Summer holidays abroad?

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I've just been reading that various Sage members have said international travel is unlikely this Summer.
We booked our holiday for the end of July to the Canaries (booked it last Summer.) Just wondering has anyone else booked for abroad and still expects to go, or is it more likely to be cancelled? DH and I have both had our first jabs and will have had both in May/June. We booked through TUI so I know we'll get a refund but the thought of going away has kept me going through lockdown!

(I know this is trivial compared with the illnesses / deaths due to the pandemic)

I really hope that holidays abroad are not allowed this year. We have just about got this virus under control in the UK after a very painful and exonomically damanging few months. It would be ridiculous to put our progress at risk of bringing variants back into the country that can escape the vaccines, all for the sake of allowing people a week in the sun. That happened at christmas when people could see each other - and it landed us in a whole world of pain in Jan and Feb.

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We have already booked to go abroad this summer in August, we booked it last month as we needed to give ourselves something to look forward to!

I didn't look at any of the news articles yesterday regarding foreign travel ...am going to wait & see what the official announcement is in a few weeks time

Surely by high season summer i.e. August, things will be more back to normal even if there is a 3rd wave seeming to be kicking off in Europe

Just getting flashbacks of trying to get money back from several flights we had booked last summer, tell Ryanair/Easyjet to FO with their flipping vouchers and just give me my cash back bitches!

Children generally prefer British bucket and spade beaches

I'm in my 40s now and still can remember sat on freezing beaches in Kent, Dorset & Cornwall during the British "summers" of my childhood

I was definitely much more hardy back then, now I won't tolerate cold weather & UK beaches

In any case, much prefer to go abroad as the weather is generally much more guaranteed!

Children generally prefer British bucket and spade beaches

Do they? I didn’t grow up here but we had very cold water beaches. I love the difference now when abroad. At least we had heat though.

All DS wants is to play in a (warm) swimming pool all day.
If we can go abroad we will but if we can’t, we can’t.

@Covidatemyhomework

I really hope that holidays abroad are not allowed this year. We have just about got this virus under control in the UK after a very painful and exonomically damanging few months. It would be ridiculous to put our progress at risk of bringing variants back into the country that can escape the vaccines, all for the sake of allowing people a week in the sun. That happened at christmas when people could see each other - and it landed us in a whole world of pain in Jan and Feb.

What are you proposing happens to the airlines/holiday operators/airports and all that work in that industry? Do you assume that doesn't affect us economically

@Covidatemyhomework we haven’t got anything under control. We are in a lockdown or did you miss that crucial part? It will be show time when the shops and restaurants open.

* Children generally prefer British bucket and spade beaches.*
A lot of the so called beautiful beaches are usually too hot for them to play on.
You end up spending all your time huddled under the sun umbrella and worrying whether they'll get burnt.

Yep I enjoyed my annual UK bucket and spade holiday with family. Fond memories

But my word - our holidays in glorious sun, spending 9 hours in pool / sea / pool, long drawn out family dinners outside in balmy evening temperatures, running around after my siblings at 9pm in perfect still weather, water parks, trips up in to village mountains, boat trips out to other islands, stopping on the way to jump in to the sea, fresh fish lunches on board.
Now they really were special

And I enjoy the same with my three. Absolute joy watching them splash in still turquoise seas whilst I sunbathe with a book!

Oh this thread makes me cross my fingers even tighter that I’ll be there this summer!!

[quote May17th]@Covidatemyhomework we haven’t got anything under control. We are in a lockdown or did you miss that crucial part? It will be show time when the shops and restaurants open.[/quote]
Unfortunately I share the same view. The lowering numbers are effects of the lockdown and school closures. We’ll be heading upwards again fairly soon 😕

I remember my parents saying a lot on the UK holidays

“Now isn’t this fun!!!”

Almost as though convincing themselves!

Whereas lovely memories of my parents properly properly relaxing together on a foreign hols

* Unfortunately I share the same view. The lowering numbers are effects of the lockdown and school closures. We’ll be heading upwards again fairly soon 😕*

A wilful, a truly wilful disregard of the vaccine

@Lentillover1900

* Children generally prefer British bucket and spade beaches.* *A lot of the so called beautiful beaches are usually too hot for them to play on. * *You end up spending all your time huddled under the sun umbrella and worrying whether they'll get burnt.*

Yep I enjoyed my annual UK bucket and spade holiday with family. Fond memories

But my word - our holidays in glorious sun, spending 9 hours in pool / sea / pool, long drawn out family dinners outside in balmy evening temperatures, running around after my siblings at 9pm in perfect still weather, water parks, trips up in to village mountains, boat trips out to other islands, stopping on the way to jump in to the sea, fresh fish lunches on board.
Now they really were special

And I enjoy the same with my three. Absolute joy watching them splash in still turquoise seas whilst I sunbathe with a book!

Oh this thread makes me cross my fingers even tighter that I’ll be there this summer!!

Right now the safety of being in the UK without any sudden changes to returning home plans, quarantine, possible poor foreign health systems, sitting on a plane full of strangers whom may be infected despite testing makes Blackpool look like Las Vegas to me. Never mind the risk of picking up a variant from elsewhere.

I think we also need to take personal responsibility for potentially placing a burden onto another countries health service. Hopefully the government take swift action for ANY countries Brits are able to visit that see a possible change in circumstance.

Children generally prefer British bucket and spade beaches

Mine say the beaches here suck. They love beaches abroad.

@Thewiseoneincognito absolutely unless the vaccine works even then I feel the vaccine will cause further confusion. How long will we test generally for? Because the vaccine is not a cure the goal is to make sure people don’t end up on ICU or any sort or of hospital admission. It is not some sort of magical cure.

We do have to learn to adapt to a new way of living other wise we will remain at home indefinitely I gather some don’t mind as much dependant on what their life was like before COVID-19.

willi well they haven't obviously been to the best ones, because the beaches in Cornwall will give anywhere in the world a run for its money in terms of beauty. Take them somewhere lovely like Kynance Cove or along that coastline - it is staggering beautiful, pure blue waters to swim in and people travel all over the world to get there. I think you need to expand your horizons. I would also think it rather brattish if my dc started complaining about the beaches in a pandemic, I hope you told them off and are modelling some gratitude. Or they will grow to be hideously entitled.

@willibald Mine say the beaches here suck. They love beaches abroad

I hope they are old enough to know not to say that around many of their schoolfriends that may never visit foreign beaches. It doesn't make them sound very nice. You can enjoy a beach in lots of different ways it doesn't always have to burning your feet hot!

Mine also prefer to go abroad. We have been to Cornwall and had lots of fun at St Ives and Kynance Cove etc. Also Clayton. Hunstanton. Great Yarmouth. And lots of beaches in South Wales.

They know they are lucky to go on holiday in the U.K. and abroad. We usually alternate with a U.K break one year and somewhere abroad the next.

They wouldn’t moan and will be delighted with whatever we end up doing.

*clacton

Children generally prefer British bucket and spade beaches

Dd has never liked sand so any holiday focuses on beaches and sandcastles would never have worked. She's a much older teen now and still doesn't chose beach holidays.

Dh and I would hate to be stuck in one place with only a beach as entertainment too.

In the summer we like to have pretty much guaranteed dry warm (if not hot) weather.

I can imagine some children genuinely love a bucket and spade beach holiday, but certainly not all.

This summer we have accepted we won't be going abroad. We are currently planning an English holiday, with 3 or 4 basis for exploring. I am always surprised at how expensive some places are in England, but we are finding some nice places to stay and looking forward to it,

Dd isn't planning to go abroad either - they've opted for a couple of festivals. Not sure they'll be much 'safer' than a week in foreign climates, but if they are allowed, she will go.

We are all hoping to go further afield in October half term for some winter sun.

@Itsalonghaul

willi well they haven't obviously been to the best ones, because the beaches in Cornwall will give anywhere in the world a run for its money in terms of beauty. Take them somewhere lovely like Kynance Cove or along that coastline - it is staggering beautiful, pure blue waters to swim in and people travel all over the world to get there. I think you need to expand your horizons. I would also think it rather brattish if my dc started complaining about the beaches in a pandemic, I hope you told them off and are modelling some gratitude. Or they will grow to be hideously entitled.

Some of the beaches in the UK are ‘Scenic’. Near where I live is the Gower and even on a very hot day, the beaches rarely get crowded. But they are not (in my opinion of course) amongst the most beautiful beaches in the world and neither are the beaches around Kynance Cove or Cornwall.

The most beautiful beaches I’ve been to, have had crystal clear water that is shallow for miles. It’s as warm as bath water and full of brightly coloured fish.
The beach was a strip of dusty pure white sand, lined with palm trees and nothing else. No tacky gift shops or fish and chip bars in sight. No clubs or pubs or even people.
There are no loungers or umbrellas, you lay on the sand.
It’s quiet and isolated and wherever you look there are brightly coloured birds, lizards with curled up tails and hermit crabs scurrying across the sand. When you snorkel, you can see the reef, the lobsters and eels hiding. Sharks. Turtles. Barracuda.
You notice about 20 yards away a fin, then more fins and it’s a pod of dolphin, some bursting out of the ocean.
There are no waves. The ocean is gentle and still. The sun sets out at sea and it looks like a miracle. I’ve never seen colours like it. The air even smells like greenhouses.
That’s a beautiful beach and I don’t care what anyone ever says, nothing here can ever compare.

There may be some decent beaches here but the chance of your U.K. holiday to them coinciding with any good/warm weather is pretty slim. It’s always disappointing and a massive let down. Traipsing around in the rain trying to find something to do. What fun.

Beaches - obviously a very personal thing! I love the wild Scottish beaches. No one around, turquoise sea, seals in the water ❤️. Although actually one year I did wear a bikini on a beach in Harris.

I also love warmer beaches but I hate being too hot. Scottish blood.

Photos of Barra and Iona...

That happened at christmas when people could see each other - and it landed us in a whole world of pain in Jan and Feb

And this is why im glad i spent Christmas Day and Boxing Day at the house that is my support bubble. Because i knew the country would be gaslighted about it afterwards which i have bolded.

But DB couldnt come because he wasnt included in the SB rules. So still not a normal family Christmas of 5 people.................i know right Such a wall to wall rave.

London and Essex went into tier four on 19/12 a lockdown in all but name (just ask any hairdresser or pub landlord) but now we keep being gaslighted and told that Christmas 2020 was normal Which is what i predicted would happen.