Desperate for a holiday

We’d got fed up with airports long before covid. Covid has just reinforced our decision to travel abroad as little as possible, if at all. Certainly at the moment.

Should we all be rushing to fly anywhere? Not only is there the risk of Covid but it doesn’t help with global warming either!

Learned of a distant relative who had gone to Spain to her villa, fully vaccinated and no health issues. Caught Covid and has been in hospital for 4 weeks seriously ill with it. No sign of when she can be discharged to fly home. Fortunately her husband has their villa to stay in so no accommodation costs. They are though concerned about how long they will be there as they are using up their visiting allowance. Stay at home or have a holiday in UK.

I last had a holiday 6 years ago, the year that I was made redundant.
Despite applying for many jobs and having some temp work, I have found nothing permanent. I can't afford a holiday.
I would love to just be able to have a long weekend away somewhere there is a beach and decent fish and chips or even a day out at the coast would do!

I understand the infection rate in Spain is far higher than we are being told. The French don’t want us; not sure about Italy.

What’s wrong with the good old UK? There are some beautiful towns, seaside resorts and places of interest.

Life is full of risks, including holidays! The plane might crash ( at worst!), you might get food poisoning or stomach upsets due to dodgy hygiene. The brakes might fail on a hire car! Amusement parks might not have the same safety standards as the UK. Yes there are always risks. Covid is another, that is why vaccination is so vital. I understand some of the more vulnerable in society will want to minimise risk at all times and that sadly ,this is a constant for them. But the world must open up again and we must try not to live in fear, at the mercy of the latest ‘expert’ advice that seems to change every five minutes. Desperate for a holiday? Yes, I’d love a break and intend to take one next year when hopefully vaccines are achieving even more of their desired effect and the bureaucracy and the hysteria has died down.

Madness to go abroad. Spend your money in the UK. Hospitality here desperately needs your business

We won’t be travelling outside the UK this year but would very much like to do so when the time is right. We have looked forward to our retirement and the opportunity to travel more. We have had 3 breaks in the UK, one last year and 2 this year. Yes there are lovely places to go. It’s not cheap though. When the weather is good all the nice places are so crowded as there are always day trippers as well as those on holiday. When the weather isn’t nice I’d rather be at home. I know some will say that they find very quiet places but that doesn’t appeal to us. We like day trips to country places but don’t want to stay there. It’s important to us to have a break from routine and chores. We don’t feel this is available to us in this country. Of course that is our opinion.

Covid is definitely not just like flu. My young, very fit, very healthy daughter had it and weeks on says she still gets breathless when she tries to return to her former level of fitness. There are also around a million with Long Covid and many still needing to shield, Blood Cancer patients in particular but there are many others who don't have a choice of multiple holidays.
Along with Gagajo and others, we need to recognise the connection of this virus with climate change, the current predictions of which are dire. Only this morning, there's a new report setting out the expectation of extreme weather events for which the UK is not prepared. Flying is a major contributor to pollution and climate change.

We won't go abroad again until things are back to normal. It's not worth the uncertainty and worry.

Desperate for a holiday ?!?! I’ve been carer to my disabled husband for 26 years..... and I haven’t so much as seen the seaside in England for the last 15 of those.!!
Nobody is desperate for holidays... but some certainly need them.!!

Ffs OP, you sound like Trump. It is not flu. Some people such as your parents have been very fortunate to have mild or no symptoms. Many others have died, including loved ones of some GN posters. You are clearly much younger than many on here. I’m doubtless much nearer your parents’ age than yours. I have some of those underlying conditions which have caused deaths and am sufficiently well informed to know that two jabs don’t provide 100% protection against catching or passing on this nasty virus. Don’t kid yourself that it’s nearly over or that you won’t be coming into contact with others on holiday or travelling there and back (I assume you’re not travelling by private plane and self-catering on a large private estate which you won’t set foot outside).
Fortunately my neighbours are rather like me and take all this seriously. Like me, they are in no hurry to find out just how short life can be, as you keep saying.

We don’t run a business, and we are retired, and so we can quarantine if it suddenly became necessary.

Annie, Covid is not flu, please believe me. Your elderly parents may have not been very ill, neither was my elderly mother. But I was extremely ill. It’s thanks to the NHS that I’m still here. That’s why I want to have my holiday if I can. Life is uncertain, not just due to Covid, but to other things too.

Annie1962, you say ‘If it turned red while out there we can’t quarantine due to running our own business!’

So if you absolutely can’t run the risk of quarantine, you can’t run the risk of going abroad. Or you can feed your ‘desperation’ for a foreign holiday, and accept that if the covid-travel status of that country changes, you’ll have to accept the hit to your business.

It’s a pretty simple choice, really. What is more important to you, a holiday or your business?

I know it’s not flu Hithere. I know it’s not flu because I caught it in December. I caught from my elderly mother who had been hospitalised after a fall. She caught it in hospital. We were told, incorrectly, that she didn’t need to isolate as she had had two negative tests. We were in a bubble with her. My husband went to her flat to rearrange some furniture for her in order to accommodate her new walker. He got it from her. I got it from him. My mother and my husband were not very ill. I was admitted to hospital where I was treated for twelve days, on oxygen for all that time and treated with a mountain of drugs. I think therefore that I know it’s not flu.

Annie1962. I respect your wish to travel abroad. But I do not respect your view of Covid as a ‘flu.

Thank you Annie. I hope you have a good time too.
We’re going to a holiday house, only three on the site, that share a swimming pool. At present, neither of the other houses have been let whilst we’re there. We’re in a village, not a town, and the house is surrounded by a vineyard. We wouldn’t go into a hotel at the present time, and feel a fairly isolated holiday home is as safe as it can be. Obviously we will go out for meals while we’re there, and we’ll be shopping, taking all the same precautions that we take at home. As you say, people can catch Covid in Britain. We don’t feel that we’ll be any less safe than we are here.

That’s your opinion! All the vulnerable and elderly are vaccinated! So yes, it’s nearly the end!

This pandemic will never end with the mentality of "I’m not living in fear of catching the covid flu, life too short….."

IT IS NOT A FLU!

My lot would be better off at home if they had caught it here , not stuck in a room , they would have the run of the garden and garden

i have never been abroad all my holidays i spent in the uk, i live in a large city in scotland, i would love to be able to travel around scotland and even some places in england, i spent a month at hawick in the borders and went to jedburgh, selkirk and melrose, why can't people in the uk just have a holiday in the uk, maybe by next year it will be easier to go abroad, with what other people are saying i think it would be so stressful to go abroad this year.

Germanshepherdsmum

What do you mean OP, ‘the risk, if there is any’? Of course there’s a risk, not only to you but to those with whom you come into contact. Glad you’re in Wales, a few hundred miles from me.

Im not actually going to come anywhere near people, I’m going to sit on a beach. you can catch it on holiday in the UK you know? I’m glad your not my neighbour! My elderly parents tested positive for covid, before a cruise last month, and they were not even ill, and yes they’ve double jabbed, and yes they still here! I’m not living in fear of catching the covid flu, life too short…..

aggie

My son and his wife have had both jabs , they took off for Spain with the two youngest 8 and 13 , had a lovely few days then poor DIL went down with Covid ! They all are in isolation , DS is allowed out to get provisions , GD has it now ! Son assures me they are all fine ! Room has a balcony, just not a great holiday for anyone , they can’t even book to come home , isolation counts from day that GD took ill , if he or GS take ill it’s another 10 days or till they all get negative tests , we are all mad that he didn’t listen to us , poor kids stuck inside , and the cost , plus time off from jobs

Exactly like my friend. Shes run out of cash, but can't come home until she gets a negative test, so is having to borrow money. All because she wanted a holiday. She's double vacced so I think assumed she'd be safe.

maddyone

^….I don’t see many on here sharing your desire to holiday abroad at present.^

We’re going to Zakinthos in September, and we went to Kefalonia last September. I’m not afraid, we’re both fully vaccinated and we both unfortunately had Covid seven months ago. Before Covid we travelled abroad three or four times a year, and I loved seeing new places, meeting new people, and experiencing new cultures. I particularly enjoyed going to Japan and other Far Eastern countries. We’ve visited almost all the European nations and enjoyed them all. America, Canada, Australia, we’ve been lucky enough to visit them all. I will be extremely happy when we can resume travelling to all these places.

Good on you! Have a lovely time! Your well travelled