Are you going away in half term?

[Cocopogo]

I have a couple of nights booked in UK. It’s likely the area will be T3 by time our half term in a couple of weeks. Happy to still go, chill in hotel room and walk in remote areas. DP says we shouldn’t go. Would you?
YABU - don’t go
YANBU - go and enjoy!

I would much rather go on my holiday than see my family at Christmas!

I’m on a half term break less than 50 miles from home and normally somewhere we visit on day trips. I booked back in July once I realised that there was very little availability for the rest of summer once restrictions had been lifted and that even Oct HT was getting booked up. It’s my nearest piece of coastline and I haven’t even left the county! Now that we’re here, I’m really glad that we booked a break so close to home and the visitor book of comments for this year clearly shows that we weren’t the only ones to do so. Next summer, I’ve booked a week slightly further - the next county. I’m not planning a holiday more than. 2hrs’ drive away let alone abroad for the moment. We’re Tier 1 for the moment and I suspect that won’t last long.

Nobody should be travelling anywhere. It’s this selfish attitude of “but I need a break!” thats just spreading the virus and prolonging restrictions.

I love my family but I’d rather go on holiday than spend Christmas with them. In fact I’m actually looking forward to having a Christmas with just DH and the kids in my own home for the first time ever.

‘Nobody should be travelling anywhere. It’s this selfish attitude of “but I need a break!” thats just spreading the virus and prolonging restrictions.’

I don’t agree that people going holiday started wave 2 at all. I think it was school, colleges, and uni’s all going back coupled with ‘Eat out to help out’, telling everybody to go back to work, most restrictions being lifted, Cummings trip etc which has fuelled the second wave.

By ‘Cummings trio’ I meant that a lot of people decided to not comply after that.

We've been and are back again - the scottish school holidays where I live were last week and we are back tomorrow.

We are just back from a week in Northumberland and it was great! I have no idea what "tier" Northumberland is in and quite frankly I don't care. It's a massive county and walking on the beaches, geocaching and exploring villages is zero risk. We even ate out in a restaurant in the evening which is banned in my part of Scotland.

If your T3 you really shouldn’t be going on holiday out of your area. Especially not into a T2 or T1 area, people are being very selfish if planning to do that. Please don’t spread it to the lower risk areas.

It's not th ese kinds of breaks that are spreading the virus.. The huge jump in numbers coincides with schools and especially unis going back and people being back in workplaces. If we are deciding that those things need to continue, these breaks, as described and with all the SD, masks, T&T app etc are not going to be the tipping point. I'm travelling from t2 to t1 to take my kids to their dad's and will stay in a hotel. I need to eat too. That's allowed and necessary. We HAVE to live alongside this.

Holidaymakers tend to only stick with the people they’re on holiday with and not mingle with other people. When we went away on the summer we didn’t mix with people.

@Tellmetruth4

Holidaymakers tend to only stick with the people they’re on holiday with and not mingle with other people. When we went away on the summer we didn’t mix with people.

On self-catering breaks definitely. When we we were away last week we didn't spend more than 15 minutes with anyone out of the family.

We did however do our bit to support their battered local economy by buying takeaway coffees, ice creams, eating out at a pizza place.

We're 7 months or whatever into this shitshow, we know how it spreads, we know the risks. We know our own situation, and what "risks" we're exposed to at home. We are grown ups with our own brains and don't need Nicola Sturgeon or Boris Johnson to tell us what we can and can't do as a family.

We’re in a low risk area with a cottage in a low risk part of Wales booked for half term.

We’ve actually just recovered from Covid and so a week of isolation in another part of the UK isn’t really what we want right now with teenage DC in tow! They don’t want to go but dh and I would enjoy it (but I sympathise with my stir crazy isolated grumpy teens tbh).

A Welsh lockdown would suit us as we’d be able to cancel/ move the booking but I’m not so selfish as to ignore other people’s position.

I do feel for everyone in the tourist trade but I’m not convinced that having mass movement over half term across the UK is the best way to control Covid, if we consider school/ college pupils’ potential role in spreading the disease.

@Florabella

Those of you cancelling uk breaks - have you had a refund from your holiday accommodation? Would you expect a refund in your circumstances?

Weve not been given a refund. Caravan in lakes. Refused point blank as they are remaining open.

I'm from a tier 2 area. Am wondering whether to book a last min week away in Crete. Waiting to see if it's going to be hot enough and if the price is right.

@girlicorne
“We are on half term next week, we have 4 hotels in 4 different parts of the U.K.”
Good Grief

Makes a mockery of the tier system really when tier 3 people are allowed into lower tiers. Whats the point?

leafygarden the Lake District is in Tier 1, apart from Barrow, which is in Tier 2.

@SavageBeauty73

Nope. London is tier 2 so can't travel.

The above is wrong.

As long as we can go, ie the cottage isn’t cancelled because Boris decides to lock the country down again, we are going.

We have a click and collect booked, we’ll walk and keep ourselves to ourselves.

@MissBaskinIfYoureNasty

Makes a mockery of the tier system really when tier 3 people are allowed into lower tiers. Whats the point?

Um because not everyone in Tier 3 is infectious. COVID is just more prevalent there.

‘Makes a mockery of the tier system really when tier 3 people are allowed into lower tiers. Whats the point’

That’s why the tier system is bollocks. The 2 week circuit breaker would’ve been better. Nobody allowed to go anywhere for 2 weeks to allow all those with the virus to show symptoms and be isolated. This half hearted game of wack a mole won’t do much which is why I’m going to continue to live my life, wear my mask, sanitise, social distance and wash my hands. I’m not locking myself up because the virus is going nowhere, they can’t track and trace properly and no vaccine is coming anytime soon. If we decide we want to go away we’re going but will take the known precautions to protect ourselves and others.

We have cancelled. It would have involved travel from tier 2 to tier 1 and I don’t think it is the right thing to do. We’d have been unable to spend time with the people we were going with (had two separate places booked) unless outside. We will stay put, go for walks and try not to be too despondent about yet another cancelled holiday (this is the third one this year...).

How depressing that the tier hierarchy is bringing out such division.

We are but just to a family caravan just us middle of no where for a change of scene. We were supposed to be in France but obviously that's not happening. We are tier 2 as is Caravan site. I feel fine with that but wouldn't be going to a tier 3 area in a busy hotel or city centre.

Um because not everyone in Tier 3 is infectious. COVID is just more prevalent there.

Apparently Nottingham has the highest rate of Covid per 100,000 at 887. that's 0.0089%. Or put it another way, 99.99% of people in Nottingham don't have Covid.

But yeah, it's SO risky, you're literally taking your life in your hands.

Please remember that wales has different rules. At the moment you can only come here if you are from a tier one area. Much of wales is already in lockdown and the whole country is very likely to be at the end of the week.

I appreciate people want a break, but is now really the right time?