Really want to book holiday BUT can't be arsed with testing

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Anyone else,

Yep. Family members have holidays booked and have basically said if any more restrictions come in they're just going to cancel altogether.

Same. I had a multi stop booked for after Christmas which would mean 4 pcrs each with new rules. Plus trying to find tests over Christmas. I’m pretty sure we’re going to postpone.

I don't want to book a holiday and then rather than the anticipation of the actual holiday, potentially have anxiety about what restrictions are going to look like at that time.

I guess we could do a last minute but part of the fun for me is booking in advance and having the time to look forward to it and research the area.

But I really really want a holiday and starting to feel so long since our last one. The wintery weather does not help this feeling at all!

Book yourself into an upmarket spa in the U.K, and have a little luxury that way.

I've just pushed our abroad summer holiday back until 2023. We have booked two UK ones instead. Really can't be doing with the uncertainty and all the testing requirements. Hopefully 2023 will be better but who knows!

This is exactly how I feel.

I really want a holiday.
I really have no mental energy for the extra stuff that comes with it at the moment.

It’s shit.

Same. But I really feel for people in the travel industry. We can no longer go anyway as DD can't get the days off work to isolate afterwards.

I flew in yesterday from a green country (low risk, whatever they are called). We had a really amazing time but departing and coming home has been so super stressful. Paid over £100 for 3 government approved PCR tests that haven't even been dispatched yet. The fine for not doing them within 48 hours of arriving back in the UK is 2,000 GBP. School won't let the DCs back in until I get a negative test from an official PCR. The company say if I don't receive them by Friday I can let them know and they will send them again, in the meantime we have to remain in home quarantine. I sit here now and I wonder if the DCs will be back in before Christmas. I don't have the cash to throw more money at Boris's cronies to try another testing company.
@NoSquirrels has it bang on. The mental energy needed for this is too much.

We went to Mexico in the summer (l live in the US) and I spent the whole holiday so stressed about the possibility of testing positive that I cancelled our Christmas holiday to the same resort as soon as I got home.
We've had a couple of city breaks within the US since then and I think we'll just stick with that for the foreseeable future as I found those much more fun without the testing requirement hanging over us.

Same here , finally got dog into some boarding and might cancel as I just can't be faffed.

We booked flights just a couple of weeks ago, to ski in Feb. At the time no testing at all (apart from LFT on return). Now we're up to 3 tests - one to get into Italy (I think), one to get out, and one when we're home.

If we hadn't have booked it, I probably wouldn't book it now. But I REALLY want to be in the mountains, so I'm glad we did. I think skiing is such a low risk holiday (no gondolas where we're going, and we won't be in crowded Apres bars), so I'm hoping the benefits will outweigh the palava.

I'm loathe to book too much in advance - I think we might book flights to Easterm European place where my parents have a house for summer half term as that's easy and inexpensive, but I predict next summer will bring a nightmare of different rules as countries settle on different vaccination regimes. And it'll be doubly hard if you have a 12-18 year old (we do) because that increases the likelihood that your destination country won't let them in.

Oldest visited Europe in October with ILs and it was so stressful that we gave up on booking something for Xmas which, in retrospect is just as well.

What I've done is basically planned out a few holidays, including noting down flights and accommodation, and if things look OK, I'll just book with a couple of days' notice. I'm fairly lucky I can be flexible with my annual leave and just cancel it if I end up going nowhere.

I've also decided that I'm going to have to just suck up the testing and do it, because this situation is not going away anytime soon. I really, really regret cancelling a pre-xmas trip now, and will be going away as soon as I possibly can post xmas.

I agree the pre-departure test is awful - you can't properly enjoy your holiday for the fear of testing positive - but I think at this point I'm willing to deal with it. I need a change of scenery, desperately.