Europe opening for the summer?

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Still very tentative, but it looks like some parts of Europe are keen to have a summer season. The question is, who will go?

www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/18/global-report-italy-reopens-cafes-as-spain-prepares-for-return-of-tourists

I will. I have a city break booked for the end of August. I'll go if travel is allowed and the quarantine rules are lifted.

Looks like it's just you! Thought this would provoke some conversation but there have been a few threads on travel. We are due to go to Spain in July. It's not a package deal, and if the flights are going and the borders are open, we stand to lose a lot of money.

Does your travel insurance cover you if you catch covid while you’re out there?

I believe mine does, yes. Annual policy which I've renewed every year, no gap in cover. And my trip was booked before all of this happened.

I'm in the same boat OP. My heart sank when I saw that tourists might be back in June. I was gutted about my holiday but now I have come to terms with it I just don't want to go.

City break at start of August but the event we were going for has been cancelled. We've not made a decision yet on whether we'd go if flights run and borders are open. It's too far away, we don't know how things will look. I assume social distancing etc will all still be in place in which case we'll probably cut our losses and stay at home. Can't imagine it'd be much of a holiday with constant worrying about whether bars will we open, whether we'll get into restaurants, what if we fall sick abroad. Alternatively, it's self-catering accommodation and almost guaranteed sunshine so maybe we will want to go if we get a bad UK summer.

No chance

Definitely, cycling holiday in a rural part of french Pyrenees BUT i'd need to check with BnB owner if tourists are welcome, no point going if many of the locals don't want you there.

We've had 3 holidays cancelled this year, we are due to go to Jersey in August, so we'll be going if there are flights running and being accepted from the uk.

We are due to go lanzarote in September, I don’t want to go but can’t afford to lose the money so..

If I had a holiday abroad booked, I’d definitely go. I’m going to Norwich in August and I’m going there

People will go, you won't be on your own if you decide to go.

We are due to go to Greece in July. Not a package holiday. Although we can cancel the hotel booking in the next couple of weeks I think. Obviously if the flights are still going we’d still be expected to go.

It’s DH and I and 18 year old DS and two of his friends. Not sure they will really enjoy it all if there are lots of restrictions.

I’m definitely not keen on going. (And my bikini body journey failed miserably and I’ve now got lockdown gain on top of everything else! )

@PumpkinP

That’s the sunk cost fallacy right there. So you’ll continue to invest in a process you don’t want to be part off, even with risks, because you’ve already put in too much.

I'd go, have a holiday booked mid Aug and Nov and will be thrilled if they go ahead

It will make a mockery of track and trace if people are traveling all over Europe but I can see why countries are keen to have tourists back.

I still don't know. I have separate flights and accommodation booked for early July. Accommodation is still cancellable. I'm hoping flights are cancelled.

Think we just need to wait and see what the airlines do. There needs to be some kind of movement soon.

We are booked to visit the in laws in Spain in July. If the flights are operating and there are no quarantine rules on arrival, we’ll go.

I'm hoping to move my June trip to Switzerland to August/September.

Booked accomodation in Greece for late September. We really want to go and will if it's vaguely doable, i.e. the 14 day quarantine is reduced or relaxed, and that Greece is open for tourists.

I'd go. I figure we're in this for the long haul (no pun intended) so will just take precautions like mask on plane; wash hands etc.

We have a holiday booked and paid for July in Spain. We are fully covid covered. If we cant get a refund we will go.

I have two kids in full time school and my year R goes back in June. That's 4 people out of 6 going about normally ish life. Our risks are already there for catching covid. I would rather a refund tbh but if we can go and the resort and hotel isn't locked down, then we will go. Without a vaccine I cant just bin life indefinitely. We will all catch it at some point. It will kill us or it wont. I'm not breaking the rules ever. But neither am I confident of a vaccine this year. I'm not keeping my kids off school just to catch it anyway come September.

People keep saying about September but its dillusional to think all the kids will be vaccinated by mid Aug to be immune by September.

Everything is a risk now. Living life is putting yourself in covid path.

If the FCO are still advising against all but essential travel to the country in question, travel insurance won’t be valid even if the holiday was booked before lockdown

I’d go to Europe because you’ll still be covered for health under EHIC. I’d book a really cheap trip and just accept that there is a risk that I’d lose the airfare and hotel costs if travel insurance wouldn’t cover it. I’m also aware that of my two cancelled holidays so far my insurance wasn’t needed - the airline and hotels refunded us themselves, so if it was cancelled due to lockdowns the same is likely to happen again. It’s a risk I’m willing to take at this point. I’d never travel without health insurance ever though.

To be honest I’m tempted to go somewhere even before UK restrictions are lifted - flights are still running and if the country I’m going to is welcoming tourists, it’s very tempting. I’ve got a uk holiday booked the week before the hospitality restrictions are supposed to lift on 1 July, and if work won’t let me move the dates it’s terribly tempting to just go to Greece or somewhere if they’re welcoming tourists by that point...I probably won’t because I’m a natural goody two shoes but certainly if the UK government was saying it was ok I would go.

Hoping to be out to visit friends in Cyprus as soon as the flights start running reliably - would go any time from mid-June onwards. Like previous posters, I don’t believe we can put everything on hold indefinitely and as soon as we’re officially allowed I’ll begin risk assessing my own choices and assume everyone else is capable of doing the same. If that means that some people choose to remain indoors until 2021 then that’s their choice to make.