Holiday next week cancelled - what would you do now?

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Husband and I were supposed to be going to the Canary Islands for 5 days in the last week of June (flight and hotel booked through BA), but the airline has cancelled it.

I’m not quite sure what to do now - we could book something else last minute but with flight cancellations/ rail strikes/ luggage problems I feel like we’ll spend the coming week (and maybe the holiday itself) worrying about things going wrong again.

I’ve looked at a few UK breaks but I was really after a sunny hotel/reading by the pool/dinner by the harbour type holiday and it’s quite hard and expensive to recreate that in the UK.

I’m 23 weeks pregnant and won’t be able to rebook my annual leave for later in the summer, so it feels like our last opportunity to have a holiday just the two of us, and I’m feeling so indecisive I’m worried we just won’t end up doing anything!

Looking for inspiration because I’m sure there are solutions we haven’t thought of. What would you do?

I'd book with jet 2, see what availability they have. As someone else previously mentioned they seem to be unaffected by the chaos. I'd also avoid Gatwick if your in London.

We travelled out of Cardiff on Friday and it couldn't have been easier- I'd try to find a smaller airport with an airline that hasn't encountered problems so far (we flew with Vueling to Alicante)

Wow thank you so much for all these suggestions, really appreciate it. There are definitely some things we hadn’t really considered here, Eurostar could be a winner, I’ll do a bit of research today. You’re right though, we absolutely need to do something and not waste the annual leave!

We are also looking at options. Be aware no travel is risk free - our Eurostar to South France was stuck for 8 hours in Marseille as a passenger was ill! We missed all connections and work/school the next day. Eek!

Eurostar services will also be badly affected by the rail strike, unfortunately. They've already cancelled many trains next week because of it. Good luck with whatever you decide to do.

Ahh really, thank you, that’s good to know. Gosh we’ve just picked the worst week ever to try and go away haven’t we.

My husband is quite reluctant to chance it and book another flight-based trip, we seem to know so many people who have had cancellations or big delays or luggage problems. And I think that combined with all the strikes would just be too much for him to actually enjoy the holiday! I think he’s also worried about me getting stuck somewhere or having big airport delays while I’m pregnant.

Thank you again for all the ideas and advice, really appreciate it.