Travelling to Germany - your experience during this covid pandemic?

bigpappa

sheramber said:

You may be , but that will depend on Germany  removing UK form its 'risk list'.
That is separate from the EU restrictions.
Each EU country makes its own rules. In Germany each federal state implements their own rules, which may or may not be the same.

Germany has now gone for a universal approach and there are no differences between the states.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57168578

sheramber

Don't see Germany mentioned in the article.
Don't count your chickens.........
According to BBC Europe correspondent Jean Mackenzie, there is some hesitation to add the UK to the safe list as some EU countries want to see how the surge of cases related to the Indian variant plays out.

hwm86

The German embassy website is very vague on the actual details. I cant post the link but google: 

Informationen zur Pandemielage im Vereinigten Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland und Hinweise für Reisende 

Maybe get your German relatives to help reading the website.
If you are desperate to go to Germany and you are happy with the return d2+8 testing etc then I would contact the Police at Frankfurt airport directly to discuss if you are eligible to enter (which is what the Embassy website recommends).

Caz3121

UK now in Germany’s highest risk category.
https://www.thelocal.de/20210521/germany-bans-travel-from-uk-over-covid-indian-variant/

Voyager2002

Caz3121 said:

UK now in Germany’s highest risk category.
https://www.thelocal.de/20210521/germany-bans-travel-from-uk-over-covid-indian-variant/

To be explicit, the only people now allowed to travel from Britain to Germany are those who are German citizens or residents.

bigpappa

hwm86 said:

The German embassy website is very vague on the actual details. I cant post the link but google: 

Informationen zur Pandemielage im Vereinigten Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland und Hinweise für Reisende 

Maybe get your German relatives to help reading the website.
If you are desperate to go to Germany and you are happy with the return d2+8 testing etc then I would contact the Police at Frankfurt airport directly to discuss if you are eligible to enter (which is what the Embassy website recommends).

I emailed them.

https://uk.diplo.de/uk-en/02/coronavirus?openAccordionId=item-2330826-4-panel

In spite of the very high volume of enquiries, the Federal Border Police endeavour to reply to enquiries within twelve hours.

It's been over 48 hours and still no reply.

Caz3121

not sure what answer you are expecting to your email, the updated rules are pretty clear from your link.

A ban on transportation and entry into Germany therefore applies from 23 May.

It does not apply to:

1. German citizens or persons with a domicile and right of residence in the Federal Republic of Germany and their spouses or registered civil partners from the same household, and minor children,
2. persons who are only transferring from one flight to another and remain in the airport transit area.

If your question is when do they expect the ban to be lifted so you can travel, I doubt they know.

Bravo_Zulu

I've travelled to Germany and the process was ok but all my paperwork was in order. As others have said, the German border is currently closed to non-citizens, residents or those in extreme needs. Prior to that, it was open for UK to travel but that lasted a very small amount of time before they made the UK a risk country due to the Indian variant and it was 10 days quarantine with the option to come out of it with negative test/fully vaccinated.

bigpappa: I also emailed the border police for the airport I was coming in to and they just replied with essentially a copy and paste of the information freely available on the BMI websites. So it wasn't a useful response at all.

Unless you fall into the permitted reasons for entering Germany and can soak up 14 days (no option of early release) of quarantine over here PLUS the 10 days when you return to the UK, then I'd say it's a no for now I'm afraid.