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?

Due to go to Barcelona for work in two weeks and feeling a bit nervous about it now tbh.

Hard life innit? How about everyone, and I do mean everyone, stop thinking you are special and just don't fly anywhere? For say 6 months? Would that really be so hard? Fuck the money, fuck the disappointment, suck it up and reflect that you are lucky to have ever had the choice.

Had a bad day Purple?

4 cases now in Tenerife 😢.

My exH is supposed to be taking the kids to Italy in April for a family wedding. Can't say I'm entirely happy with that.

Surely though, much of the international infection will be spread by people travelling for holiday and work.

Why don’t we set aside our individual need for a holiday in the cause of saving 1000s if lives?

I wouldn’t want to be identified as the person who came back from a ski chalet and caused the infection of someone who died.

If no one travels this year then countries which rely on tourism will crumble and airlines and hotels will go bust. Fingers crossed a vaccination can be developed to keep the virus under some sort of control

Planning a France trip in the summer but we’re holding off on booking. It’s not the catching something as we’re all healthy and not in the age groups getting the severe cases of Covid it’s the fact that we maybe get stuck somewhere without return travel or quarantined for weeks.
The lack of info around what procedures will be in place isn’t helping. Some seem pretty lax and others draconian...

We’ll look at a UK hol instead, And avoid hotels, if I’m going to get quarantined I’d rather it was somewhere familiar...

I wonder if this coupled with growing awareness of how bad flying is for the environment might lead to a real shift in mindset

I honestly find myself agreeing with ShriekingBansheela and PurpleTrilby. its a holiday. its not ESSENTIAL. its a choice. and yes its disappointing not to go. and yes I understand if you have been saving and looking forward to it but experts agree there is unlikely to be a vaccine available for several months. Would you really want to be the asymptomatic or mild symptom carrier that infected your immunocompromised family member? Its just selfish, it really is. its not climate change thats going to kill us all its bloody virus's. The death rate imo is frighteningly high 1-2% . We have to start taking these issues seriously and recognise that we have a personal responsibility to stop the spread. its not down to the drug companies to develop a vaccine or for the government to fly people home and then quarantine them at my expense. They chose to holiday abroad, they can pay for the flights home and the two weeks quarantine. they paid for their holiday after all. Its down to us to start seriously looking at what global travel really means. We have to stop standing around expecting the nanny state to sort us out and sort ourselves out.

Paid a bit more for Flexi tickets on Eurotunnel for the school hols when we booked a couple of weeks ago in case things blew up as they are reundable although my DH thought I was mad at the time...was thinking of driving to the Dolomites but now not booking anything until we see how things pan out (family member is immuno suppressed).

My DH is currently working in Milan and I am worried. When I spoke to him yesterday he didn’t even know there was a problem over there. Quickly sent him links to the news stories. He’s due to fly out to Iceland next week before returning home. I may lock him in the garage on his return for the recommended quarantine period 😩

I'm going on holiday in July and don't intend to cancel. We are going to a small island in the Caribbean though so the odds are small that it will end up there. The airport will be the biggest risk.

Due to go to Rome in a week. We are seriously thinking of cancelling, I’m pregnant and the risk doesn’t feel worth it, also can’t bear the thought of potentially self isolating, If the boundary changes, with children at home.

Decisions might be taken out of your hands....countries may refuse you entry if we are infected here by then

Which we will be

I’m Skiing next week then away in July/Aug. No plans to cancel.

DD is booked on a school ski trip to Austria at the start of April.

A school trip feels very different to a family holiday, I can't think that the teachers who are going feel comfortable with the thought of being responsible for a group of kids under these circumstances.

I'm going to see how the next few weeks go but will pull DD out of the trip if I feel that's best.

I don't feel that the issue of a refund should come into my considerations. Health is priceless .

Planning to visit Italy in May - flights and hotel booked - will see how it goes, but I will be happy to cancel. Hotel is refundable, flights not, but they were quite cheap so no great loss.

I'm going to Hong Kong over Easter for a family wedding. I can't see the UK government advising against travel to HK for political reasons. But neither can my family afford to lose the best part of £5,000 if we cancel & insurance doesn't pay out. No idea what to do.

I'm booked to go to Tenerife in two weeks to a hotel 2 miles from the one in lockdown. I'll be 34 weeks pregnant when we fly out there and my biggest worry is that if we got quarantined for two weeks this would take me over 36 weeks and no airline would fly me home, meaning id be giving birth in Tenerife! Under the current circumstances it seems mad to go but the hotel is pre paid and travel insurance won't pay out....

I'm going to keep my eye on how things develop this week. Gutted about the whole thing!

We're planning to travel early April. Our work holidays can't be changed, so think we're going to review things a couple of days before unless things have changed dramatically in the meantime.

I have two jobs, both of which I can come in contact with between 50 and 200 people an hour, so not sure I'll be any more at risk abroad (unless there's a major outbreak there). It's more the thought of lockdown in another country and not being able to return home that bothers me.

We were just about to pay for a trip to China from Australia when the Coronavirus started so we swapped to Morocco. Still going, and it’s early April. Went to New Zealand two weeks ago. Starting to see a few people wearing masks in airports and major centres in Australia but a few months ago we were wearing them because of bushfires so it doesn’t feel too odd.

Going to Caribbean in October. Shant be cancelling unless FCO says so. Hopefully it should be sorted by then.
I'd probably avoid Europe just now but only because DH has pre existing health conditions and a low immune system. We already went to Hungary last month, so can't afford to go anyway.
Got a couple of breaks booked in UK this year.

What worries me is the figures are all confirmed cases. There must be loads of cases where it is not confirmed!!