When do you think we will be able to go on holiday?

[Siw2020]

This post is basically me dreaming.

DP & I are both NHS HCPs currently working on covid wards in separate cities. DP has had the 1st dose. I am yet to be vaccinated.

We are finally getting married (having postponed from last summer) in a very small microwedding this summer after having been together almost 10 years and engaged/making wedding and honeymoon plans for about 4 years. While our plans have totally changed, we didn't want to keep waiting to see how covid pans out (as also conscious of body clock and want to start a family).

Realistically when do you think we can go on a honeymoon abroad? We don't do holidays abroad often (even before covid) so were always planning on a big splurging experience for honeymoon. Perhaps one of the Caribbean islands or Indian ocean islands etc - a beachy holiday on an island far away.

When do you think this can realistically happen?

Last year I moved my July 2020 holiday to July this year as TUI offered a free amendment. Am hoping TUI will offer the same deal if holidays look unlikely to go ahead.

I reckon the summer. We managed to get abroad for a fortnight last august.

Years. Five years. More probably. If ever.

LOL. As if governments have the cash to bail out the collapse of the travel industry.

Travel will open up gradually from this summer, although I think restrictions to and from poorer countries with low vaccination rates will go on for longer.

It’ll also be a lot of flaff to travel. Even with the vaccine you’ll have to have tests either side of your flight I expect. Personally, I don’t fancy sitting on a beach or walking around a nice Spanish town in 30C heat with a face mask on.

@Fragileandcomposed

Years. Five years. More probably. If ever.

🙄

UK- Summer, overseas, October- onwards

Really hoping to get out to Canada this summer, we try to go every other year and last year we couldn't of course and as bad luck would have it the 'year off' was the year before so we didn't go then either. 🤞🤞🤞

@Fragileandcomposed Given that my neighbours are currently in Dubai - they went mid December before any of the rules changed - I think you are being ridiculous.

@Randomrebel I read that as being 22nd June , I was thinking that’s very precise and optimistic!

[quote shallbe]@Fragileandcomposed 5 years, catastrophising much?! A perfect example of the absolute nuttiness on mumsnet sometimes.[/quote]
This. Some people love to scare monger and share doom and gloom

Op you deserve a holiday. I would book short notice though if you can. No-one can predict how things will be at the moment. Try to have as many potential destinations as possible to increase the chance of going. Flexibility is going to be the key from now on I think

Let’s remember people are being arrested for sitting on a bench or leaving their house.
Or fined for travelling 7 miles.
How can anyone seriously think we will be allowed to go on holiday for a really really really long time.

@Fragileandcomposed

You’ll have to cancel it though, which is worse imo. Then the faff of getting the money back. I don’t think we will be holidaying even in the UK for quite some years.

I've got holidays in the UK booked for this year and, as soon as we're allowed to, we'll be going! We managed to squeeze in a long weekend last December so I think with the vaccine roll out UK and Europe holidays will be on for later this year.

Why on earth do you think we won't be able to holiday in the UK 'for quite some years'?

I certainly wouldn't be paying out £1.5k for summer faraway flights at the minute. Trouble is with flight only, if the flight is going you won't get your money back if you can't fly. I'd also factor in the cost of covid tests at each end at £80 pp.

I do get the sentiment though, before the super new strain came out I bought flights to Lisbon for DH and I in May when DS was meant to be away at school with outward bound projects. It now looks highly unlikely that either of those things will happen. Difference is they are Easyjet flights at £100 for two of us, so I'll just shift them to a less hopeless point in the future.

@Fragileandcomposed

Let’s remember people are being arrested for sitting on a bench or leaving their house. Or fined for travelling 7 miles. How can anyone seriously think we will be allowed to go on holiday for a really really really long time.

Flights are still coming and going from airports all around the country, and you don't have to give a reason for getting on any of them. They're much reduced in number, but that's due to lack of demand, not because we're not 'allowed' to travel.

We were 'allowed' to go on holidays last summer, with no vaccine on the horizon, so why would we not be 'allowed' to do so in the near future?

Five years?? Bloody hell. My neighbours came back from Tenerife yesterday all glowing and happy.

This will not last forever. Most of my neighbours had loads of holidays in August and Oct this last year.

Even IF you get the vaccine, having tests either side of travel will be annoying. Does anybody actually want to go on holiday and wear a mask all the time in the heat?

@Fragileandcomposed we were being fined for sitting on park benches last April, but people still went abroad in July. This may not have been a wise decision with hindsight, but this time we have the vaccine rollout to reduce numbers in hospitals and deaths, which hopefully will get us back to some sort of normality in time.

@Funkypolar I'll happily wear a mask to escape from these four walls for some heat. The covid testing and potential quarantine is another matter though.

If you can’t travel more than 5miles how are people proposing to get anywhere?
It won’t be any different this summer. I doubt subsequent summers.
I think we have to accept we aren’t going anywhere for a very long time.

@Fragileandcomposed

If you can’t travel more than 5miles how are people proposing to get anywhere? It won’t be any different this summer. I doubt subsequent summers. I think we have to accept we aren’t going anywhere for a very long time.

Did you travel or holiday much before covid?

@Fragileandcomposed

If you can’t travel more than 5miles how are people proposing to get anywhere? It won’t be any different this summer. I doubt subsequent summers. I think we have to accept we aren’t going anywhere for a very long time.

Your last thread got deleted for scaremongering. Your comments here are along the same lines. If we were 'allowed' to travel last summer, why would we not be 'allowed' to do so this summer?

@Fragileandcomposed so now you think we'll be locked down for years....I think you need to take a step back from the internet.

We used to go away twice a year in the U.K. and once abroad.
We didn’t go at all last year.

This year is worse than last. We have new strains for a start that are more contagious.

People with a vaccine will be fine to go this summer. Hancock said all adults will get jabs by October so op id wait til then and get yourself a last minute bargain

Rest of us uk will be fine from may onwards and pos earlier

I do think we will be in lockdown for years, yes.
Previous pandemics not the same. Once you’d had it you were immune. Not in the case of covid.