Holidays and Brexit - AIBU to think fuck it and go!

[JemimaPyjamas]

I am supposedly going to Thailand with DS for 5 weeks in July / August, with DH joining us for the last 2ish weeks.

I have been saving like mad and have almost enough for two of the three business class flights already, and have booked accommodation. I know where we are going to reasonably well and it has been cheap enough to live there (cheaper than the UK for sure!)

We had our first family long haul in the summer, Florida, and it was wonderful and also our first proper holiday in a very long time - hence my frenzied savings now so we can have a similarly fabulous holiday this summer.

I choose Thailand as I know it reasonably well. It's easy enough with DS, but also it's relatively cheap, we can get somewhere fabulous for a fraction of the price we'd pay in other countries etc. We also now have some friends who are keen to come and join us for chunks of the time we are there.

DH is a lot more cautious than me and suddenly said today that we should 'wait and see what happens with Brexit, and possibly go to Scotland.' As I have been so focussed on our big trip, and don't fancy paying the often very high prices for a villa or similar in Spain for two weeks I am a bit crushed.

We can, with budgeting and saving, afford it. At least how things stand at the moment. He thinks we should simply save but not go anywhere, or somewhere for a week tops in the UK. His job is secure, as is mine. I think that life is for living and we should just go for it!

AIBU....?

There is a risk but it's impossible to say how big. It's about how comfortable you are with the possibility something will go wrong with your holidays. Cam you absorb the financial loss?
Thailand sounds great though and it may well be fine.

We certainly would not want to lose the money, and it's basically the flights that would not be refundable which would be wasting a lot, but I suppose it would not put us in a financially dangerous position, just a crap one! I haven't actually spoken to him yet in detail about it, I was so shocked when he said it. Im hoping some posters more clued up than me could give me some good pointers!

What would you say the possible risks would be...? I feel less cautious as it's late July we are supposed to be going. I think I would be more cautious if it was around, say, Easter

Should be ok as it's a non-eu country.

If you can't sleep, here's the link to the full government position at the moment:
www.gov.uk/government/publications/flights-to-and-from-the-uk-if-theres-no-brexit-deal/flights-to-and-from-the-uk-if-theres-no-brexit-deal

Assuming you would be flying with a UK/ non-eu airline.

Thanks - will have a proper look now

The flights I like the look of, both in terms of price and journey time, are KLM.
Bugger