What happens if you test positive before flight back to uk

[orangetree99]

I know you have to test 2 days before returning to uk but what happens if it is positive. Presumably you can't join your flight home and have to stay in the country you are and find somewhere to quarantine.

If you have to SI before you go, that won't be covered either unless you can actually prove that you had COVID, so in theory you could lose the cost of your holiday. Doesn't seem
worth it to me. Also if your country goes on the red list the cost of the quarantine hotels won't be covered either as far as I know.

Yes I wondered that too @orangetree99

If you are in a villa or Airbnb etc I presume someone else would be booked in the week after?

If you were in a hotel there may be more flexibility but then you’d all have to stay in the same room and I presume you’d need to pay.

@Snowinsummer

If you have to SI before you go, that won't be covered either unless you can actually prove that you had COVID, so in theory you could lose the cost of your holiday. Doesn't seem worth it to me. Also if your country goes on the red list the cost of the quarantine hotels won't be covered either as far as I know.

I really think that depends on travel insurance. When this all kicked off I remember finding a company that would insure you even when the FO advises all but essential travel.

Like everything you need to know what is or isn't covered by each company and then do the leg work to find specialist companies that will if that type of cover is important to you.

And those asking about accommodation for SI I check with your insurer and read the actual policy in detail. It's painful and tedious but necessary (and don't get me started on those that travel without it).

When DC1 was a toddler, she got chicken pox whilst we were on holiday. We were staying in a villa so had to leave that as they obviously had a new booking the following week. The insurers put me & DC1 up in a hotel for the nights we were there and paid for our new flights home. We also got an allowance towards food. They wouldn't pay for DH's flight as their view was only one adult needed to stay and look after DD. If we'd had any other children, they wouldn't have paid for their flights either. DH ended up staying out with us and his accommodation was free as DC1 and I were put up in a double room with a cot and we just paid for his flight ourselves. Entertaining a toddler in a hotel room was challenging with the two of us. It would have been a nightmare had it just been me.
I guess COVID would be slightly different as presumably everyone in your family/group would have to self isolate if they were a close contact of yours so the insurers would have to put you all up - if it was covered by your insurance policy.