Canaries Holiday

Wobbleyhead

Wobbleyhead

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Last Christmas the wife booked a family holiday for us and our daughter and 2 of our children to older relationships so we have a christmas all together . We had worked hard to get a good deposit up and book it and then as the yr progressed and the pandemic took hold the holiday still needed paying and notable to be moved . we now had bought and paid for private PCR tests . but from today the Gov has changed the corridor . our kids are so excited but wont know the news yet . But the way they change where you can go and not change quite quickly will it go back ? Should we rearrange the holiday or go and just quarantine once were back ?
 
My one comment is, I have a friend who has a place in Lanzarote. We were all going out as a lads pre Xmas trip, I decided to back out due to the uncertainty.

a few had these tests and did not get them back in time and couldn’t go out. I’ve also heard of some family members getting them back in time and others not.

If you do roll the dice I don’t think a period of quarantine post xmas
 
We were meant to go New Year. Flights/hotel were expensive. I was willing to go if they didn't get refunded and quarantine, would probably have been ok, but secretly hoping it would just be refunded so that we could go another time later in the year. The flights got changed, and they offered us every penny back, so I took it.

Then the corridor opened! I briefly wondered if I should regret the decision but was then vindicated when it closed again this week. The uncertainty of knowing when you're there that you could be stuck at home trying to work with the kids around when you get back (although its only 10 days now) felt a bit much for me, but now that you KNOW you'd have to quarantine maybe you could make effective provisions?

If you can rearrange, that's what I'd do, but everyone's different.
 
I had a holiday booked earlier in the year - it was a gamble, as we got closer to the date Greece was close to being put in the list so in the end we moved it to next year. With regards your question I would doubt the canaries would come off any time soon having just being put on (as some have alluded to I’m not convinced it is a purely scientific decision to remove them from the safe corridor list anyway)

When I rearranged mine there was a cost involved - you should maybe check that out before making a final decision.

Depending on what you do will it be the same experience, will you enjoy going to restaurants/bars with other people around. I asked myself that and in balance I thought that and the mixing on the flight we just decided to move it to a time when we would hopefully enjoy it more.
 
Wobbleyhead said:
Last Christmas the wife booked a family holiday for us and our daughter and 2 of our children to older relationships so we have a christmas all together . We had worked hard to get a good deposit up and book it and then as the yr progressed and the pandemic took hold the holiday still needed paying and notable to be moved . we now had bought and paid for private PCR tests . but from today the Gov has changed the corridor . our kids are so excited but wont know the news yet . But the way they change where you can go and not change quite quickly will it go back ? Should we rearrange the holiday or go and just quarantine once were back ?
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Quarantining when you get home isn't ideal, but as of today it's 10 days rather than 14 days. Sorry I can't be any more positive than that.
 
Sorry to hijack the thread but I've been looking at Disneyland Paris for me the Mrs and 2 young'uns 29th March - 1st April. Can get hotel, flights and park tickets all in for £1k.
Disneyland is closed until 12 Feb as it is.
Obviously covid is the worry, do you reckon it's worth the risk? Not gonna book only for a refund/vouchers for the flight, hotel if the trip doesn't happen.
 
The holidays abroad are great if they were like before. If they aren’t stop at home. We go to Benidorm every year but they have to walk around outside now with masks! Would rather be at home.
 
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