Anyone else panicking about holidays to Scotland and/or Wales during half term?

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I’m sure there are many of us with holidays booked for the end of the month and are wondering if they will happen.

With talk of more restrictions in Scotland and Wales is it unlikely that we will be able to travel to these places?

I’m not on a high case area (at the moment), meant to be travelling to Pembrokeshire on the 26th but to get there I have to drive through several areas with restrictions in place (South Wales), my understanding is that at the moment we can travel through these areas but can not stop at services?

We are staying in a self catering cottage, if pubs are to close we won’t be able to eat out so will have to take our own food, this isn’t really a issue but we would have liked to have eaten out at least once. Is there a chance that if we do go we won’t actually be able to go anywhere other than walking outdoors?

Anyone else worrying and considering cancelling? I’m not sure I would get my money back as it’s already paid for so I’m guessing I just have to wait and see if the guidelines change?

I’m in a Welsh lockdown area and about to cancel our holiday out of Wales for that week. There is next to no hope of restrictions lifting before half term. People aren’t taking notice now.

Just stay where you are.

We are supposed to be going to Gwynedd but are in the north west so we have decided to cancel. As much as I want to go I understand why locals wouldn’t be keen on people from here travelling in at the moment. I’m expecting it to be locked down before then anyway

Not sure to be honest. I'm in Scotland and it sounds like something is coming, possibly enough to hamper holidays. I'm making no plans that can't be cancelled. But, impossible to say until they make the announcement.

I only know one person who has anything booked and that’s only due to moving it from easter as it was pre-booked before Covid. They have cancelled it due to cases rising and not wanting to travel and risk spreading/catching it.

That's such a shame op.

Just spotted this on another thread, which might help www.thesun.co.uk/news/12855670/coronavirus-scotland-lockdown-sturgeon-circuit-breaker/

We are supposed to be going to a non-lockdown area at the start of November...our accommodation provider has contacted us to say they can’t accept anyone from a lockdown area in England (which we are in)...the guidance (not current law) suggests there should be a bit of responsibility to check where guests are coming from and seems there is pressure to refuse certain guests...

I can't see pubs shutting or pembs going into a lockdown but I have seen Talk of Welsh government considering asking people coming in from high case areas to quarantine. Which would make your holiday a bit shit. I don't think anyone can give you a definite answer about half term really.

I’m in Scotland and tbf I’ve been pissed off for months with all the holidaymakers coming up, travel should be limited, we already have spikes in rural areas and don’t need more ppl from other affected areas tramping through. Just stay at home.

I’m not in a lockdown area, im in south west but it’s possible things could change. It’s about a 3 hour drive to where we are staying and once I get into Wales I won’t be able to stop anywhere?

The last payment for the holiday was taken a few days ago.

SBTLove not sure spikes are just from visitors in rural Scotland...I say that as someone from rural Scotland whose family and friends there have been breaking the guidelines at every opportunity! Not saying all holiday makers are perfect but a bit unfair to suggest they are the cause of spikes!

I'm in a Welsh lockdown area and we have just cancelled a weeks break in England for October half term.
I think I would look into cancellation OP. The restrictions are popping up without much
warning, our area was praised on the Tuesday for how well it was doing and on local lockdown by the weekend.

@SBTLove

I’m in Scotland and tbf I’ve been pissed off for months with all the holidaymakers coming up, travel should be limited, we already have spikes in rural areas and don’t need more ppl from other affected areas tramping through. Just stay at home.

I have a December holiday booked in Balmoral - booked preCovid - and ongoing dicussions with the Balmoral office keep asking us to just to wait and see, rather than cancel and lose the deposit.

The deposit isn't huge so the loss not terrible, but they keep encouraging us to decide closer to the time, very much in the spirit of encouraging us to go if the law allows it.

I am now in faovur of calling it off but the impact of that message on other people also holidaying with us means everyone just keeps waiting. I can see how others then start to think it is fine, perhaps even preferable, to still holiday.

I'm from a lockdown area in Wales and have had to move a holiday from July to November. The way it's going here, it's likely that we will have to cancel the November holiday too 😔

@Missfelipe
I didn’t say it was solely visitors but it doesn’t help an influx of ppl from other areas, I just think it’s very selfish ppl continuing to travel about the U.K. because they want a holiday.

At the moment we are not in a lockdown area so that advice is still to travel, we are not going to a lockdown area. Unless this changes we will not got our money back if we cancel, I have no insurance.

For those saying “people should not be all flocking to other areas”, it’s a cottage in the middle of nowhere, not a busy tourist spot, plan was just to relax there, enjoy a few country walks and maybe eat out once whilst there (the eat out thing is not the end of the world). We will take food with us so won’t be shopping in Wales and won’t be in contact with anyone. Obviously I’m stressing as things could easily change at the last minute, if that does happen and the advice is not to travel then I’m sure we will then get a refund. So far no one has contacted me and the final payment was taken from my account a few days ago.