Paris, indoors?

Get your pass sanitaire and you will have no worries.

@CorrieTen, we were in Paris last month, and we dined indoors several times, and of course visited several museums. I felt comfortable each time.

Here in La Rioja we have been able to dine in restaurants for a while. Of course it was with limited occupancy, but there is no vax proof required. For me personally, having the waiter check everyone at the table, and know that everyone in the restaurant was vaxed or negative, gave me an extra sense of security. It seems like everyone, the restaurant and the customers, were being responsible and mature, yet able to enjoy themselves.

Most of my metro rides were not crowded, but in the ones where there for a lot of people, it was my sensation that people are more aware of social distancing.

Go and have a good time.

The requirements to leave more space between tables in restaurants and cafes fell away a while ago.

I was asked for my Pass Sanitaire at every single restaurant I entered over the course of 4 days in Paris last week. From the coffee shops to the fast food to the sit down restaurants. All tables were open and there was no extra spacing. All of our chosen museums required the Pass as well and mask wearing was required and compliance was far better than in my US home city.

We feel just fine about our trip. We’re super glad we came.

As others have mentioned, in some restaurants supplemental table spacing no longer is observed.

Some of the respondents above seem perfectly fine with that. My wife and I are not so comfortable.

I guess it's just that we aren't as willing to drop the restrictions we've observed over the past few years. Others seem more eager to jump back in to what used to be normal.

I’ve taken the Metro a number of times over the last few days. I found, particularly today(Saturday), Line 1 cars were jammed mid-afternoon as was Line 8. I’ve been wearing an N95 while most are wearing basic paper masks. This afternoon I noted less compliance with probably 20% having it below their noses.

I feel great in museums. I went to the Orsay yesterday and was allowed to enter before my timed entry. There was absolutely no line at either the timed entry door or the ticket purchase door at 9:40A. I was the only one in some of the rooms in the Impressionist galleries although it did fill some later and there were several school groups as well.

I’ve had a different experience with restaurants. I’ve been checked about 60% of the time. Museums 100% including the pedestrian zone around the Arc de Triomphe this morning.

I’m finding it odd to eat in restaurants and am still not comfortable in crowded venues. I’ve been going early-ish to hit places before they get busy.

Thanks for your very helpful comments. I agree that we all have different comfort levels when it comes to dining and activities in these pandemic times. I find it useful to hear from other travelers as I calibrate (and recalibrate!) my thinking. Aimee, I look forward to reading an additional post from you after your return home. Safe travels!

You can get the Tousanticovid app, so you can track the spread. Yesterday, under 4,948 tested positive in the whole country. 84.1% of the population over 12 is vaccinated.

I haven't been to Paris since March 2020 but soon I will be faced with the same decisions as you are about very crowded metro cars and restaurants. I'll probably take the bus and look for less crowded restaurants.

In the south of France where I am, everything is up and running normally but masked and with the Pass.

I confirm that since about mid-September I find the metro to be just about as crowded as pre-pandemic (proper mouth and nose mask-wearing is 90%+, thankfully). And in my part of town at least (3rd arrondissement), no restaurants can afford to keep extra distance between tables, but compliance with pass sanitaire checks is 100%>

Greetings! We arrived in Paris two days ago. While we have not ridden public transport, we have dined in three different restaurants, and all accepted our CDC cards as proof of vaccination. We plan to go to a pharmacy which offers rapid COVID tests today to see if the test results will have a QR code and if that is sufficientt to get us into the Louvre, etc. As for masks, EVERYONE is wearing them EVERYWHERE. Tables in restaurants and cafes are back to their pre-COVID coziness,😀 but all the small small shops we visited clearly stated and enforced their capacity restrictions. All in all, We feel far safer here than in the Target at home.

Hi,
The rapid test will provide you with a QR code that will work to get you into any place where said code is required, valid for the following 72 hours. Testing facilities are still plentiful in Paris, so it should be a minor hassle vs. the very minor risk of rejection of your CDC card.