Are holidays still allowed?

[pontypridd]

Or going to holiday homes?

@Mamimawr

Just stay at home! It's not a game of trying to see how far you can push the rules.

Exactly!

What about flying to Italy for a weekend to get away from a newborn baby?

Holidays were allowed during the first lockdown so I don't see why that would change now.

And this is why your have such a high number of cases. Stay home.

Sorry @OverTheRainbow88 it’s not allowed. Text on gov.Uk very clearly says this. Attached screenshot and link here www.gov.uk/guidance/new-national-restrictions-from-5-november#travel

Screenshot here @OverTheRainbow88

I asked the question- not because I want to go on holiday. Nor do I have a second home.

This illustrates how lose these rules will be for certain people. It’s going to ruin some whilst others easily find loopholes and flout the rules.

No holidays and going to second holiday homes isn’t allowed.

Clearly not. It's pretty much back to the same terms as in March onwards.

You have until Thursday. Pick which home you want to be in for the next month. Go there, stay there.

@SeverusSnape1 holidays weren’t allowed first time, it was essential travel only until the restrictions lifted over the summer and travel corridors created!

from the govt website.

Overnight stays and holidays away from primary residences will not be allowed- including holidays in the UK and abroad. This includes staying in a second home, if you own one, or staying with anyone you do not live with or are in a support bubble with. There are specific exceptions, for example if you need to stay away from home (including in a second home) for work purposes.

@SeverusSnape1

Holidays were allowed during the first lockdown so I don't see why that would change now.

No they weren't, don't be daft, it was the same as they have said now - no non-essential travel, including no travel to second homes!

I am my Mums sole source of support. She is 80 with cognitive issues. She also lives 170 miles away. I will travel to see her. I think that this is allowed. But frankly I cannot not do what I did before and leave her on her own for months cos I followed the rules.

You can’t go on holiday

This illustrates how lose these rules will be for certain people

Why? It's perfectly clear. They've listed the circumstances when going out is permitted and going on holiday is not one of them. No loophole there.

Foreign travel is only if it's for work purposes.
It's a national lockdown so how is going on holiday going to either sensible or permitted?

It's for 4 weeks. I don't think asking for the visit to be rescheduled is unreasonable if it requires international travel.

I am my Mums sole source of support. She is 80 with cognitive issues. She also lives 170 miles away. I will travel to see her. I think that this is allowed. But frankly I cannot not do what I did before and leave her on her own for months cos I followed the rules.

From the government link previously posted

to visit members of your support bubble or provide care for vulnerable people, or as a volunteer

If people want to go to their holiday homes badly enough, they will go. Rules or not. This is a common theme with all the rules - some people abide by them, others don’t. The government pretty much rely on the goodwill of people to do what’s right, but I’m already hearing people saying they won’t follow the rules.

No. No holidays. No holiday homes.

Unless of course, you are Dominic Cummings or Stanley Johnson or a hedge fund manager or an MP and think you can get away with it without anyone spotting you, or you need to go grease shooting or fox hunting . . .

*grouse hunting, not grease hunting

Grease hunting is very much forbidden . . .

How many people will be tempted to travel to Scotland airports to fly on holiday??

^Who goes away in November anyway?

Not exactly holiday season^

Eh? We've had to cancel mountain biking in southern Spain.

Last year we were diving in Gran Canaria in late November. Of course people go on holiday in November.

fgs just stay at home