Rhodes tomorrow morning

[Dogmatix34]

We are due to fly to Rhodes tomorrow morning- going to Ixia at the top of the island. We are staying 3 nights until moving on to another island. Would you go? The resort is quite far away from the fires but I’m still very worried.

It's usual to evacuate the most vulnerable first?

Right. Perhaps someone on here can verify.
All I've seen is the current BBC info, copied above.

https://twitter.com/PathoPhyto/status/1683121618778828800

Well that looks pretty legitimate!

It is being called out in the comments.

https://twitter.com/PathoPhyto/status/1683121618778828800

Apologies it looks like a disinformation bot from the followers and their links don't check out, and they retweet Russian disinfo. Should be more careful in future. Twitter is a cesspit.

Ah, ok @vera99 . Easily done. You posted in good faith.

It's not about being precious to someone. It's about ability to cope. A young fit healthy man can walk much further and survive hotter temps than an elderly person or young children.

@Laonikkos
You have not interpreted the map correctly, pink areas indicate historical wildfires (διαχρονικα καμενες εκτάσεις), light yellow indicates wildfire extent. More accurate / recent map below, not 55%, but approx. 8% (1/12?) on fire (still huge)

firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov

@Maireas fair enough, I see now that it was another poster who was being unnecessarily rude and you added a comment to that. Sorry.

Their stuff is pretty clever they blend in a lot of true stuff and appear to be legit until you dig down. They are attempting to add fuel to the fire so to speak and spread panic. They maybe state actors or just quite clever trolls.

Ok, easily done. Nice of you to apologise. 👍

We are there now, being evacuated tonight. We never made our hotel but did find alternative (inferior) hotel accommodation for two nights.

To be honest, if your hotel not affected, will probably be fine, and the fire is in the central part of the island. There are revolving power cuts, though, which will affect hotel room power and air con.

However, the airport is very chaotic and it is an ‘evolving’ situation, so depends on whether you are likely to get stressed about it, and how you react when things go wrong..

Seriously??

Why on Earth did you go? I’m genuinely flummoxed as to why anyone is still travelling there?

😂😂😂

45% wasn’t scary enough so it’s been upped to 55%. Standard.

Yeah but 8% is not dramatic enough.

Needs to be double figures and ideally over 50%.

Feelings don’t care about your facts.

@Sweetashunni ,

When did you have the empathy bypass op?

We went as travel company did not advise against it, it was not headline news as of Saturday morning, and the authorities thought they had contained the fire in middle of island.

If we hadn’t travelled, we would have paid many thousands of pounds for nothing. As it is, at least we are getting a full refund.

Well if it helps I'm sure you are not lying.

I suspect some might be seeing/hearing about how Jet2/TUI are handling this and assuming their policy applies to every airline/tour operator that serves the island...well guess what?

Some tour operators will have been largely unaffected by events on the east side of the island and there (of course) will be passengers travelling seat only for whatever reason....

I'm not sure how anyone can seriously believe that absolutely nobody is arriving in Rhodes by air....

I’m in Rhodes and the winds are NW so there’s no chance the smoke has made it north to you.

This is from Tui this morning. Hope it helps

Hope everyone is safe out there. Best check with operator if it's safe to travel before setting off to the airport. Glad you arrived safely OP.

But that's about Corfu. This thread is about Rhodes.

You misunderstood.my post then. That's not what I meant.
Too tired to argue with you.

How is your holiday going OP?