AIBU to consider booking a holiday abroad for august?

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What do you all think? Have any of you booked a holiday abroad for this year? We are looking at Jet2 holidays and have to pay a minimal deposit. By the end of may when we have to pay the full amount could we be be in a better position to know if it will go ahead? Just feel like I need something to look forward to, but just don't know if I should do it.

@angrymum22 a quick Google reveals trusts have been asked to plan for doubling capacity from 15 March
www.gponline.com/vaccine-supply-hit-record-level-15-march-campaign-ramps/article/1708896

If you are visiting family then it should be worthwhile, depending on the restrictions wherever you're going. If it's just to go to the beach and bars then it seems both daft and selfish to be honest. The UK are storming through vaccinations but that isn't the case in most other countries. Last summer was a nice reprieve from restrictions but he foreign travel brought back the October wave of infections proven to be seeded from many returning in August. New variant vaccines won't have been given by then, so you need to be prepared to be forced to quarantine at short notice and high cost. As well as the high risks of additional quarantine periods, there are high risks of lots of restrictions at the place you go, or just lost money.

@MRex you need to be prepared to be forced to quarantine at short notice and high cost
This.
If you pick up a variant abroad, you are in the shits. You won’t be allowed to fly home (obviously). You’ll have to extend or find accommodation at short notice. It will be v difficult to isolate. To me, this is a nightmare scenario and pours cold water over my desire to get away.
Personally, I think friends/neighours/colleagues would take a very dim view and have zero sympathy should I travel and pick up covid or worse a variant.

We’ve booked 3 weeks abroad in August. Already putting clothes / bits aside, fully expecting we will be able and willing to go.

The mind boggles. What "bits" get put aside for FIVE months before a trip?

I would like to, but DH won't consider anything until he has had his vaccine, which is fair enough. I reckon we will be priced out this summer even if we can go. I guess at least we won't have any uncertainty! I am also put off by the thought of having to arrange tests etc, as our children definitely won't have been vaccinated.