Driving from UK to Spain through France in Sept 21 - Page 3

Phil54 wrote on Sun Aug 29, 2021 9:50pm:

Hi, we're part way through France heading for La Alfoquia having travelled on Eurotunnel yesterday. We had our vaccine certificates ready together with the 'statement of honour' that the French authorities say they want. We filled out some forms on the Eurotunnel website to state we had been doub...

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...le jabbed etc but nobody asked to see any of our paperwork other than our 2 passports at any of the desks and it was so quiet on the roads in Kent and at the terminal that we arrived early and drove on the train 2 hours before our booked time.

We have been asked to show our vaccine certificates when we've been eating at motorway services and restaurants.

Phil54 wrote on Sun Aug 29, 2021 9:50pm:

Hi, we're part way through France heading for La Alfoquia having travelled on Eurotunnel yesterday. We had our vaccine certificates ready together with the 'statement of honour' that the French authorities say they want. We filled out some forms on the Eurotunnel website to state we had been doub...

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...le jabbed etc but nobody asked to see any of our paperwork other than our 2 passports at any of the desks and it was so quiet on the roads in Kent and at the terminal that we arrived early and drove on the train 2 hours before our booked time.

We have been asked to show our vaccine certificates when we've been eating at motorway services and restaurants.

L181SKY wrote on Sun Aug 29, 2021 11:06pm:

 Can I ask ,when you say you had your travel certificates ready , at the port and you’ve been asked to show your travel certificates in restaurants is that paper copies or do you need the QR codes.  

L181SKY wrote on Sun Aug 29, 2021 5:34pm:

Lol. It’s just So difficult and I’d hate to see anyone not get away. We have all been through the mill.  I just saw someone here this morning mention the NHS cert QR being out of date after a month.   and I had forgotten to update ours !  We sail on the 14th Sept !  Dodged...

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... a bullet there !     What the Heck can that be about.  The certificate says Exactly the same things all the time. Hoops for hoops sake 🙈🤷‍♀️

Lally wrote on Wed Sep 1, 2021 12:12pm:

Just read about the NHS certificate going out of date after one month!  I have a printed certificate stating hubby and I have had two jabs. How can that go out of date?  Horribly confused. I am misreading that bit of info?  Gulp. 

Riohusky wrote on Wed Sep 1, 2021 10:43pm:

We are in Vera at the moment traveled via eurotunnel on Saturday. You don't need to fill in the statement of honour just need to show double vaccine certificate barcode which renews every 30 days so down load it just before you leave and it will last for 30 days, if you're staying longer just dow...

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...nload it again. We also took the dog and had to get a pet health certificate which cost £203 but it all worked out well they just scanned his microchip and checked the certificate took about 3 minutes. While we are in Spain I'm going to look into getting him a Spanish pet passport as apparently you can use it to take the dog in the future without paying the ripoff price of the pet health certificate, I will post on here if successful. 

garcol1 wrote on Wed Sep 1, 2021 10:49pm:

Cheers for the reply it was helpful and please keep me updated if you don't mind regarding the Spanish pet passport. 

Lally wrote on Wed Sep 1, 2021 12:12pm:

Just read about the NHS certificate going out of date after one month!  I have a printed certificate stating hubby and I have had two jabs. How can that go out of date?  Horribly confused. I am misreading that bit of info?  Gulp. 

Riohusky wrote on Sun Sep 19, 2021 12:10pm:

We obtained a Spanish pet passport for our dog from the vet in Vera playa, it cost just over €15 plus €25 for an up to date rabies jab. I asked the vet to stamp his new passport and our existing UK pet health certificate with the worming treatment required to return to the UK for backup incas...

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...e the passport wasn't accepted. We arrived at euro tunnel Calais on Friday and I used his new pet passport without any problems at all. 

This option definitely works and is much cheaper and easier than the pet health certificate which is so complicated that a lot of UK vets are not doing it anymore because of the paperwork involved. (My vet said I was The last one she was doing as it takes up so much of her time).

The only drawback is that you have to have a rabies jab once a year which must be administered by a Spanish vet and can't be done in the UK. But if you plan on taking your dog regularly it is definitely worth getting one.