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

99 replies

Siw2020 · 10/01/2021 11:54

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?

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partyatthepalace · 10/01/2021 13:04

UK from April/May.

Europe from June.

US and ROW from summer - BUT - I think you will need to have had the vaccine to fly for leisure reasons, and that might be autumn or later.

I don't think European countries that depend on summer tourism will insist on vaccines till 2022, that might also apply to holiday hotspots like the Bahamas etc.

Crumpetycrump · 10/01/2021 13:05

I have short breaks in the UK booked for Easter, end of May and end of July and a fortnight on a Greek island in August. All of my summer plans were cancelled last years but I’m hopeful that with the vaccine rollout all/most of these will go ahead 🤞🤞🤞

Lemons1571 · 10/01/2021 13:05

I’ve booked France for august. We might have to test before we go, but would just isolate for 10 days on return.

If you can book free amendments then maybe. You don’t want the holiday company to say “yea we can move it to 2022, that’ll be another 2 grand please”.

How does a vaccine make a difference? It hasn’t yet been proved that you can’t transmit the virus anyway?

Funkypolar · 10/01/2021 13:05

Newgirls - and you believe Hancock? I have a bridge for sale...

Fragileandcomposed · 10/01/2021 13:06

I doubt it. I hope you are right but I doubt it. This batch of restrictions is going to get tighter and it’ll last until May / June. Then it will loosen slightly again until October and then we will be back again. Rinse and repeat.

shallbe · 10/01/2021 13:07

but people still went abroad in July. This may not have been a wise decision with hindsight

It was fine though, numbers were suppressed and travel resumed successfully. Of course it has needed to be halted over winter mostly due to our new variant but that's nothing to do with travel, when our numbers suppress again (hopefully more dramatically and prolonged with the vaccine) I've no doubt travel will resume.

shallbe · 10/01/2021 13:08

@Fragileandcomposed you really need to add "I think" and "in my opinion" stop making out you are stating facts when you are talking out of your arse.

partyatthepalace · 10/01/2021 13:08

@Fragileandcomposed

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.
We won't - honestly - we simply couldn't afford to be.

The vaccine will have to be adapted each year like the flu, we'll likely have to get used to a certain number of deaths, and increased handwashing and masks will become normal (no bad thing.)

But we won't be locked down - because we cannot keep borrowing. So even if the death and illness toll were to look like it does now, we'd have to crack on with it. But I do think the vaccine will keep it under more control than our current situation.

99victoria · 10/01/2021 13:09

We go to a lovely little place in Greece every year and couldn't go last year of course so carried over our booking and deposit to June this year. It's the end of June so I'm keeping my fingers crossed we'll be able to go.

Also, my son lives abroad in Europe so planning to see him as soon as we can - we will either go to him or he will come to us depending on who relaxes the rules first. I'm certainly not waiting 5 years to see him!

HmmSureJan · 10/01/2021 13:09

@Fragileandcomposed

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.

I wondered because I noticed that many who make these gloom laden predictions are those who didn't value travel and holidays anyway and are relieved to see others who do not getting to go. I see I am wrong though. That said, the numbers will drop by the summer, just like they did last year. This combined with vaccinations, which imvho are being wheeled out far quicker than is being reported in the eternally pessimistic press, especially now the military are involved, will contribute to an improvement by the summer. I think we will be holidaying by the summer albeit with vaccination/test proofs and other restrictions required.
Funkypolar · 10/01/2021 13:10

Vaccines may not stop transmission though. It’s great they stop you from being seriously ill but they don’t mean you can stop social distancing.

Fragileandcomposed · 10/01/2021 13:11

I thought that at the start, we couldn’t afford to be.
But then I started reading the threads on mumsnet where people are desperate for everyone to be contained in their houses - and now I think differently. People seem to want this? I don’t know why. And it’s a small but very vocal minority. It’ll happen - we will have to adapt because this isn’t going to get better, only worse. And by adapt I mean accept that this is it now - in my opinion. We won’t be allowed to see our family and friends in person indefinitely.

OohThatCat · 10/01/2021 13:11

I'm supposed to be attending a European wedding in June and my own (three times rescheduled) honeymoon in November. I don't believe either will happen.

Fragileandcomposed · 10/01/2021 13:12

And they just need to be honest with us and tell us that.
I’m not anticipating seeing my parents again ever. They live ten miles away 😂😂

mumma90 · 10/01/2021 13:12

Probably won't be going on holiday for a while yet!

I predict 2022 Spring.

It's because people have been going on holiday to Europe that has got us into a worse state then where we were in Europe!!!

Absolutely ridiculous!

Britain is an absolute joke!

Wear a mask, stay home, wash your hands and stop holidaying in pathetic Tenerife.

Funkypolar · 10/01/2021 13:13

Where can I go where I don’t need to wear a facemask outside?

Alfaix · 10/01/2021 13:13

I would book a package rather than flight only- easier to get it refunded.
I think we’ll have a few months over the summer again where all is a bit more normal. I also think being vaccinated will help and as you’re NHS even if you haven’t had it yet it will be soon- by end of January? Dose 2 will be 3 months later.
They have already said they will be able to tweak the vaccines to cover new strains- bet they are working on that now! It won’t be like a whole new vaccine, more like how the flu jab changes yearly.

Fragileandcomposed · 10/01/2021 13:13

funkypolar your garden.

rookiemere · 10/01/2021 13:13

Oh I love Tenerife. There's a thought OP you could stay at a really ritzy five star hotel there. Much more likely to be available to us in the summer than further flung places.

mumma90 · 10/01/2021 13:14

@Funkypolar Australia...some states oh and New Zealand. Why? Because they did it right!!!!!!!!!!

IcedPurple · 10/01/2021 13:16

@mumma90

Probably won't be going on holiday for a while yet!

I predict 2022 Spring.

It's because people have been going on holiday to Europe that has got us into a worse state then where we were in Europe!!!

Absolutely ridiculous!

Britain is an absolute joke!

Wear a mask, stay home, wash your hands and stop holidaying in pathetic Tenerife.

So tourists from Germany, Holland, Sweden, Denmark etc didn't go to 'pathetic' Tenerife and elsewhere last summer?

The King and Queen of The Netherlands even had to formally apologise to the nation on TV for going on holiday to Greece.

Your post makes no sense.

shallbe · 10/01/2021 13:16

@Fragileandcomposed I've just seen your other threads, I know you're really struggling right now and maybe Covid threads really aren't the best thing for you at the moment. I think you're trying to protect yourself with pessimism, that "if I don't expect more I will never be disappointed" Mentality, but remember how your posts rub off on other people, just as other people declaring lockdown has affected you. What you are saying isn't based on any fact, you've put yourself in a dark hole but if you take a step back, as miserable as it is right now there really isn't the evidence that it's a bad as you are assuming.

Fragileandcomposed · 10/01/2021 13:17

No evidence it isn’t either though 🤷🏼‍♀️

mumma90 · 10/01/2021 13:21

@IcedPurple we should t have been going on holiday in a middle of a global pandemic back in the summer. We shouldn't have left our borders open for anyone to come in.
We should have locked down in September or earlier. But no let's go in holiday from Britain - chance of picking up Covid at an airport - share it around - bring back through the airport and quarantine?? Oh no just get a taxi home and maybe have a little look in Sainsburys on the way home...tough everything...don't wear a mask...touch everything ...trolleys...hair...oh big bag of crisps...

shallbe · 10/01/2021 13:21

@Fragileandcomposed there's no evidence that the world will implode tomorrow, doesn't mean it will happen? Your argument has no logic. With sympathy you really need to get a grip and get some help, the way you are thinking is going to drag you into a pit of despair.