We are travelling to France in two weeks. Has anyone had experience getting into restaurants & tourist venues by showing Canadian paper vaccination record? Is that accepted in most places in France?
We won’t get a QR code from embassy in time, though we sent documents for it.

My friend and I were in Paris August 7-16 and we only used our paper copies of our vaccines. We always just said “we’re Canadian. Here’s dose one and this was dose two”

Thanks for the info!

Just be careful and NOT book with an international airline that denies you a boarding pass if you have a mixed batch of COVID vaccines (eg. Pfizer, Moderna). Your travel insurance may not cover this and you will be out your travel money because the airline and security will keep on passing the blame on to each other using stall tactics so the time limit is exhausted and neither has to issue you a refund.

John Luckily we had two Pfizer shots. Sorry that some people had this problem.

John which airlines are you aware of that are refusing mixed vaccines?

Sheila Saw the notice on a website but I did not pay much attention to it because the only place I'm interested in visiting again is Japan. At present Japan has closed its borders to foreign travel. I believe the notice was posted by a couple hoping to vacation in France or some other European country but cancelled due to the airline refusing to give them a boarding pass due to the mixed COVID vaccines.

John thanks. The mixed dose is indeed an issue in places. I’m going for my third dose ASAP to get around it. Such a waste!

Anything going via UK for starters.

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William Show me the documentation!

Where do you apply for the QR code?

Michelle See the website from Karen below. That’s where we applied too.

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We were just in Paris a couple of days ago and our paper copies were fine everywhere we went!

Paper copies will be fine

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We are in Paris right now anhave not received our pass sanitaire, even though we applied over 10 days ago.
We took a rapid antigen test yesterday to get an 72 hour QR code but we have found most places take our paper copy.

Crystal That’s reassuring. Thanks!

Crystal Have an awesome holiday!

We finally got our pass sanitaire yesterday but we already had a pharmacy in Paris input our vaccine information Into the system for €20.

We may not get our pass in time either. I had heard that pharmacies may do that, so that is an option we can try. Thanks for update.

Shirley not all pharmacies do it we found but this one did:
Pharmacies
les Filles du Calvaire
2 Blvd des Filles du Calvaire
75011 Paris, France

Shirley
Great! We can look for that!

Netcare docs are ok . Not many places will ask for them though ..
If you have a copy if the second shot ( where it states COMPLETE and has the batch number ) I would scan it along with Netcare papers and showed them in that form .

Thank you everyone

We were traveling from Paris since Aug. 25th then Munich, Germany, Salzburg, Zurich and Vienna, they all accept our Covid Vac. paper copies ( Alberta Health Serv) so far, tomorrow we will fly to Amsterdam and hopefully there's no hitch( fingerscross).

Francen Sounds good! We aren’t so worried now. Safe travels!

Shirley likewise
thank you.

Francen I am in Germanyand have experienced no issues showing my paperwork.

Glenys hey! Right?
Are you staying in Germany longer? Have you seen their Neuschwanstein Castle? See their Amsee (sea or lakes we call it
). They're nice too. Enjoy and keep safe

Did you ever get your QR code from the embassy? How long did it take?

Embassy doesn't issue QR codes, the French Health Ministry does. I received mine in around 10 days but that was a month ago. Using the Pass Sanitaire in France was a cinch. With the pass you also are granted an EU COVID Certificate as well, so now you will have certification as added proof of vaccination when travelling.

My 3 travel friends received their tourist QR code but I didn’t get mine yet. We all sent them within the same few days, about 3 weeks ago.