I've been doing some research of my own into this after getting inspiration from some of these forums and in particular, a few knowledgeable people with their posts who replied to my private messages and to those people, I'd like to say thanks very much because it's helped me to make a decision over what treatment to have and it has also helped my GD no end.
So I hope the information below is of some help and apologies for any duplication from any other threads. I used a false name, an old pay as you go sim card for calls just in relation to this and a different email address with Hotmail because I wanted to ask those questions about legality and "put my cards on the table" so to speak.
The information I found out is as follows:-
RAINSBURY CLINIC in London, as many have said, expensive. I spoke to Mr Rainsbury earlier today. You are monitored with their clinic in London and then you go to Cyprus for treatment. One IVF/PGD cycle costs £13,000 - due to go up in January. You may get a price fix if you ring him and say you are enquiring with a view to starting early next year, as he offered me. It's still very expensive, as someone else has pointed in out their posts when people were asking.
CYPRUS - Mr Rainsbury was very open with me so I thought I'd check out the legalities of Cyprus. You may know that in EU countries, gender selection is banned. Cyprus is half EU (with it's Turkish half) and half is not in the EU - it is that half of the country you would go to for legal IVF PGD treatment based on gender selection. I have got costs for this as follows:-
£7,806 for a cycle (was told it was about £7k over the phone but have since received an email) and this includes14 nights stay at a 4 star hotel for 2 including breakfast and dinner, IVF one cycle with PGD, tests and airport transfers (no flight). You could try and reduce your costs by staying somewhere cheaper as an option. If you want part monitoring in the UK, London was mentioned, this will cost "more or less £1,000" extra. I appreciate that the total cost for this is still high when comparing to America, but the travel would be easier and cheaper. Further, it just goes to show the mark up Rainsbury has on his clinic.
TURKEY - cheapest option of £4,700. Email has not come through for the full break down as yet but I think it was a similar package to the Cyprus one. I asked about the legality issues and they said they used to send people to Cyprus(!) but they don't need to anymore - being in Istanbul, they avoid a problem. I'm editing my previous post on this because IT IS LEGAL. How? The Republic of Turkey straddles Asia and Europe - Istanbul lies on both continents and where the hospital is positioned, it is over the Turkish border.
For costs, see further down this thread now that I have received an email as to the detailed breakdown.
Those are your EU options as far as I can see. Good luck to anyone considering and taking this option. If anyone has had treatment at any of these places, I would be grateful to hear from you. Although I know a bit about IVF, the risks involved, how it works, etc, I will be looking into that in more depth but first, I needed to check out the choices and costs and so I don't have any recommendations for any of these places. I hope that it helps people to consider whether it is an option to them, given the costs and travelling, so they can save up whilst looking into what it all entails.