Coronavirus (OLD)

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Paul

From my POV, not much.

I like to go to the Canary Islands, mainly because I know Im going to get a week of good hot (but not too hot) weather

I also know I'll have AirCon in my room, very few British hotels provide that.

I find a week too short; you've only just got there and it's time to come back! However, two weeks is too long, so ten days is about right.

[jfman]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

The UK is not a suitable place for Brits to holiday in because:

1. Lack of good weather.
2. High prices when compared with abroad.
3. Run down holiday towns.
4. Lack of good accommodation and facilities.
5. Expensive drinks and food.

There's not a lot we can do about the first one, but if they got 2-5 right, I might never go abroad again.

Fat chance of that happening, unfortunately. Unless, of course, this virus forces the government to re-think.

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The government will not have a second national lockdown, and when we start to find hotspots cropping up all over the place, they will come to realise that local lockdowns are too disruptive and confusing.

There is only one solution, although I know you don't want to hear it.

Oh, another big outbreak in China - who would have thought it...?

Your ‘solution‘ isn’t viable. Folk aren’t going to rush off on holiday when we are diagnosing hundreds of thousands (or worse... not diagnosing them!) of cases a week.

Lockdown is inevitable without significant mitigation. Your long term shielding plan simply punishes the old and vulnerable - actually some of the same people with mortgages paid off and disposable income that we need to spend in the economy.

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Originally Posted by Paul

From my POV, not much.

I like to go to the Canary Islands, mainly because I know Im going to get a week of good hot (but not too hot) weather

I also know I'll have AirCon in my room, very few British hotels provide that.

Canaries every time here.

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

The UK is not a suitable place for Brits to holiday in because:

1. Lack of good weather.
2. High prices when compared with abroad.
3. Run down holiday towns.
4. Lack of good accommodation and facilities.
5. Expensive drinks and food.

There's not a lot we can do about the first one, but if they got 2-5 right, I might never go abroad again.

1. Less skin cancer and not everyones holiday is on a sun lounger. Rain makes our country the green and pleasant land it is.
2. Depends which country, try grocery shopping in Switzerland.
3. Yes some are run down but we have the most varied and beautiful coastline in the world. Try Northumberland, Pembrokeshire, Devon, the Scottish islands...
4. Well if you will stay in Youth Hostels...
5. Again depends which country. Try buying a beer in Sweden or a pizza in Iceland. Food is cheap here.

For a Brexiteer you don't seem to be selling our wonderful country much !

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Mr K

1. Less skin cancer and not everyones holiday is on a sun lounger. Rain makes our country the green and pleasant land it is.
2. Depends which country, try grocery shopping in Switzerland.
3. Yes some are run down but we have the most varied and beautiful coastline in the world. Try Northumberland, Pembrokeshire, Devon, the Scottish islands...
4. Well if you will stay in Youth Hostels...
5. Again depends which country. Try buying a beer in Sweden or a pizza in Iceland. Food is cheap here.

For a Brexiteer you don't seem to be selling our wonderful country much !

Butlin’s is flogging cheap family holidays for four from just £67

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/travel/t...idays-22435958




30c on Friday so i'll be staying in Cleethorpes.

[jfman]

It's unnerving to see the forum move towards consensus.... almost...,

[tweetiepooh]

One of my big bugbears with holidaying in the UK is packing.

I love hot sunny weather and going somewhere used to that means that the environment is built to suit. Houses are designed to lose heat even without A/C, restaurants have more outside seating. Dress code is usually more relaxed. And you know you pack hot weather clothes.

Others prefer winter sports type things so go to higher altitudes in destinations winter. Buildings are designed to keep heat in, everything is setup for lots of snow/ice and so on. And you know you pack cold weather clothes.

In the UK (and other temperate climes) you don't know. Houses tend to be built to be energy efficient so pretty good at keeping heat in but not good at letting/keeping it out. We don't live high enough or have the slopes for winter sports (mostly) nor are we really setup of hot weather. Since you don't know what weather to expect you have to pack twice as much to cope with different eventualities.

(Boy has this drifted from CV19)

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[nomadking]

It's almost as if Covid-19 no longer existed and there wasn't lockdowns or threats of lockdowns around the would.

You’re a bunch of wussies. Our family hasn’t had an overseas holiday in 15 years. We’ve never worried about passports, insurance or a travel agent or an airline going bust. We’ve had sunny days and rainy days. We know what we want to do while we’re away and which activities to plan for the rainy days, and when to just go and sit on the beach. We return to the same seaside town every summer and so this year we knew how we would have to modify what we do because of Covid rules and have made better use of the facilities than most people who obviously haven’t had a U.K. based holiday in years ... we are also known by sight in many places and by name in one or two so we’ve been welcomed in even while they’re expressing reservations about the deluge of non socially distancing day trippers who have been coming down and forming dense queues outside many of the shops. And we do all of this on the west coast of Scotland, where we know a thing or two about rainy summers. Those of you with access to the southern coasts of this sceptred isle don’t know you’re born!

Although part of the appeal of a holiday is being immersed in a different culture. It's so odd to be outside of your normal comfort zone, cultural references, language and food. You change some of that up in the U.K and go somewhere really wild, like up North, but from Devon to Scotland there are quite a few things that are usually the same.

That said I am not so much of a beach/hot weather/resort type person anyway. Prefer cities and forests.

[denphone]

Separate households will be banned from meeting indoors from midnight tonight in Greater Manchester, East Lancashire and parts of West Yorkshire after a rise in coronavirus cases.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...shire-12039473

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by denphone

Separate households will be banned from meeting indoors from midnight tonight in Greater Manchester, East Lancashire and parts of West Yorkshire after a rise in coronavirus cases.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...shire-12039473

They still won't take any notice,that's why we have the rise in cases.

[Mr K]

Allowing anyone to travel abroad was a mistake.

Straight from total lock down to letting folks do what they want. Arse or elbow, does the Govt. know which is which ? Or will they just blame scientists whatever ?

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Mr K

Allowing anyone to travel abroad was a mistake.

Straight from total lock down to letting folks do what they want. Arse or elbow, does the Govt. know which is which ? Or will they just blame scientists whatever ?

Says the man who went to Italy

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

Says the man who went to Italy

True, but but months ago before things kicked off. The Govt said it was totally safe and I for one, believed them. Silly me.

You shouldn't be intentionally meeting people from outside your household in an enclosed place - that includes pubs and restaurants and bars.

So everyone will still go to the pub, and 'unintentionally' bump into each other.