AIBU to ask whether you have cancelled or postponed travel/holiday due to Coronavirus

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Up until this weekend I was relatively relaxed about Coronavirus. However, I was due to go to Dublin with work this week for a conference and my organization (global business) has temporarily banned attendance at conferences and all non- essential business travel due to Coronavirus.

It has caused me to read up a bit more about it and I am feeling a bit more anxious about it all. I am a chronic asthmatic very prone to chest infections which usually result in one hospital visit a year.

I am meant to be going to Lanzarote with my family including mum, brother, my husband and children for holiday in early April, a little over a month away. I see there is now a confirmed case in Tenerife!

I mentioned to my family that we may need to keep an eye on it and could need to cancel postpone if things escalate. Most thought this was an overreaction. Maybe it is. I wasn’t saying we definitely should but just wanted to put on their radar that we may need to.

Has anyone else postponed travel or holiday plans in light of this virus?

How and where do you get pandemic protection ? Thanks

It's been a good couple of months now- has anyone here changed their minds?
I've got a solo trip to Kos in early July and am due to pay the rest of the balance on my airbnb in a couple of weeks. Not sure what to do.

I posted on this thread saying that I still intended to go, I was meant to be going next month. I've moved it to next year now, because if nothing is open then there's not much point going, plus I was furloughed at the end of March so I'm saving the spending money that I had intended to take on holiday just in case I end up out of a job.

Looking back at my comments in Feb I was advising people to stock up and start thinking about how you would cope in self isolation. I hope people have done OK.

We cancelled our June holiday to Wales and because we had booked direct with the owner as previous guests, we got all our deposit back. Unfortunately the letting agents have not done the right thing and only offered people who booked with them a change of date or credit note. Even now that agent is allowing holidays in Wales to be booked from 4th July. Given Wales is still in lockdown and reviewing measures only every 3 weeks, next review due on 19th June, I think there is no chance of holidays in Wales being allowed as early as 4th July.

I would still be very nervous about visiting an holiday let. The owners could be meeting people from all over the place, who might not even know they were infected. I wouldn't want to be touching surfaces and using beds, bathrooms, shared washing facilities etc. etc. Our holiday was in North Wales which has gone from having few infections early on, to the second most deaths per health board in Wales and will soon be the most deaths. I think this is since unlimited travel was allowed in England, which encouraged more people to travel to North Wales and take the virus with them. The problem with places having a small problem is that it cannot last because it draws people to a safer place.