Positive covid test and supposed to be going to holiday cottage

[Imdoingitnext]

Both me and DH got positive lateral flow tests - him yesterday and me this morning. We'd booked a holiday cottage from today for a week.
Do we go or stay at home? It's by the sea in a very small village - quite isolated. We have lots of ready meals and groceries and wine so wouldn't need to go near the shops. We can walk on the beach watch tv etc if we become more ill we would come back home

It's a dilemma - isolate at home or by the sea?

You aren’t meant to travel with covid. What if your car breaks down on the way…

I just wouldn’t have bothered resting and gone anyway. There are plenty of people with covid travelling about! By summer isolation will end and that’ll be that. We will all be free to spread covid .

*Testing.

To those who are posting that there is no need to isolate any more, the guidance remains exactly the same. As a pp has already stated, only the legality has been removed. Instead, the guidance relies on the public having some common sense. What could possibly go wrong? 🙄🙄

Just go

I think people are going to have to make many more judgements themselves now, but still be considerate of their actions. Going by guidance, you would be out of "isolation" on day 7 anyway as long as testing negative on day 5 and 6. Which would be within the week of your stay. As long as you don't mingle whilst there, or when travelling, then it would be very similar to isolating at home. You could go, and maybe tell the owners you test positive tomorrow once you arrived (as you developed symptoms). Unless you think they will ask you to go straight home. Then they will be aware for cleaning/ventilation purposes. Maybe give a bit of a deep clean yourself on the last day, strip the beds etc, ventilate well on last couple of days, so they will have minimum contact with anything before cleaning.

Got you’re feeling well enough. People catch Covid from prolonged close person to person contact, not from cleaning or being in the same place an infected person was hours before,

I'd still be going

I have covid for the first time this week and have been quite ill. I took a test because I wanted to know. My boss didn't want me in but I couldn't have anyway.

Are people not bothered about finding out anymore?

I wouldnt have wanted to be away but you might feel OK.

Air it out before you leave and wipe surfaces with disinfectant but I think it’s fine go

I work in holiday lettings. We ask people to consider whether they travel if they do have a positive test. We can't stop them coming but if they decided not to come then potentially they would lose their money which most people aren't going to want to do unless they have insurance.

OP, just go. Our housekeepers just open the windows after every booking and give everywhere a thorough sanitise. As far as I know, none have picked up covid from cleaning in the last two years and they clean 70+ houses a week between them when it's busy.

If you’ve been feeling ill all week then you’re probably nearly at 5 days anyway. If I were you and I felt like going and getting away for a bit I’d maybe take some anti bacs wipes and give all the surfaces and door handles a once over before you leave as a courtesy, but tbh if you’re aware of having it you’ll be less of a risk than any of the people saying they wouldn’t have tested. FWIW my 2 DSs didn’t catch it from my DD and I while living in the same house, so it’s not automatically going to be an issue for future guests. But ideally the cleaning in between weeks should be sufficient to make it safe for the next guests anyway. Go, enjoy it, get some sea air, wear a mask and sanitise your hands if you need to go anywhere as a matter of urgency while you’re there. I’m so over covid.

The advice is - " While you're no longer required by law to self-isolate if you have COVID-19, you should still stay at home and avoid contact with other people. This helps reduce the chance of passing COVID-19 on to others. This advice will be updated on 1 April 2022."

If you don't plan on sticking to the advice you need to tell anyone you come into contact with.

I would ask the owner. Confirm that you are on day 4 or whatever of symptoms (so shouldn’t be infectious by end of stay) and that you intend to isolate in the cottage and air / clean thoroughly before leaving. However ultimately you are asking the owner if they are still happy for you to go not cancelling.

@DespairingHomeowner Thank you - still at the panicky stage!!

Go. Buy FFP-2 masks as they are better than surgical/cloth masks and wear these if you meet the owner or anyone else. You don’t have to say why. Some people wear them because they are cautious with people outside their family as a result of being immunosuppressed.

Are people really scrubbing surfaces, after 2 years. What on earth for? Are you still washing your shopping and talking only through windows?

Some people are never going to live normally again

I'd still go if I felt ok but like other posters I wouldn't have tested in the first place.

I'd go.

For all the people saying "why would you bother to test?" surely it's obvious that it makes the difference between going down with a boot full of ready meals and going down planning to eat out at the pub every night. The theoretical risk to the cleaner is minuscule, especially since you'll be at least ten days into your infection by the time you leave.

Deep clean before you leave - wtaf?

What if you break down etc - just stop it fgs

I'd go

@fairylightsandwaxmelts

I don't see the point in testing if you're not going to act on the results of the test

Either don't test and live your life as normal (which is perfectly legal) or test and isolate if positive. But testing and not doing anything different seems a bit pointless lol.

This is so true! Once you know you’ve got it you have to act on that knowledge. No point testing otherwise. Fwiw I prob wouldn’t go as it defeats the object of a relaxing holiday as I’d feel bad about going into cafes etc. if I was going to isolate (or just do walks), I could do that at home.

Presumably the OP can't do seaside walks from home can she? Knowing your Covid status enables you to act on that knowledge. What "acting on that knowledge" means will vary according to circumstances.

I would probably wait a couple of days to see whether it developed into an illness when you are feeling properly unwell or if it just seems like a bit of a cold .

I would just ask the owners out of courtesy and go from there. If they say no then they should hopefully offer to move the date or give you a refund. If they say yes then go.

@FoxyFoxyLoxy

Go! Have a lovely holiday, what's the difference between being at home or anywhere else?

So over the covid shrieking.

Then stop opening the threads!!!

@FoxyFoxyLoxy

I'm concerned about passing it onto the next occupants of the cottage and the cleaner too

The surfaces thing has been totally debunked. As long as you don't snog the cleaner she/he isn't at risk either.

No it hasn't!

That's why the message remained to 'wash your hands!!'

You're less likely to get it this way, but it's not impossible.