Have you/are you canceling summer trips?

[pugz]

Yes/no?

Do travel restriction “recommendations” from your governor play a role in your decision?

[abs]

Yes and no.

We canceled our June cruise back in early March because no thanks. Ever.

We are still hoping to do a 3 day Galveston trip in July, it’s driving distance and we can cancel 24 hours in advance.

[scm1011]

We cancelled our Memorial Day trip to VT. We hope to push it to July/August, but won't make reservations until there is more clarity.

[sillygoosegirl]

Not yet, but I'm not optimistic about it happening. Particularly our trip in early July to Canada. I'm kinda expecting the border to be closed, saving us from needing to make a decision about it.

I'm still holding out some hope that our annual wilderness camping trip in late August can still happen.

[lo]

Yep we canceled July trip to MA beach.

[keweenawlove]

We had a camping trip for Memorial Day weekend but campgrounds are closed so that's off. Hoping we can backyard camp with friends if small group gatherings are okay by then.

SIL is supposed to get married in Montana in August but she told us they're going to make the call on if they're having it by June 1st. We were planning on making that into a bigger trip but luckily we hadn't booked flights.

We'll most likely go up to Upper Michigan a few times to visit our parents. Just about everything we'd do up there is isolated including going to my dad's lake house and we can just bring our own food if there's supply issues. I'm really missing having my parents be able to visit and DD not getting to see her grandparents during these first 6 months is hitting me really hard.

[starryfish]

We canceled our gulf shores memorial week trip. My sister is a doctor and would have to self quarantine if she left the state. We will still
Go with my DH and DD just stay at my MIL instead. (She’s local)

[Velar Fricative]

We hadn’t gotten around to booking anything but yes, there are no plans for us to travel outside of our metro area for a very long time.

[mccallister84]

We were supposed to go to my in laws in Colorado on 4/1. We rescheduled the flights for the end of July. I am assuming that we won’t be going. I would love to do a beach week somewhere but I don’t really think that’s going to happen.

[pugz]

We canceled our Memorial week trip to Florida (Anna Maria Island) and a trip to Colorado at the end of June. Lost some money but not a ton.

Other local friends are not canceling trips to Destin, Myrtle Beach, California, etc. for the summer. Most are driving, some flying. Not wanting to lose money or time with family are the main reasons they won’t cancel

[macmars45]

My entire extended family goes on a trip every first week of August. I'm not holding out hope we will go. We haven't officially canceled as it's at a WorldMark resort and they are closed currently as far as I know.

[thebreakfastclub]

We are booked for a beach town condo in mid July, driving down. We won't decide until much closer, but my inclination is that we will go.

[VillainV]

When all of this started we rebooked our mid-march cruise for the end of July. We haven’t moved it again, but almost certainly will. At this point I have trouble thinking I’ll be comfortable on a cruise ship by then, but maybe. It might not matter since final payment it due soon and we still haven’t gotten it he credit for cancelling the last one....

[dcn]

We hadn’t booked anything but were planning on driving to New York to see family and go to the Adirondacks. Currently H can’t leave the 50 mile radius around our base so I don’t know. It’s gonna be a loooooong hot summer.

[redheadk]

Yes.

We were supposed to spend 1 1/2 weeks on Kauai in June. I've canceled everything except our flight there; I'm holding out to see if the airline cancels that flight or changes it drastically so that I can get a refund instead of a credit.

The recommendation of my governor didn't play into the decision at all but the recommendations/actions of the governor of Hawaii and the mayor of Kauai did. We are very familiar with Kauai and the island is basically shut down for now. June is way too soon to play to visit. We are planning to go next summer, instead, since we want those calm summer north shore ocean conditions.

ETA: We will likely go visit our close friends in San Antonio later in the summer if we feel comfortable. It will be insanely hot there but they have a pool. The mom is one of my very good friends, our husbands love hanging out, and our daughters are BFFs. We won't be staying in a condo or resort this summer, I don't think. 

[covergirl82]

No. We rescheduled our spring break trip (early April) to WDW to early August. We'll wait until July to make any decisions about changes. We were planning to spend a long weekend (didn't have a weekend picked out yet) on Mackinac Island, and still holding out hope that we'll be able to do that. Other than that, we'll camp on a property we own about 1.5 hours away.

[redpenmama]

We are just holding off on making plans at this point. We typically visit my parents in Florida for 2 weeks and then do a week at the beach with them. We didn't book anything for the beach under these circumstances, so that's off. We could theoretically still visit them last minute depending on how things evolve.

My H is WFH all summer (university went all online), and I always WFH. The kids, as of now, have nothing planned for the summer. So, because of that flexibility, we could conceivably just pick up and go when we felt comfortable doing so. My two biggest holdups are 1) It's a 12-hour drive and we usually stay in a hotel and 2) my dad travels for work and if he starts flying all around the country again, I'm not sure I want to be exposed to that. But I'm hoping he's still a ways out from resuming that level of travel.

State travel restrictions would have the least impact on my decision because I think by that point it will be more of a suggestion than a requirement.

[ssmjlm]

No, but it's not a vacation that's costing us any money/travel. We always spend the week of July 4th at our beach house which is only 2 hours away. We're still going since we can isolate there, bring our own food, etc. If the beaches are too crowded we have a pool in the backyard.

We usually only go out to each once or twice during the week, so we can do curbside for the restaurants that are open.

[nicolewi]

Our state safer-at-home ends in late May.

We also have an extended family annual vacation first week in August. As of now, the small resort says that they will be open and we are still planning to go, but we'll see what happens. My brother's family would fly and an aunt would fly, but everyone else can drive. We stay in cottages and the resort has reduced amenities this year (no beach chairs, no benches by the fire pits, no games/movies/sports equipment to check out, etc). We would be able to stay away from other guests fairly easily, but we would be close to each other...so....not sure about that issue. My kids LOVE to see their cousins from out-of-state and they usually have sleepovers and spend all their time together. I don't know if that will still be a really bad idea.   

My family still plans to go to our own cottage during the summer. We can easily not get close to anyone if we just hang around the cottage. However, all the events up there are cancelled, so that will be sad. DD just wrote a little essay today about summer and how much she loves the "Fourth of July parade where they throw candy" and I didn't say anything yet about it not happening.

We have a family wedding third week in August (driving there but hotel stay) and for now that is still on. I'm waiting to see what happens with that, too. 

[pandorica]

We don't have anything planned until mid August (and nothing except the concert tickets were booked yet). I'm assuming it will be canceled and it will be a while before I'm comfortable booking a place to stay.

[minniemouse]

Sort of. We go to the beach with my in laws every August. Dh didn’t get the time off approved this year so we aren’t going. If this was normal times, he would have tried to switch with a coworker. It’s a tradition in his family that we hate to miss. With the pandemic we decided not to bother, since it could end up canceled anyway.

[pugz]

I think we'll probably still be able to do our weekend at the lake in early August since it is just 3 hrs away and we bring our own food and just stay on the property.

[vmars]

We have a family trip scheduled for Rehoboth beach, de the end of July. We drive there so no worries about flights. I am hoping we can still go even if it’s not exactly the same. We live on the Jersey shore so hoping we can still get in our weekend beach trips this summer.

[cricketwife]

We have a 9-day beach vacation booked for the first week of August. I havent cancelled yet for several reasons -
1. It’s 50% non refundable if I cancel now. It is thru airbnb and could be fully refundable if things are bad closer to the time. I know they’ve currently extended their cancellation policy. Basically, there’s no advantage to canceling now.
2. I’m holding out hope that we will be able to go. We have literally never had a family vacation and I saved for over a year and a half for this. We really need this. Also, in theory, I return back to work (school) the day after we return home from vacation. So I keep thinking if school is happening (I know that’s an if) then surely we can do my vacation. Basically, it means too much to me to be ready to accept canceling at this point.

[ktw]

We were booked for 4th of July week at an Airbnb in Bar Harbor. We knew it likely wasn’t going to happen, but that was confirmed this week when Maine’s Governor extended the 14 day quarantine requirement for out of state travelers until August. The host/Airbnb automatically cancelled and refunded us, so that settles that.

I’m planning on us being home all summer, although I do have occasional fantasies of renting a beach house within driving distance. I would only consider that if my governor indicates it’s safe to travel, and if the governor/local officials wherever we would go indicated that it was safe to travel there. I’m not holding my breath.

[sdlaura]

We're still hoping to go from SoCal to Oregon in early August. Relatively short direct flight to a small airport, then two next-door rental houses with 3 other families. The rental company won't charge us our second payment until 14 days out, so we'll just wait and see.

[gaudi]

We cancelled a trip to Paris in June. We still have reservations and plane tickets for Mexico over Labor Day weekend. We never booked anything for our domestic trip in August.

We received notification that the kids' sleepaway camp is closed all summer for both day and overnight camp.

[brooke77]

Yes. We cancelled our trip to San Diego for next month. We also had planned to go to Bali this summer, which we will not be doing.

We will probably just go to our family’s lake house an hour away once it gets warm enough to swim.

I haven’t taken any vacation time this year and my company has a use it or lose it policy, which they have stated that they don’t intend to change. I had been saving the bulk of it for 2, 2 week international vacations, but I guess I just need to start using it.

[hamster]

Our only scheduled trips are camping so we will still go if allowed.

We need to go to Colorado at some point in the next year but obviously aren't planning that at this point. MIL asked if we wanted to go with her end of June. Uh, no. No I do not.

[icedcoffee]

Ugh. Kind of.

We're supposed to go to the Delaware beaches at the end of June. Airbnb is currently only allowing cancellations in full through 6/15 and we go the next week. If I were to cancel today I'd get less than 50% back so I'm holding off and hoping they relax their cancellation policy through 6/30. Assholes. We're not going regardless, but like WTF?!? Refund me in full! This place was over $3,000 so we're not talking a small loss for us. I have until 5/28 until I'd lose the full amount so I hope they relax their policy before then.

The host did offer to move our reservation to 2021, but there aren't any dates available yet to do it so I don't see how that's helpful. Sounds like the better option if I can only get less than 50% back though.

We have a cruise scheduled in Sept and while we haven't called to cancel yet we will. We booked refundable so we're good on that!