Are people ever going to stop asking about holidays?!

[Tequilala]

Hi,

Don't get me wrong, I'd absolutely love a holiday! Who wouldn't?! But honestly, if I see one more "Hancock says it's too early to give holidays the go ahead" type headlines, I'll lose what I have left of my mind!

The same pointless questions at the briefings are an absolute waste of time. Why do they bother? As if Boris, Hancock etc will just turn round and say "ah.. well actually, Laura, it's good news! We're still in lockdown, but sod it! Get your castanets out and your sombrero on, it's time to book that all inclusive afterall! 🥳"

I feel for the travel industry, I really do, but it's quite clear that right now, it would be very unwise to book anything, unless you can get a full refund I suppose.

It reminds me of when your kids keep asking the same question over and over, until you finally cave, just to get a bit of peace! Is thar what the press are hoping to happen?

Press: "Boris, can we go on holiday?"
Boris: "Alas, I'm afraid it's just too soon to say".
Press: "Boris, can we go on holiday yet?
Boris: "No"
Press: How about now?.....Now?....How about now?..

🤦‍♀️🤯

It was the same formula with Christmas. If you remove the people genuinely concerned about their livelihoods or in urgent situations due to a relatives health, you’re left with an awful lot of people who are just tantrumming.

I think holidays are an obvious litmus test for confidence and optimism. Beyond the entire industry that is hanging on the answer to that question is a whole nation who wondering how long this limbo will persist.

I'm going out of my mind this lockdown , I feel cooped up and restricted , we all do. We all want to escape the freezing cold . I don't care if it's abroad or uk, camping or whatever ..But thinking about being somewhere else other than in my four wall is keeping me going right now .

Yep. Holiday is the new question of repetition

It was saving Christmas for a bit (worked out well)

I don’t blame individuals for wondering and hoping but the press do this a lot

Tequilala

I quite agree. I don’t know why people are so focussed on holidays when it’s so far down the list.
Why aren’t people asking, “when can I ..... “see my mum in her care home again”, “send the kids back to school”, “go to the pub, cinema, restaurant“ , “visit my friend’s house”.

What’s the obsession with a holiday??

@MarshaBradyo indeed , they just want something to write about in the no mans land between horrific high rates and 22 feb !

Booked mine

Holidays are all that I’m missing.
I’m still working and not missing going to the shops. I don’t go out for meals anyway, so holidays are important for me.

The cause of the non-stop badgering is a government that does give in to noisy groups. It is beholden to donors and seemingly weak to lobbyists. So certain interest groups know that if they persist long enough they will get what they want.
A government with firmer policies would do better.
It wasn't just Christmas, it goes back to last summer with EOTHO and the summer holidays then too, plus even back to Cheltenham festival. For the same reasons.

People have different ways in which they tolerate life. For me, having a date for a holiday is genuinely something I base my year around. I’ve had a really rough time recently. Whenever I’ve been down before I’ve always had ‘well, I’ve just got to get through 4 more weeks and I’ll be off to X’.

Genuinely it feels like the uncertainty of knowing when I can do anything, not just holidays is killing me.

That’s true @myvaccineisnotsurplus. I was hoping they’d learnt their lesson this time round.

The irony being that if we had closed borders and stopped non-essential foreign travel last Feb/March, we wouldn't be in this mess now and life would be a lot more normal.

Until covid came along I wasn't aware how obsessed everyone is with holidays. I'm amazed that people go abroad every year. Can't everyone just book something last minute when things are looking more certain?

It's just a symbol for how people want something, ANYTHING to plan and look forward to. I just need to escape this house and the endless meal planning and cooking and the walk around the same block that I've been doing for a year.

Because people want a straight answer either way, we have a holiday to Tenerife booked Dec 2019, it was moved with 3 days notice last summer and it was very stressful working out a way forward. TBH I just want the holiday to be cancelled and my money refunded but I know it will be a battle like last summer with no clear message and us nearly losing our money. Of course health and seeing family are more important but by not knowing you live in limbo.

Agree. I can't see any point even imagining a holiday this year. Didn't have one last year either. Will consider one next year if restrictions are lifted by then

Holidays are incredibly important to me. Most of my disposable income goes on holidays. I know they might not go ahead this year but it won't stop me hoping and planning.

Because travel sections don't have much to right about right now and journos don't want to leave the sections empty.

So there's only so many 'post Covid' bucket lists they can write as nobody reads them and people do read politician statements about travel.

Simple.

And of course they're always hoping to get a 'maybe in April' type headline

It's mostly the airlines, the press, and the holiday industry who keep bringing it up.
Although there seems to be a lot of Mnetters obsessed with holidays, desperate to go away for their mental health etc, I haven't heard people whinging in RL.

I honestly don't really think there are that many people asking about holidays. I think it has been exaggerated in another way to make people think of others as selfish. A focal point of sorts. It works. It worked for Christmas too.

It kind of keeps people away from what is actually happening and how it affects us, and instead places people's focus on "how can people even consider a holiday right now!?"

There has been a distinct pattern repeated since the start of the pandemic - MSM pick one subject to focus on and obsess about for a week e.g. PPI, travel, Cummings, vaccines, etc. then move on to another thing the following week. Holidays will be old news this time next week.

How dare a whole industry want to know when they can open up, if they can save their businesses and the 1.4 million people it employs, whether they will have a job in March / April (you know they are citizens and tax payers as well right?)