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Original poster

Do you think I can fit in a 1 week holiday this year? Or is 2020 a complete write off? Not thinking of a UK holiday!

127 replies

sunglasses123 · 09/04/2020 17:50

Do you think that air travel will be unavailable for the rest of the year or will some flights start maybe June/July time?

The lockdown will stop (I am thinking maybe beginning of May) eventually so what happens next?

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Confusedcupcake68 · 09/04/2020 17:56

I think that by June/ July we wont be in lock down but can't leave the country for unnecessary things

Waxonwaxoff0 · 09/04/2020 17:59

Lockdown might be over by then but social distancing won't be. I don't think we will see international leisure travel happening for a while. I wouldn't chance this year.

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sunglasses123 · 09/04/2020 18:01

Me too tbh. If any flights are released I suspect they are going to be very expensive and if the country you are going to has a lockdown or a quarantine period you are stuck there.

Italy would be lovely. I had some fab holidays there. I am just dreaming arent I.

I have never counted a holiday in the UK as a 'proper' holiday. Its very expensive and the weather always always lets you down.

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Acrasia · 09/04/2020 18:02

I think it will be more a case of other countries not allowing people in, or asking you to quarantine for 14 days on arrival, and possibly again when you re-enter the UK.

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sunglasses123 · 09/04/2020 18:04

I have two holidays booked this year. One is a very special one but we can rebook although its really disappointing its not going to happen. The other one is in November further afield but I have only booked the flights and its with BA.

Still, work seems to be happy that I am not now going in July!

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sunglasses123 · 09/04/2020 18:06

2020 is a complete nightmare isnt it and its only April! It will go down in history but for all the wrong reasons. Recession is coming I fear.

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TimeAintNothing · 09/04/2020 18:41

We have a holiday abroad booked for October and are looking at cancelling it or moving it because - as a PP stated - there may be quarantine requirements on arrival and/or return and if there is an outbreak either there or here then we may find ourselves stranded if there is a lock down or flights are cancelled. No one wants a week long trip to turn into a six week ordeal, do they?

AllesAusLiebe · 09/04/2020 18:49

I don't know. On the one hand, I think that caution will prevail and leisure travel won't resume for a long time. On the other hand, I can see the aviation industry and tourism sector falling over themselves to get everything up and running again.

It's a difficult one to call. I had an overseas flight booked for August which I've cancelled, but I'm still holding out some hope that I'll be able to rebook for the end of the year.

majesticallyawkward · 09/04/2020 18:49

Lockdown won't end until mid/late May at the earliest, social distancing could realistically carry until the end of the year or into 2021.

I wouldn't expect holidays abroad for some time, we will be coming out of the lockdowns into a very different world with recessions, boarder controls and travel restrictions.

simonisnotme · 09/04/2020 18:56

no one in their right mind will fly this year or be allowed to without many many restrictions

TotesGodsWill · 09/04/2020 19:22

I think you’d be mad to book anything at the moment and would struggle to claim on insurance for cancellation if you book while fully aware of the global situation

Ginkypig · 09/04/2020 19:41

We may well be back in lockdown as winter hits and winter illness season begins.

I would like to think not as I'm not one to panic or scaremonger but I think realistically we will likely be following the model of regular tightening and loosening of restrictions until either the numbers consistently are lower due to so many people having had it and recovered so it cant spread as easily.
Or there is an effective treatment (which lessens the mortality) or vaccine which looks like it could be 1-2 years away.

Bathroom12345 · 10/04/2020 10:17

Thank you everyone. I know there are much much important things to worry about.

Goatymcgoaty · 10/04/2020 10:20

Travel insurance will be a massive issue as they will not cover anything corona related from here on in. Until there’s a vaccine or certificate of immunity system I suppose

rookiemere · 10/04/2020 10:22

I wouldn't book anything but I'd like to think some form of travel would be possible this year. I'm meant to have two European breaks in September- booked long before the current situation and I'm mildly hopeful at least one may go ahead. Based on nothing but optimism obviously.

sofato5miles · 10/04/2020 10:32

My boyfriend lives in Madrid. We have overcome so much that we really don't want to give up now.

But what will travel look like for the rest of the year? When will we be able to see each other next and then return to our children easily, without quarantine? It is just frightening and shit. We truly love each other but have to just have patience.

halcyondays · 10/04/2020 10:37

Even if flights become available after the lockdown ends you could end up getting stuck somewhere, I wouldn’t.

3luckystars · 10/04/2020 10:43

October? Maybe.
Don't blame me if I'm wrong, we are all guessing, even experts.

Cam2020 · 10/04/2020 10:43

Why not support our economy for this year and think of a trip in the UK? We're going to need it!

cologne4711 · 10/04/2020 10:50

I think it will be more a case of other countries not allowing people in, or asking you to quarantine for 14 days on arrival, and possibly again when you re-enter the UK

I agree.

I think it will be UK holidays only this year unless you can afford to go away for a month, don't mind spending the first two weeks in a hotel room and then another two weeks at home when you get back.

cologne4711 · 10/04/2020 10:52

I have never counted a holiday in the UK as a 'proper' holiday. Its very expensive and the weather always always lets you down

I disagree, unless you go to Cornwall in August. In which case, yes, you can rely on the weather to let you down and it will be horribly overcrowded. Perhaps even worse this year - or maybe not at all, depending on how things go.

Tumbleweed101 · 10/04/2020 10:57

I’ll be just glad to be allowed to go on a day trip to the beach sometime this year lol. I’m not expecting to be able to go on holiday this year and maybe even next year has a question over it. I’d been hoping to go to Montana next June but thinking I might put it back to 2022.

pilates · 10/04/2020 11:04

I can’t even think of holidays abroad this year.

maddiemookins16mum · 10/04/2020 11:05

We booked for Croatia in September, I have already amended it until 2021. I’ll be happy with a long weekend in a cottage in December if it comes to it.

Babysharkdoodoodood · 10/04/2020 11:10

DH has flights booked in mid June to Turks and Caicos to see DSS and grandchildren with BA, so depending on the status over there, he's still intending to go. I'll have to set up my dd for bus pass again.

Then we've got our annual holiday booked with BA holidays to go to Ibiza in October which I'm hoping we can still go on. Insurance was booked at the same time anyway.

It's a nightmare booking leave at the best of times so I'm hoping not to have to carry it forward to next year.