Travel to Australia at Christmas

[Twinkie84]

Hi;

We have plans to travel to Australia at Christmas for 3 weeks to visit family and friends who live over there. It's been planned for about a year.

How realistic do you think this is that we still will be able to go ahead in the current environment?

I'm in the UK and we are traveling via San Francisco USA.

I understand it's a long way off still but I'm now have doubts that we will be able to travel

Thank you

Australia here: nope, your holiday is not happening op. Even Australian Citizens struggle to get back home . And not to mention the two week required isolation in a hotel $$$!

Oof, this is hard. I was hoping to escape back to Australia to my Mums with the children for a few months over the British winter 😭 I haven't seen most of my family for almost 18 months, the thought it might be another year yet is...I just feel numb.

It’s very hard but basically all our cases (including the current large spike in Victoria) have been from returned travellers, so there is very little incentive to open the borders. I have no idea how they are going to eventually do it unless there is a vaccine because so few of us over here have had it that even a handful of people coming in with it will spread it like wildfire.
It’s hard because I also have all my family in the U.K. and we normally go back at least once a year and they come here once a year so we are looking at 18 months to 2 years without seeing them.
I know people can say “well why live round the other side of the world?” but we have always known before that you can be home in a day if something happens and no one could foresee that we would be trapped here for months and months on end.
On the other hand, life is relatively normal day to day, we have had very few deaths in total and I think it has been handled very well, it’s just hard knowing that if something happens to a parent we will have no way of getting to see them.