Holiday will you lose money this summer?

[coffeeandteav]

I have a holiday booked to Portugal mid August. Flight and accommodation booked separately. Accommodation can be cancelled.

Flights were £1200. I have a feeling the flights will go ahead.

To change the dates will cost a few hundred minimum and could just be kicking the can. Sunk costs fallacy etc.

Pros to going

Helps the industry
A change of scenery. ( view/weather)

Cons

Live with over 70s
Travel insurance if ill abroad
We were talking my sons friend too.
Queues for pool, beach, shops. Will they even be open?
Not having the ' good'time you would expect on a holiday.
People (some)in Cornwall ( from some threads) don't want visitors so do the portugese or locals?

Losing 1k makes me feel sick. I don't want to go though. I think its too soon for me.

Does anyone else think they will lose money this summer?

Portugal have been encouraging visitors

I know, this is why I think I will lose the money.

Oh no @Teacher12345 where were you going?

We'd booked a week in Scotland in May half term. We postponed to the end of the (English) summer holidays but aren't really feeling it. So we will probably cut out losses and cancel. We were going to drive, so it's only the accommodation deposit, which was about £150. Annoying but not thousands like some of you .

If the suggested October bank holiday goes ahead (and is early in October when the weather is still nice and before the clocks go back) we might go away then for a long weekend.

Lulu1919 did they cancel both flights ?

@starrynight19 if they’ve cancelled one way you can get a refund on both. Our original outbound was cancelled and we could move one or both dates or get all of the money back, so we switched to a couple of days earlier and a better flight time!

Local here. Yes we do want you, most things are actually already open for tourism here already

Skigal86 oh that’s good to know thanks will look into it.
Think we just going to cancel it all if we can.

Luckily both our ferry travel and holiday accommodation have rescheduled us to August 2021 without any loss of payment at all.

@coffeeandteav purely FYI you should make bold the quotes from other posts, not your own post.
Sorry if you meant to - just thought I'd let you know.

Following as we are in the exact same situation.....and has t taken out any travel insurance 😬😬

I've got a credit for my swimming holiday to use next year instead. Currently waiting to see if EasyJet will cancel my flights.

We're supposed to be staying in a holiday cottage in Pembrokeshire the last week of August. Since the Welsh Assembly still hasn't said when people can even cross the border for non-essentials, I'm not holding out much hope of it happening. And the lettings company look like they're going to be bastards about not refunding us.

We have a holiday booked for late August/early September. If we can go, we will go. Isolation of our return isn't really an issue as we can both work from home.

Insurance is a concern though. What we are still covered for needs clarification.

I have flights to India early July. Desperate to cancel.

Does anyone have an Amex they booked on and know much about the in built travel insurance?

Yes I changed for free!

No, I had two packages booked. First one the travel agent were being difficult about the refund so I claimed a section 75 on my credit card, the bank refunded the following day.

The second, the travel agent has refunded in full.

We had a package booked with Virgin Holidays and should’ve gone in May. We’ve opted for a refund rather than to reschedule for next year as the prices were almost double when I checked.

I’m still waiting for the phone call that Virgin say they have to make to you before they can start the refund process.

We transferred ours free of charge to next year as well - they are a part of the Tui group.
We had also booked the ferry crossing through them so we won't lose anything there, not that they are sailing yet.

Yes probably. Currently stuck between rock and hard place. Easyjet flights booked and paid last autumn. Accommodation booked at same time, deposit paid. Balance of accommodation is due in 2 weeks. Easyjet have now marked flights as 'not available' which means they are very likely to be cancelled, but they won't actually cancel until 7 days prior. This means we either need to pay balance of accommodation £1500 knowing that flights may not run, (so we lose 2k on accommodation) or we don't pay balance, accommodation cancels and we lose the £800 we've paid so far.
It's so frustrating. And currently we wouldn't be able to enter France anyway due to quarantine rules.

We were supposed to go to Greece with TUI mid July and because I was worried about it going ahead but us not going and the balance being due, I stupidly changed it to New York at Christmas before they announced the free amendment policy so paid £100 to do so. No idea if we’ll even be going to NY then or if it would even be enjoyable

Ryan air flight cancelled to Spain in August ...they contacted us this week

*I hope they cancel mine. They did for my Krakow trip in May. Have had to claim on section 75 to get the money back. It's a lot less than the Portugal flights though.

Agree the quarantine could be a problem but I would be back on 14/08. So just more annoying than a work problem.*

coffeeandteav purely FYI you should make bold the quotes from other posts, not your own post.
Sorry if you meant to - just thought I'd let you know.

I tried. The app has a mind of its own.

Yep lost out money on our luxury once-in-a-lifetime honeymoon (upwards of 8k) we can't change the dates as we already changed it once, we were meant to be going in March. We can't change the dates again as I'm now pregnant, I wasn't when we booked or when lockdown began. It's not until Aug but being pregnant I can't go at all, as this isn't to a country with adequate healthcare. The insurance won't pay out and by Aug the boarders will be open and flights will be going but we won't be on it and we can't get refunds on flights or hotels (the most expensive part). I'm very gutted.

Cheese that sounds really shit too!

@coffeeandteav Spain. They are opening their border next week and we are scheduled to lift our restrictions on July 1st!
I'm really hoping FCO say we cannot go but it isn't looking likely as the government are backing down to big companies.

I have just booked an August trip to Europe today
Hedging our bets- have Asia, USA and Europe booked now and so hopefully will be able to go on at least one.

@Teacher12345

I agree. It's really shitty.