Confused over foreign holidays . What are the actual rules from Monday?

[TickTockTick21]

Conflicting reports. Are holidays illegal until the end of June?

I have a holiday rolled over from last year booked for June and I have to decide shortly whether to move it to Autumn or next year.

Reports say quarantine likely to be in place all Summer . I absolutely cannot take the risk of quarantine due to my job.

I’m not complaining we can’t go, of course I understand it , I’m trying to work out what we should do.

Move to Autumn or next year?

Personally, I would want a refund but failing that next year.

DH thinks next year too.

Are holidays actually illegal until June? I can’t fathom it out

I'd move it to 2022 .

We moved our horse riding in Iceland week from 2020 to 2021 - now will cancel or shift to 2022 ( and of course as well as covid theres the volcano ! )

DH has just called up to move it to 2022 but the extra cost was ridiculous. DS1 starts secondary this autumn and we will have to go during the school holidays.

We are now priced out of holidays abroad for the foreseeable

@TickTockTick21
that's such a shame. We are booked for August (was originally last year). I think it's unlikely but not impossible if we're both vaccinated (I will be, husband will have at least one but kids won't be). And we too will be priced out of going next year I think.
Even if you could legally go in June I think it would be subject to being vaccinated or tested at the border (£££) and possibly quarantined on return. I think autumn by which point we should all be vaccinated is more likely.

To answer your actual question OP - holidays are not actually illegal until the end of June, it's just that they have passed legislation allowing them to make holidays illegal until the end of June if they want to.

At the moment they are still saying May 17th at the earliest and it will be reviewed in April

In the roadmap it said no overseas travel until at least 17 May, but a note about how this is 'under review' has been added since the original publication and the front of The Times seems fairly certain that is going to be extended until at least July.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-56491971

I've read somewhere (can't remember where, maybe gov.uk) that there will be more information about foreign travel released on 12 April.

We’re considering taking the DC out of school next year now . I know it’s a first world problem and holidays are not a necessity but I also feel we don’t want to lose out again on a ‘technicality’ of a term time holiday. We wouldn’t usually consider this for secondary age DC but nothing in the last year has been usual .