Who’s carrying on as normal re summer holidays?

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My dh, who is usually very un-bothered by pretty much anything, doesn’t want to book a foreign holiday for summer as he thinks it’s silly in the current situation re coronavirus. I’m not too bothered so long as we go away so agreed to book a UK holiday and wait and see and possibly book a last minute foreign holiday if things have changed in July/august.

Went online yesterday and was shocked at how very few places are left at our chosen UK destination. We go here every year anyway and there are usually lots of options available at this time.

I can only surmise that people feel the same as us and aren’t willing to risk booking foreign holidays so everywhere is getting snapped up quickly.
Have you changed your usual plans to holiday in UK this year or do you think it’s all a bit ridiculous and intend to carry on as usual going abroad?
YANBU - staying in UK
YABU - going abroad as usual

We've postponed a trip to Japan until March next year (we were meant to be travelling in April but places we'd planned to visit are now shut, and we were concerned they'd stay shut for longer than they're currently saying). We are looking to go somewhere else abroad in April instead, although destination tbc. Keeping a close eye on the news for updates but it's changing so quickly.

I suspect by the summer it'll either 1) have been contained / petered out with the warmer weather, or 2) be out everywhere. Perhaps if you live somewhere very rural you're safer at home, but I live in London so if it's option 2) I doubt I'll be safer at home than anywhere else. We are due to go to southern Italy in June and we'll go if the foreign office doesn't advise against it.

Majorca in July. Unless its not physically possible we are still going.

One of the DC is booked to go on a school trip to a European country in a couple of months, £750 paid. I am not convinced it will happen and wouldn't blame the school if they have to cancel it.

We have booked a family holiday in the summer, at the moment I plan to go unless we really can't (eg I get my leave cancelled as I am an NHS HCP, or the flights are cancelled, or we are sick and already quarantined or whatever). I honestly think it will be either blown over by then or so widespread it won't matter.

If it was a case of definitely having to self isolate for 2 weeks after we return, then I would cancel I reckon as I really couldn't be away from work for a month or more, they are already chronically short staffed, with most of us having to work at least 7 hours overtime just to keep it ticking over. I do worry about how we will manage if lots of staff are off sick at the same time, I will do my absolute best to not put my patients at risk.

If these holidays weren't already booked, we would not making any plans for holidays or trips, even locally. I won't be paying another penny on stuff related to the holidays until the last possible minute.

Apparently there have been cases now of people getting Covid 9 for a second time.

There have been reports of that but it was almost certainly due to an earlier false negative. The way Covid-19 works, lingering in the body for weeks after the illness itself has passed, makes it almost certain a person has a long, long period of immunity following full recovery.

While most people (80-82%) will have mild symptoms, the other 18-20% get extremely ill. And the current mortality rate for closed cases is 6% which is actually fucking enormous for a virus with such a strong infection rate. The closed cases mortality rate has been slowly dropping, so hopefully that trend will continue as we learn more about how best to treat the illness. (Though the figures out of Iran will almost certainly shoot that up if we ever get anything close to real data from there.)

We are. We don't do holidays, anyway.

Already booked - for Easter. Will be going unless officially advised not to travel.

We're going to Portugal in June unless the government advises otherwise

Yes. Dd is going abroad with my parents at Easter, I'm going away in August, unless FCO say otherwise.

We travel tomorrow to Malta, last update from their deputy prime minister was that they have no reported cases.

Am I worried? Not really, true the airport may be a higher risk area however having been in large UK shopping centres this week I’d imagine the risk is around the same (welcome to be corrected tho) it seems it’s only a matter of time before it fully spreads around the UK, I think way more people then have been identified have it already in light of cases with no easily identifiable transmission route

We're living life as normal unless the Foreign Office advises to the contrary. I have two overseas working visits in June and July which are too important to miss unless unavoidable. We're turning the second into an elogated family trip.

Flights are always germ-factories and I routinely carry industrial strength sanitisers on board, even when there's no epidemic of anything. That's just basic hygeine and common sense. The Diamond Princess was a sobering story, though. I think I'd be disinclined to book a cruise until this thing has run its course, notwithstanding the fact that most passengers on board were aged 60+. Aside from anything else, the idea of being stuck in a confined space for weeks on end that I couldn't get away from would send me straight into cabin fever mode.

And I'm hardly a paid-up member of the hysterical tin foil hat brigade, with not a bottle of hand-sanitizer gel in sight. ...

I haven't cancelled any of my travel plans, because I have already booked them. Also, I'm not really concerned about vira.

We've got France booked for May half term, and will still be going unless the FCO advises against it. Haven't booked for the main summer holidays yet, but will likely be going overseas. I'm not worried at all - we're all fit and healthy, so even if we did contract it, it likely wouldn't have too dire an effect on any of us.

We had already booked UK pre-corona. We haven't yet taken our DCs aboard yet so probably wouldn't have this year but if we were the type to away and hadn't yet booked I would have held off until we see how it develops.

We had already booked in Uk anyway but tbh I’m pleased we are in case of flight cancellations/quarantine etc

We had a French exchange student coming this Saturday but dd's french partner's mother just told me the exchange has been cancelled as the French government has banned foreign school trips. I've got a UK holiday booked which I'll go on unless UK holiday parks are shut down by August!

I'm not even going to book a UK holiday. It could turn out to be in a city that gets shutdown.

I'm about to book our holiday.
We live in London and tend to go to nice remote places on holiday so probably the infection risk factor would be lower.
Also: you can't put your life on hold. Just have travel insurance.

Are you going via private jet?

We've booked flights to US in August, kind of hoping worst has blown over by then. I think we're flung unless co advises otherwise, which strikes me as not too likely?

Sure. Booked in January for mid-July. I'm really sorry for the people with underlying health conditions and I'm taking sensible precautions (washing hands, wearing gloves, sneezing in the elbow, I will self-isolate if needed, so as not to infect others). But other than that, I just CAN'T get worked up about it. I know it's 'not a fucking flu', but the death rates in the world are ridiculously low, far lower than a bog standard flu. And yes, flu is known, there's a vaccine, etc. And still far more people die from it than this. This has 40 cases in a multimillion country. The country I'm going to, has 1 ill, a 38 year old woman who is making speedy recovery, is isolated, but absolutely fine. A single one in the whole (small, though) country (so far, could be more, obv). I'm trying to be sympathetic, but really cannot understand the mass-hysteria and 40bottle hand gel buying.

I'm young, fit, 0 health conditions, perfect weight, healthy diet, non-smoker, very little alcohol. I think I'll take my chances. Furthermore, I'm more at risk being here than where I'm going, as there are fewer sick there, and the health service is light-miles ahead of NHS which in my (limited, admittedly) experience was nothing short than ludicrously incompetent and totally useless. So if I get sick, I much rather do it there than here. And I can self-quarantine upon getting back, if needed. I can work from absolutely anywhere with internet connection.

We have Spain booked in April and Lanzarote for May. Both we will be going unless advised not too. You’re just as likely to pick up the virus from a random town here as anywhere else.

If everyone stays here over the summer it will be awful and busy everywhere!

We’ve held off booking our big July/ August holiday as it was going to be a big, trip of a life time one so not quite worth the risk if we lose lots of money. But we may well still book it last minute in July when we see how things pan out.

Lorraine Kelly’s husband said that the airport was very quiet when he flew out.
At least it seems some people are taking steps to do their bit

@alittleprivacy

What’s a ‘closed case’?

Well if the government isn’t stopping thousands of travellers from Italy, Iran and China arriving every day then I’m not sure what effect Joe Bloggs cancelling his holiday to say Spain is going to do...

Happy to not travel if it works both ways...