Positive Test Before Returning to the UK - What Would Happen?

[OwnedbyCollies]

Worst case scenario - what would happen if your pre-return to UK antigen / PCR test is positive?

I assume you would be denied travel home via Tunnel or ferry but I cannot find any info about self isolation requirements in France for tourists in motorhomes. Can you officially self isolate in a motorhome?

Booked to travel over in a couple of weeks - hoping to get a trip in before the next change of policy and want to consider all possible events. We are both double jabbed and have 2 dogs with us.

 

[billym]

Worst case scenario - what would happen if your pre-return to UK antigen / PCR test is positive?

I assume you would be denied travel home via Tunnel or ferry but I cannot find any info about self isolation requirements in France for tourists in motorhomes. Can you officially self isolate in a motorhome?

Booked to travel over in a couple of weeks - hoping to get a trip in before the next change of policy and want to consider all possible events. We are both double jabbed and have 2 dogs with us.

I've wondered about that and don't know the answer. Air b and b maybe
No campsite is going to want you

But surely motorhoming in France, you've only got the tiniest chance of catching it. (Apparently or so I've read)

I have a friend who works in the travel industry and she says they are just waiting for all the problems relating to tourists testing positive before their return

 

[BreweryDave]

Don’t know about France, but here in Portugal if you are a tourist and have a positive test to travel back to the U.K., the government is notified, they contact you and provide an isolation hotel for you to stay in, at no cost to you, until you test negative to be released. Here on the Algarve, the designated hotel is the 4* Pestana Blue in Alvor!

 

[OwnedbyCollies]

4* Pestana Blue in Alvor!

Wow - sounds like Portugal is the place to go!

Seriously though, I know the risk is small (both fully vaccinated, self contained in MH, tendency to avoid people ) and maybe I am overthinking it but I like to be organised and cover as many bases as possible. It's the dogs that we would be worried about if we had to self-isolate.

It would be better, in the event of a positive test, to be allowed to return through the tunnel as planned, go straight home and isolate there instead.

 

[Lenny HB]

If was me I would just bed down on an Aire or two for week then get another test.

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[OwnedbyCollies]

If was me I would just bed down on an Aire or two for week then get another test.

That would be our best bet - but getting grocery deliveries would be a challenge!

 

[Lenny HB]

That would be our best bet - but getting grocery deliveries would be a challenge!

I would risk a supermarket run as you need to stay alive.

 

[Harby]

I've wondered this too. And, with a family of four, you can imagine the scenario. Child 1 tests positive so you're refused travel. Meanwhile, child 2 catches it so 10 days later tests positive. And so it could go on. I can understand on aircraft/ferries that they'd not want you to board because of the risk to other passengers, but last time we took the tunnel you weren't allowed out of the car anyway so the risk would be negligible.