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Italy in April. Would you?

227 replies

DrMadelineMaxwell · 06/03/2020 07:29

Now the whole country is designated as a place that requires self isolation if you visit and later feel unwell with symptoms that may be the Covid 19.
How likely is it that the advice will change to Do Not Go.

OP posts:
SnoozyLou · 09/03/2020 21:19

The whole country is now in lockdown.

Dusty01 · 09/03/2020 21:22

I don’t think I would.

DirtyDancing · 09/03/2020 22:07

No, not now

undead · 10/03/2020 09:53

We are planning to go to Rome. Our flights haven't been cancelled yet so the situation can't be that bad. We will self isolate if we get symptoms.

MarshaBradyo · 10/03/2020 10:04

Essential travel only and all self isolate.

Not only if you have symptoms.

Seventyone72seventy3 · 10/03/2020 10:06

@undead Everything is closed and you are meant to stay at home!

SnoozyLou · 10/03/2020 10:06

We are planning to go to Rome. Our flights haven't been cancelled yet so the situation can't be that bad. We will self isolate if we get symptoms.

You're funny.

undead · 10/03/2020 10:14

Things can change between now and when we plan to travel.

YouAreTheEggManIAmTheWalrus · 10/03/2020 10:15

A supermarket last night after the announcement
mobile.twitter.com/AFabbricini/status/1237138721620754442

@SnoozyLou you’re wasting your energy, let them go and deal with the consequences if they think its not that bad.

@undead everyone returning from Italy now needs to isolate for 2 weeks even without symptoms.

Returning travellers
Stay indoors and avoid contact with other people if you’ve travelled to the UK from the following places in the last 14 days, even if you do not have symptoms:

Iran
Hubei province in China
Special care zones in South Korea (Daegu, Cheongdo, Gyeongsan)
Stay indoors and avoid contact with other people if you’ve travelled to the UK from the following places, even if you do not have symptoms:

Italy (since 09 March)

Seventyone72seventy3 · 10/03/2020 10:16

@undead when are you planning on going?

YouAreTheEggManIAmTheWalrus · 10/03/2020 10:16

Advice to returning travellers as of 9/3/20
www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public#returning-travellers

SnoozyLou · 10/03/2020 10:20

@YouAreTheEggManIAmTheWalrus People seem to think self isolation won't apply to them, and that no one will impose it anyway. I can see that changing in weeks, if not days to come. Some countries are enforcing it with prison stays if you don't. I think it will have to go that way with such rampant selfishness and stupidity.

KarenTookTheKids · 10/03/2020 10:29

We are due to go to Italy in July. Have prepared the kids for the likely possibility that we won't be going. I would imagine that by that point, Italy may well not ever let tourists in, they have gone to such extremes, they aren't going to want us potentially bringing the virus back in!

I am hoping we won't be allowed to travel, at least then we might get something from our insurance.

TheLadyAnneNeville · 10/03/2020 10:32

I was travelling to Bologna in May. Haven’t had a holiday in a few years. Booked before Christmas. Splashed out in hotel in terms of cost as it’s a special occasion.

We always book insurance via Post Office. Just plain forgot. Will loose 3k+ so, at this stage, partner insisting we’re going. It’s non essential travel so thinking we won’t be allowed to go.

Gutted to lose that amount of money and am self employed so, not expecting to be able to afford a holiday anytime soon.

Seventyone72seventy3 · 10/03/2020 11:05

@TheladyAnneNeville Hopefully things will be better by then but have you spoken to the hotel directly? They might let you cancel or postpone.

Travelban · 10/03/2020 11:11

It's sheer madness to go to Rome now. People are being told to stay at home. Everything is shut. You will need to keep distant from people. If you get ill it's going to be fun as hospitals are in total meltdown.

When you get back you will have to self isolate for 2weeks.

SnoozyLou · 10/03/2020 11:32

@TheLadyAnneNeville Obviously a lot depends how you booked it but if you organised your own accommodation and flights, although your first port of call should obviously be booking agents and airline etc, you may find you're covered by your credit/debit card provider - at least for air travel if flights are no longer running.

undead · 10/03/2020 11:58

Blah BA cancelled all flights to Italy. We are not flying on BA so there is still hope.

MarshaBradyo · 10/03/2020 12:06

Tbh if someone wants to go to a country in lock down and severely overstretched health service more fool them.

But must self isolate when they return even without symptoms. If they do have it and get very ill it’s another case for NHS to deal with which is annoying.

Also check insurance t&c if not doing essential travel as per guidance.

Seventyone72seventy3 · 10/03/2020 12:43

What are you even going to do in Rome seeing as you are only meant to be out for essential tasks? Sit in your hotel room?

Astillbe · 10/03/2020 12:45

@undead
We are due to fly to Rome next week and up until yesterday still planned to go. Given the current situation and FCO advise against all but essential travel we are now not going. We will hopefully get the flight refunded and claim through our insurance for the hotel.

Even if our flight isn't cancelled (sure it will be) everything there is closed so there is no point in going given the risk. If you manage to go what will you do there?!

EmmaStone · 10/03/2020 12:55

I've got a few trips booked coming up - DD to Spain in 2.5 weeks, the 4 of us to US in April, and then a weekend in Italy booked for May. At the moment, I'm assuming all trips going ahead, but am watching news carefully.

SnoozyLou · 10/03/2020 12:55

Even if our flight isn't cancelled (sure it will be) everything there is closed so there is no point in going given the risk. If you manage to go what will you do there?!

Even if you can get out there, what if you can't get back? I don't think the FO would be a massive amount of help to anyone who deliberately put themselves at risk. They weren't exactly falling over themselves to help Brits stuck in China when all of this started.

TheresWaldo · 10/03/2020 12:59

We were booked for Sorrento at Easter. I cancelled it all last week as we decided it was just not worth the risk. Wish I'd hung on a bit for the flights. I got about half the money back. Hotel didn't have to be paid until arrival. Like pps said, what's the point if everything is shut, and there's a risk of getting stuck there.

TheLadyAnneNeville · 10/03/2020 13:00

@SnoozyLou, we’ve contacted AMEX... no joy. Booked hotel and flights with them.

We’re really hoping that as this event is a “natural disaster” as it were and no one could have foreseen this pandemic, the hotel may allow us to postpone to a time when Italy is’nt “shut”. We can hope. DH says we will see how it pans out nearer the time. I’d rather contact them now because the stress/worry is making me wish we’d never bothered and gone camping in Cornwall again 😐. @MarshaBradyo, I don’t want to go but am just saying, it’s been a long time coming (the holiday) and really, could have bought a decent second hand car for what we’ve spent on this “special” holiday. I’m furious with myself!