How do we get home??

[ohnoohnowhattodo]

Currently on holiday in Europe. Today is the day we fly home. 4 adults and 2 kids. DD was up all night being sick, presumed she had picked up a bug. We've now got two of the adults also being sick and the other two not feeling great. Other Dc is fine. Not sure if it's food poisoning from eating out last night or just a sickness bug. Now we've got the logistical nightmare of getting to the airport and getting home. It would not have been too bad if just one DC had been poorly as we could have got a buggy for them etc but all of us travelling now seems unrealistic. But we can't afford to stay and we all have work to get back to on Monday! Anyone been in this situation and have any tips??

I'm so sorry to hear about the bad end to your holiday OP. I'm glad you are all home now safe and sound. Thank you for thinking of others and not flying.
For all the posters saying it's just a sickness bug and to fly anyway I just wanted to point out that for some people a sickness bug could be life threatening. My daughter is a type one diabetic and a sickness bug would land her in hospital in a potentially life threatening situation. She also has autism and it's incredibly difficult to keep her glucose levels stable at the best of times. She was only diagnosed in January so I was ignorant to things like this beforehand. The 48 hour rule is there for a reason.

Doctors note then travel insurance claim

Read the updates - OP is home already and they're feeling better

I'm glad you got home ok.

Last week I felt very sick on a flight home from London (I live in Dublin), but I was fine until the short flight was well under way. I really hope I didn't make someone else sick, but it hit me very suddenly, so I had no reason not to get on the plane.

I hope you get well soon.

I am glad that you are home now.

Last summer, I was sat next to a sick child, on a plane. The parents were sat together across the aisle.

I caught the pathogen from them, ended up with a week of vomiting, and then lactose intolerance for 3 months. I cursed the parents many times, over that time.

As an aside, yes, scarlet fever is becoming wide spread again, a high fever that doesn't come down, off their food, and then eventually the rash/strawberry tongue. I've had two friends whose children have had it, and they've had no clue what it was, just carried on as usual.

Lastly, the most recent COVID strains (FLiRT), predicted to have a large summer wave, cause diarrhoea/vomiting, loss of smell, flu-like aches and then a fever/cough, so may present initially as food poisoning.

Not that I think you've had these, but I feel it is good to have the info out there.

I am interested to hear what food you think caused it?

For those saying travel insurance will cover it - many times they don't. There are loopholes after loopholes and they don't pay up, or they pay something pathetic like 25 sounds a day and then the OP is out of pocket!
While I wouldn't be boasting at the gate about a potential SF case, if the kid is physically well enough to get on the plane, I'm afraid I see why they took it. Better for him to be in his own home and bed, with access to familiar health care facilities if needed rather than navigate a foreign system.

@VJBR we had pizza that had different meat toppings on it

Travel insurance?????????

I have no sympathy with anyone who travels, does not pay for travel insurance, and then expects everyone else to cough up if there's a problem.

Meh - I’m not very germ conscious but planes (along with hospitals, GP surgeries and supermarket toilets) are hot beds for these kind of bugs, precisely because a lot of people who have one will still travel. I try not to touch anything then touch my mouth when travelling on one (and carry alcohol gel which i never do otherwise), didn’t realise other people don’t do the same!

Also have a family member who is medically vulnerable and travelled long distance with noro, because they had to. Majority of people wouldn’t miss a holiday or travelling home because of it unless physically impossible.

@OldPerson please read comments before posting. As I mentioned in my op and many other posts I have travel insurance. It's just lazy to comment without bothering to read.

Apart from exploring the insurance ideas, the pharmacy maybe able to help. I felt deathly sick in France recently and got anti-nausea medication over the counter, it really worked.
I was sick on a plane once and vowed to have my own bigger sick bags and a change of clothing in future, wet wipes as well. Although cabin crew were pretty efficient and used charcoal for any vomit smell. Embarrassing though.

You just have to go for it.

Glad you're back safe and feeling better. What a nightmare.

I got the terrible runs from a dodgy hollandaise sauce on salmon the night before flying home from Cuba - with a changeover in Madrid. It was awful. I was dosed up to the eyeballs on Imodium, as white as a sheet, and terrified of having an accident. Thank good I didn't. Had a salmonella test when I got back and had to stay at my parents house for several days after to recuperate. I lost so much weight. Happy backpacking days!

@ohnoohnowhattodo oh no, so sorry to hear you have emetophobia too, I would have been hysterical. But I would have done like you and stayed put, the only thing worse than my fear of vomiting is my fear of vomiting in public so I absolutely wouldn't have travelled when feeling like this!

I hope this is all behind you now and you still had a lovely holiday beforehand!

Glad you got back ok, I’ve had food poisoning on holiday and there’s no way I could have left the bedroom. My DH also had it on holiday after eating kidney beans in a chilli, he never left the hotel room for 3 days, we were only there for a week.