If quarantine is lifted, would you still go abroad this summer? Why?

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We are in two minds. We still haven't changed or cancelled our holiday to Spain. The quarantine would be impossible for us but if it is lifted, we are thinking we may go but so much to think about.

Wondered what others are thinking

Our view point is

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should

Why take the risk? Do you want to have the possibility of being abroad and getting sick? Of an outbreak happening where you are staying and Potentially getting stuck there Longer ?

I'm going

I'll test a few days before I go. Our main risk is taking it somewhere else, not picking it up there.

Quiet villa, own pool, buy stuff for the week, chill out. Bliss. Uk holidays are usually shit with poor weather and rude locals. Imo of course, which is why I'm not doing a UK holiday.

Worst case. Being stuck in a two month lockdown in a villa in Greece sounds far more appealing than being stuck in a flat in the UK.

No, as much as I would love one and keep looking them up. My reason is not for fear of catching covid as we are all low risk and possibly wouldn't even get symptoms. It would be fear of an outbreak in the hotel and being quarentined to the room and possibly not being allowed to fly home due to being quarentined. On holidays last year we caught nororvirus and were stuck in hotel room for 3 days, it was hell!

@Ceeceebloomingdale we have insurance that will cover us re:covid. EHIC card would give access to medical treatment in EU countries for holidays until the end of the year. We will still be following social distancing rules etc in hope of not catching it

On insurance, it'll be holidays booked before Covid that are still covered.

Even existing policies are very likely to exclude Covid eg as a new booking on an annual policy.

And check FCO travel advice - if currently says "The Foreign & Commonwealth Office currently advises British nationals against all but essential international travel. This advice is being kept under constant review"

Travelling against FCO advice voids just about every policy there is. Check carefully.

No. We live in one of the areas under threat of a local lockdown. Clearly, things change very quickly, and if we did get a local lockdown I doubt that we would be allowed on a plane, or we might have to quarantine at our destination.

We had insurance cover pre covid and loads of things were excluded like being quarantined, flight refused due to temp, internal flights. If hotel goes into lockdown we would be liable for the bill. If cancelled if hotel offers a credit note (one you can use) or dates we can't go they won't pay out. We had £4,000 exposed on Asian holiday (all booked direct) and the insurance claim if there is any we be a max of £180 from FCO advice don't travel and we are also banned from entry. We could potentially lose £1.5k have lost from internal flights not being cancelled so no refund or credit note (£600), hotel deferring a year but will we use it or internal flights 2 year credit note (£500) will they go bankrupt. Though within Europe you have legal coverage for cancelled flights. The EHIC we've had several places in Europe refuse it in past so would not rely on it. If FCO advise is don't travel your insurance will be invalid. Insurance claims over a certain amount can claim back from your house insurance so we were nervous about that in a thatched cottage with only one insurer possible. Can't also get through to insurer to ask questions as they are swapped, every question I asked online was don't know if will pay out, you can try and 30 days after holiday we will tell you.

Can = can't

The insurance I had booked would not have covered us when we read the small print as it excluded pandemics that were known about more than 3 weeks before travel. Always check and don't travel again fco advice or the policy is worthless. EHIC might help but you will still need to pay for treatment if that's the norm in that country and it won't cover extended stay costs or repatriation.

No I wouldn't because at the beginning of this pandemic so many people were trapped overseas when countries went into lockdown and it was a nightmare. I'd be too worried about countries declaring another lockdown whilst I was away.

My policy doesn't cover me for my own cancellation but does for medical. This is annual travel insurance taken out last year and renewed in May.

It also covers me for the amended holiday moved from July 2020 to August 2021. And they've thrown in an extra 3 months cover until September 2021.

No way. Can't imagine worrying about being stuck abroad with no health care. Even without that the holiday would be pretty awful, with little to do and worrying about how to manage life abroad under COVID restrictions.

Just the thought of an airport and aeroplane is horrendous.

No way. Can't imagine worrying about being stuck abroad with no health care. Even without that the holiday would be pretty awful, with little to do and worrying about how to manage life abroad under COVID restrictions.

Just the thought of an airport and aeroplane is horrendous.

Love your name @JesmondDene. Just dropped DD off in Jesmond today at her year 2 uni house share.

We want to go visit family in Europe, diving and taking the ferry but it's the insurance issue that's the sticking point.

I think I will if it is safe to do so and I can get appropriate insurance, including pandemic coverage that's not too expensive.
I desperately need some time to decompress and relax.
I would only go for a week, to somewhere I know I could socially distance (usually possible on a one-person holiday).

I think I will if it is safe to do so and I can get appropriate insurance, including pandemic coverage that's not too expensive.
I desperately need some time to decompress and relax.
I would only go for a week, to somewhere I know I could socially distance (usually possible on a one-person holiday).

Oh bugger, double post. Sorry!

Yes
Hope to go to Turkey September (would go earlier but the heat bothers me more than Covid)

Live alone, travel alone. Couldn't go last year as too much else on. I'm missing my fix of the wonderful place and wonderful people.

Will wear a mask when I have to but not otherwise.#

Death from something, sometime is unavoidable. Illness is extremely unlikely at current rates and I want to help their economy too.

Oh - and I need new specs. £150 there, £600 here

@timeforawine We are flying out from Manchester Airport on 15th July and have prebooked our security for 2 hours beforehand.

Thanks @LEELULUMPKIN I've booked ours 1hr 45 before departure, hoping given they are slots that we'll be ok.....
How far before that are you arriving at the airport for bag drop? We were thinking half an hour

@timeforawine We seldom do bag drop unless we are travelling with DS.

Toothbrush, Knickers, cash & passport. We travel very light! :)

@LEELULUMPKIN Ah not for me, i'd blame my 3yr old but really i'm the culprit 

Travelling to Italy on Monday. Private villa in the middle of nowhere with a pool. Taking two small children. I am a doctor and have spent the last 14 weeks treating CoVID patients.
FCO regulations have been lifted, quarantine will be lifted on 10th and COVID levels are at the lowest now than they will be again for months. As lockdown is lifted it only gets more risky!

@BG2015

My reading of the screen shot you attached is that you are not currently covered. Because you have to be traveling to an area where no FCO advice exists.

Right now the advice says no non-essential travel anywhere. You need to check exactly what this advice means in terms of your policy