Holidays - will you be booking one?

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Just wondering what people are intending to do about holidays. When the government announce the air bridges/travel corridors will you be booking a holiday?
Do you think it is wise?

No, we’ve booked the UK. I am worried about travel insurance, plus the uncertainty that foreign travel will go ahead on any given date. We only need a small rise in new cases and all the air bridges will (may?) close, no refund as it’s a known event. I just don’t have enough money to risk losing it.

Would love to but circumstances mean it's not possible
Already seeing smug braggy posts on social media from people who have holidays booked.

I booked Northumberland last week and Somerset today. We normally go abroad twice or three times a year but it doesn’t seem like a good idea this year.
We have an 8 year old and don’t fancy trying to get him to wear a mask which at the moment he doesn’t have to do- travels by car, only goes to school or outdoor play or to see one other family.

I have booked a fully refundable ferry and hotel and we are hoping to take our car down to Spain at the end of August. If FCO advice changes or rates go up we will stay at home.

We were meant to be going to the USA in August and I don't think that will be happening this year and I don't fancy flying at the moment anyway.

Our holiday to Europe was booked last October and we are now hoping to go on it. Travel is via Brittany ferries with a cabin. Our travel insurance covers covid - as long as FCO restrictions are lifted. Therefore we are awaiting the lifting of travel restrictions to be sure of going.

I would definitely not go anywhere by plane. I think one would be as safe in most parts of Europe as the UK if you can travel by ferry or tunnel to get there. Probably safest to book self catering at this stage. Might be worth looking at places that will be less crowded. Eg. maybe going to the alps and swimming in a lake rather than a crowded Mediterranean beach.

Booked Italy this morning, for August. Only 4 nights though

Booked Spain end August and October. Hotel cancellable up to 2 days before and flights paid via PayPal - they refunded our cancelled flights for June and July with no problems. It's a gamble we're prepared to take.

No we dont want to fly at the moment or in the next few weeks.... might stay in uk or might not holiday this year at all under the circumstances.

Absolutely not.

I’m in a vulnerable group due to asthma so I will not be going anywhere near an airport, aircraft, station, train, bar, restaurant, theatre, cinema or any other crowded indoor environment in which social distancing is impossible until this nightmare is over.

We were supposed to be on a uk holiday 11th July, but as I'm shielding we've had to move it to next year 😢 hoping we can have a weekend away in August once shielding is paused but dh can't get time off work to go for any longer. He's cancelled one weeks holiday from the original July booking but I'm taking both as I'm getting burnt out!

No, we usually have two holidays, one abroad and one in the UK. This year we are having neither. We don't even know if/how the schools are going back, the shops have only just reopened, people are going crazy - crowding beaches, protesting, stabbing each other......, there might be a second wave, who knows..... We would rather just stay at home.

I'd love a holiday and we usually have at least two a year but I am nervous that the lockdown will come back or that people moving around so much will mean that kids can't go back to school in September etc.

I know its a balance of 'getting the economies going' and 'covid' but it feels the moving around can't make things any better but might possibly make things a bit worse?

No not this year

No, but I am going on a U.K. break.

We’ve booked fully refundable eurotunnel tickets and a country cottage in France. We’ll take our own car. Restaurants etc are already open in France and even if they’re not it will be nice to have different scenery for a few days. I haven’t told the kids yet just in case it’s another thing we have to cancel this year.

I find this extraordinarily stressful. We have Spain booked for 8 August, fully paid(as advised by numerous travel experts) and were assuming it would be off and we'd be refunded.

Now, I think our hands will be tied. DH is vulnerable and so we usually get special insurance anyway (which will now exclude all sort of stuff ). I really don't want to go. I don't want to turn up for a 7 am flight 4 hours early. I don't want to have to wear a face mask for an entire flight. DH is also annoyed that we spent ££££££££ and other people now will have spent £, but I am phlegmatic about that bit.

Stamps feet and cries.

I'd love a holiday in France, but I think travelling won't be much fun right now and who knows what will and won’t be open once you get to your destination? I don’t fancy a UK holiday either as everywhere will be so crowded. Social distancing and queuing will mar a lot of the enjoyment.

No! Because I've got no money, not because of the virus

No, we won't be going on holiday this year. It's an unnecessary risk and I don't want to waste money on an expensive holiday that we probably wouldn't enjoy that much anyway.

Piggywaspushed have you bought travel insurance already? Is there any way you could cancel on medical grounds?

I'll be busy with work until mid September but am hoping to be able to travel abroad as soon as possible after that.

piggywaspushed no one could have predicted the length and severity of this situation, the price paid can't be worried about now. Can you not approach the travel provider and request a refund or in the least a delay to the trip until next summer? Sounds like you will be stressed out the whole time you are there.

AlexaShutUp that is my feeling too, but the rest of the family are desperate to go and seem to be ok with it all......

No, we’ve cancelled our UK holiday, too much aggravation, not worth the risk.

Hmm, that's difficult OP. Thankfully, my family are all on the same page with regard to holidays this year. We'll save the cash and treat ourselves to a nicer one next year!!