Will you go ahead with Easter travel plans

[BackInTime]

Just curious as to whether people that have holidays booked over Easter plan to go ahead with their trips?

DSis is on the one hand insisting that her DCs primary should shut but at the same time has no intention of cancelling her family holiday in Europe over Easter

Money back even

Also if I was in hospital They’d have to pay! I booked This trip a year ago.

Probably possible that new policies will protect themselves from needing to pay for coronavirus stuff abroad.

@1066vegan

Where in Madagascar are you going?? Absolutely amazing country... I'm not surprised you plan on going.

I'm currently snuggled up with DD(4) who has all symptoms but no known contact. Her teacher is also symptomatic and I have no idea if she's been/going to be tested or if she went away at half term or not. I'm sure it's probably just a weird bug but I am a bit worried especially for my asthmatic son and my slightly reduced immunity.

We have a trip to Sweden booked at Easter, driving there. If we are all fit and well and things haven't massively changed, I'm hoping we can still go. Very much play it by ear I guess.

We’re meant to be going to Abu Dhabi on 31 March. Keep changing my mind as to whether I want to go or not. Part of me is thinking that we would be better off getting ill in the UAE as we are likely to get better medical care over there and I have checked that our insurance covers it. I have seen the inside of far too many NHS hospitals (as my mum had COPD for years, then lung cancer). One stay, she had seven beds in six days as the hospital was under so much pressure. She was rarely in a respiratory ward despite having serious lung disease as there were never any beds. The day she died, they couldn’t even find a ventilator mask to fit. She was ventilated on a normal ward, not even HDU. Certainly not intensive care.

@PutYourBackIntoit

We're going to Morondava (for Avenue of the Baobabs and Kirindy Forest) and Andasibe (for the Andasibe-Mantadia National Park).

We're travelling independently on a self-organised (or rather DP-organised) trip rather than a tour and I really really hope that we don't have to cancel.

I spoke to our travel insurance this week and they told me that we would not be covered for cancellation because of C or for illness on holiday because of C. Having taken the policy out in June I don’t understand how this can be right. It was a total unknown then and if we were not allowed to travel, we stand to lose 10K. It is a horrifying thought.

dakota what is the rationale for the insurance company saying you’re not covered if you get ill with CV?

No. We were planning to go to Barcelona. We will go to Donegal instead.

@Ferretyone good point. The world map that I looked at showed Africa to be pretty much virus free except for a bit of North Africa but that could just be reporting delays.

I'm hoping that Madagascar being an island and with presumably fewer travellers than islands such as the UK, that will keep down the number of cases getting into the country. I'm just hoping that the government there doesn't decide to self-isolate to keep it that way.

The virus in in more than 100 countries now so surely it’s only a matter of time before it’s everywhere.

International travel simply will not cease - that’s a fact

Many of us are surely at higher risk on our daily commute than chilling out by a pool on holiday aren’t we?

We’ve got our honeymoon in May/June. We’ll still go if there’s not advice against it. And a lot of places will still need tourism...

Dakota I’d be asking for that to be confirmed in writing, along with the reasons. People keen saying that coronavirus isn’t covered by insurance but it’s covered on our insurance as standard, and would have been on last years, as standard. Unless it’s a really cheap policy, I’d be surprised if this was considered a fair exclusion.

I have checked online with my annual policy and we are covered so long as we book(ed) before any FOC advise saying "all but essential travel'"
They do say that you should always contact the airlines, hotels, travel companies, etc first but that you are covered if it can be reimbursed that way.

I just checked and there is actually a whole page dedicated to FAQs on travel and CV now, so maybe other companies include this now.

It would seem really unfair if travel insurers would not pay out or cover CV while abroad for a pre existing policy. Fair enough if they add that clause in now for any new policy but how could they possibly have already had this as a clause?

Surely unless the government advise against travel, all you can do is go and follow the health guidelines?
Unless you can afford to lose money?

We are going to Paris and I have no intention cancelling. There has already been a case in the town I live and we commute to London every day so have just as good a chance of getting it here

@ssd I don't think people can rely on the governments advice and need to asses risks and make their own decisions. Think what will happen if I get ill while I'm there? Will my insurance cover me? How would my family cope with quarantine?

FCO travel advice has still not been updated to include the most recent lockdown regions in Italy. It does mention the regions but from what I can see it doesn't explicitly say not to travel there.

www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/italy

How is this good advice.

Planning to stay with my parents for the easter bank holiday weekend. I will book the train tickets but if things get much worse I won't go as my mum is nearly 70 and I will be visiting them in the countryside from London

I don’t know! I was so surprised that I didn’t listen properly! I’m going to speak to them again this week and ask more questions. It’s Santander insurance and not a cheap policy so not a basic cover. Worst case scenario feels like we get there and then get ill and can’t get home. But absolutely don’t want to lose the money or miss out on a once in a lifetime, we’ve been saving for years, type holiday.

We're going to Spain (not a package, staying in lots of different places, touring around independently) and we'll go unless the FCO advises against it. Travel insurance won't pay out otherwise.

Oh, meant to say, I'm from London, so are my parents (in their 70s) and we're all travelling into town most days. No reason not to so far.

We hadn't booked. I had plans to take the kids abroad on many improving educational trips, but I don't think I can justify the risk of picking up Coronavirus there and bringing it back to my part of the UK.

I’m in Barcelona for the weekend as I type. I did wonder whether we should risk still coming, just in case we couldn’t get back again but fingers crossed it’s all fine so far.

I travel to work on the London tube everyday and so I’m about as worried about unknowingly bringing CV to Barcelona as I am about unknowingly taking it into my office and no one is calling me selfish for continuing to go to work.

I think we have to carry on as normal but taking sensible precautions until we are told otherwise. The world cannot and will not stop spinning for the next 6 months.

I am worried about being a ‘spreader’ not so much worried about catching it as usually super healthy. I would worry my family might accidentally spread it about a bit though, especially as we have elderly relatives.

jassy of course London is more hard hit than the rest of the uk. You can see the locations online.

Only if you somehow expect that larger places won’t have proportionally more cases.

When you actually look at the numbers - population as well as cases - Devon and Torbay appear much ‘harder hit’ (to use the tabloid language) with 18 cases out of a population of less than a million, along with a number of other places.

We’re driving to Austria and self catering, so not worried. For once it’s actually good thing we’ve been cheap and not booked a hotel!