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

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croon979 · 25/02/2020 07:22

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?

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MinesaPinot · 26/02/2020 19:42

We are going on a cruise at the end of April and going to Greece at the end of August. We are not cancelling unless specifically told to do so.

ajandjjmum · 26/02/2020 19:52

catismychild
She was due to leave on the 3rd April, so just after the ban. With the way it is though, I really can't see the ban being lifted immediately. Hope it clears up for you. Smile

Destinysdaughter · 26/02/2020 19:54

Yes. I cancelled a mid May holiday to Ibiza today. Had only paid deposit so wasn't too bad. It was seeing that hotel in Tenerife on lockdown that persuaded me. It's not just the increased risk, but also being ill abroad and potentially being quarantined in a living Petri dish

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croon979 · 26/02/2020 20:20

Unfortunately having checked out the insurance position, we will lose about £4,000 if we cancel and do not go. This will be the case unless the FCO update their advice to advise against travel (which given that it has not even done this for travel to Italy yet looks unlikely. Disinclination to travel bit covered. Most of my family members are unhappy about the prospect of losing all this.

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blue25 · 26/02/2020 20:29

We’ve changed our travel plans. I’m very wary of taking a baby away in case they get ill or we get confined somewhere. We also have a family member with asthma, so just not worth the risk at the moment.

igotdemons · 26/02/2020 20:35

We were going to book a last minute holiday to Lanzarote and then I saw the news about Tenerife and changed my mind! It would just be our luck to get stuck out there and we simply cannot afford to be away from home and work for that long, it’s too much of a financial risk, let alone a health risk.

We’ve already booked to go St.Tropez in September (booked last year) so hoping this will have all blown over by then... 🤞🏻

LASH38 · 26/02/2020 20:49

We had planned to go away cheap and cheerful before I return to work (mat leave), Tenerife was on the target list.

Both DH and I decided separately to stay home! It’s not so much the illness (bar baby getting it) but being stranded/quarantined.

If this goes on much longer the economic repercussions will be horrendous.

LASH38 · 26/02/2020 20:51

Holiday planned April/May or June that is.

We may still go if it blows over - we often book last min.

Monkeynuts18 · 26/02/2020 21:30

We were planning to book a last minute holiday to Tenerife for a couple of weeks’ time but we’ve decided not to book that.

We’ve got a holiday to Greece booked in June but definitely not cancelling that. Hope that the number of cases will decline by then, as the weather gets warmer.

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croon979 · 26/02/2020 22:38

Realise this is the alarmist daily mail but still

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justasking111 · 26/02/2020 23:18

I cannot blame people for not booking holidays when the FO is no help, the insurance companies are standing firm. When you work hard to pay for a holiday that may be not happen it does make you think.

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croon979 · 27/02/2020 07:02

Exactly - it is really falling to lose so much

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croon979 · 27/02/2020 07:02

*galling 🙄

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QueenofmyPrinces · 27/02/2020 07:43

Me, my husband and our two young children are due to go to Turkey in six weeks and it’s making me feel anxious.

My husband thinks I’m being ridiculous.

I’m tempted to stay here with the children and tell him that he can go on his own.

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croon979 · 27/02/2020 07:46

My husband also thinks I am being ridiculous

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EnidBlyton · 27/02/2020 07:51

Unless you are advised not to go, you should go, stay fit and well.

Smelborp · 27/02/2020 07:54

We were planning on booking a holiday but we’ve held off actually making the bookings now. It’s tricky!

ShanghaiDiva · 27/02/2020 07:59

I had flights booked for Cambodia in April and the flights have been cancelled by the airline and I have already received a full refund.
I live in China and flights were with China southern. Many airlines are cutting routes at the moment eg I cannot get from HK to my city in China with any airline until after 28 March.

bluetongue · 27/02/2020 08:01

I recently returned from a holiday to Japan. Cancelling wasn’t an option and I’m glad I went as I was not in great place with my mental health and the trip did me a world of good. There was a small issue with the flight home needing quarantine to check a sick passenger before we could leave the plane but everything was fine in the end.

I have no plans for more trips abroad this year but was hoping to holiday in Italy early next year. With the Corona virus situation as it is I won’t be booking anything for some time. There is also the issue that flights from my city are currently being cut due to the virus so it makes it hard to plan anything.

To be honest it would be great for my budget if I don’t go abroad anywhere next year but obviously not good for the global economy.

BarkandCheese · 27/02/2020 08:05

Not a holiday thankfully, but DH was due to go to a conference in Milan in a couple of weeks which has now been cancelled. He couldn’t get through to BA yesterday to cancel the flight because the lines were so busy.

Peaseblossom22 · 27/02/2020 08:06

I feel a bit mad but am hesitating to book A holiday this summer . I have asthma and had a horrible chest infection a few months ago which left me feeling uncharacteristically vulnerable.

More I have an elderly ( though healthy) close family member who is meant to be travelling to Africa through a major hub at Easter . This is really stressing me out , it’s not just if they get ill which is obviously very worrying, what if she gets ill whilst out there, but there is a high chance by then that she will have to self isolate on her return . I can see this being a real logistical headache , she lives alone presumably I will have to manage this. I also have two other relatives with respectively a heart condition and an auto immune disease, plus a ds doing A levels .

I wish she could just not go but person who she is visiting is likely to react badly but the country has close links to China and has only just received access to testing kits so it’s likely already there

MaudesMum · 27/02/2020 08:17

I'm going to Rome at the end of April. So far there are no cases there, and its a long way from the north and from the sound of it everything is going on as usual there at the moment. If I cancelled now I'd lose the cost of my flight, so I'm hanging on and will make the decision as late as possible.

TravelToFranceOrNot · 27/02/2020 08:23

Got a holiday to the Center Parcs just outside Disneyland Paris booked for the May half term. Was planning to drive there and go via eurotunnel. If we cancel now we'd lose 30% but get the rest back. If we hold on and cancel closer to the time we'd get nothing back. Hoping to wait until the very last moment to cancel (before we don't get the 70% back). Like others I'm less concerned about getting the virus and more about being on lockdown/quarantine in France.

Milton34 · 27/02/2020 08:26

We were due to go to Turin today, skiing for the weekend, but aren’t going. DH wants to go, but we have kids (staying at home with family), and the thought of self isolating when we get back (if one of us shows symptoms) and the potential impact on them, was too much. We won’t get a refund. Even if we went, I think I’d be too stressed to enjoy it, thinking about potential scenarios coming back. I don’t know if I’m over thinking It but there we are...