Last year when my DD was 17 she was invited on holiday with her boyfriends family and after a lot of encouragement from them she paid £300 for the flights, which was a lot of money for her and came out of her savings. They have accommodation through a friend so all she needed was spending money.
At the time i advised her not to do it, based on not knowing whether travel would be taking place due to COVID and since then, all she has done is worry about the travel restrictions and costs of PCR testing and isolating. Their destination was red and now amber. She let her boss know and he did not rota her on any shifts at work during this time
A couple of weeks ago the whole boyfriends family caught Covid one by one. DD hadn't seen them so was safe from isolating and after a lot of discussion the holiday was called off and they said they would rebook for October half term. DD took up some extra shifts at work, agreed to babysit a relative a few days and decided not to buy any holiday clothes online.
Last night, with 3 days to go, they announced they were going on holiday after all. DD isn’t prepared, hasn’t booked PCR or got enough holiday clothes. She would have to let her boss down too. She considered going for less days (5 instead of 10 and travel there alone) but doesn’t trust the family now to collect her from the airport!
Her flights aren’t refundable and it will cost her another £100 to move them to 2022. The only solution is either losing the money or that I now go on holiday with her (and pay for myself) before end of the year as the airline will change them for free. But we have the same issue with travel restrictions and PCR testing.
I am sick of talking about this now but WWYD? I feel like they have done my DD dirty but she’s not their child so not their problem!