To even consider staying in a holiday cottage?

[Dreaming69]

This might sound stupid but I have a private cottage booked in the North Yorkshire Moors. Were supposed to be going next weekend. Is there anyway we would still be able to go? It would basically be my family going in our car and effectively moving into another house. We would exercise by doing a walk in the moors so plenty big enough area to practice social distancing. The rest of the time would be in the house but it's better than mine and a change of scenery also!

I live in a remote area and today as I try to teach my class via zoom there has been a procession of walkers going by, people pulling up in cars leaving them outside my little house and buggering off to go for a walk in the countryside. The nearest shop is one in one out at the moment, we have 1 gp practise that serves a huge area and the nearest hospital barely copes with the local population. We simply couldn't cope with visitors coming here, getting sick and taking up the little resources we have or passing on the virus to local families.Please listen to the people posting here. Be safe, be kind. Stay home!

We have had to cancel our trip we had planned next week. Little cottage in the middle of nowhere in the Highlands. Would also have been low risk as just us in the car and no one around - blah blah blah.
We cancelled because it’s the right thing to do.
It would have been non essential travel.
We are on lockdown.
Are we disappointed to miss out on our break we have been looking forward to? Yes.
What else can you do really. We’ve been told to stay at home so we will. When this pandemic is over we can book another break but for now we have to stay at home.

I used to teach 7 year olds with extremely poor listening skills, adhd and Aspergers and I swear to God they would have grasped the op’s situation update better than most of the dipshits on here.

OP ISN’T GOING
@Dreaming69 I really hope you can rebook. Keep all the emails.

im in utter shock of half wits asking stupid questions!!

NO YOU CAN NOT GO!!!

The risk isn’t to you it’s the potential spread to others. What if you’re taken ill and need hospitalisation whilst you’re there? They may not have enough ITU beds for their average population let alone holiday makers. It’s selfish. I get that it’s disappointing, I’ve been there having to cancel my own birthday booking but it’s for the best.

@Barney60

I’m in utter shock people can’t be bothered to read the most basic update.

The op isn’t going and has stated this multiple times.

And the Darwin prize goes to....... Are you for real? Stay at home! Have you not seen the requests for people not to travel to holiday cottages and spread the virus or end up in a less equipped hospital?

@BBOA, and the reading comprehension prize goes to...not you, surely. RTFT.

I think when people reply to questions on here, they do not need to be so rude. Yes, explain, but please be kind. I am having my own mini crisis but now would be terrified to ask for advice on here because of all the vitriol.

Well if it's good enough for Prince Charles I dont see why you can't go.
Or you could be sensible and follow the rules and stay home. Like he should have done.

I was meant to be on holiday this week. Instead I'm at home making the best of it. The less we all move around, the less the virus spreads.

Are you thick? Stay in! Twats next door having a BBQ with about 40 pissed arseholes

Omg. Cancel the cheque!!

scorpio
I agree. I just don’t see the need for so many people to be rude, personal and aggressive. Swearing, attacking, being righteous. Really, just take a look at yourselves. Not just on this thread but on some many others.

Wow what a difference a few weeks make - only last month it was all ‘Be Kind’ and now someone asks a bit of a dim question and it’s a public flogging. No need.

You are right not to go. Stay safe 💐

We have a cottage booked in the Dales from next Saturday - we are staying at home as it is quite clear that we shouldn’t travel. The potential pressure on local health facilities from holidaymakers getting ill is not to be underestimated. The owner is letting us carry over the booking for 1 year but if they hadn’t I would have claimed on my insurance

There would have been no reason to see anyone at all
So if you are carrying the virus and you have an accident - people come to help you, ambulances are called - police are called - not something I could live with!

Which part off "FUCKING STAY AT HOME" do you not understand. People are losing their lives others are losing jobs and you want to go on a fucking holiday. Tell me this is a joke!

@Julz1969, what part of OP's update that she's not fucking going, do you not understand?

@Knowhowufeel2 🤣

People LOVE to get the boot in, don’t they

Isolation is really bringing out a lovely, kind side of society 🙄

Just seen this on Facebook, given to a lady’s husband by the police because he drove to a beauty spot to walk his dog.

You would need to fill up with petrol, coming into contact with others, risking transmission, but mostly, if you have the virus, but no symptoms, you will be spreading it to the remote area. I live next to holiday cottages in Cumbria and praying no-one arrives tomorrow. We don't have many hospitals - and they are needed for our own , aging population, potentially. Stay at home and rearrange for another time.

Yes it is. Don't be selfish, don't add to the problem. Guidance is very clear, people are dying, the nhs will soon be in crisis. STAY AT HOME