To cut honeymoon short? Heatwave Hell

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DH and I planned a wonderful 3 week honeymoon around Europe months and months ago. We’re currently approaching our last week of it (9 days still to go) and in Northern Italy, ITS HELL!

It’s completely unseasonable weather - everywhere around us is on red alert and even the locals/hotel staff just don’t know what to do! We were in a city yesterday it hit the 40’s with 100% humidity and we couldn’t leave the room! Were due to go to Rome today but simply couldn’t face it so diverted to a lake nearby (lost several hundred pounds to do this) and tbh despite showing as cooler (mid thirties) it’s still crazy hot!
DH is really struggling huge heat rash all over his body and I feel unwell with it! We’re fed up and just want to come home but there are basically no flights (or INSANLEY expensive ones) so we’re here in this expensive hotel just hiding all day and venturing out for an hour or two each night to get food!

We have good travel insurance so I’m tempted to call them tomorrow. 😭 I just don’t know what to do! We are supposed to go to another Italian stop after this and then France 😒 all places are on Red alert!

But AIBU to call travel insurance and say ‘it’s too bloody sunny and hot’!

Could you get transferred elsewhere instead ?? You aren't far off Switzerland if my memory serves me rightly 🧐🤔

Go somewhere with Aircon, spa, museum, galleries etc

Look for a spa or pool. In germany they are common and you can generally sit in a warm out door pool with a drink of your choice! Similarly put door pools are great.

It was all done via booking.com and I know the travel insurance will only over us returning home (and any money we subsequently lose) if we were to change the rest of our bookings (like we did Rome) we would be paying for it entirely ourselves.

We lost £200 cancelling that hotel and have spent another £700 to get this one 😭 for 3 nights!!! Anywhere with aircon and pools is crazy expensive

Get up at 4am, head out round the lake or whatever until 10 or 11. Then lunch and siesta until it cools down in the evening. You miss the crowds that way too. Empty streets! Great photos!

Yes, museums and churches are cool.

@SciFiRules

That’s EXACTLY what we did. Rome was going to be all sightseeing so we cancelled and booked a lake side air con resort with pools - but it’s put us about £300 over budget to do so! Pools in Rome we’re charging in excess of £50 each per day for use - I checked this online before cancelling

I am on holiday somewhere hot and am managing by getting up very early, plus visiting cool old buildings.

@thethethe

You would think museums would be cool wouldn’t you? But after sweating to death in Vienna’s natural history museum I’m reconsidering that assumption! I had a quick google (for Rome) and was shocked how many don’t have air con and this is the kind of heat which REQUIRES aircon! A lot of museums seem to rely on the large old buildings to keep it cool but in 40 degree heat it doesn’t work

The Vatican will be cool inside. I'd get up and travel into Rome early and then just spend all day there.

I did suggest getting up early to DH (who gets up at 5am everyday at home for work) and he looked disgusted 😂 he’s been eagerly awaiting this holiday all year for rare lie ins

I'm not sure your insurance would cover weather, they don't usually.

I would just stop sightseeing and relax by the pool etc

We’re nowhere near Rome now. We stayed in the North

I’d have to come home. What about a train? Is there any chance the weather will break there soon? I’ve not booked a holiday yet for us as a family because I’m so worried this will happen. I really feel for you.

Very many countries cope regularly with that heat, there are lots of ways to cope and it seems overly dramatic to cut a honeymoon short.

It was 40 in Florence the other day and we coped by visiting some gardens with lots of shade and drinking fountains (of which there are plenty). We ended up having a lovely day sat under some shade, venturing out to refill water and get some gelato every now and then.

I vote for enduring it and doing something you’d never normally do as a tourist, it’ll make it all the more memorable when you look back on your honeymoon.

I know 😞 we’ll suck it up and manage but it’s SUCH a shame and has been an expensive nuisance!

We were so looking forward to this trip and purposely chose times/ locations based on the average weather to ensure we wouldn’t be uncomfortable!
The concierge here was telling us how ‘completely insane’ this weather is for them.
‘Even in August this would be a stretch’
The pool isn’t even cool- the lake (one of the largest in Italy (isn’t even cold) 😂🙈🤯

You have to compromise. I hate getting up early, but it's a very effective way of saving the holiday. It's 38 degrees here, and I don't cope with heat. Early morning is the coolest part of the day. You go into town at 5 or 6, have it almost to yourself, it's not hot, you can take great photos because there are no other tourists.

Very many countries cope regularly with that heat, there are lots of ways to cope and it seems overly dramatic to cut a honeymoon short

But why should she “cope” if it’s unbearable and she’d be happier at home?

I don’t know what to suggest OP if there are no flights, could you get the Eurostar to a neighbouring less hot country?

My mum is at her mobile in France, step dads sister has been hospitalised twice in 24 hours, for the elderly, very young and at risk groups the heat is literally a killer. If you're relatively fit, take precautions, drink enough water and you'll be ok. Caveated by I grew up in the Middle East but when it hit 45 in the summer, we got back to England pronto.

I don’t think you’ll get anywhere with travel insurance I’m afraid. Imagine if everyone that had bad weather on holiday was able to claim!

Do sympathise though. Hot weather is the pits. I live somewhere that gets to 40 some summer days but with very low humidity so not nearly as bad. Europe trips for me are done in May or September. Not as busy but still warm.

Well I've been on a holiday where the weather was so far out of our comfort zone, we basically slept in the day and did sightseeing at night (literally the middle of the night). Nothing was open, obviously, but it was much cooler

I’m just intrigued by what “very good” travel insurance covers you coming home because it’s hot?! If anything, that’s probably closest to a force majeure clause which is specifically excluded!

Honeymoon - hotel with aircon and lots of sex!

But why should she “cope”

It’s not exactly Hell is it?

Come to Santiago compestela strangely cool I’m visiting to escape the heat it 46 in town.

@birdrib....it would be hell for me, i have one kid who doesn't cope with heat due to his asd, and another who is allergic to suncream. and i just don't like being boiled alive. i'd be going home. or living in the shower.