Do you disapprove of people who are planning an overseas holiday this summer?

[DJWrongspeed]

Same DJWrongspeed, I'm also going to south of France mid-March on Eurostar. Hopefully testing requirements might be gone by then...?

Yes hopefully, but it's not really a huge hassel I reckon especially as coming back should be test free.

 

[Badgers]

Hope none of the AntiVax mob like Spain

Spain's new entry rules for Brits kick off today in blow ahead of half term

New Spain travel rules for Brits come into force today which include requiring a booster jab if your Covid vaccination doesn't fall within a certain window of validity

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Hope none of the AntiVax mob like Spain

Spain's new entry rules for Brits kick off today in blow ahead of half term

New Spain travel rules for Brits come into force today which include requiring a booster jab if your Covid vaccination doesn't fall within a certain window of validity

www.mirror.co.uk

Wait hold on

Earlier this month, easyJet issued a warning for Brits as Ibiza and Majorca are introducing new limits on alcoholic drinks for all-inclusive holidays on the Balearic Islands.

easyJet issues a statement for its passengers explaining: "Due to a change in Spanish law which affects certain resorts in the Balearic islands, alcoholic drinks are now limited to three per person at lunch and dinner as part of the all inclusive basis."

three drinks? and you have to have a meal?

 

[scifisam]

Hope none of the AntiVax mob like Spain

Spain's new entry rules for Brits kick off today in blow ahead of half term

New Spain travel rules for Brits come into force today which include requiring a booster jab if your Covid vaccination doesn't fall within a certain window of validity

www.mirror.co.uk

Hmm, that could be a problem for people who aren't antivax too. I had my booster in September, so by June I won't be allowed in to Spain. And you can't get another booster privately so it's not just an extra cost, it's an impossibility.

I was vaguely thinking of a holiday in September or something, and am more than happy to get an extra vaccination, but if I can't, well, I can't.

 

[teuchter]

It's just that if you had your 2nd dose >270 days ago, then you must also have had a booster, isn't it? In other words the 270 day limit doesn't also apply to the time you had the booster.

 

[scifisam]

It's just that if you had your 2nd dose >270 days ago, then you must also have had a booster, isn't it? In other words the 270 day limit doesn't also apply to the time you had the booster.

I had my booster in September. Surely it's the time that makes the actual difference in how likely you are to be infectious, not whether it was called a booster or not?

 

[pseudonarcissus]

No tests to enter Mexico and has been this way since the start of the pandemic

I’ve got to go to mexico tonight…it is very convenient having no tests, notwithstanding what I said before

 

[sparkybird]

I’ve got to go to mexico tonight…it is very convenient having no tests, notwithstanding what I said before

Have a safe trip. I'm here already, fastest ever time through customs!

 

[smmudge]

Wait hold on



three drinks? and you have to have a meal?

Had to look this up as my sister in law and a group of friends have booked Majorca in June for her bday. She would be devastated to hear about any restrictions like that!! But it looks like it's only a few resorts ie Magaluf and San Antonio, not everywhere in the Balearics.

In the news again (has been the case since January 2020) because of the recent Easyjet warning, why can't journalists find out the actual restrictions they're talking about before reporting on it?

 

[Spymaster]

Had to look this up as my sister in law and a group of friends have booked Majorca in June for her bday. She would be devastated to hear about any restrictions like that!! But it looks like it's only a few resorts ie Magaluf and San Antonio, not everywhere in the Balearics.

It's a load of bollocks anyway. Can you seriously see bar or waiting staff counting the number of drinks each Brit has with their lunch and cutting them off after 3?

They won't give a toss and there'd probably be riots if they did.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Especially when you forked out for an “all inclusive”!!

 

[DaphneM]

I think this thread needs to be renamed "Where are you going on holiday this summer?"

 

[MBV]

Yeah or split

 

[planetgeli]

I've cracked. Booked Montenegro for Easter. I'm made to go to work now every day mid schoolchild pandemic. Don't see how some time abroad is any more risky than that.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Have a safe trip. I'm here already, fastest ever time through customs!

Have a wonderful time. I’ve just arrived in Mexico City to a message that a client I was working with last weekend has tested positive…I guess I’ll get a test when I get to Ciudad del Carmen (a far cry from Playa del Carmen)

 

[mx wcfc]

Subject to persuading B-i-Ls to look after M-i-L, we are planning to go to Croatia for a week. I fancy Dubrovnik.

We are growing apart holiday wise. I want to sit by the pool soaking up the sun, before heading off in the evening to find local bars, with interesting beers. Mrs mx wants culture, history, museums, and bed by 10.30 cos we're worn out from walking around. Dubrovnik sounds like a reasonable compromise.

 

[smmudge]

We are growing apart holiday wise. I want to sit by the pool soaking up the sun, before heading off in the evening to find local bars, with interesting beers. Mrs mx wants culture, history, museums, and bed by 10.30 cos we're worn out from walking around. Dubrovnik sounds like a reasonable compromise.

Plenty of places you can do both Dubrovnik is a great shout. Lots of beaches with the resort feel (we liked around Uvala Lapad beach) in easy distance of all the history!

 

[mx wcfc]

Plenty of places you can do both Dubrovnik is a great shout. Lots of beaches with the resort feel (we liked around Uvala Lapad beach) in easy distance of all the history!

And I've just found that NK GOSC 1919 Dubrovnik play in the regional third tier of Croatian football, and have home games on 23 April, 30 April and 14 May.

I must start pinning down dates with mrs mx. I have a groundhopper mate who will be furious that someone he knows has ticked a Croatian 3rd tier ground.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

And I've just found that NK GOSC 1919 Dubrovnik play in the regional third tier of Croatian football, and have home games on 23 April, 30 April and 14 May.

I must start pinning down dates with mrs mx. I have a groundhopper mate who will be furious that someone he knows has ticked a Croatian 3rd tier ground.

is a groundhopper similar to a train spotter?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I actually looked quite a bit for package holidays last night, given that (a) I really need to just fuck off somewhere and (b) I had a naive expectation that package holidays would have all the covid restrictions etc worked out to avoid that stress on my part, but the latter really doesn't seem to be the case. I checked on e.g. restrictions in Thailand and did the packages mention anything connected? did they fuck.

Half of them seem to be to the UAE anyway and fucked if I'm going there, I have some standards.

 

[mx wcfc]

is a groundhopper similar to a train spotter?

Pretty much, Yeah, except football grounds don't move as fast as trains.

 

[Orang Utan]

I haven’t been on holiday for ten years. I don’t really know how to do holidays. I don’t know how to be with other people for a such long time if I’m going with friends or family. I don’t know how to be on my own for so long if I’m alone.
Just thinking about it for a minute plagues me with questions. How will I sleep? Do I drink my way through it or find a local source of illicit weed and risk being banged up abroad? What if there’s an annoying noise at night? What if it’s too hot? How do you sleep with A/C and/or a ceiling fan on?

 

[Orang Utan]

I do need a fucking holiday all the same

 

[existentialist]

I haven’t been on holiday for ten years. I don’t really know how to do holidays. I don’t know how to be with other people for a such long time if I’m going with friends or family. I don’t know how to be on my own for so long if I’m alone.
Just thinking about it for a minute plagues me with questions. How will I sleep? Do I drink my way through it or find a local source of illicit weed and risk being banged up abroad? What if there’s an annoying noise at night? What if it’s too hot? How do you sleep with A/C and/or a ceiling fan on?

TBF, a holiday (or several) would be an excellent way to explore the answers to some of these questions.

 

[8ball]

I haven’t been on holiday for ten years. I don’t really know how to do holidays. I don’t know how to be with other people for a such long time if I’m going with friends or family. I don’t know how to be on my own for so long if I’m alone.
Just thinking about it for a minute plagues me with questions. How will I sleep? Do I drink my way through it or find a local source of illicit weed and risk being banged up abroad? What if there’s an annoying noise at night? What if it’s too hot? How do you sleep with A/C and/or a ceiling fan on?

It sounds massively stressful and best avoided.

 

[mx wcfc]

It sounds massively stressful and best avoided.

I should probably confess that, for this precise reason, I have never been on a holiday that I have actually organised myself.

 

[existentialist]

I think I am going to make my first holiday, whenever it happens, a trip to Paris. I've probably been watching too much "Tim Traveller"

 

[teuchter]

Subject to persuading B-i-Ls to look after M-i-L, we are planning to go to Croatia for a week. I fancy Dubrovnik.

We are growing apart holiday wise. I want to sit by the pool soaking up the sun, before heading off in the evening to find local bars, with interesting beers. Mrs mx wants culture, history, museums, and bed by 10.30 cos we're worn out from walking around. Dubrovnik sounds like a reasonable compromise.

It's allowable for couples to not go on holiday together if they want different things.

 

[mx wcfc]

Yeah, the plan is that we do this break, then my wife and daughter do a similar away trip. While I go off in my van to festivals. #

 

[spanglechick]

I need a holiday so very badly, but I’m terrifyingly broke, single, and disabled. This makes me quite sad. Because by the time I’m out of the economic hole, at least one of the other problems will be worse.