To book Orlando for this September because its cheap?

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British Airways is insisting that it will be flying to Orlando on the 1st September however right know the US will only allow international arrivals into 12 airports and Orlando isn't currently one of them.
We usually go to Orlando every year anyway.
Staying onsite and the parks have massively reduced capacity.

I work in travel and the US is considered a no-go for the rest of the year. You can book it if you want but it probably won't go ahead. You'll most likely be offered to defer your flight to a later date, and unlikely to get a cash refund for quite some time.

Being polite, I don’t think it’s a good idea because of the pandemic situation in Florida.

I’m sure it’s an incredibly cheap offer but you will lose the money if it’s cancelled and your travel insurance won’t pay out. Travel insurance has lots of small print that means that they won’t give a refund in circumstances like yours (when you are aware of the risks).

Health insurance in the US might not completely cover hospital treatment for COVID-19 because it’s a known risk that the virus is around. You could end up having to pay thousands if you get ill while you’re away.

Don't. Just don't.

YADBU

yes also the fact theyre pushing travel vouxchers you have to ring up for a refund and good p-oint about the esta you cant get one

BA want your cash in exchange for a voucher. Is basically how it’ll pan out.

That was my first thought. My second thought was of a friend who went in September a couple of years ago and spend some of her holiday sleeping on the floor of a school gym with hundreds of random people because of a hurricane. Not sure I would want to take either risk myself.

What do you not get about not being able to enter the country at all?

Are people really this dense? I despair I really do

I thought non essential travel to the USA was currently banned.

Where are you posting from OP? I’d love to go to the USA to see family not seen since last Xmas, but as it’s impossible to enter from the U.K. under the ESTA scheme I’m resigned to it being impossible this year.

I cannot imagine a life where I would go to Orlando every year. There is a whole world out there. Who wants to be stuck in Orlando every 12 months.

But seriously, your kids have missed enough school. Even if the virus had been eliminated, you're kids should be back in school and not standing in queues at an amusement park. But there is still a pandemic ongoing and travelling for non essential reasons is something you really can forgo for oone bloody year.

Please can people like @IsaLain RTFT.

OP DOES NOT HAVE A CHILD AT SCHOOL

@Lemons1571

BA want your cash in exchange for a voucher. Is basically how it’ll pan out.

Spot on!

I wouldn't, not bothered about the pandemic or any of that, it simply doesn't look like we'll be allowed in the States in just 4 weeks time. I'm desperate to go back and saw an awesome deal to New York in November but I wouldn't even book that at the moment. It's not worth the admin of booking and cancelling, we had a Florida trip cancelled in May.

Plus have you seen the state of Disney at the moment? (Assuming that's where you're going) the restrictions and limitations are shite. I'm not rebooking until 2022.

@Muppetry76 Kids have already missed months and months of school, the maximum any child has missed is 14 weeks, hardly months and months is it.

@aldiAisleofCrap the maximum any child has missed is 14 weeks, hardly months and months is it.

Add on 2 week quarantine to a fortnight holiday and it's another month. 18 weeks is almost half an academic year.

Moot point in this case, op has no kids at school

We were due to go 20th August. Our hotel is closed until mid September. Don’t do it. It’s a ball ache getting your money back.

[quote AldiAisleofCrap]**@Muppetry76* Kids have already missed months and months of school,* the maximum any child has missed is 14 weeks, hardly months and months is it.[/quote]
Well, 14 weeks is a little over 3 months so yes, yes it is.

I think it’s a crazy thing to do. Florida is one of the major hotspots in the US which is one of the countries with one of the highest deaths per capita from COVID in the world. Making sure you had insurance to cover a potentially long hospital stay for COVID would be incredibly difficult/expensive. Trying to wrangle with an insurance company would be a nightmare should you find yourself needing to claim.

Just because you can go doesn’t mean you should. It doesn’t even mean you will go either as more than likely it will be postponed.

No way would I go to America this year. Just no way.

BA can state whatever it likes on its website, ultimately it's trying to survive and it's hoping that at least some people will give it their money on the off-chance that borders re-open, but you are extremely unlikely to be able to go. So can you afford to part with X thousand pounds right now, in the knowledge that you might not be able to take the trip until maybe some time next year? Because right now you can buy as many airline tickets to the USA as you like, but unless you're a US citizen or permanent resident you won't even be allowed to board the plane!

@SeaToSki

Unless you are a US citizen or green card holder, you CANNOT travel to the USA from Europe or the UK at all.

If you are a citizen or green card holder then you could fly to Fort Lauderdale and then quarantine for 14 days, and then drive over to the parks.

This started in March, I dont see it changing before September.

They ask you if you have a green card or a US passport at the gate for the flight to the US.

And honestly? I'd rather walk in nails than land at T5 again. Fucking ballache. Worst airport in the Western world, IME.

Go for it OP.

What could possibly go wrong?

OPs attitude and ignorance to travel restrictions into the US and quarantine on return to the UK is exactly why the UK is in the mess it is in re Corona/Brexit etc

Even if there were no restrictions, there is no way I would be travelling to the US right now. Total lunacy.