To drive home with Covid symptoms

[Generallybewildered]

Not actually a AIBU but more of a WWYD as this is a hypothetical situation that I’ve been mulling over in my head.

We have got two get aways coming up over the summer holidays. One staying in a cottage in a rural, English county (3 hours drive home), another camping in France Travelling through the tunnel (days drive involving filling up and contact with staff at tunnel).

What would you do If you or a family member started getting coronavirus symptoms whilst away? Would you stay in rented accommodation/campsite or drive home (in your own vehicle)?

Staying away would involve needing to source food in an area with no friends/family and with limited medical access if needed. And in the second scenario sharing toilet facilities. But travelling with coronavirus is also risky (although would be within own vehicle).

YABU - stay where you are, don’t travel.
YANBU - get home where Isolation is easier

Depends how seriously ill they were. If they had symptoms but seemed ok I’d head home, but some people seem to get seriously ill very quickly in which case I’d stay put. Also depends on where you were staying and what medical facilities are like, and whether any local lockdowns have been imposed that would prevent you from travelling. So there would be a lot of factors.

I'd definitely drive to Durham at the first sign of covid symptoms

I was thinking about this as we have a holiday similar to your English one coming up. It’s not realistic for us to stay there isolated for 14 days For a variety of reasons so provided there was at least one adult who wasn’t well I think we would drive straight home without stopping.

For the french one I don’t think you Should travel home as you risk infecting others.

And for those reasons I can’t vote in the poll as it varies on the case.

If you could be sure not to come into contact with anyone then maybe but I certainly wouldn’t drive back from France

If you started to show symptoms while in France you would be subject to a mandatory 14 day quarantine either at your home or, if you have no home in France, at a designated location the authorities will arrange for you. You wouldn't be allowed to t ravel.

For the UK holiday, you would have to let the cottage owners know so they could do a deep clean and could self-employed depending on how much contact you'd had with them. I'd drive home from that one if I was well enough to drive and if I could drive it in one go without having to stop/come into contact with others. If I wasn't well enough to drive then we would just have to self-isolate at the cottage and pay to keep it on.

I'm pretty sure the rules of our holiday cottage somewhere in rural England states that we should go home if we can. If we are too ill to be able to and unlikely to be able to leave when we should then we would have to pay the cost of the holiday of the people who would have been due to stay the following week and maybe even the week after that too - seems fair

Isn’t travel insurance null and void atm, so getting ill away would result in pricey healthcare? If that’s the case... definitely drive home!!

@BIRDSbirds

I'd definitely drive to Durham at the first sign of covid symptoms

It seems to be recommended

I agree with pp drive to durham then check your vision at barnard castle

I don't know and this is what would hugely put me going anywhere I was dependent on public transport to get to - ferries, planes, trains, buses.
It could get very expensive if you came down with Covid symptoms on the penultimate day of your holiday and you had to find (and pay for) somewhere else to stay for another 14 days. And I doubt that any standard insurance policy would cover you for Covid complications / hospitalisation.
I'd risk staying in this country (as you wouldn't have the worry of medical expenses) - and might decide to chance driving home. But it's not really fair on other family members to subject them a long car journey home with an infected person in the passenger seat.
Glad not to be going away this summer - It all sounds so complicated!

In planning our holidays we are only going to places withing driving distance home without stopping.

We have a similar UK holiday booked. We said if one of us looks to be ill we'll leave immediately and get home.

The t and ca at a local holiday park says should a guest get symptoms they must vacate immediately. A friend who owns a holiday let says guests can either vacate or must vacate at the end of the booked stay - they can't remain beyond the original booking. So check.

Where we stayed recently, the information was to have someone drive you home if possible, or if not possible and you had to self isolate in situ you would be liable for the higher of the weekly cost of accommodation or the cost of refunding guests who had booked and now couldn't come (as I suppose a four night break plus a three night break booked in costs more than a seven night break).

I would imagine most people within the UK would try to get home if at all possible. It would put me off going for breaks on public transport, though.

Drive home no doubt

You can't cross borders when ill.
I don't know about the tunnel but my temperature was checked twice before flying last week and I had to fill in a declaration that I didn't have any symptoms and hadn't been in contact with anyone testing positive in the last 14 days.

Drive home - unless we start with the horrendous diarrhoea like last time, in which case stay put.

Our holiday is drivable in a single sitting for this reason.
I'd rather get the family back home to our stock of pasta and bogroll

If I was in the UK I’d drive home. If I was abroad I’d stay put.

And yes, if you start in France you'll be going nowhere.

Oops , that was supposed to be a not a biscuit!