Guidelines for family staying at our house

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I’m confused.... one set of grandparents are keen to visit & stay for a few days in a few weeks time after a visit to a hospital appointment in a large city. Our house isn’t huge and guidelines suggest the usual things, social distancing & not using the same facilities etc... they have also had an elderly relative staying for some weeks at theirs who requires care and plan to be travelling on public transport to us from an area considered to still have a fairly high infection rate? We’re not in an area that has one. I guess the person who has the hospital appointment should also be self isolating prior to the day. Our DC is back at school in one of the years ‘allowed’ to go back & has been since early June. All these factors plus the fact that they are over 70 & also that they seem keen to take DC on public transport to another local town (which we are not keen on anyway) seem to go against the guidelines plus the fact that we were also planning on visiting the other set of grandparents in early August who have big enough house to social distance in etc but assume after this planned visit to us that we’d then have to self isolate before travelling to ensure we hadn’t caught CV.
Am I right in thinking that it’s really not advisable for them to visit & ‘against the guidelines’? given the circumstances? I’ve read them but they’re not very clear. I’m trying to avoid offending them but that’s easier said than done 😌 Thanks in advance

It’s not against the guidelines. And they are just that, a guide not a law. If you don’t want them to come you are going to have to tell them that, rather than dress it up as you would love them to come but it’s against the rules.

It would be pretty unpleasant to say to this set that they can't visit, and then swan off to the other set a couple of weeks later.

You don't have to accept everything, you can set your own rules, eg no taking children on public transport.

I wasn’t planning at all in saying no to this set of grandparents then ‘swanning off’ to the other family a few weeks later if one was not to come then we wouldn’t go to visit the other set. We are not that selfish

I don't see that the grandparents pose a risk to the kids greater than being in school, you being at work / shopping etc but I'd have rules.

Will they have their own room?
When you get to us from the hospital we'd ask that you take your bags up, get changed and you hands. Hugging but no kidding. And no day trips on the bus.