To ask if you are still going on your France holiday this summer?

[LuckyLouby]

Just that really. We have a family holiday booked to go to France this August and were very much looking forward to it. However, given the situation, we are unsure of whether to go or not. We have booked with Brittany Ferries and they have given us the option of taking a credit note for the deposit we have already paid and using it to rebook at a later date. Alternatively, we can go ahead with the holiday.

The holiday home itself is in rural France but the worry is over taking the crowded ferry to get to France.

Has anyone else booked a similar holiday for this year? What are you planning on doing? We're so confused about what to do our hearts say go but our heads say don't take the risk and take the credit note.

We are booked on the Brittany Ferries catamaran to Cherbourg which doesn't have cabins. Realistically it could either travel with about 25 passengers or we could all just abandon social distancing for 3 hours. I'm not sure either of those options are going to work!

As I said above, logically I know it's vanishingly unlikely we are going but it's hard to let go. I am not intending to wipe out the entire Vendee region, my thinking process is more along the lines that the virus will have been miraculously eradicated by August. We are all allowed to dream right?!

Trilbydoll - some virologists are thinking along the same lines so who knows!
SARS (I think) was also a coronavirus and disappeared before a vaccine could be manufactured (which helped the vaccine being developed again this time). Nobody really knows, it's wait a see!

I live in the south of France, in an area that is inundated with tourists in the summer. Which is fine usually. However we have an elderly population here who are very vulnerable

Why there is unlikely to be mass tourism until there is treatment or a vaccine.
Same concerns in the tourist areas of the UK.