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Are you planning on holidaying this year?

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LaraGransnet (GNHQ) Thu 14-Jan-21 08:43:21

We've been asked to speak to BBC Scotland this morning on holidays and how people are feeling about travel this year.
According to industry experts, travel bookings have begun in earnest and people are booking longer holidays and more multigenerational ones, families who have been unable to see each during the pandemic wanting to make up for lost time. What are your thoughts?

Once you have the vaccine will you feel confident about booking a holiday?

Kate1949 Thu 14-Jan-21 10:00:36

We won't be going on holiday this year. Why risk it? Like Marmight, I can't understand those people who have been rushing to the airports during this pandemic. Why would you do that? Just wait.

Luckygirl Thu 14-Jan-21 10:00:36

I have serious sea-withdrawal symptoms, having missed our annual trip to the St Davids festival both in 2019 (OH too ill) and last year. I had hoped to go again this year but it is more or less cancelled once more.

I may try to go self-catering on my own to the nearest seaside, but not till September probably.

tanith Thu 14-Jan-21 09:58:45

If it’s possible to visit my son and family in Gibraltar I would but it’s looking unlikely at the moment.

Moggycuddler Thu 14-Jan-21 09:56:51

Wouldn't be even without covid. But with covid, no. Wouldn't feel like it or think it was safe enough, even with a vaccine.

monk08 Thu 14-Jan-21 09:56:36

Hoping to have some time away in UK during school holidays with the family. Our Portugal holiday moved from last year to this year has now been rearranged for 2022.

Marmight Thu 14-Jan-21 09:54:50

I can’t believe the amount of foreign holiday adverts I’m seeing in the press & on line. I’m also gobsmacked at the amount of Brits who have been abroad over and since the Christmas holidays. Do they really think they’re immune to this virus? Going anywhere abroad for a holiday is the last thing on my mind, sadly. I should be in Australia with DD2 right now but I’m resigned to having to wait until at least this time next year or even later. DD3 has suggested we book a holiday house ‘somewhere’ in the UK in August so I’m keeping my fingers very firmly crossed that it will happen.

BStP Thu 14-Jan-21 09:47:38

I am looking forward to holidaying in Pembrokeshire in June with the grandchildren?

Ellianne Thu 14-Jan-21 09:46:00

Not abroad, but we have a week booked in Spring and a week in August. Both are cancellable. Hopefully the UK holiday market will thrive in future.

Smileless2012 Thu 14-Jan-21 09:44:12

Only in the UK. We are fortunate to own a holiday lodge and bought a motor home last summer. We have no plans to travel abroad including Australia where our son lives, even if we're able too.

JessK Thu 14-Jan-21 09:41:19

I don't think I will be booking anything until things improve significantly although it would be lovely to get away. Looks like the back garden again.

Greyduster Thu 14-Jan-21 09:39:52

We booked a cottage in Northumberland last year for August this year. I hope we’ll be able to go, but it’s ‘suck it and see’ at the moment.

Grandmabatty Thu 14-Jan-21 09:39:42

There's no point in me planning a holiday as I don't know when I will get the vaccine. My family will be further down the list as well and my son in law has been made redundant because of covid therefore a holiday is out of the question for them too.

Sarahmob Thu 14-Jan-21 09:39:08

Last year we cancelled our planned river cruise and transferred our booking to this April (we were planning to take another river cruise to celebrate our silver wedding anniversary). We are now waiting to hear that this cruise has been cancelled and we won’t be looking to transfer our funds to another holiday but will be seeking a refund of the monies paid. We have tentatively booked a cottage in Cornwall for September - fingers crossed!

vampirequeen Thu 14-Jan-21 09:37:14

We booked last September to go away in May 2021. It's a UK caravan park with Covid cover. If we are able to go that will be great. If not we get a refund. We've also booked a few days away in September 2021 with the same company. We always holiday in the UK.

Arsenal67 Thu 14-Jan-21 09:35:19

I’ve booked 4 UK trips. All of them can cancellable. Will be finished chemo by the Spring and looking forward to a break.

Esspee Thu 14-Jan-21 09:34:08

My family are abroad. As soon as it is safe we will be on a plane.

Peasblossom Thu 14-Jan-21 09:33:22

Maybe the South Coast, in the Autumn to see relatives and friends.

Actually I’ve embraced the joys of staying at home?

honeyrose Thu 14-Jan-21 09:28:44

It will definitely be a UK holiday this year, if we can go anywhere at all. Won’t be booking anything for some months yet though, until we feel that things are much, much safer. I, too am glad that we visited some of the places abroad that we really wanted to go to and hope that we can go on more foreign travel in the years to come. The very thought of getting on a plane for some time yet leaves me cold.

MawBe Thu 14-Jan-21 09:28:16

I had been hoping to get to Scotland for a couple of years to see some old friends and family but fear actually planning anything! I would also dearly love to have a few days in various English cities- York for instance or Bath, because I feel I have not set foot outside N Bucks for a whole year - but am not tempting fate!

Calendargirl Thu 14-Jan-21 09:26:17

As things are at the moment, no thoughts about booking holidays anywhere, either in the UK or abroad.

Gingster Thu 14-Jan-21 09:25:32

No bookings for us. As you sayGranny23 I’m so glad I have been to most of the places I wanted to visit.

Casdon Thu 14-Jan-21 09:23:36

Yes, once vaccinated I’d like to support the Welsh tourist industry and book a week away in the summer (I live in Wales). Would love to go further afield but they need our support and it’s safer not to go too far from home at the moment.

Granny23 Thu 14-Jan-21 09:19:38

We (family of) had booked our usual holiday let cottage on the Isle of Barra for July 2020 but had to postpone until July 2021. Now, with a Covid outbreak on Barra, this is uncertain.

As to going abroad, I am glad I have already been to the places I most wanted to visit in Europe, because, due to Brexit and the need for extortionate health insurance, I can't see that I could ever afford to go there again.

Nanna58 Thu 14-Jan-21 09:07:19

I think it unlikely to be safe enough this year, but as soon as it is ,as someone who loves to travel I shall be back out seeing the world again. In fact realising that life is short I hope to eventually see more than I did pre epidemic.

Froglady Thu 14-Jan-21 09:05:38

I will probably book to go on a self catering holiday to central France but I must check my holiday insurance about what happens if I can't go due to Covid. I was due to go last summer and had booked but then had to cancel; luckily I had only gone as far as to send a deposit which they didn't bank as they realised there were going to be problems. So I want to go back there this year instead.