Travelling to the UK for Christmas?

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We have travel booked back to the uk for Christmas. By that point it will be one year since I've seen my parents, brothers, nephews and nieces. If you normally travel to the uk for Christmas/ New Year is this still your plan or have you already given up hope?

I’m sorry @QuentinInQuarantino that’s hard but yes at least the decision has been taken out of your hands.

The ridiculous thing is yes you can quarantine with family, they don’t have to isolate while you do, my DH is now saying we should follow the guidance and actually not go near them at all, wear masks the whole time until our tests come back. The whole thing feels so miserable and I’m wondering if we’re better off putting it off and coming for longer when we can properly quarantine somewhere else for 2 weeks then go and stay with them and be fine

We aren’t going home.
Ds is 7 months old, born this year in first lockdown. None of our family have seen him yet due to restrictions and we considered trying to fly back to uk, but it’s not worth it now.
Family live in tier 3 areas so we can’t see them really anyway. Plus where we live we have super low cases so it seems risky to leave with baby right now.
We are aiming to fly back around Easter time now when hopefully everything has died down a little

@CountFosco

If it helps it's not just people who are overseas who are affected by this. I'm in England and haven't seen any of my family in Scotland since August 2019. I'm in a T3 area, they are in an area that has had no cases for months. DBro is also in England and lives alone and hasn't seen anyone from the family since he last saw us late 2019, he at least is coming to us for Christmas to form a support bubble. I have no idea when the Scottish government will allow us to cross the border for 'non-essential' purposes, the irony is of course, in a T3 area we have access to mass testing without symptoms so could easily test the whole family before travelling if we wanted to.

MIL comes from another continent, when she came to the UK in the 60s she never expected to be able to fly around the world to see family regularly like we do now, it was a boat trip of several weeks to come here. It's the price of moving abroad.

This is actually the reason I probably won't end up going. I can get tested very quickly and easily before I go, and isolate before I travel. I can afford private testing when I get there. My US state still has relatively low Covid levels especially compared to much of the UK.

But I have family in both England and Scotland that I want to see and it sounds like you can't do both.

I think we’re deciding on a plan. Doing everything in our power to protect ourselves so test and fully quarantine before we leave. Hazmat suits, gloves, N95 masks for transit. Fingers crossed the airports and plane stay as empty as they have seemed to be. If they are not we will have to either isolate in our rooms at my parents’ or only see them wearing masks in ventilated rooms with as much distance as possible until we can get tested 5 days in.

It’s been a year since I’ve seen them and I now have the fear (for no reason, they’re both in good health early 60’s but DH lost his mum last year) that if we cancel what if something happens to them before we next manage to get home?

Not going. All the people I want to see are over 60 and don’t travel.
I’ve put my timeshare accommodation up for rent and it seems to have sold. They’re disinfecting after each tenancy and doing socially distanced check in so they can operate from 4/12.
Flights are rebooked in April 2021 and we’ll hope for the best..,

I don’t go back to the UK for Christmas but normally a week in October or November. Here we are on the cusp of December and not trip done from my home in the EU.
If you are a Brit living in the EU this community may be for you.
www.facebook.com/groups/704637150153964/?ref=share

Christmas greetings wherever you are in the world. We're having a culturally hybrid Christmas and hoping that in 2021 we'll get to see family in person again.

Great hopes for the second half of 2021.

Merry Christmas. I moved to Peru at the end of October. Didn't have any plans to return for Christmas, then on 15 December some restrictions eased on both sides so I booked my flights. Reduced quarantine in the UK and Peru allowing entry on flights of more than 8 hours.
Arrived back into the local authority in England with the lowest infection rate on 19 December just before the world turned on its axis
Flight back on 2 January has been cancelled, my employer has taken on the responsibility of getting me back and told me to 'chillax and enjoy Christmas with my family'.

Merry Christmas all. It's a quiet one here, but we did manage to chat with lots of the family earlier today which was lovely.

We're all just waiting till we can get on a plane again, and give our family members a big hug.