Post by litskispeciality on Apr 1, 2020 12:47:09 GMT -5
The other post has me curious about if it's worth even exploring planning a trip for the remainder of 2020? For those of you who've cancelled, did you already reschedule for this year? If you haven't booked a trip yet how far out are you thinking about traveling? Will trip insurance cover cancelling for COVID-19 in future months?
Also, this kinda sucks. I've heard flights are really low right now, but hotels and Air BNB's in my state are banned from booking at least for a month to save the rooms for essential workers, assuming they're even still open. I know we're all in the same boat, I just want something to look forward too.
We have a trip planned for July. I'm sure it won't happen, but at the time that we booked (early March, right before everything completely deteriorated), the deal was that we would get one free change for the airfare. I want to wait until closer to the time before we officially postpone because at this point I have no idea when we could potentially change to.
I still have the Hopper app set up my phone to alert me to price changes. When I set it up, I was hoping to luck out with the flight under $300 pp. I got a notice last night that the flight is now $121 per person...
ETA: I would not count on being able to travel for the remainder of 2020.
As I said in the other thread, I just rescheduled my flights rather than refunding or whatever. I decided to take advantage of the lower airfare. Usually, it would cost me $700-800 to fly my route in main cabin, I was able to get a ticket in first class on the way out (which is a 14 hour red-eye) for $1500.
I rescheduled because I am moving...and I really want this to happen, and so far, the university is planning on going ahead as planned. So, I am really hoping that by August, things are looking better. However, the biggest arts festival in the world is held every August in Edinburgh, and they just announced they canceled that. That makes me feel pretty uneasy. :/
We have an airbnb booked for the last week of June in a beach town 3 hours from home. I really hope it happens. I will be crushed if we need to cancel and airbnb won't refund us.
We have a cruise booked for Sept, but it's fully refundable. I'm thinking we probably will need to cancel. We haven't bought flights yet. I don't know where we'll go instead.
Yes and no. A close friend is getting married in another province. They already cancelled the original date and are thinking summer or fall. Waiting to see what happens.
We are planning a girls trip for the end of August/early September but I think it's just to keep us sane. Not sure if it will happen.
My husband and I had planned to renew our vows in Vegas in October so I'm hoping that will still happen. We booked a hotel and the ceremony site but no other travel at this point
Well, I planned one back in Dec. before this all started for the first week in July. We are supposed to be doing a road trip to five different national parks in Utah and Colorado. Right now, the parks are closed until further notice (not all, but the ones we are visiting), and the gateway towns are telling tourists to stay away for the time being. I will of course abide by that if it's still in place come July.
For right now, I'm just on hold. I can cancel all my accommodations up to a couple weeks out or even less. So I think I'm going to cross my fingers and just see what this is all like in mid- to late-June.
I really really hope we can go, just for my mental health if nothing else. We take only one vacation a year, we are kind of forced to go in the summer due to me teaching so we can't postpone to the fall. I look forward to our summer vacation for months and spend months planning. On top of that, this has just been a shit year even outside the pandemic and I really needed this. I know this is so not that big of a problem to have compared to what others are dealing with; I'm just whining lol.
We have a two week trip scheduled in July that we booked in early February. No flights because it’s just up in the mountains. We aren’t making any changes right now. I am hopeful we’ll be able to go then and that the condo owner won’t give us a ton of hassle about canceling. We did book through a Chase Sapphire card though, so I feel good about the travel protection through that.
I'm planning on heading to Alaska at Christmas to spend the holiday with my kids. It's still a ways away so I'm holding off on purchasing my ticket until this summer.
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Post by oregonpachey on Apr 1, 2020 13:09:30 GMT -5
We rescheduled DisneyLand for late June but I doubt that will happen. And we have a Jamaica trip planned for November. Likely we will have to move that too.
Will trip insurance cover cancelling for COVID-19 in future months?
Even if "global pandemic" would have been covered under normal circumstances by a particular insurer, it's unlikely it will be covered for new bookings for the next while. You can't argue that it's an unforeseen risk now - you know it's a global problem and there is plenty of data out there suggesting it may last up to a year and a half, possibly surging again in the fall/winter.
Specific airlines or hotels can loosen cancellation and refund policies to encourage sales, but I'd read the fine print to know it covers what you are buying and the refund terms.
Post by InBetweenDays on Apr 1, 2020 13:12:59 GMT -5
We have a number of tentative plans but nothing that isn't either fully cancellable or haven't been booked yet.
We have refundable reservations to ski closing weekend in Whistler (Memorial Day). We can cancel 2 days in advance so we'll wait and see but I have a very hard time believing we'll go (Whistler is closed now but said they may try and reopen late April/early May).
My parents spend each summer back East. We generally go every other year but were considering going this year (we went last year) because my parents are getting older and I worry we won't have many of these times left. Unless things drastically improve none of us will be going (my parents included).
DD plays travel lacrosse and is supposed to have tournaments in Denver (in June) and Southern California (in July). They haven't been cancelled yet but I'm guessing they will.
H is signed up to do a guided climb of Mt. Baker in July with some friends. So far it's still on but the outfitter cancelled climbs through May. So it's wait and see.
We were planning to do a road trip to Utah in August but haven't booked anything yet.
We have plans to ski Whistler for Thanksgiving weekend. We can cancel our reservations but I'm hopeful we'll be able to travel by then.
I am going to hold off planning anything else. My family had been hoping to congregate in Chicago in August (our hometown though none of my immediate family lives there anymore) but nobody has bought plane tickets or booked anything yet. I am going to be really upset if that doesn't happen, though. I did not decide to live across the country from my family with the expectation that I wouldn't be able to go see them. My grandmother in Chicago is 88 and my sister's kids are little. Both the young and old ages make me not want to miss out on an entire year of their lives. Not to mention I don't want to miss out on a year of anyone's life.
I do have a resort booked in November for a trip to Jamaica with my parents. It is just a reservation, we haven't paid anything yet, and it's completely able to be cancelled until something like 7 days before the trip. So I won't book flights until we are much closer.
We just cancelled our trip to Puerto Rico last night that was supposed to happen in a month so we got full refund on our flights and a full credit for our Airbnb. I am REALLY tempted to buy something now for September--tickets to Hawaii from Boston for 10 days are $300/person (less than what we were going to spend for two of us to fly first class to PR) and we can rent a house using our credit. But also, since that seems risky, the other part of me is like, let's just book an Airbnb within driving distance and splurge on it, spending some extra money from what we got back on our flights.
But yeah, I am going to need to do SOMETHING when all of this is said and done.
Post by Captain Serious on Apr 1, 2020 13:21:23 GMT -5
We're supposed to go to Egypt and Israel in November. So far, we've only booked the flight from the US. I'm not sure if this will happen or not, but time will tell.... I'm definitely rethinking the Nile cruise portion of the trip we were planning.
Post by Leeham Rimes on Apr 1, 2020 13:30:05 GMT -5
No, we aren’t planning anything. Too many unknowns at this point. My sister wanted a wedding in Jamaica in November but now she’s pretty set on waiting bc everything is so up in the air.
I also wanted to go to NJ this summer to visit family, but also not sure about that. I could drive it but the hotels scare me right now
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We're not planning anything definite, but I do hope to take at least one trip between when things die down and when I return to work from mat leave in January.
Also, my cousin's wedding in Key West was supposed to be last week, so we'll see when that gets rescheduled.
And assuming things aren't still dire by then, we're planning to spend a lot of August at our beach cottage on Cape Cod.
We were planning a trip to Jamaica in July and a trip to Iceland in November. We haven't booked anything yet, mainly because of the uncertainty in DH's job, but definitely not booking anything now until something gets announced that travel is allowed again (which, if I'm honest, won't be anytime this year). We're bummed about Jamaica because it was supposed to be DS1's graduation gift.
Post by amandakisser on Apr 1, 2020 13:34:06 GMT -5
Right now the only event we have booked is a weekend to BYC is December. My MIL is a travel agent so I'm not worried about her having to cancel because she gets all sorts of travel insurance/refunds/kickbacks. I know my daughter will be disappointed if we can't go because we are supposed to have tea at the American Girl store so I haven't mentioned the possibility of it not happening yet. I have $400 in credits for Southwest that I'm supposed to use by July 8 so I'm planning on calling them closer to that date to see if they can extend the deadline. I'm not hopeful but worth a shot I suppose.
Hoping to make a trip to London in October for my cousin's wedding. It was originally supposed to be in July a week after my due date but was postponed.
Post by litskispeciality on Apr 1, 2020 13:37:16 GMT -5
Thanks for the input. We're trying to go away in Oct so that I can stretch my time off around a paid holiday. I'm afraid to book anything because I don't know when they mean "fall" for the resurgence. We've been spoiled in that we fly every year now, however we save all year for that one trip...so it's hard to come to terms with if we have to do something staying closer to home. It's such a FWP but this will be our 10 year anniversary. We always planned on Hawaii, then moved to it CA since I can't take two weeks in a row, but the thought of that long flight during this time freaks me out. I guess if travel is permitted we could do a road trip, but I don't know where we'd want to drive to weather wise in Oct on the east coast? We bring the rain wherever we go, even FL...and I'm not doing a road trip all the way down there either.
To further complicate matters DH has already put in for summer vacation last year. I imagine a lot of people will fight to move their week if we can't travel in the summer, and the employer turn it down since it's supposed to be locked in. Then if we can't travel in the fall why bother taking time off? I kind of hate staycations, esp after this working from home stuff. I sound like a jerk, but I like to get away for my vaca, then take a couple of days to hibernate before going back.
I wonder how annoying employers will be too? They can't deny you time off later because of this, but will they guilt you in to trying to stay in the office "since you've basically been on vacation at home for x months"?
Post by chickadee77 on Apr 1, 2020 13:43:00 GMT -5
We had planned a trip (family cabin, etc., so no money involved at this point) in early July, but I doubt it will happen. We're hoping we might be able to go early fall, but it's in Ontario, so it also depends on when the borders re-open. I'm mentally prepared to hunker down until January. I hope there's relief before then, though.