Poland Christmas market - What would you do?

[Gemma77]

My DH and I are due to fly to Krakow on 15th December for 4 days for his birthday. Was looking forward to a child free break, exploring the Christmas market. But really not sure what to do now with new variant abs measures.

We have all our family coming to us for Christmas Day (14 people) and now I'm worrying that our PCR test upon return to U.K. might end up positive and then we will haven to isolate over Christmas :(

Or the case numbers rising in U.K. might mean Poland change their travel restrictions and we will have to isolate when we arrive for the duration of our trip or we will have to rush to get back home quickly.

We are double vaccinated and healthy - of it wasn't for our Christmas plans we wouldn't even consider not going.

If we cancel we will lose money. Ryanair won't give a refund but we should be able to move our flights. Money spent on trips we have booked looks lnon-refundable. Hotel payment is due on Thursday so really we need to make a decision by Wednesday.

Struggling to think straight with the doom and gloom! What would you do?!??

Thank you

Hmm have you seen the recent infection numbers in Poland? Almost 30k everyday but they only do 100k tests per day!! Which is nothing with 38mln population. Every day there is 500 deaths from Covid. For comparison in the uk 143 people died from covid yesterday.
It is really bad there at the moment. Still people act like there was no pandemic…no one is doing tests, no one is self isolating.
There is hardly any restrictions because the government doesn’t want to upset their voters 🤷🏼‍♀️ Plus the president is an antivaxxer. If you never had covid you will probably catch it there.. and you still need a test to come back to the uk 😬

It’s not just if your PCR test is positive - if anyone on the flight tests positive for omicron on your return you’ll have to isolate even if double vaccinated.

Family members have come back to the UK twice this year. Both flights here they had to isolate due to a positive case on the flight (they’re double vaccinated but it doesn’t count if you are vaccinated outside of the UK). I wouldn’t risk it personally if I had plans for Christmas that I wouldn’t want to miss.

Goodness.... hadn't realised how bad the cases are in Poland and hadn't even thought about the rest of the plane either! Right we'll cancel!

If it wasn't for Christmas we would risk it but spending time with family after last year is much more important to us

Thank you ladies xxx