To not give DD money towards a holiday right now?

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21yo dd’s friend has suggested going on holiday together with another friend when all that’s going on at the moment has calmed down, I brushed it off thinking it was just a suggestion that won’t get acted on. It has now turned from a passing comment to an actual plan that the other 2 have spoken to their parents about!! They’re planning a week at DisneyLand for spring next year.

Her birthday is soon and if lockdown does end after these 3 weeks it’ll only be a couple of days after so we’ll be unlikely to do anything so she has asked me and her dad if instead of celebrating we can give her some money towards the holiday, her dad has agreed straight away. I on the other hand am not keen at all as I think right now booking holidays is the last thing anyone should be thinking about and honestly with all that’s going on it’s a bit tone deaf, so I’ve told her I need to think about it.

They seem to have looked into this quite well, DD is seemingly very clever with these things and knows when she comes to me to ask for something I’m more likely to say yes when can she can show she’s properly looked into something. They’ve all said they’re not even going to think about booking until a month or 2 after they can all get together again so they can properly look into it altogether and the earliest they’d be looking to go is late March next year.

AIBU to not give her any money towards this?

He's at uni and money is tight. He's managed to save this but now cannot spend it on what it was intended for.
He is alone far from home all his housemates have left.
Their is nothing more dangerous than a young bored man with money to burn and an amazon prime account.
I thought is showed forethought and restraint to ask me.

I wouldn't, purely because we really don't know when travel will be properly ok again and when waves of future suppression measures might land

I think that anyone thinking your daughter planning to go on holiday next year is inappropriate would be an arsehole so who cares what they'd think? 🙂

00100001

Bloody hell! Who rattled your cage?

I'd give her an IOU for whenever she wants the money. She's looking forward to doing something normal next year. I would give her a token for her birthday. I sent a rainbow glass pendant for a birthday from Cornish Glass Art as a memento of this strange time in our lives.

By next year plans may have changed, hope she has a happy birthday

It’s not like she’s going to shagaluf
why would it matter is she was?

missnevermind I'd be impressed too. It's no different to shoving it in a locked down bank account. We can't all have perfect children like 001

Give her the money OP.

Travel is my reason for living so I am really finding it hard right now.

The only thing that is keeping me going is future trips, whenever that might be.

Without having that to look forward to my mental health would be at rock bottom.

Also there are several rumours that Disneyland Paris will not reopen at all*

No just no. DLP struggled in the past mostly because of the way it was initially funded (loan as opposes to capital investment) and the fact it was a publicly owned company. It made an operational profit but that didnt cover its debts. Disney in the last couple of years did a takeover and now fully owns it sorting out the debt problem as part of the process. Disney are not likely to let it fail.

Shanghai Disney is already in preparation for reopening. Disneyland Paris will reopen although i think it will probably take longer.

Booking a disney trip is on the list of one of my things to do when this is over. Although in your DD case i wouldn't book too far ahead. she can be flexible enough to book last minute.

00100001 she has a savings account, she has plenty of money saved, as I said she can afford the holiday without me helping, she’s just asked me to keep hold of this money. There’s a lot on right now and even I have said oh fuck it and spent some of the money I was saving for something else because that thing isn’t likely to happen soon.

Shared on the 'Spain not letting us in' thread www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52328756

"A No 10 spokesman said travelling within the UK for holidays was "not something which the current guidelines allow for" and Foreign Office advice "continues to be that you should go abroad for essential travel only"."

"Aviation experts have warned that the crisis could fundamentally reshape the industry, with some airlines expected to suffer the same fate as FlyBe, which went into liquidation last month."

It's just madness to book anything at the moment.

It's just madness to book anything at the moment.

I said in my op They’ve all said they’re not even going to think about booking until a month or 2 after they can all get together again so they won’t be booking it for a while yet.

I said in my op They’ve all said they’re not even going to think about booking until a month or 2 after they can all get together again so they won’t be booking it for a while yet.

That might be June OP. They shouldn’t be booking anything until next year.

Yes, even when lockdown measures start to ease, it's not going to mean that magically flights and holidays will resume in a couple of months. It could take several months, possibly next year.