Coronavirus - AIBU to still go on holiday?

[Blackbird1234]

Just that, really. I want to go ahead and book my holiday (Europe), but some of my friends/family have said they're not going anywhere at all this year because of the virus, so I'm not too sure what to do.

What are you all doing?

Just holding off booking for now. There’s no rush and I’d rather see how things pan out over the next month.

Am going to Italy. Hope it stays in the north for now

I'm going to the (French) Alps next week and Poland in April.
Can't put your life on hold.
Make sure you have holiday insurance.

I booked mine about a week before this all kicked off. Its for end of August. Am seeing what happens but taking a risk we might lose the money if we cannot go. I wouldnt book anything now if I hadnt already done so.

I would book as normal and just make sure you take out insurance at the time of booking incase there is any issues further down the line

I've got 2 holidays booked, France and Spain. We'll still go.

We are booked to go to Northern Italy in the summer. By then, I reckon it will either have run its course or it will be everywhere so it won't make a difference whether we travel or stay at home. I am not worried but if weren't already booked, we probably wouldn't now.

The problem is you don’t know what will be available for you (facilities, public transport, visitor attractions, sightseeing etc) and what will be closed/restricted when you visit. I’d wait a week or two if I could to see what is happening if I were planning somewhere already affected like northern Italy or Tenerife. That said we’re off ‘abroad’ tomorrow.....

Considering Spain and not worried. Friend going through Singapore airport in april which has given her pause but she's still going with her family.

I go to Stockholm next week. Not many cases but still worried.

I’m off to Rome in April. Dream holiday and as a precious poster said, i’m not willing to put my life on hold.

I've got quite a lot booked - DD on a school trip at beginning of Easter holidays, then a US trip, then a weekend in Milan(...), and finally summer holidays in France.

Until I'm told otherwise, we're still doing it.

I have annual travel insurance. If my holidays get cancelled then we're covered, so long as we don't book anywhere where there is FOC saying not to travel there.

I've a break away in France booked for
Easter which, unless there is an official
Guidance telling me not to go we will be going. We also have a long weekend booked in London in May too.

We've just come back from a week in Florida. All was fine.

We will be booking for the summer soonish too.

I'm happy to follow official links but at the moment it doesn't say not to travel. I'm following normal hygiene rules - always do as I work in an infant school and I'm also immunosuppressed.

We have a holiday booked to the Far East (not Wuhan!) in about 5 weeks time. Unless there is FCO guidance not to travel, or the two cities we're visiting go into lockdown, I'll be travelling.

Thanks for the replies, so looks like most of you have already booked and are still going as planned unless told otherwise.

I'm also very much in the camp of "life goes on" and don't want to put things on hold when we don't know what's going to come of this.

Do you all have travel insurance? I've never booked a proper "holiday" before as I usually go backpacking and use different insurance for that, so I'll look into getting travel insurance before booking anything.

Either it will be contained where it is now, which is doubtful considering how many different outbreaks there are, in which case you can go in holiday anywhere but an outbreak area, or it will spread everywhere, in which case you can go wherever you like.

IMO in a month it will be everywhere.

We've booked for France in April, have travel insurance so hopefully that will cover us in the event that it's not possible to go, but are just hoping it will have run its course by then and/or warmer weather will have limited it.

I would go as long as FCO weren't advising against it, and I'd just perhaps be a bit careful to make sure I had decent travel insurance.
DS is off to France soon, there's no suggestion school are going to cancel the trip so far.

We've already booked to go to Spain at the end of August before Coronavirus had really become known about. I fully intend to still go unless there's any travel restrictions in place by then. But I do have travel insurance which I'm hoping (crosses fingers) would pay out if travel restrictions meant we couldn't travel then.

I have had flights booked for Spain in August since last year (booked early for a bargain) but if I hadn't I would be holding off booking anything right now.

It's already here in the south of Italy since yesterday @NoMorePoliticsPlease.

I would hold off booking for now simply because there will probably be offers and discounts later. I have already booked though.
Insurance is a must.