Are you going on holiday this year?

[Coldwine75]

We just have 2 nights booked in July with the teens and another 2 nights just dh and i in August and one overnight stay and that's it. Our main holiday was moved to 2022 (3rd time moving) and another was cancelled. I cant wait just to get away if for 2 nights in the UK.

Anyone else got plans?

We’re going to move our abroad holiday to next year and do as we did last year, and stay at my and dps parents, both live by the coast (different areas) so we’re pretty lucky. We’ll also do some day trips (theme parks)

Got a holiday booked abroad for August, if it's green we'll go, if not we'll move it to next year. Won't replace it with a UK holiday, did that last year and it wasn't value for money, will keep the holiday pot aside for when we can go abroad and do day trips here instead.

We are usually big travellers but all we have booked this summer is a weekend camping with a few local families, about an hour away. If things do open up so we can travel without testing and quarantine, we will go to see the in laws in Ireland/ France. If not we will take a week off and just do days out - theme parks, seaside, national trust, etc.

No. We've holidayed in UK for many years because of dogs. Really annoyed that this year the prices have sky rocketed and we can't get booked. I can't wait for usual abroaders to bugger off back abroad. I'm also upset that usual day trip places are fully booked, you can't do anything spontaniously. Also people are being loud and leaving rubbish in places which are usually lovely. This is what it must feel like to locals abroad, when brits decend on them. We have primary school dc who love their UK hols. That's my rant over. 😠

Agree that at the moment U.K. holidays don’t feel value for money at all. We’ve got a few days in the Lake District in July. It’s a nice hotel so hopefully can hang out there and do a few walks without it being crazy busy. But it’s a lot of money and it will
rain.

Have a trip to Crete booked for August. Fingers crossed for it. I know Greece has a policy to vaccinate all the islanders by end of June I think. They desperately need the tourism and we’ll be fully vaccinated by then.

@Looubylou

No. We've holidayed in UK for many years because of dogs. Really annoyed that this year the prices have sky rocketed and we can't get booked. I can't wait for usual abroaders to bugger off back abroad. I'm also upset that usual day trip places are fully booked, you can't do anything spontaniously. Also people are being loud and leaving rubbish in places which are usually lovely. This is what it must feel like to locals abroad, when brits decend on them. We have primary school dc who love their UK hols. That's my rant over. 😠

I don't have dogs... but I agree with this. We have only had 2 holidays abroad in the 14 years since having children.

I also get annoyed with tourist traffic coming through our area. There is a major road linking cities with the coast and for years I have known to avoid it during bank holiday weekends etc. That's fine. Over the last few years though I have noticed that people are using the B roads instead (probably due to sat navs) so even a trip to see my mum in the next town, about 5 miles away, means being stuck in traffic for 3/4 hr.

Nope, can't afford now the prices have gone up so much

nope

DH and his best mate will take kids camping for a week (they are away as we speak for 3 days) and we'll do day trips to whatever on our list is open but otherwise no.
I can't see the point planning anything while everything still feels so unsure, unpredictable and unsettled.

we are lucky that we have a big garden, a hot tub, ping-pong table and lots of other stuff for entertainment at home. And now that we are allowed to I can't wait to visit & invite people and have parties.

Next year though, we have plans for both abroad and within UK.

No not this year, may be a couple of nights not too far with ddog. We are moving so had a lot of expense with that.

No, didn't work for a year so replenishing savings.

Scotland next month, North Wales in September.

In theory a week abroad in July with the family although last year the holiday company cancelled it. I suspect we will be going this year (it is in the EU). I booked in Jan 2021 and last year got a full refund of my deposit from the same company 3 weeks after they cancelled the holiday.

just a trip to see family, a trip to the zoo while we are there etc. staying in a air b n b flat. Booked a holiday abroad for next year instead, much more likely we'll able to enjoy it than doing anything bigger this year.

Not holidays as such. We’re going for a week to north Wales (not the pretty bit) to visit ILs and will go to my DPs on the south coast for a weekend in June then a week in August.

Both families live fairly near the coast and countryside, so we’ll do nice outings while visiting. We’re hopefully buying a house this year so couldn’t afford a holiday too, and didn’t want to run the risk of Covid disruption.

Just 4 nights in a cottage in Yorkshire.
I’m looking forward to it.
Would much prefer a fortnight in Greece but that’s not happening.

USA for Xmas hopefully. We own a property there so our holiday plans are dependant upon getting reasonably priced flights and the Covid border/hospital rate situation. If not, we'll go next summer.

I need a holiday, but the UK doesn't appeal to me because right now I envision crowding and expensive accommodation. We live near a seafront area and nature parks, we can't even day trip there because of the crowds.

We have a week in the Lakes next month, hopefully a week in Menorca in September, and a week in CenterParcs in December.

We've missed out on enough as a family and I don't plan to miss anything else if it can be helped.

No. Happy to stay in the garden. Don’t want to be around people-not because of covid, but over lockdown I realised i Don’t really like people!

Living in a tourist trap im happy to stay home and walk where they have no idea about.

*PinkiOcelot

Just 4 nights in a cottage in Yorkshire.
I’m looking forward to it.
Would much prefer a fortnight in Greece but that’s not happening*

Not necessarily not happening. I know quite a few people who are booked for Greek islands (us included) who are hopeful and will be going if it’s allowed. I’d rather that than the overpriced overcrowded holiday spots in the UK - Brighton looked horrendous on the news yesterday.

@AvonCallingBarksdale just paid our full balance today for Greek island holiday in august, fingers crossed!!

I'm away now in Somerset....it's bliss !!,...I'm a cottage for a week with my husband
Got another cottage booked for end of July and three nights in a hotel on the way home .
Might do a city break too ...uk not abroad

No.

We normally go abroad a few times a yeae (one big holiday, one smaller holiday and a couple of city breaks) but haven't been away for 17 months.

I wouldn't be relaxed about going abroad at the moment because I wouldn't feel comfortable in a crowded airport or aeroplane.

We're lucky to have a nice garden and to live by the sea so I can't see the point of a UK holiday for us. Dd is 18 and I can't see a UK holiday appealing to her either.

We might have gone somewhere in this country if she was younger.

I was all set for a week in Majorca in August (carried over from last year) I was even willing to pay the £400 EACH (4 of us) in Covid tests that it was going to cost.

That was until yesterday when a friend failed the Covid test whilst in Portugal, she's having to fork out for the hotel for another 10 days (for her and her DH) and is stuck in the room, unable to get out!! That's put me off more than anything.

Went to Dartmouth last week and going to Lake District in June. Also have booked Amsterdam and Cologne in October

Have flights to Israel late summer but if they’re still they’re not letting anyone in we’re chartering a boat in Mallorca for a week .