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Can Tier3 eat out in Tier1 area for Christmas?

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Tier3 · 16/12/2020 08:53

We live in Tier3 and have a self catering cottage booked in a Tier1 area. We are two households (6 people) but we all travel from Tier3.
We will travel between the 23-27 now, but we have a few restaurants booked and also want to go shopping in the small town we are going to.
Can we still go shopping and eat out or do we have to follow Tier 3 rules and stay inside ?

OP posts:

FuzzyPuffling · 16/12/2020 15:42

No you can't. Please don't.

treening · 16/12/2020 16:15

We are going to a tier 2 (though pretty high tier 2) area from tier 3 between 22 and 30 Dec.

We won't be visiting any supermarkets, restaurants or anywhere else during that time, but staying in our self catering accommodation.

HPenthusiast · 16/12/2020 17:20

Sorry but as someone who lives in tier 1 please don’t. We have a high number of older people living here. Tier 3 are ‘advised’ not to travel to and from that tier.

PimlicoJo · 16/12/2020 17:23

I'm in London which is now in Tier 3 and if I was travelling to a lower tier area over Xmas I would still act as if I was in T3 and not visit pubs and restaurants. However I do find it frustrating when people seem to assume that everyone in Tier 3 is carrying the virus. I don't know anyone who has had Covid in the last 6 months (that they know of, of course).

treening · 16/12/2020 17:25

However I do find it frustrating when people seem to assume that everyone in Tier 3 is carrying the virus

Yep, precisely. We might live in Tier 3 but DH and I both wfh, our son isn't in school or childcare and we don't go to shops or the supermarket.

PurpleDaisies · 16/12/2020 17:30

My postcode had 0-2 positive tests last week despite us being in tier 3.

OverTheRainbow88 · 16/12/2020 17:31

Also people in tier 1 probably don’t realise how hard it is living in tier 3 all the time, so you know what for Christmas it would be nice to go into a tier 1 place, go out for a meal/drink, go into a family members house, bowling with kids etc.

It sucks being in tier 3 and if legally allowed yes we will travel to a lesser tier to be normal again for a few days. My kids are bored shitless of going to the playground, the only place they can go to in months!

Pipandmum · 16/12/2020 18:01

I live in a tier one area and there seems to be an influx of visitors for the holiday - mainly going to their second homes. I bet the vast majority will avail themselves of tier one rules while here.
And @southeastdweller people understand what they mean by 'rules' in this instance, and calling them that will hopefully ensure more people abide by them. And you can get fined for breaking some of them so I'd definitely call them rules.

Covidnomore · 16/12/2020 18:12

I think you travelling to a tier 1 area when both households are tier 3 is a really shitty thing to do.

FuzzyPuffling · 16/12/2020 19:24

Also people in tier 1 probably don’t realise how hard it is living in tier 3 all the time

You'd be surprised....i live in Tier 1 but because DH is CEV we have been unable to do any of those things you so value (and a whole heap more) for over nine months. We aren't all partying down here, you know!
We were hoping for a little respite in the summer, but everywhere was so very crowded with visitors we had to stay in....again.

OverTheRainbow88 · 16/12/2020 19:39

@FuzzyPuffling

I’m not talking about partying, I’m talking about going for a meal in a restaurant, doing day to day things that people in tier 1 may have forgotten that this win tier 3 can’t do etc.

treening · 16/12/2020 19:41

You can go to restaurant in tier 2.

Hardly anyone is in tier 1, realistically.

FuzzyPuffling · 16/12/2020 20:04

Restaurant? Day to day? I went to one last January...does that count?

Please stop imagining that we are all living it up in Tier 1. You're way off the mark and this kind of fantasy isn't helping anyone.

Popgoesthebubble · 16/12/2020 20:11

Again, we aren't partying in lower tiers. I'm in a lower tier 2 area, but I don't go to the shops unless i have to, I rarely eat or, haven't been to a pub since the pandemic started etc. I haven't taken the children swimming, or to soft play,b or to baby groups. We only playdate with one person (within the rules). We could do any of those things, but just because you can, doesn't mean it's sensible too.

RedToothBrush · 16/12/2020 20:18

They have changed the official guidance since this afternoon.

It now reads:

Between 23 and 27 December, you should consider carefully the risks of travelling to see your Christmas bubble. If you live in an area with the highest level of protection, for example, tier 3 in England and level 4 in Scotland, you should avoid travelling to lower prevalence areas where possible. If you have to travel, book ahead to enable you and others to travel safely and plan your outwards and return journeys carefully. Once at your destination, you should follow the rules in that tier, stay local and avoid unnecessary travel within the area after you arrive.

Crumpetycrump · 17/12/2020 12:18

Well Bristol moving to tier 2 so my Boxing Day lunch can now go ahead!

lala2221 · 17/12/2020 12:21

No you have to follow tier 3 rules

Crumpetycrump · 17/12/2020 12:31

If that was a reply to me then no we don’t. We are moving to tier 2 and having lunch in a tier 2 pub.

Butterymuffin · 17/12/2020 12:40

@Crumpetycrump

We live in tier 3 Bristol and have a table in a pub booked in a tier 2 area for Boxing Day. Bristol has lower cases than most tier 2 areas so it seems very annoying that we can’t go unless we move to tier 2 today.

Good outcome there @Crumpetycrump

Glad you're going to self cater OP. Annoying but the right thing to do.

RuleWithAWoodenFoot · 17/12/2020 12:41

I do find it frustrating when people seem to assume that everyone in Tier 3 is carrying the virus

Yes, this.

I have a holiday place in Cornwall. I am in Tier 2. The area where my place is in Cornwall has higher rates than where I live at home, despite being overall in a lower Tier. If I am able to have a quiet 10 days not doing hardly anything out of the house, I'd feel no guilt whatsoever about going to a place in Tier 1 and eating out in a pub or whatever.

Butterymuffin · 17/12/2020 12:42

@treening

You can go to restaurant in tier 2.

Hardly anyone is in tier 1, realistically.

Think it's 1.6% of the population? Yes, it's almost non existent.

66% now in Tier 3? Lockdown Christmas all round.

fortyfifty · 17/12/2020 13:27

@southeastdweller

There are no rules about this, so do as you feel is necessary.

There are rules about this. It is not allowed.

southeastdweller · 17/12/2020 13:29

Whether they’re rules or ‘rules’ I’ll be heading to my nearest tier 2 city at least once over the coming weeks. I can’t be doing with much more of this joyless tier 3 life.

treening · 17/12/2020 14:15

There are rules about this. It is not allowed.

But is it advised against or is it illegal?

sirfredfredgeorge · 17/12/2020 14:39

It is not illegal.

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