European visa charge
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I've heard a rumour Yorkshire are considering applying a similar charge ......
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If/when we leave the EU it appears most likely that the UK would join the "white list" of countries whose citizens do not require a visa to visit the Schengen area, these countries currently include the likes of Australia, the US etc. under this visa waiver
agreement you can visit for 90 days in 180. for stays longer than that a visa is currently required which is an all together different kettle of fish.0 -
If/when we leave the EU it appears most likely that the UK would join the "white list" of countries whose citizens do not require a visa to visit the Schengen area, these countries currently include the likes of Australia, the US etc. under this visa waiver
agreement you can visit for 90 days in 180. for stays longer than that a visa is currently required which is an all together different kettle of fish.As I understand the plans, but someone may correct me if I am wrong, it will apply to all who do not need a visa and travel into the Schengen area. As the UK is already not a Schengen member it will presumably apply whether the UK leaves the EU or not.
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So it's to be 5 euros valid for 5 years after we leave the EU, assuming we do not negotiate it away. That will not break the bank!
I wonder though if we are going to be stopped at every border to prove that we have actually paid?
I think the €5 fee is just to offset the cost of the system not a fee for travelling across Europe.If you don't pay you won't get over the first hurdle!!! Once in Europe there are no borders to check you at anyway!!!
David
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Perhaps we should be more worried about the possible loss of medical care under the ehic system? Does anyone know whats going to happen to that?
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Well I think that its certainly not worth worrying about. 5 Euro's every 5 Years is certainly not going to break the bank and as someone else has already said, the French will not want to lose the millions of Euro's we spend in France as tourists every year.
TF
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Perhaps we should be more worried about the possible loss of medical care under the ehic system? Does anyone know whats going to happen to that?
Impossible to say but bear in mind that the EHIC is not part of any European Union agreement, it is totally separate. I can see no reason for it to be affected.
Let's hope so.
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If/when we leave the EU it appears most likely that the UK would join the "white list" of countries whose citizens do not require a visa to visit the Schengen area, these countries currently include the likes of Australia, the US etc. under this visa waiver
agreement you can visit for 90 days in 180. for stays longer than that a visa is currently required which is an all together different kettle of fish.As I understand the plans, but someone may correct me if I am wrong, it will apply to all who do not need a visa and travel into the Schengen area. As the UK is already not a Schengen member it will presumably apply whether the UK leaves the EU or not.
The current rules apply to Schengen area members and/or EU members hence we (UK) have unrestricted travel in EU/Schengen. If/when we leave the EU we will be in neither EU or Schengen hence new rules will have to apply and based on current available options
joing the "white list" would appear most likely.As for the health benefits of EHIC we will likley loose those because EHIC is a EEA scheme based on the "single market", if we leave the single market we will loose the EHIC benefit and no doubt insurance premiums will rocket.
So glad we had a referendum where everyone was so well informed....not.
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Are they decreased? I havent seen much evidence of it and this june I had never seen so many folk about in places we know well.
Apparently numbers of people travelling to France from the UK have reduced by 1.5million in the last 2 years
I am just going by what I have seen during regular and lengthy visits to France, never known it so busy so these missing vistors must be bycotting other areas of the country like major cities.
Write your comments here... We did our usual two trips to France this year.
On our first trip in June to Brittany, we stopped at our usual first night stop - we were the only people on site compared to the usual 12 or so vans. Our next location had around 6-8 vans, usually 15 or so. Our last location was similarly reduced.
On our second visit, there were similar reductions.
So, I would say that numbers were definitely down this year.
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Every campsite we went to in France was pretty empty in June and September, but the owners said it's the switch from caravans to motorhomes which is the reason, and their switch from using campsites to stopping in Aires.
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Probably the weather in May and early June that dropped the numbers in France this year, remember it rained a lot and flooded a great area. We had huge numbers of Dutch on one of the campsites we used in Spain (L'Amfora) in the past its been half empty in
May but this year they were full and people queuing to get in. On our journey back home through France the sites were drying out and a few more folk were around but the site owners said it had been slow.0 -
Every campsite we went to in France was pretty empty in June and September, but the owners said it's the switch from caravans to motorhomes which is the reason, and their switch from using campsites to stopping in Aires.
ET
Part of the problem there might be the fact that very few campsites in France make any provision for all weather pitches so I expect many motorhomers opt for an Aire where usually they won't get stuck on muddy grass. We tend not to use Aires prefering campsites
but when its wet it is an issue. A lot of campsites in Germany also have an Aire for motorhomes but of course that does involve some investment which they might not be prepared to make.David
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Apparently numbers of people travelling to France from the UK have reduced by 1.5million in the last 2 years
I am just going by what I have seen during regular and lengthy visits to France, never known it so busy so these missing vistors must be bycotting other areas of the country like major cities.
At times the sites we were on in May and June in the Lot and Auvergne had only three or four pitches being used. In September two sites in Burgundy were quite busy but when we moved away from there again we only had a couple of pitches in use and a couple of nights we were the only van on the site.
The visa charge would have to be quite high to make us think twice about going.
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