Is a UK cottage holiday safe?

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I’m sorry if this is an odd question but I’ve a cottage booked for a week in South Devon in June- I was really looking forward to it! With things the way they are do you think it will be safe to go by then? Thank you

Do you need that translated into idiot?

Why are people being so nasty ffs.

Everywhere but Mumsnet : probably fine, take precautions and don't go if you have any symptoms

Mumsnet: NO YOU SELFISH WITCH STOP SINGLE HANDEDLY TRYING TO MURDER THE SW we only have one small doctor's surgery and 46ml sanitizer from Somerset to Cornwall

Reality is probably somewhere in between.

I honestly feel like taking a tent and going up kinder scout and not coming off it until 2023 😁

It is fairly straight forward I would have thought

We are facing a situation where people's lives are at risk. Containing the hazard should be the foremost concern. I would have thought that was fairly straight forward, people's health trumps your money or holiday, but obviously you have different priorities.

Plus you can’t guarantee you might need urgent medical care or something as simple as a walk in app when you cut yourself prepping a meal . You might need to stop for petrol / breakdown / toilet break . You cannot guarantee who you might come into come into contact with . Stay home .

Not noticed any name calling - just an appeal for people to understand the concerns of others.

And to create awareness that we all need to take responsibility for our decisions - and why we are making them.

@roarfeckingroar Spot on. The hysteria is unbelievable.

If I do something to make myself feel better,,and that thing endangers others, I’d like to know about it.

I'd hang fire too OP.

If it's booked and paid for, expect to have to cancel it.Reimbursement unlikely, sorry.
Wait to see what advice is nearer the time, though, I expect it will be the same if not more rigorous.

If you've just paid a deposit and balance is due soon, cancel it now so you don't lose any more money.

The issue is, both you taking the virus to them or you contracting it while there - even if you don't go out.
The cottage may look immaculate but you don't know if all light switches, plugs and switches, door and window handles and a myriad of other surfaces have been disinfected/cleaned - but, I bet not.
The virus can live for up to 3 days on certain surfaces, given certain conditions.
If it was vacated just 6 hours prior to your arrival by someone who doesn't feel remotely ill, but who has the virus, you and your DD will be camping in a petri dish!

Be prepared to stay home with just your own bugs, and DD for company - safer all round.👍

We are facing a situation where people's lives are at risk. Containing the hazard should be the foremost concern. I would have thought that was fairly straight forward, people's health trumps your money or holiday, but obviously you have different priorities

Now try reading all my posts.

My priority right now is to follow advice for NOW. Not inundate businesses with needless phone calls when others have more pressing issues, to try and leave my money with small businesses as long as I can to help their cash flow.

But sure, use your crystal ball and do tell us all what advice we need to be following in June and August 🙄

@wingedharpy, slow down there, you are possibly being hysterical with your common sense approach 😁

FFS OP!! NNNNOOOOOO!!

I'd just like to point out that IME hospitals in London and Birmingham are also massively overstretched .

Just in case those in the SW thought that they were the only area with an overflowing hospital.

I wonder how many people who are happy to go on a break right now would be happy if the schools didn’t close?

If it’s ok to go on holiday then the schools can stay open surely.
People are here on holiday right now and they’re out packing the streets with themselves and their kids.
Nobody is isolating in this instance at all.

I also think, it may help if we all thought about these measures being taken as being a National effort to save the Health Service - because, in essence, that is what these measures are about.
It may be difficult for some people to think about the elderly and not -elderly -but- vulnerable, if they, personally, don't know anyone in that group.
But, most people, and their children, will have need of it at sometime.
If the service is swamped with virus cases, there will be no capacity to meet your need.

It's about us all making small, medium and large sacrifices for the greater good.

We have a holiday in the Uk booked in at the start of July. I'm still assuming it's on for the moment. The alternative suggests that in 3 months I will still be working from home full time. That's a terrible thought

From a hosts point of view, I think air bnb are being over the top with their mass cancellations; they’re sending out a generic letter to guests with “due to the cases of CV in (insert location here) your booking is cancelled” which is all well and good except that they’ve claimed it’s in one of the Scottish islands which it isn’t, and in our village too which has 200 souls all accounted for, all fit and well.

I said earlier, if a party wanted to come and stay, bringing all they needed in terms of food and drink, just walked in the countryside and used the private garden, having not stopped on their journey and confident of the hosts cleaning regime, they could easily spend a week not seeing another person. We leave the door on the latch and the key indoors.

And if that group of people come from isolation they’re as safe as they’d be cooped up at home.

We’ve lost booking after booking this spring and like everyone else will struggle to pay the bills.

But I don’t want to be inflammatory and I expect I’ll get a good roasting but I do think we can all do our own risk assessment.

No stay where you are. Lots of elderly in South Devon. They don’t need people like you down there.

@Musicforsmorks: 😉 Save me a space up there on Kinder Scout, 1 metre away from you obviously!
I'll be along shortly.

I echo a pp WE DO NOT WANT YOU HERE.
People in rural Wales are very worried, and we don’t want visitors increasing the speed of spread, leading to local deaths. I live somewhere crammed with incomers and tourists from Easter onwards. Please think of the hundreds of over 70s and other vulnerable people in villages like mine and stay home. You can have a holiday next year.
If we get a normal number of visitors, the walks and beaches will be packed, and there will not be isolation. Nor will you be able to get good health care if you fall ill.

That’s ‘if’ people isolate though

How many will in reality?

You might, I might, but we can’t force the others.

There are many people out and about filling shops in Lake District as we speak. I don’t get the logic, they’re not isolating, and the shops are smaller and more cramped.

In a larger town, where I was last week, you’re able to keep a good distance from people in supermarkets as they’re much bigger.

I can see everyone’s side in this, but we need to be honest with ourselves about how we can affect others.

It’s a mess.

I agree with a few of the PP. Even if the health care in the area was tip top, the fact is that you have no idea how clean the place actually is. I'm pretty sure that, if someone came into your home with a gadget that could see germs, they'd find them everywhere. But I bet your home looks clean - this virus can live on hard surfaces. So assuming it's the normal cleaning, a person with coronavirus early symptoms could have been putting their hands on handles, loos, kitchen surfaces, fridges as well as leaning on furniture, using the remote for the TV. The average cleaning product won't get rid of it and can you be sure the surfaces have been disinfected? I can't even guarantee that in my own home - I do the door handle and within seconds it'll have germs on it again as someone opens the door!

I'd wait to cancel but unless this is over (unlikely) I'd be getting ready for a staycation this year.

June is too close.
Even if you take all your own food, you will probably come into contact with others, eg you will need petrol at some point?
Also, you could travel there feeling healthy and then fall ill during your stay.
The risk of spreading it is not 0, so I wouldn't go. I would be mortified to be the cause of an outbreak in a rural area!

We’re already discussing staycations though.
And how are uk cottages cleaner than overseas ones?

I’ve stayed in a few and it’s often less than great.

There a holiday let next to me, the cleaners go in for minutes, basically.

One tenant after another, one leaves at 11am and a new lot are in by 2pm.