Do you anticipate being able to leave the U.K., either for work or play, in 2021?

[BoogleMcGroogle]

If I’d been asked this even a week ago, my answer would have been ‘sure, France in August and maybe a Christmas market’. I would have assumed work trips Stockholm in March and Singapore in May would be moved online.

Now I’m increasingly thinking it’ll be another summer holiday in Norfolk ( fingers crossed!) and not seeing my best friend, living in Perth, for yet another year.

It seems that foreign travel, either in or out, is off the agenda for the foreseeable.

What are you anticipating? Am I just being a pessimistic Peggy?

Our tui holiday was postponed unti august 21 so I am really hoping we can go by then, once a majority is vaccinated

We were hoping to reschedule our cancelled trip to Australia to see family for this Christmas, but it isn't looking likely is it?

@Snowjive2

DS2, 18, is off to start uni in USA in August. Unless things change, he’ll have to go alone. I’m trying not to think about it

@Snowjive2 you can go with him since he's under the age of 25 I'm assuming. There are laws about it, even updated for the pandemic.

We just have last years holiday which was rearranged for august this year. Haven’t booked anything new and won’t be doing so at the moment.

Not really; my passport expired last summer and I haven’t bothered renewing it until I know travel will be back on the cards.

No chance. I was meant to be moving abroad this year but the country I'm going to has closed its borders and even if/when they reopen it's just going to be impossible to arrange everything with all the quarantining needed in each direction etc. One of my children is at the age where if we don't go this year we can't go next year either, because of schooling, so I'm pretty unhappy. Losing out on a dream house because of it too.

JingsMahBucket - thank you, you give me hope! I was looking at the gov.uk page for travel to the USA, but sounds as if I wasn’t looking properly. He’s a pretty clued-up 18 year old, but it’s a huge move to make alone. Plus he has food allergies which always make air travel more ‘interesting’. He’s never flown long haul alone before.

I am so angry about this, just how dare they! All the thousands, if not millions, of families separated from their overseas loved ones for too long already and now they declare that nobody can go for a much deserved holiday after we’ve all done as we’ve been told for nearly a year and with daily vaccine numbers championed daily through multiple outlets.

Fgs not every single person walking the planet has sodding covid and most vulnerable people are supposed to be vaccinated soon so what’s the problem with people coming and going? Yes covid variants blah blah blah but there have been a ridiculous number of variants already anyway and nobody has worried about them before. In fact, have a look at this WHO publication exploring variants. It was published last June 2020 so by now there will be even more variants in existence. Note 65,776 variants. Of which 5775 were classed as distinct variants.
Full link below.
www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/98/7/20-253591/en/

Not until the autumn.

I can't see UK holidays being lifted. Schools need to go back first and then hospitality and holidays may just need to be put on hold this year.

I think we will have to keep to our tiers over summer.

I have flights to Canada booked for September, but I can't bring myself to bother looking at accommodation. I'd almost rather just cancel them now (which I can do) and stuff the uncertainty.

Was idly pondering today - if (when?!) the Government bring in mandatory hotel quarantine, how soon will it come in to play? For clarity, I don't actually disagree with the concept - but are there people abroad now who are going to come back and have to spend 10 days they hadn't planned for, paying money they hadn't budgeted to stay in a hotel they don't want to be in? What a mess that is going to be.

I have sympathy for those who had pre-pandemic bookings and who have not been allowed to cancel, but hard to see how anyone would have thought making a recent booking was sensible. It all just seems too open to chaos to even consider it just yet.

There is a London family on the BBC daily feed today quoted as saying 'no way they will hotel quarantine' ... but surely the whole point is that they won't be given a choice?

I'm assuming by default, no.

However I'm taking a "hope for the best, expect the worst" attitude!

I do think now our borders are closed they're going to be one of the last things to reopen (sorry for doom mongering)

Not banking on it. But I would happy with a few UK trips if possible. Like a few days in the highlands, few days on the coast somewhere, and maybe a UK city break.

I'd rather we are able to live our daily lives as free as possible (going to the pub, restaurans, theatre etc) than to be able to go abroad on holiday

We usually go to France in August. We have not booked anything for this year. Not prepared to risk having to quarantine to be honest.

We’ve had a U.K. self catering holiday booked for May since May but I’m even beginning to think that won’t go ahead either....

I agree that internal freedom is preferable to international travel. Looking at my friend’s like in Oz, I’d love also to school my kids, enjoy easy hospital trips, have a meal in w restaurant and see a show.

I do feel terribly sad for those living in countries away from their family. One friend is desperate to see her terminally ill father in Argentina. We have cousins in SA and Zambia who won’t be seeing newborn grandchildren in the U.K. any time soon. Another doesn’t know if she’ll make it back to the U.K. before her mum no longer knows her. It’s terrible and I guess it puts me missing French supermarkets into perspective.

Probably not
Or going forward as tbh the govt has no intention of lifting any restrictions there will always be a new variant or another justification found

A week or so ago I was really hopeful about going abroad by May/June, even if we might need to quarantine on return. I was going to book something refundable.

Quarantine in a hotel would blow the budget on that one, be intolerable with 2 kids, and it isn’t clear at this stage of that would be a valid reason to cancel so I’ll wait.

We have a UK holiday bumped from last August, and I might book some campsites or a cottage if I can find one which will refund if we can’t go.

I don’t think we will get a foreign holiday in 2021 - even if rules were relaxed I wouldn’t book one with confidence or eager anticipation.

I’m reasonably confident I will get a UK holiday - I’m thinking of July or August.

@CormoranStrike

I don’t think we will get a foreign holiday in 2021 - even if rules were relaxed I wouldn’t book one with confidence or eager anticipation.

I’m reasonably confident I will get a UK holiday - I’m thinking of July or August.

But I've booked an August holiday cottage and realised it will be a tier 2area we will be higher tier so guess that would not be allowed either

I'm not confident. We are meant to be going to Turkey which was rearranged from last year, but I doubt we will get to go.

Although they haven't said how long the quarantining will go on for have they? And by the summer I reckon there will be pressure by tour operators and 'summer holiday countries' for things to be moving a bit easier. But I dont know how many people will want to go.

We have a UK break booked for October half term which I am feeling slightly more confident about.

I've moved my foreign holidays to next year. Might book a last minute break in summer if possible but I can't quarantine on return so that puts me off.

We have a Butlins holiday booked for Easter and I'm anticipating it being cancelled, I'll move it to summer if so.

I reaaally want to go see my nonna in Italy this summer. All the parent/grandparent generation will be vaccinated by then. If we are allowed (and don't have to hotel quarentine) on the way back, we'll go. I'm budgetting extra for any extra private tests that could be needed.

You may be right.