Advice for travel to Germany and Austria (Feb half term)

[fierydormouse]

Hi all,

We have a skiing holiday booked with our nine yo at Feb half term. We're going to Austria, but have flights booked in and out of Frankfurt, Germany. We are getting a sleeper train to Austria from Frankfurt airport station within a few hours of our flight landing.

Me and DH both triple jabbed, but DS is not jabbed at all, being too young. We all three of us had covid last October.

Has anyone else been to Germany recently and knows what the restrictions are like? We're pretty sure we're ok for Austria but we're finding conflicting info about the restrictions for Germany, esp in respect of our unvaccinated son. Has anyone been to Germany recently with an unvaccinated child and how did you get on?!?

Many TIA!

Yes we visited the in laws over new year. The kid had to take LTF tests to get into some places as they required ones no older than 24 hours (cinema, trampoline place, restaurant) but there was free testing everywhere so was not an issue. Masks were widely worn - they don’t accept cloth masks. Obviously now cases rising so check regs nearer the time but don’t think they’ve changed from when we went

I had to go to Germany last week for my mother's funeral and had tried to take my children, one of whom is unvaccinated due to age and one who only had one jab. So I am fairly up to date with restrictions and even with a family emergency my kids who have dual citizenship could not travel (unless they had gone into quarantine).

As long as you are fully vaccinated and boostered you are fairly okay anywhere. If you go into cafe's, shops, restaurants, public transport etc you need to show evidence of your vaccination status.
To get into the country you need to complete paperwork and upload our vaccination status. This is submitted and checked.
For children the rules are that unless fully vaccinated they need to quarantine for five days if under 6 or 10 days if older.
And you will need to provide a quarantine address and they will check.
I would be very surprised if they allowed your child in the sleeper train.

Many thanks for your comments. Decides to change our arrangements and are now going in and out of Austria direct. 😃