Summer holidays - will they be possible?

[LizzieL]

A few days ago Matt Hancock was quoted as saying
 "The conclusion from that [maintenance of social distancing] is it is unlikely that big, lavish international holidays are going to be possible for this summer."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52632976

But surely social distancing will still apply to big, lavish UK holidays.

I received an email yesterday from a self catering accommodation rental company in South West England, saying they were taking bookings now for holidays commencing 4th July 2020.

I know there are fewer risks in self-catering accommodation as compared to hotels or guest houses, but there was no stipulation in the T & C that all people being accommodated in the same unit must be from the same household.

Does anyone else think tourist accommodation will be allowed to re-open from 4th July, and if so would they go?

[Lisajb]

The R rate seems to be sneaking up again.

Does it say anywhere on the email you’ve had that accommodation will be thoroughly, clinically cleaned between lettings? I suppose they are relying on people from same households staying in a unit, and maybe thus trying to absolve themselves of responsibility should anyone become infected.

We should have been flying to a Cyprus on 27th but the outward flight has been cancelled.

If - big if - anything is permitted, we will probably just decamp to Devon and stay with our daughter for a week.

We have another foreign holiday booked for mid September. No idea if this one will happen.

[guest189040]

The very popular hot tourist locations in the UK, like The Lake District are closed at present but they are a hit spot as far as the virus is concerned.  They have the highest R rating in the county and they are weeks behind London which now has the lowest R rating.

Coupled with remote and distant medical facilities the locals are rightly concerned about even more spiking brought upon by an influx of outsiders.

You go walking on the fells or swim in the sea and then have difficulties or an accident, who then is going to rescue you, a team of unpaid volunteers, thats who.

It is foolhardy to even think about holidaying until an effective virus is available.

Am I over reacting, no, the latest WHO data indicates that CV19 is not going to go away it is one like HIV that remains and has to be managed.

I have had emails from Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and other theatres saying they are taking bookings for shows from September 2020, totally irresponsible on their part and we for one will not be booking anything.

[LizzieL]

The company is an agency acting on behalf of the various property owners, they just say they will be implementing new procedures - no real details. The T and C's just seem to be standard pre-coronavirus ones, but have no date on them. The only restriction mentioned is on hen and stag parties, which has always been there.

Without coronavirus, we would have been in Ireland this week on an escorted tour of Irish Gardens and a few days in Dublin city at the end. Next month we had a trip to RHS Chatsworth Flower show booked, with four nights in a hotel in Derbyshire. The RHS have cancelled the show, but we still haven't had a refund from the hotel.

[LizzieL]

You go walking on the fells or swim in the sea and then have difficulties or an accident, who then is going to rescue you, a team of unpaid volunteers, thats who.

This was in Dorset, the weekend before the slight easing of lockdown measures.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-52588352?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/localnews/2636445-swanage/20&link_location=live-reporting-story

[Christine53]

The agency we book with in the Lakes is taking bookings for holidays after 3rd July , with the proviso that they will amend the booking if restrictions on travel are still in place. ( This does of course mean that you might have to pay more if there are no weeks available at the same price ). We already have one booking postponed to October but I'm not expecting that we will be able to go. I don't think I would feel safe and I don't think it would be fair on communities where services are already stretched.
We also having a booking for a family Christmas in the Lakes  and I don't even think that's all that likely to happen either.

[suey]

My daughter was going to Scotland with a group of friends this coming week. Cancelled , no return of deposits, they’ve been in contact with the owner of the holiday let but as yet no reply.

The holiday was cancelled by the property owner right at the start of lock-down.

[majm]

Summer holidays .... yikes.... here in New South Wales we have not yet had our 2019 summer holidays ....

    

November to March ... Summertime.

Drought, Bushfires, Flooding Rain, locusts, Corona 19, travel bans within the state, within the nation, no overseas visitors admitted,  huge international planes mothballed in The Outback, and the economy .... well ... what's an economy when there's no vaccine....


JM

[Rishile]

We had two holidays booked this year for Tenerife.  One on 24th March (the day lockdown started) and one for Christmas.  We have only just received our refund for the March holiday and Christmas has to be paid for in September but we have no idea if we will go or not.  I can see holiday insurance will be the problem but we have to wait and see.  I find it annoying that I've waited 10 weeks from when the March holiday was cancelled to get the money back and I have to give it back to them on time or they will charge me a huge fee for cancelling.  If the tour operator cancels I'll have to wait for a refund again.  Who knows what sort of holiday we may be forced to have if it isn't cancelled.

Rishile