Holidays are illegal

I think you are confused.
Holidays are not illegal..

Well you certainly are confused. Holidays are illegal at the present time. Travelling is illegal at this time, and staying in a second home is illegal at this time.

It’s difficult to know what else to say in response to that ridiculous and uninformed post. No wonder the media enjoy finding someone who is confused and splashing them all over our screens.

I am bemused by these people who seem to think it is a good idea to go to a low risk covid area abroad. You are going there from the UK. Which is high risk. You risk spreading covid to the people there. Perhaps the Kent mutation too. Even if you have a test and isolate before you travel, you are travelling with other people from the UK. It seems a self centred risk assessment to me.

I have just received a message from a friend to say that her friend and husband are flying out to the Maldives this weekend. This couple should be prosecuted.

What a cheery bunch. I WILL be going on holiday this year. When we have had our injections they will not be able to stop people unless they declare a national emergency. We’ll all wave to you miseries.

People are stupid and selfish. Holidays are illegal. Saying they are "confused" is just smoke and mirrors so that they get sympathy from other stupid, selfish people if they are caught. The reason the virus spreads is people moving around, mixing with others, not taking precautions, although it's unfashionable to blame people for their actions - much easier to blame the government, the virus, some magical thing that makes it spread (not us, of course). Get a grip.

It's not easy to go on holiday without travelling chazwin and travel is illegal, at least for the time being.

From the Government website:
If you are in the UK you should not travel abroad. Under current UK COVID-19 restrictions, you must stay at home. You must not travel, including abroad, unless you have a legally permitted reason to do so. It is illegal to travel abroad for holidays and other leisure purposes.

However, it's not illegal to live in hope and book one.

BlueSky

Just can’t bring myself to even think about holidays at the moment, not even in the UK, never mind booking one.

Same here.

There’s plenty going on in Brazil; people are dying! How stupid were they.

I think you are confused.
Holidays are NOT illegal.

I don’t know why people are confused either. I don’t know why people keep moaning about confusing messages. There is a pandemic - the government can’t know the answer to everything and the more people keep pushing for impossible answers the more confusing the answers will be! Why can’t everyone just be glad to be safe and just wait until we are in a better place
Before trying to sort out a holiday.

I think anyone who thinks they'll be going on holiday this year or even next year, needs to give their head a wobble! This is a deadly Pandemic people! And it isn't over by a long chalk. Who would want to sit in a cramped plane with recycled air along with goodness knows what germs/virus'? All for a change of scenery and a tan! Insanity. I am incredulous at the the responses on here tbh. Are you all mad? And for the record, I, for one, think BoJo and Co ARE doing as well as anyone who has never dealt with a Pandemic before. Give them some credit for goodness sake! Omg! Can you imagine how the other parties would have handled it!? The end, as they say, would truly be nigh!

I don’t think I’m confused. Holidays are illegal right now so you can’t go right now. However, the situation may just change at some point and I don’t think it’s illegal to book a holiday which you will probably have to cancel. Probably your choice re booking! As long as you’re happy to cancel later.

Whatever the law, isn’t not just a tad selfish to travel anywhere if you don’t need to? If a place doesn’t have COVID why would you risk taking it there? Shame we have to legislate rather than apply common sense but some people think only of what they want rather than the best way to behave!

I’ve said before on a similar thread that I will go on holiday as soon as it’s allowed, starting with a short UK break I booked this week. Cancelling that won’t be stressful. I simply need to make a phone call! I have however made the decision that stays in remote self catering accommodation don’t appeal to me. I’d rather cook in my own kitchen.

I'm not confused either! As far as I am concerned, I will not be going anywhere or booking any holidays, either at home or abroad, until all travel restrictions are lifted and the pandemic is under control, world wide!
I find it ludicrous that people would even consider booking up a holiday, when it is by no means certain that it won't be cancelled when the time comes! Also, the travel companies don't exactly have the best of records in refunding people what they have paid, do they? They make it as difficult as possible, and are very reluctant to pay people back the exact amount they are owed. ??
My son, a degree level student, had a 3 month trip to the USA booked for Summer 2020. He's also a session musician, and had saved for years from his earnings to afford it! He had to book his flights well in advance, as the previous year, he had been planning the same trip, but left it to nearer the departure time before booking, only to discover that the cost of the flights had almost doubled, which meant he couldn't afford to go!?. This time round, he books in plenty time, and then along comes Covid-19 and his trip to the States is cancelled! He then faced an almighty battle with the flight company, who were only going to refund him a fraction of the cost of his flights. It took months to resolve and only the threat of legal action forced this company to refund my son in full! Thankfully, he was going to be staying with musician friends during his trip, so didn't need to book accommodation!
People will always break the rules and do what they want anyway! And its not exactly "the rules" that we don't book holidays, merely that the Government advise us not to! If they really want to stop people booking holidays, then they are going to have to prevent the travel companies from taking bookings and ground all domestic and international flights, stop the trains from running etc etc! And since we don't live in a dictatorship, although it may seem like it at times, that's never going to happen! ?

I have booked a short break in this country for the end of May
in case of a shortage of availability. If I can't go I will rebook. Didn't go away last year but due to OH disabilities I live in a permanent lockdown anyway.
Well, it feels like that sometimes . And I accept that holidays at present are not legal.

I agree. Some of the public in the past have said they're receiving mixed messages from the Government during Coronavirus, but I've always understood the rules and that they'd been made for the good of our health! Holidays are illegal at home and abroad, is clear as a bell to me.
I think the "mixed messages" people want to make Boris and the Government look bad. It wouldn't matter who was MP & the Government during this pandemic, it would have been the same!

A holiday for me will be getting on a bus & going into Town to meet my friend for a coffee as we havent done for a year. Then going to another friend who we havent seen for a year also! Being sent the dreaded letter & told to Shield then to not even go to a Chemist for a prescription but to get a Volunteer to pick it up for us because we are on the Vulnerable list it has been a prison sentence for a lot of people so would imagine there are many others who would see being able to set foot outside the front door & see if there is a world still out there would be like a holiday! Sad I may be but a holiday is not as my Nan would have said ‘the be all & end all’!

We certainly shall not be booking a holiday. However, many holidays are booked for 2021 because some people last year chose the option of transferring their postponed holiday to the same date this year.

maddyone

jaxjacky I agree that a hefty fine at the airport would deter many travellers, especially those like the two women who went to Brazil that a couple of posters have mentioned. I’m seriously not convinced that so many people desperately need to travel as are actually travelling at the moment, I can’t see why urgent business can’t be done via Zoom or other internet communications. Good grief, my son is a barrister and he’s doing trials by Zoom, I’m sure business could be. No need to travel at all. How are New Zealand, Canada, Australia and other countries that have locked their borders managing?

We are allowed to travel within NZ and many have used their "overseas holiday" money here instead which shows by the number of large campers out and about,.I do wish the government would close our borders to ALL from infectious countries because we are still getting cases in the MIQ hotels.

maddyone

jaxjacky I agree that a hefty fine at the airport would deter many travellers, especially those like the two women who went to Brazil that a couple of posters have mentioned. I’m seriously not convinced that so many people desperately need to travel as are actually travelling at the moment, I can’t see why urgent business can’t be done via Zoom or other internet communications. Good grief, my son is a barrister and he’s doing trials by Zoom, I’m sure business could be. No need to travel at all. How are New Zealand, Canada, Australia and other countries that have locked their borders managing?

We are allowed to travel within NZ and many have used their "overseas holiday" money here instead which shows by the number of large campers out and about,.I do wish the government would close our borders to ALL from infectious countries because we are still getting cases in the MIQ hotels.

maddyone

jaxjacky I agree that a hefty fine at the airport would deter many travellers, especially those like the two women who went to Brazil that a couple of posters have mentioned. I’m seriously not convinced that so many people desperately need to travel as are actually travelling at the moment, I can’t see why urgent business can’t be done via Zoom or other internet communications. Good grief, my son is a barrister and he’s doing trials by Zoom, I’m sure business could be. No need to travel at all. How are New Zealand, Canada, Australia and other countries that have locked their borders managing?

We are allowed to travel within NZ and many have used their "overseas holiday" money here instead which shows by the number of large campers out and about,.I do wish the government would close our borders to ALL from infectious countries because we are still getting cases in the MIQ hotels.

maddyone

jaxjacky I agree that a hefty fine at the airport would deter many travellers, especially those like the two women who went to Brazil that a couple of posters have mentioned. I’m seriously not convinced that so many people desperately need to travel as are actually travelling at the moment, I can’t see why urgent business can’t be done via Zoom or other internet communications. Good grief, my son is a barrister and he’s doing trials by Zoom, I’m sure business could be. No need to travel at all. How are New Zealand, Canada, Australia and other countries that have locked their borders managing?

We are allowed to travel within NZ and many have used their "overseas holiday" money here instead which shows by the number of large campers out and about,.I do wish the government would close our borders to ALL from infectious countries because we are still getting cases in the MIQ hotels.

maddyone

jaxjacky I agree that a hefty fine at the airport would deter many travellers, especially those like the two women who went to Brazil that a couple of posters have mentioned. I’m seriously not convinced that so many people desperately need to travel as are actually travelling at the moment, I can’t see why urgent business can’t be done via Zoom or other internet communications. Good grief, my son is a barrister and he’s doing trials by Zoom, I’m sure business could be. No need to travel at all. How are New Zealand, Canada, Australia and other countries that have locked their borders managing?

We are allowed to travel within NZ and many have used their "overseas holiday" money here instead which shows by the number of large campers out and about,.I do wish the government would close our borders to ALL from infectious countries because we are still getting cases in the MIQ hotels.

maddyone

jaxjacky I agree that a hefty fine at the airport would deter many travellers, especially those like the two women who went to Brazil that a couple of posters have mentioned. I’m seriously not convinced that so many people desperately need to travel as are actually travelling at the moment, I can’t see why urgent business can’t be done via Zoom or other internet communications. Good grief, my son is a barrister and he’s doing trials by Zoom, I’m sure business could be. No need to travel at all. How are New Zealand, Canada, Australia and other countries that have locked their borders managing?

We are allowed to travel within NZ and many have used their "overseas holiday" money here instead which shows by the number of large campers out and about,.I do wish the government would close our borders to ALL from infectious countries because we are still getting cases in the MIQ hotels.