Covid cases in the UK is correct (15000 cases a day by 21st June) there’s a good chance that travel out of the UK to anywhere in Europe will not be allowed by the governments of those countries because they don’t want to import more cases of the Delta variant. It’s a waiting game unfortunately.

I suspect the best advice is “Don’t”
France is still an amber list country and while things may have eased depending on how long they are going for, they may find themselves facing expensive PCR tests, quarantine etc. The advice for Amber list countries is not to travel for pleasure- only in cases of necessity.
Happy to be corrected if I am out of date.

As far as I know you are allowed into France if you have had both vaccinations and a negative test - no quarantine.
Getting back to U.K. - at the moment you need the negative test - up to 72 hours before travel but also need to have proof of buying tests for days 2 and 8 in U.K. - these are expensive and only some tests are allowed. I think the French do not charge for tests and you can go to a convenient lab to where you are staying.