Guest Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 1 minute ago, realmadrid said: You dont need to rely on ATOL If you can find a good hotel or accommodation with a water tight guarantee and good reviews you will be fine. Exactly, I almost always book with the Hotel direct and if you sign up for their various "loyalty schemes", you generally get the free cancellation / pay on arrival as standard, plus free room upgrade, welcome drinks, free safe, free mini bar etc, etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 2 minutes ago, realmadrid said: You dont need to rely on ATOL If you can find a good hotel or accommodation with a water tight guarantee and good reviews you will be fine. I wouldn’t dispute that but I don’t think a BBC travel correspondent would be in his job for very long if he was giving out that advice at the moment though. ATOL is absolutely guaranteed and that was what he was talking about. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realmadrid Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Just now, WATTOO said: Exactly, I almost always book with the Hotel direct and if you sign up for their various "loyalty schemes", you generally get the free cancellation / pay on arrival as standard, plus free room upgrade, welcome drinks, free safe, free mini bar etc, etc. We set our prices at least 15% higher on booking.com etc to give the regular guest who book direct the best deal. Free cancellation is a must just now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 5 minutes ago, realmadrid said: We set our prices at least 15% higher on booking.com etc to give the regular guest who book direct the best deal. Free cancellation is a must just now. The thing that would worry me about booking anything just now is quarantine when getting back to the UK, nothing to do with potentially losing the money. I wouldn’t want to do it and won’t book any international travel until I’m pretty positive I won’t have to. Having to spend 10 days at home for a week away puts me right off the idea of a holiday. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realmadrid Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 The "bump" in supply finally hit the BBC news tonight, with the UK figure well down on whats it been for a few weeks and talk of supply being limited next week as well. But they were still confident of the mid April date for all 9 of the JCVI priority groups. Have they given any indication as to when the JCVI will give their recommendations past the 9 groups? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realmadrid Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 1 minute ago, Left Back said: The thing that would worry me about booking anything just now is quarantine when getting back to the UK, nothing to do with potentially losing the money. I wouldn’t want to do it and won’t book any international travel until I’m pretty positive I won’t have to. Having to spend 10 days at home for a week away puts me right off the idea of a holiday. We cover at our Hotel by basically including that in the reasons to cancel. Some won't but until we out that in no one was booking. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael W Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 Had absolutely no problem at all getting a refund out of easyJet (possibly 3 weeks ago now). Noticed flight schedule had changed, logged into booking and sure, enough, flights cancelled. Phoned for a refund and got it three days later. Granted it was a holiday booking but process was pretty good. Maybe I've been lucky. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 3 minutes ago, Michael W said: Had absolutely no problem at all getting a refund out of easyJet (possibly 3 weeks ago now). Noticed flight schedule had changed, logged into booking and sure, enough, flights cancelled. Phoned for a refund and got it three days later. Granted it was a holiday booking but process was pretty good. Maybe I've been lucky. CEO is a good Kilbirnie boy who lived just a few doors down from me when we were growing up, not spoken to him in nearly 30 years but he's certainly done well for himself. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lithgierose Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 37 minutes ago, Left Back said: The thing that would worry me about booking anything just now is quarantine when getting back to the UK, nothing to do with potentially losing the money. I wouldn’t want to do it and won’t book any international travel until I’m pretty positive I won’t have to. Having to spend 10 days at home for a week away puts me right off the idea of a holiday. Or 2 weeks booked in Spain. On the beach first day. Then outbreak in Spain. Then spend rest of holiday in a hotel room. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted February 24, 2021 Share Posted February 24, 2021 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/33qv759mMrv7RWjc3cKbKfC/post-lockdown-anxiety-not-everyone-is-excited-about-restrictions-easing I think the safest thing for people like this would be to just stay home forever, while the rest of us get on with it. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 36 minutes ago, Elixir said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/33qv759mMrv7RWjc3cKbKfC/post-lockdown-anxiety-not-everyone-is-excited-about-restrictions-easing I think the safest thing for people like this would be to just stay home forever, while the rest of us get on with it. The guy who’s worried about work from home going back to being some kind of corporate taboo has a point, to be fair, especially if the UK Government starts its “get back to the office” messaging again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 48 minutes ago, Elixir said: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/33qv759mMrv7RWjc3cKbKfC/post-lockdown-anxiety-not-everyone-is-excited-about-restrictions-easing I think the safest thing for people like this would be to just stay home forever, while the rest of us get on with it. The woman who said she’d wear a mask for a few months to ensure she didn’t get covid. Do these people have no actual awareness of how this virus works? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Seems like a good idea. The David Icke roasters on here will be in turmoil. -7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madwullie Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 2 hours ago, Left Back said: The woman who said she’d wear a mask for a few months to ensure she didn’t get covid. Do these people have no actual awareness of how this virus works? Govt messaging has been appalling tbh. Saw footage the other day (don't known if it was old but I felt it was recent) of Johnson wiping a fucking chair down ffs 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Bojo has backed himself into a corner with his dates....petition going around to declare te 21st of june a bank holiday 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Orton Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 10 minutes ago, doulikefish said: Bojo has backed himself into a corner with his dates....petition going around to declare te 21st of june a bank holiday As much as Bojo is a clown and tories are scum I dont want him to be wrong or the SG, or anyone giving positive vibes in fact I want everything to go swinningly just so we have a life back. This is no way to live and by the end of June we will have been living with this crap for 16 months. There will be plenty of ammunition after this is over to put the boot into Johnson et al but I sincerely hope on this occasion he hasn't fucked it. 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Bojo has backed himself into a corner with his dates....petition going around to declare te 21st of june a bank holiday Theres still a lot of folk going with "but Boris overpromises" and assuming his plan isnt happening. Boris has indeed over promised several times, always in rather vague ways. What they presented the other day was pretty unprecedented through this. Theres no fucking way they let this particular cat out of the bag without knowing it was deliverable. They have all the data, the modelling etc etc. Way more than we do.The only explanation for this is that all of those at the table are in agreement that, to use the thread terminology, the vaccines are cigaring it and the protection offered supersedes any/all of the measures that are in place to the point of making them worthless. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven W Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 1 minute ago, Bairnardo said: Theres still a lot of folk going with "but Boris overpromises" and assuming his plan isnt happening. Boris has indeed over promised several times, always in rather vague ways. What they presented the other day was pretty unprecedented through this. Theres no fucking way they let this particular cat out of the bag without knowing it was deliverable. They have all the data, the modelling etc etc. Way more than we do.The only explanation for this is that all of those at the table are in agreement that, to use the thread terminology, the vaccines are cigaring it and the protection offered supersedes any/all of the measures that are in place to the point of making them worthless. Aye but Boris is a Tory, so therefore he MUST be lying :-) I'm being sarcastic, but the pish I encountered when I flagged up Hancock saying we could be living with Covid in the same way we do with flu by the end of December (over 10 months away) did make me laugh. I think this time, having been burned so badly with their predictions in the past, this plan is thought out and with the vaccines on the go, surely (hopefully) deliverable. And for the avoidance of doubt, all Tories are cnts. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoseKillie Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 10 hours ago, Ad Lib said: Because they’re then more likely to get COVID and (both “therefore” and “also”) more likely to transmit it to others, including those who are vaccinated but for whom the vaccine hasn’t provided 100% protection against (a) serious illness (b) moderate or mild illness or (c) asymptomatic infection which can then still be transmitted again because, to go full circle, the vaccines don’t offer 100% protection against transmission. Gosh, if only there were a smug p***k who pointed this out on Saturday. Oh wait. "Both "therefore" and "also"". Fúck me, wee man, you really are back with a bang! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoseKillie Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 10 hours ago, effeffsee_the2nd said: I wouldn’t book a holiday to any destination that has mandatory masks outdoors, curfews, restrictions on hospitality etc Why bother? I’d rather just wait till this is over tbh Mrs WRK and I have agreed that we're going to explore parts of Britain we haven't visited for next two or three years. Covid ain't the only sand in the cogs of international travel, after all. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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