Do you disapprove of people who are planning an overseas holiday this summer?

[DaphneM]

Marriot Mena House Hotel?


Sorry..I was replying to DaphneM's photo of one of the pyramids but their post didnt quote for some reason

That’s right!

Have you been?

 

[Aladdin]

That’s right!

Have you been?

No...but it looks really nice.

Its a place I would love to go.

 

[kabbes]

Anyone travelled back from gare du nord on eurostar recently (well post brexit recent)
Do they have a duty free shop and (most important of all) does it stock tobacco?

On the train or in the station?

 

[mx wcfc]

Anyone travelled back from gare du nord on eurostar recently (well post brexit recent)
Do they have a duty free shop and (most important of all) does it stock tobacco?

gotcha! You are Jacob Rees Mogg, desparately searching for a Brexit benefit, aren't you?

 

[pbsmooth]

Duty free shop at the Eurotunnel stations so probably...

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

gotcha! You are Jacob Rees Mogg, desparately searching for a Brexit benefit, aren't you?

I wish I had a nanny
but no just a heavy smoker trying to save money on his slow suicide

 

[teuchter]

Anyone travelled back from gare du nord on eurostar recently (well post brexit recent)
Do they have a duty free shop and (most important of all) does it stock tobacco?

I went through in February. As far as i recall there is a smallish shop in gare du nord after you go through the security / passport checks. I can't be sure, because I never have reason to go into a duty free shop, but do vaguely remember thinking "hmmph, brexit has given us duty free nonsense on eurostar now".
There was also an array of some kind of self service machines that were something to do with claiming tax free status on whatever stuff you'd bought in France. Or something.
May not be a very useful answer. Smoking's bad for you though. Give up smoking and then it will be a non issue.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

I know I should stop but will save that for another thread.
The correct answer was: no e2a they don't sell duty free cigarettes in there just the regular french peiced ones
tried that wevat app to claim some vat back but as I did it last minute it for some reason did not work for me.

Other handy tip: if you check your NHS app to see if your covid vaccination certificate is working a couple of days beforehand and it does:
download it to your phone
I did
and it saved me having a blank QR code on the day as this is all the app was showing at Kings Cross and it would have meant no travel TO france (no checks needed on the way back).

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Duty free shops the world over are a rip.

If you want cheap snout ferry/Le Shuttle to Calais, turn left, as soon as you cross the Belgian border pull off the motorway and there’s a cancer megastore.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

Also:
still compulsory masking on public transport in France and followed way more than here when it was compulsory (a couple of metro trips and a regional train experience)

 

[scifisam]

She's right that her son is automatically a Polish citizen by right of descent but surely she would needed to have registered his birth with the Polish Embassy/Consulate? It's not like the registry office wherever she lives will have notified them. Unless she is planning to take her Polish passport and his birth certificate and have a barney with the immigration staff. Poland allows dual citizenship so you can have both.

Poland doesn't officially allow dual citizenship, just tolerates it, and anyone it considers legally Polish (like Thora's friend's son) can't enter the country using their second citizenship. I think the son would need to get a Polish passport.

Poland - Dual Citizenship

The laws regulating citizenship in Poland are the Polish Citizenship Act of April 2009 and the Repatriation Act of 2000. Citizenship is mainly based on the principle of ius sanguinis and is granted automatically to individuals born to at least...

www.dualcitizenshipreport.org

 

[Glitter]

As things stand there’s a requirement for a covid test the day before travel to the US. Is that likely to change any time soon?

 

[Winot]

As things stand there’s a requirement for a covid test the day before travel to the US. Is that likely to change any time soon?

No special knowledge but I haven’t picked up on any likelihood of change - I’m in the US now so have been watching media for hints over last month.

As it happens I caught Covid (for 2nd time) a month before I flew which removed some anxiety (once I started testing negative again).

Mask mandate on flights has gone.

 

[strung out]

I need to go to Malaysia in the next couple of months to visit my wife's dying uncle with her. I don't suppose anyone has any good advice for entering/exiting the country?

I think we'll need clear tests etc. and proof of vaccination status, but as we're about to book flights, not sure if there are variations between whether you go via Doha, Singapore or Kuala Lumpur (we'll have one onward flight to Penang from any of the above).

Well we made it to Malaysia yesterday, but my wife's uncle died on Monday with the funeral two days later, so we missed the lot.

Travel was straightforward, as we'd filled in our vaccination status etc on the Malaysian Covid app. I did have to sit next to virtually the only man on the entire flight who wasn't wearing a mask, while he sniffed and snored his way through the entire 13 hour flight. Fingers crossed I didn't pick anything up while we were traveling!

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

As things stand there’s a requirement for a covid test the day before travel to the US. Is that likely to change any time soon?

No tests needed for vaccinated travellers to the US or Canada now.

 

[Glitter]

No tests needed for vaccinated travellers to the US or Canada now.

Yep. A week after I got back Bastards!