If hotels and holiday homes opened in December would you go?

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If hotels and holiday homes opened in December would you go?

No. I like Christmas at home.
Looking forward to a holiday next summer though- hopefully with a vaccine inside me!

I had a couple booked. One for just before and one for in between Christmas and New year. I just cancelled both today.

Nope.

Everyone that answered no, why?

We have a theme park break booked 18th/19th and a butlins break for new year 30th to 2nd. I am assuming they will both be cancelled. If allowed, I will go. We have been to both since July and both are safe and well managed and it’s easy to distance. We won’t be mixing households at all over the festive period either.

No, but I wasn't planning to anyway.

I stayed in a hotel last week, so yes if that was the plan, but I'm not planning on going away for Christmas as we have it at home.

We have an AirBnb booked just up the road from my parents for a few days over Christmas - about 2 hours drive away. My parents are elderly, we haven’t seen each other since August so desperate for a catch up all round, but there’s not enough time to isolate safely between school breaking up and the Christmas window. Hoping we’ll be able to have window visits and possibly a walk or two (if my dad can find enough layers to wrap up in 😁).

Yes I'd go

No

Yes

No.

Covid (I'd rather stay at home where I know it's as Covid free as possible, I have everything I need to have a nice time & it's warm & comfortable, where my friends are should I need help etc)

Even if it's permitted, I don't think anymore people than absolutely necessary should be traipsing around the country.

Why do you ask?

If I go away for a Christmas I like to go to places that have lots of Christmas markets that stay open through to the New Year. But obviously not this year.

Absolutely yes. I can't as I am working throughout December but I have two short breaks booked in January and I will be going on them unless it is absolutely against guidance. I really want to support the hospitality industry so I will be doing my best to have a few local short breaks. I have already, and I've found the hotels I have stayed at to be working very hard to provide the very best service they can under the circumstances. I have felt safe.

Hoping to book a week in the Lake District just before Xmas.....

We're booked into hotels over Christmas to be near family. Would feel perfectly safe in a hotel and hope they are open.

I wouldn't, not because I fear it wouldn't be 'safe' but because a hotel stay sounds like a diminished experience these days. Rooms stripped down, facilities like swimming pools closed, social distancing in bars etc and worst of all, no breakfast buffets! I love me a good breakfast buffet!

I'd rather save my money and wait a few months in the hope of getting something close to the full experience.

Yes. We’re booked on holiday this year and still hopeful that it will go ahead.

Both yes and no In theory I’d have no issues with the idea of travelling and staying away from home re covid. In practice I don’t particularly want to go away in the U.K. in the dead of winter when tourist attractions and restaurants (assuming they’re reopening) have limits on numbers and need prebooking.

No. Because I prefer Christmas at home and secondly I don't think it's fair to people who live in those areas to have more tourists turn up because they fancy a holiday.

If i was allowed to travel overseas - without testing or isolation at either end of the trip - then absolutely!

Yes
I have a flat booked near my parents for Christmas. They don't know, and may never know, but it would mean I would not have to drive 2 and a half hours on Christmas day with Christmas lunch and gifts then the same back again, and would mean I could maybe see them a couple of days in a row for the first time since March.
I am officially bubbled with them but it is too risky for them for me to stay.
So the holiday flat booking sits there as part of plan A. Plans B, C, D etc are also available...

Yes absolutely. Have a pre Christmas hotel break booked and will be gutted if we can’t go. Hospitality really needs our support right now so as soon as hotels and restaurants are open I will be visiting them. In the meantime I’m getting takeaway from local restaurants on Saturday nights when I would usually be out for dinner.

Yes. We will be getting away at the earliest opportunity. Make the most of it while you can! Assuming you can, of course.

No, unnecessary travel doesn’t seem worth the risk to us or others and we aren’t eating out so it wouldn’t be a break anyway.

Yes I would. We had to cancel our lovely hotel stay at the end of this month obviously which we’ve postponed until January. If we had time, I’d use it in December.