Would you report a multi household holiday?

[Rosie65834]

UK holiday booked in a rented house for 10th July with 4 households/8 people. The group is conflicted about whether to cancel given the extension of the rules. If the holiday is cancelled it won't be possible to rearrange.

If you owned a holiday let, would you check or care?

If you lived next door to one, would you report a multi household holiday?

Theoretically, the group could say they are 2 households. Would anyone challenge it?

I think that the letting company has to allow a refund and/or change of dates if the holiday maker is prevented from travelling by government regulations. Your owner seems to have done this so it's on you, not them.

I don't think there is any requirement for the owner to police you beyond reminding you of the regulations and offering refund/change if you have to.

No

This thread is such a relief. We're due to go away on 26th June, if nephews DD was 2 months younger we'd genuinely fit the rules for 2 households with one including a bubble.
I hate breaking rules, but this one seems so arbitrary that we're just going for it. If asked will say that their DD is very advanced for her age.

No I couldn't give a shit. Wimbledon will be full for the tennis finals! Thousands are attending football!

It does put holiday home owners in a difficult position, doesn't it? Especially larger houses that are more likely to be used by more households at the same time, and which are also much harder to find new tenants for at short notice. I'm staying somewhere later this summer which sleeps 18, and charges accordingly. With a bit of extending household bubbles/assuming that people with the same surname are living in the same home, we may be legal, or we may be slightly over (depending on the rules in place at the time). If our landlord decides they want us reduced to the strict limit of the law, some of us won't go on holiday, but the cost per head may go up to a level that those of us who are going, probably won't be able to afford it!

@BasicallyBookish

I think it’s wrong to do so because you put the owner’s livelihood at risk and they could get a massive fine.

This ^

Not fair on them if people decide the rules don’t apply to them because they want a holiday and with more people than allowed.

Depends on how the locals feel about holiday lets. Round by me some busy body would definitely report.