To be worried about upcoming break away due to covid?

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Have a break away booked and cannot get money back if cancelled. AIBU to be concerned that shouldn’t be staying overnight at places due to risk of covid?

Would you go if were vulnerable?

Where are you going? Rural cottage is go. City break to somewhere in a tier 3 area, probably not.

It is a cottage, but it also has a swimming pool and some activities if you choose to do so. I don’t know if swimming is ok for vulnerable people?

Depends on where you are and where you're going.

You could go but not swim.

Swimming isn’t a high risk activity in a private pool. It’s contact with people that’s the risk.

I’d go. Take everything with you and enjoy the change of scenery.

I would ask some questions about how swimming is being managed and see how you feel from that, we went to a lodge at half term that had a pool on site and bookings were limited to four households at a time and each had a section of the pool allocated to them. No changing facilities available so you had to arrive in your swimming stuff and dressing gown and you had a box to to put your stuff in. I felt very safe with that set up.

Thanks everyone. It’s hard to decide.

Find out what the arrangements are from the property management and decide for yourself if it’s ok to go. You’re an adult and you know your health better than any politician. I don’t understand why people are suddenly wanting the government to tell them what they can and can’t do with their medical condition. Speak to your consultant if you are really worried.

Depends on so many things.
How risk averse are you?
Will the benefits to your mental health from a change of scene be swamped by your anxiety over Covid and your personal health issues?

I know it depends, but I really don’t know.

We are going away next wknd and there will be swimming. I am on the shielding list and will still be going and making the most of it. Im not worried.

Well how do you expect anyone on here to know better with vastly less info about your exact risk factors and the place you've booked? FGS people are so ridiculous about having confidence in their own choices. We've had 10 months of constant info about transmission risks and so on. You ought to be able to make a judgement call but if you really want advice you need to give people the relevant info.

Centre parcs and I have a heart problem. other member of family is asthmatic.

I go to centre parcs next week too. We went in August after the first lockdown. They are very, very good and are set up very well to be covid safe.

However, if you dont feel safe then no one on here is going to convince you otherwise.

Also, centre parcs are allowing you to cancel so you can get the money back.

I would not go near Centre Parcs due to infection risk when we weren't in a pandemic, never mind with Covid.

Thankyou

@HugeAckmansWife : I want to be your friend!
You said everything I was thinking but trying, very hard not to say.👍

I wouldn’t go.

Thanks

Has anyone vulnerable been?

OP sorry to be harsh, I'm not entirely unsympathetic. FWIW, I have a friend in the vulnerable category who went and was impressed. My dad has T2Diabetes, had heart surgery and COPD prior to that. He's been in daily close contact with me, who gives out to work every day and my school age kids. Despite being a T3 area, we have so far managed to avoid any problems. I think in the end it comes down far less to actual risk factors and much more about personal confidence. You could have gone last year and picked up a nasty D&V bug, or cold, just as you could in any walk of life. People on here have told you it's safe, and CP have felt they can operate safely, but that doesn't mean there's a 100% guarantee, there never can be. So it's up to your level of confidence and acceptable level of risk.

Oh and winged harpy, thank you. I'm not usually like that but this kind of thing irritates me, plus my kids were pissing me off all day!!!

OP, I’ll be a bit kinder. I wouldn’t go. Not because I think CenterParcs isn’t trying it’s best but simply because it will be full of families with children, many who will be asymptomatic or may have kids that are about to be told to isolate (personal experience, it took T&T 4 days to contact us)

If you are anxious anyway, this may not be a relaxing break

Hi, I’m cev, during the shielding break we had a mid week break away in a cottage type place, away from others and self catering. It was fine (it did me a huge lift mentally too) but it’s personal choice, how you feel about it and if you’ll be able to relax.