Will Devon & Cornwall be ok to go to in July?

[EinsteinaGogo]

We are in a real dilemma.. We have to pay the balance on our holiday in the next couple of weeks which is about another £800 on top of the £400 deposit already paid.

We've gone for a self catering holiday flat on the Devon / Cornwall border for last week of June /
first week in July.

Don't really want to go if the touristy places we'd usually go to aren't open but our holiday company are only offering a reschedule so will lose our money if we cancel. We have a family wedding next year (hopefully) so we don't want to rebook.

We were pretty sure we'd still be in lockdown and be able to get a refund but now that the new rules are in place, I don't know if we are or aren't allowed to go.

AIBU to think we should be able to get our deposit back?

[justasking111]

With people defecating everywhere the next scare will be typhus.

[Littlemissdaredevil]

Popped to a nearby beach yesterday. Lots of people acting completely normal and not social distancing. Public loos were open. I came out of the cubicle and went to the end of a empty row of sinks. The next person came out and stood at the sink next to me 6 inches away when there were other sinks further away they could have used. There were few places open to get ice cream and or a drink but everywhere else was shut. I didn’t go one he beach as it was rammed.

[Ineedflour]

Cornwall will be open by July. The locals might not like it, but if it's legal to go, people will.

[ferretface]

Re Weston hospital, there is probably transmission occurring within the hospital, with patients being admitted and catching covid there and a good deal of transmission between staff. You can read between the lines of the press statement:

“Whilst the vast majority will have come into the hospital with Covid-19, as an extra precaution we have taken the proactive step to temporarily stop accepting new patients to maintain patient and staff safety."

I would sincerely doubt it has anything to do with tourism, Weston is a very fragile hospital at the best of times, prior to the merger with UHB earlier this year it was the smallest acute trust in the country. It's hard to run good services when they're so small for a variety of reasons.