hi i'm juhui i went to paris about a month ago for 10 days and i've been asked a lot of questions about
traveling to paris so here in this video i'd like to answer some of the questions so let's
let's get started
the question that i got most asked was if i had the french health pass
short answer no
i flew out at the end of august and i had my vaccine card from the u.s
i made an online request for the half pass and i didn't get a response from them until i was already
in paris without the health pass
basically the response was they won't be able to issue me a health pass within the time i needed it
so without having the health pass i was a little bit nervous
i went to a pharmacy near my hotel in le marais district i asked for the process and they said
it would be 60 euro per person and it would take a couple days for them to issue a health pass
i thought to myself like that's a lot of money to spend and i just felt that it would be unncessary
i took a chance and i went to louvre museum the next day with my vaccine card i was a
i was little nervous when i started to see these guards at the louvre with this qr code readers
i walked up to them and said i don't have the health pass
but i am fully vaccinated and this is my vaccine card from the u.s.
and they looked at it and they let us in
so that was it
it was clear to me that if louvre museum would let me in
literally anywhere else would let me in
and later i saw this sign
hanging in front of a bar that says we accept either the health pass or proof of vaccine
or negative test result
but again take my words with a grain of salt
because things change every day related to coronavirus so please don't forget to do your own research
let's talk about re-entry i re-entered to us in early september
and at that time what i needed to do was to have a negative test result
the tricky part was that i had to make sure that i used the test kit
that was accepted by the airline so my airline they have their own partner that
does a whole test process
now i need you to look at the result window
and on the front of the card
we placed an order a few days before our flight and the package arrived before our flight
fortunately so we took it with us the day before our flight back to new york we did a test
so i ust finished my covid test you should bring your own laptop if you are traveling with somebody else
you know it'd be better if all of you bring your own laptop own device if you don't want to spend
hours and hours just you know testing sharing one device and make sure that your device has good
audio and video whole test will take about 25 minutes
that's it for coronavirus let's talk about money
a lot of people asked me how much euros did i bring we brought 100 euros for our 10 days
stay in paris and lyon and we ended up spending 10 euros so for us the only time we used the cash
was when we took a cab to go to a train station to catch a train for some reason we were having
a hard time finding an uber driver like for 10 minutes so we've just made it
so we just had to grab a cab and the cab driver didn't accept credit cards or mobile payments
and speaking of mobile payments and credit cards i went to louis vuitton one day and i bought like
some nice scarf and they were saying that oh you could get a tax exemption here's the thing
i didn't bring my credit card like a physical credit card that day because i've been using
just mobile phone payments everywhere if i had my physical credit card they can give the tax
right back to my credit card but since i didn't bring my credit card i had to go through
a much longer process to get this tax exemption bring your credit card with you
lastly i think it's the most often asked question do i need to speak french or do i need to understand french
my answer is mostly no because most people in paris speak and understand english
you can always use like google translator app on your mobile phone so you can translate french menu
into english however i think it'd be great if you know at least a few french words
we had a little almost accident in lyon we're at a train station in lyon waiting for our train back to paris
what happened was they changed the platform for the train that we were supposed to get on
they made an announcement but only in french since it wasn't english we weren't paying attention to
the announcement and you were just like you know on our phone doing our thing and a train came
we just got on the train but we realized there's something wrong with this train it just doesn't
look right and we looked around and we asked some guy and inside the train like does this go to
paris and the guy was just standoffish wasn't responding to us so i was getting really
nervous because i didn't want to get stuck in a train going somewhere who knows you know i
just shout at him like does this go to paris so that was my i don't know if i said that correctly
but this time he seemed to understand what i'm trying to say he said no so we got out
of the train and the door closed right behind us so they changed the platform last minute so
we're on that we're inside that train and that is not tgv that doesn't go to paris that's probably local
we're so glad that we didn't get stuck in that train can you imagine
so these were the questions that i got asked most but if you have different questions about traveling to paris
don't hesitate to comment below i'll do my best to answer those thanks for watching if
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