Holidays - will you be booking one?

[SoTiredNeedHoliday]

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?

We won't be going on a plane for some time. If 1 in 2000 people has covid then that's about 1 in 10 chance of someone being on my plane with it.

Masks are now mandatory on all public transport in England

Yes true - doesn't mean everyone is wearing one though unfortunately. And no, they actually won't be refused even without one.

I know that now short : hindsight is a marvellous thing...but we have never booked with the actual big companies, or the tour operator.

But, even then the policy only covers the tour operator cancelling, not disinclination to travel : we never would have been covered for this.

Our holiday is ABTA covered, so, if it were cancelled we'd get money bac. The insurance is a bit of a red herring.

No not going away this year. Usually go to France and Italy but would be grim with all the mask wearing /distancing which is obligatory in most places -would be no fun. And there will be chaos and queues at airports and on ferries/Tunnel if drivingAnd probably will be some other crisis over the summer the way things are going. Prefer to sit in the garden and read a book.

Surprise me theses people who excel t to have a horrible time but will go if they don't get a refund! It is a sunk cost -you could afford to pay it - why would you inflict two weeks of misery on top?

And disinclination to travel should be excluded /people take out insurance (or don't) and then bleat about the unfairness.

Fortunate pre-covid usually have 2 holidays abroad a year. However first trip in 2020 was cancelled and refunded (thankfully).

I don't want to worry about whther the accomodation is clean, taking a whole bunch of cleaning stuff with me, mixing with other people and greater risk of complete cancellation if there is spike in cases closer to departure time. So this year not planning to stay away from home, UK or abroad.

Don't have a garden but there is loads of stuff I need to do at home and it'll just be nice to not have to sit in front of my work computer for 9+ hrs a day!

It's one week as it goes.

I know disinclination to travel is excluded : but that usually applies to very few people. Things are a bit different at the moment. I was just making the point myself that travel insurance won't cover it.

Not everyone can lose several thousands pounds unblinkingly. How is it a 'sunk cost' if in some people's cases it can be transferred to another break or flight?

It's easy to be smug or dismissive if it's not your situation. I think it is fair to be anxious. Sobeit if you want to be unsympathetic .

@puffinkoala Jersey’s testing regime is changing. The day 4 and 7 tests were part of a pilot scheme and won’t be happening any more. There is a political decision to be made about self-isolation while test results come in (decision next week) but I wouldn’t expect that requirement necessarily to last very long even if it is implemented at first.

We have a fully refundable trip to the Alps booked at the end of August. It’s to a hotel that we’ve been to before and is always very clean. They’re already open and we’ve asked about how they’re dealing with the physical distancing regulations. If we can’t go, or don’t want to, then the very most we will lose is €200, and that’s if we cancel within a week. I’m still not sure whether we’ll want to go but we have the option.

The government are only allowing it to get rid of problem people. The type of people acting up on Bournemouth beach are the usual louts who go to Spanish resorts and elsewhere for holidays and stag weekends.

The government think if they can allow the riff raff to piss off for a fortnight with their furlough money they can curb some of the civil unrest.

The idea of being in a small enclosed space with people from all over the country (eg plane from Bham airport) does not appeal to me. I'd love to be abroad and wouldn't mind hotel restrictions (although my kids might) but unless I could have a private flight out there, no thanks. If anyone on the flight had it, it would easily spread in those conditions. We won't be going anywhere this year because I don't fancy a long train journey either.

I'm still out of pocket for a cancelled business trip in March. I toy with idea of a UK s/c hol in August, but I'd only want to book last minute in case the govt shuts everything down again, plus you can't rely on weather so I want a decent last-minute good forecast, yet presumably nothing will be available if we have a last-minute strategy. So probably no holiday away at all this year for us.

I especially wouldn't want to fly & have to deal with long airport waits & masks & unfamiliar sets of social distancing rules, which I already find uncomfortable in UK. Or worse, what if we got stuck overseas when govts suddenly shut down again (this nearly happened to me & colleague in March). Plus technically I have no salary at moment (employer is in financial crisis). I don't like dipping into savings with my poor job security.

Jersey’s testing regime is changing. The day 4 and 7 tests were part of a pilot scheme and won’t be happening any more. There is a political decision to be made about self-isolation while test results come in (decision next week) but I wouldn’t expect that requirement necessarily to last very long even if it is implemented at first

That's what I was hoping - I thought maybe we could wait and go in August instead, our favourite hotel says it has some availability. I'm not concerned about a 30 min flight either.

The government are only allowing it to get rid of problem people. The type of people acting up on Bournemouth beach are the usual louts who go to Spanish resorts and elsewhere for holidays and stag weekends

I think someone else said on here the other day "lucky lucky Spain".

We've cancelled our August holiday in Europe as not comfortable travelling at the moment. We've lost our deposit, (fair enough), but they also refused to move our booking to next summer, and messaged us implying that we were being ridiculous.
No skin off my nose, (except the lost deposit), but I won't book with them again.

@puffinkoala

Jersey’s testing regime is changing. The day 4 and 7 tests were part of a pilot scheme and won’t be happening any more. There is a political decision to be made about self-isolation while test results come in (decision next week) but I wouldn’t expect that requirement necessarily to last very long even if it is implemented at first

That's what I was hoping - I thought maybe we could wait and go in August instead, our favourite hotel says it has some availability. I'm not concerned about a 30 min flight either.

The government are only allowing it to get rid of problem people. The type of people acting up on Bournemouth beach are the usual louts who go to Spanish resorts and elsewhere for holidays and stag weekends

I think someone else said on here the other day "lucky lucky Spain".

By August things will look very different, definitely. Jersey is also bringing in on-island testing so the wait for results will be very short - anyone flying in the evening would know them by breakfast time.

@lifestooshort123 any idea if an annual travel insurance contract no longer covers covid when it comes up for renewal?

Wasn't going anywhere this year at went to US at Xmas and we can't afford to go away again. Next year we are going to Spain.
I wouldn't want to go this year as no guarantee things will be open.

We would normally go abroad for a couple of weeks, but don't feel happy doing that this year.
Instead we've booked a week in a self catering cottage in the UK in August.

annabel do you seriously have those attitudes? Do you really think everyone who goes to Spain is riff raff? That everyone in Bournemouth will go to Spain instead if we have a heatwave? ( you might want to listen to Boris and co promoting staycations) and your attitude to those on furlough is unpleasant at best.

Such snobbery and sneering on display these days on MN.

Annabel that's an odd comment indeed. The only people who will choose to go on holiday are 'rif raf' and you infer people on furlough are also 'rif raf' or gaming the system. Bizzare indeed.

I assumed you are one of those posters that are just on here to 'provoke' rather than actually interested in the topics at hand. surely there are better things for you to do with your time......

WellgoshDarnIt how annoying! I also wouldn't use them again.

lljkk your decision sounds like a very smart one!

@Piggywaspushed

annabel do you seriously have those attitudes? Do you really think everyone who goes to Spain is riff raff? That everyone in Bournemouth will go to Spain instead if we have a heatwave? ( you might want to listen to Boris and co promoting staycations) and your attitude to those on furlough is unpleasant at best.

Such snobbery and sneering on display these days on MN.

It wasn't been entirely serious. I do think though at least some of the anti-social behaviour we're seeing lately is the kind of boozed-up-Brits-in-the-sun actions that Spain and continental Europe throughout the summer have to deal with from us; and rather than export it abroad they're displaying it here instead, every time the sun comes out.

The furlough point was more to do with people who've been stuck at home with nothing to do since March with wages to spend but unable to go abroad. Instead they'll act up here (i'm talking a minority of idiots and can apply to people still working as well).

Lemons1571
any idea if an annual travel insurance contract no longer covers covid when it comes up for renewal?
I would think that a renewal would be a new contract and they can take out any covid cover. Having said that, in The Times today, a few companies were quoted as being prepared to offer covid cover for new policies (Saga is one) for emergency medical cover but I'm pretty sure it would have plenty of small print!

No holiday for us. DH has been unfurloughed but his employer is making some people redundant and warned that there's probably more to come. Then there's the prospect of his income dropping as the year goes on if he has to isolate for 14 days, local lockdown, etc. A short UK holiday is probably affordable but I don't find the prospect very inviting under the current circumstances.

We've got a tourer caravan that we keep in Devon. Off there next week but intend to just potter. Large pitches so plenty of space to social distance. Taking bulk of food with us. May venture out in evening for a drive to the sea but don't intend mixing with others. A change of scenery in beautiful surroundings is what we are after. We're very lucky to have somewhere to go and don't want to inflict West Midlands germs on Devon!