Are you booking holidays in the current volatile situation?

[Tanyyya]

We are looking to book a holiday in Italy in August, but slightly nervous prices will go up a lot. On one had, I want to lock in the flights and rental cars, but the other hand I worry about the price of petrol, food etc if current war / Trump madness continues. What are other people doing?

Absolutely yes, we’ve booked holidays for June and September, both to Europe. I haven’t given it a second thought tbh.

To Europe fine, booked one and went on it.

Got 2 holidays booked for this year and 2 for next year. The conflict may affect the last holiday in '27 in terms of costs going up, but the other 3 are paid for. Wouldn't stop planning vacations at all, I live for them 😊

Edited to add: 3 are European and 1 Transatlantic trip. I would be more hesitant if booking Cyprus etc.

We have a holiday to France booked in April already so we aren't intending to go abroad again for a year or so anyway, but I personally wouldn't be booking anywhere else at the moment. The UK has lots to see and I have quite a low stress tolerance for these things!

We’re going to the US in June and South Africa in October. Rising flight prices won’t stop us.

Yup

I’m in the US now. It’s business as usual here, albeit with very expensive petrol - though not as expensive as in UK where we are (I think it’s higher out west). The prices will go up everywhere, not just where you go on holiday.

I’ve got flights to Italy booked in late September but am half expecting there to be travel restrictions if the conflict in Iran continues. The IEA are already recommending it. So, who knows. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I wouldn’t book no.

My family have just booked 3 European holidays between them ( young adult dc's). My circumstances do not allow holidays atm but I absolutely would book one if I could.

Surely it depends where you are going. We're off on the Eurostar and I wanted to get the cheapest tickets so we booked after Christmas and are fully intending to go.

Yes we are holidaying as usual as are my social media friends as far I can see! We go away next month and I’ve booked next year. We have travel insurance and will only not go if the FCDO changes its advice for the countries we are going. Though it did impact my location choice a little next year, opted for Greece instead of Turkey (but wouldn’t have cancelled a Turkey holiday if it was booked!)

We have a summer holiday booked to Italy since January. We just booked a trip to Germany for August, Driving including a buffer for a higher petrol prices were still cheaper than flying for three adults.

DH and I are currently looking at a holiday to Vietnam for next March, yes flights will be more expensive as we plan not to use Emirates but Singapore Airlines, but that wasn't the plan anyway, none of us likes the idea of a stopover in Dubai.

I wouldn't book independently at the moment though, at least not outside Europe.

We have two holidays booked in May, but I am more worried about booking further ahead and particularly holidays which involves car hire/ petrol. We are quite a big family, so if prices go up a lot, it will be veeeerry expensive which is what worries me.

I guess it partly depends on where you’re going, we’ve booked a trip to Canada, we’re fairly certain it will be fine, if needed we can however cancel and just lose the deposit six weeks before travel.

Would you book for Melbourne with a stop in the UAE? I wanted to go and see relatives there but now a bit hesitant...

We have a cruise booked for July. Just been discussing a city break with DH for later the year.

Absolutely. Going to Turkey in August. Not letting Trump ruin our family holiday!!

Is there anywhere else you can stop so there’s less risk of disruption?

I booked Canaries in November, deliberately early because of rising prices concerns. Have something already booked for the summer that was booked ages ago. I wouldn’t book anywhere new now that’s already near the worst affected areas nor travelling through right not, this on fear grounds rather than financial

I would not book going via Middle East but otherwise would book unless FCDO advise against or looks risk of problems. I think costs could well rise globally so would take that into account, maybe allowing extra 10 percent buffer. I would avoid anywhere where disruption maybe an issue but that's as we have exact dates.

Singapore but not those prices have gone up loads... sigh

Are you flying from London or Manchester? We usually fly out of Manchester when we go to Oz, so you have Singapore and Cathay Pacific as 1 stop options avoiding the Middle East, plus Finnair, Lufthansa, Swiss and KLM as 2 stop options avoiding the Middle East. There are lots more 1 stop options out of London. You can also wait it out and hope peace is coming, but I wouldn't book to fly through the Middle East right now.

No we aren’t. We have a holiday which we booked at Christmas for later in the year, not booking anything else until we see how things are panning out.

Yes we were already booked to go to Egypt in the summer. We can cancel it but we are just not sure what to do….