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Florida 2021?

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MargotHeggerty · 29/06/2021 15:51

Dh and I booked florida before pandemic- deposit was paid Jan 2020
Trip is October 2021

I dont really know what I want to get from this thread!! Is anyone else booked for florida this year? Want to wait out the agonising wait with me till we see if we can get excited or not??

Is there already a Florida 2021 chat I can ambush!!!

Thanks

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Fivemoreminutes1 · 29/06/2021 19:02

I booked for August and I’ve cancelled.

BritWifeInUSA · 30/06/2021 05:47

I live in the US and my mum has booked to come here in September (her third attempt since this all started). We are confident she will be here.

Shieldingending · 30/06/2021 05:50

No advice but good luck! I love Florida.

Welshponyslave · 30/06/2021 06:22

We are booked for mid august. Not much hope of it going ahead but I don’t seem to be able to stop myself planning. We are so excited and yes, it will just be another year to wait, but I don’t want to wait God Dam It! Blush

AttilaTheMeerkat · 30/06/2021 06:34

Hopefully President Biden will lift the USA travel ban placed on UK and European citizens by then. You should get all your money back in the event it’s cancelled.

Roselilly36 · 30/06/2021 06:38

Good luck OP, I hope you get there and have a brilliant holiday.

whatthejiggeries · 30/06/2021 06:57

I think it will be fine by then

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MargotHeggerty · 30/06/2021 07:02

Fingers crossed 🤞

@BritWifeInUSA i really hope you get to see your mum!!!

@Welshponyslave fingers crossed for you!!! Its painful that your holiday is probably 6 weeks away and you cant even definitely say your going Sad

Thanks everyone

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sickofturkey · 30/06/2021 07:52

I have booked for February , staying in site with Disney. I've joined a few Facebook groups which have been very useful .

Where are you staying ?

Notname · 30/06/2021 07:56

I have a booking for Oct half term, moved from last October. Seriously considering moving it to next May, but holding off until the villa balance is due mid Aug.

yepitsmey · 30/06/2021 08:00

Good luck! I haven't booked but have the last two weeks of August off. If I can go, I'll be booking last minute and heading there 🤞.

MarcelineMissouri · 30/06/2021 08:02

We are also booked for October! Some days I’m really positive, other days not so much….
I think we’ll have a much better idea by august of what will happen so I’m trying not to think about it too much until then. What will be will be. It’s very strange not to be able to get too excited about it though.

zafferana · 30/06/2021 08:49

I think there's a reasonable chance you'll be able to go in Oct OP. Any Brits planning to go in August though, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed as I've been watching the news about the US/UK travel corridor and I don't see any movement or sense of urgency at the moment. The latest 'travel task force', announced when President Biden arrived for the G7 is, quite frankly, just another way of kicking the issue into the long grass and if he was at all committed to allowing Brits back into the US any time soon there would've been a chummy press conference and promises made - but there was nothing.

By October though, things will be very different. All UK adults will be double vaxxed and unless some other wretched 'variant of concern' is on the loose I think we'll be in good shape. So for now, I think you can keep dreaming and your fingers firmly crossed. But do make sure you're double vaxxed - I suspect the unvaccinated will not be welcome.

Abraxan · 30/06/2021 08:55

We are booked for October half term.
No idea if it will happen yet.

Flights can be cancelled up to 3 weeks before for voucher refund and up to 2 hours before for change of date/route.

By then we will all be fully vaccinated so it will depend on if we still have quarantine rules in place and what the rules are for going to the US.

We haven't booked park tickets yet as don't think they're refundable. Annoying as we will probably miss out on the Horror Nights tickets as they're released soon but can't risk losing the money.

I'd like to think that my the end of October etc life could be back to normal but honestly not got a clue. I'm hoping for best but have a feeling it'll be yet another cancellation.

zafferana · 30/06/2021 09:03

One other thing that anyone planning to go to theme parks in the US this year might want to consider is this: if you're going to be mingling with thousands of others every day for 1-2 weeks you could easily catch Covid and vaccination doesn't mean you won't (plus you'll presumably have unvaccinated DC with you). Disney is full of people who've flown from all over the country and in some states the vaccination rate is as low as 35%. If you test positive before your flight home, you'll be stuck there an additional couple of weeks. Just something to bear in mind.

Prisonbreak · 30/06/2021 09:12

I’m booked for January. I’m quite relaxed about the whole thing. If we go, great. If not then we change our plans

Welshponyslave · 30/06/2021 09:28

@MargotHeggerty Thank you, we have park reservations, dining reservations, even managed to get Oga's Cantina at a decent time and a droid booking just before. I know in the grand scheme of things it isn't the end of the world but the promise of this holiday has carried us through the lockdowns and we are so excited to go. I was checking out Malta yesterday; not really what the kids had in mind!

Whichjab · 30/06/2021 09:29

Have you had the AZ jab, it's currently not approved in the US and not looking likely to be so in the near future.

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MargotHeggerty · 30/06/2021 11:17

@sickofturkey

I have booked for February , staying in site with Disney. I've joined a few Facebook groups which have been very useful .

Where are you staying ?

Staying at all stars music resort, stayed there a few times in the past
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MargotHeggerty · 30/06/2021 11:20

@Whichjab

Have you had the AZ jab, it's currently not approved in the US and not looking likely to be so in the near future.
No Pfizer for myself and dh but some people in the group have had AZ...

I suppose like some have said if it happens great if not ill probably rebook for may/june next year

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Trickleg · 30/06/2021 15:52

Apologies if someone has already mentioned this, but have you looked on the DIBB forums? In the Trip Planning Florida section there are long threads on exactly this. Google “dibb forums august 2021 will we get there”.

Abraxan · 30/06/2021 16:25

@zafferana

One other thing that anyone planning to go to theme parks in the US this year might want to consider is this: if you're going to be mingling with thousands of others every day for 1-2 weeks you could easily catch Covid and vaccination doesn't mean you won't (plus you'll presumably have unvaccinated DC with you). Disney is full of people who've flown from all over the country and in some states the vaccination rate is as low as 35%. If you test positive before your flight home, you'll be stuck there an additional couple of weeks. Just something to bear in mind.
I'm double vaccinated so the risk is fairly low, though not impossible. I have also had covid and currently still have antibodies (tested last month) from that. Dd is an adult at 18y and by then she will also be double vaccinated.

We can't put lives in hold forever. We have to learn to live with covid as it isn't going to disappear entirely.

Once we are all fully vaccinated our risk drops greatly- in terms of catching it and transmitting it. The risk of serious illness and death is even smaller.

I went to a theme park in Europe last summer and hopefully we will be visiting all the parks in October 🤞🏻 We shall see. If we are allowed, without quarantine, we will go.

Abraxan · 30/06/2021 16:26

And all 3 of us have had Pfizer, not AZ.

zafferana · 30/06/2021 16:32

I'm just saying it's something to bear in mind @Abraxan. I'm sure you know you can still test positive for Covid, even after having the vaccine and it would definitely be a major bummer to get stranded in the US at the end of you holiday if either you tests positive.

buffyajp · 30/06/2021 16:49

@zafferana

I'm just saying it's something to bear in mind *@Abraxan*. I'm sure you know you can still test positive for Covid, even after having the vaccine and it would definitely be a major bummer to get stranded in the US at the end of you holiday if either you tests positive.
I think people are capable of risk assessing for themselves. The risks from Covid after vaccination are extremely low and, personally, I would have no problem with the scenarios you described.
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