Will you go ahead with Easter travel plans

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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

At this rate I think people maybe need to change their perspective a little and consider whether those countries will be welcoming us in..

This.

Last night the PM of Israel announced that anyone entering the country will need to be able to prove that they can self quarantine for 14 days. It goes into effect on Thurs for two weeks. We are due to go in three weeks' time, so it's not looking good. DH and I can't do anything until we know the information affecting our date of departure (and we might not know that until one week before we go), but we now plan to postpone our trip until Oct half term.

Is this postponement costing you a lot of money zafferana?

We have just cancelled a trip from Australia to Morocco at Easter. There were to be 7 of us so it will cost in cancellation anything from £500-£2000. We’re so disappointed but as part of trying to minimise financial, travel and heath risks we felt it was our only option.

We are still continuing with holiday plans unless FCO advice changes.

we're off to spain for a week at easter. Sunshine is good for the immune system.

I hope not ssd. If Israel makes it impossible for us to go under their coronavirus containment policy then I'm hoping BA will let us change our flights to later in the year. Airbnb's Ts and Cs seem to say that we should get a full refund and again, we would re-book for new dates. I'm hoping the day tours I've booked can again just be changed to new dates.

London is not "hard hit" :

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-how-many-cases-are-in-your-local-authority-11953077

@KaptenKrusty I’m off to Japan too on the 1st. Just hope we won’t be on lockdown...

Sunshine is good for the immune system

Tell that to the Italians.

I have just had a work trip to an interesting location cancelled (instead I'll spend days on Skype it looks like) so I've told DH if we can't travel for our ski trip we will be going SOMEWHERE as nobody can stop us renting a cottage in the UK.

I think people travelling unnecessarily are very selfish.

I think people maybe need to change their perspective a little and consider whether those countries will be welcoming us in

I also agree with this. Given our 'special' way of dealing with CV19, I suspect that we will be awarded pariah status within a period of time and wholly unwelcome in countries that are starting to show signs of recovery.

we're off to spain for a week at easter. Sunshine is good for the immune system.

Good luck with that. Spain's cases have jumped significantly and I wouldn't be surprised if they were in an Italy type lockdown by Easter.

yes, its clearly worsened since originally posted and will be postponing plans now

Flights from UK to Spain this morning have turned around mid air and come back to UK. I doubt if anyone will be going on holiday to Spain at Easter.

I’m totally baffled that anyone really think they will be flying to Spain in a few weeks time. More and more towns are going into lockdown there and UK travellers are unlikely to be welcome anywhere in a week or two given how little our approach to this crisis aligns with the rest of the world’s. Our government may have decided to go for a “herd-immunity” approach but nowhere else has. They aren’t going to want us flying in and spreading the virus.

We’re cancelling ours today (Scottish Highlands). BA has just announced you can get an e-voucher for flights & holidays before 31st May, no matter when you booked, so we’re taking that option. We’ll go up later in the year.

& our AirBnB is cancellable although I feel extremely sorry for the cottage owner.

Jet2 have cancelled all flights to Spain, Balearic Islands and Canaries.

easyjet are only allowing flight changes, not cancellations though, yet october half term flights not even available yet

We haven't got anything booked (which I'm very happy about). I feel sorry for several friends who have a wedding, graduation and expensive holiday booked abroad.

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Jet2 and Tui are not flying to Cyprus either

If I change flights with easyJet it's around an extra £170 even with no fee. I would much rather have the money back and then free choice of rebooking. Assume still time for the flights themselves to be cancelled. (Obviously would prefer nothing cancelled and the danger past rather than getting my £300 back)