We should be in NYC right now but obviously we weren’t going to do that trip so... we now have a very big airline credit we will need to use up. Ideally I’d like to use it to go to NYC but it’s only good for travel through February next year and I don’t want to go to NYC during the dead of winter but also don’t know if I’d be comfortable traveling there this fall. I guess we will wait and see. Maybe I’ll pivot and use the airfare credit to buy tickets to Hawaii next winter instead (since we will lose the credit if we don’t book, so I will book something and then make a decision about booking the rest of it when we get closer to our travel dates).
I have a no kid trip booked to a remote hotel in British Columbia for early September. We’ve paid a deposit but haven’t paid the bulk of our trip. Will evaluate as we get closer. I assume we are out the deposit if we don’t go but the hotel is open.
I don’t plan to book anything else right now and I’m kind of bummed because for my 40th next year I was thinking of booking a two week trip to Croatia with my H. I imagine I won’t feel comfortable doing international travel without my kids then, so it will probably be delayed - but I guess we will see.
Nothing is planned. I’m pretty sure we will be ordered to stay home until June (through June?). Then I’ve read about a second wave in the fall. I can’t imagine going from staying at home to traveling immediately. At this point going to the grocery store makes me anxious, and for me, I don’t think that will turn off immediately when the SIP order is lifted.
Well we have a $1500+ travel voucher we need to use by end of year with AA for cancelling our trip to Grenada last month, but I plan to contact them at some point and see if we can move it to next spring. We’ll have a newborn mid-late August and I’d rather not put a 3-4 mo old on a plane during peak cold and flu (& possible second round of covid) season if I can at least wait until spring when he’ll have his flu shot.
My mom is building a house about 45 min outside of Asheville and our hope is to spend Thanksgiving there this year. We could fly or drive, so we’ll see how things go. Other than that, I need to cancel my tickets for a girls’ weekend I had planned in Denver next month.
Post by wanderlustmom on Apr 4, 2020 19:55:12 GMT -5
We had beach plans this week, of course that got cancelled.
We hope to take a road trip to see family and maybe drive to the beach this summer. So hope we can still do those simple trips.
September we planned London and Paris. We are about 75 percent sure we won’t be able to go. That makes us sad. Our kids are teens and we want to maximize travel time with them. If we can’t go, so hoping we can fly somewhere in the US or at least drive to an Airbnb at the beach
Post by karinothing on Apr 4, 2020 20:18:32 GMT -5
We have a flight credit for our cancelled spring break trip that we have to spend by December. So I was hoping to go then, but who knows. If not december we can push it to Feb. Then we would have to beg united to extend the credit.
We are supposed to go to the outer banks the last week in August. I doubt that will happen.
We have a trip planned in late July/Augustwith extended family and haven’t cancelled yet. We’re waiting until closer to see where things are by then. If it doesn’t happen we will likely reschedule to October during fall break week or Thanksgiving and maybe somewhere closer to home and just us, not family.
We haven’t made final payment for the July trip so we can cancel until May 6th or something and likely get a full refund (it’s a cruise and we are very iffy as of now).
I had 3 trips cancelled/about to be cancelled this spring/early summer. One was a cruise. I’m stuck with cruise credit so I booked something July 2021 for that. All other trips I’m playing it by ear for 2020. I now have a ton of travel points and credits to use. If things calm down I’m hoping we can do some small fall trips but I won’t book anything far in advance.
Post by mccallister84 on Apr 5, 2020 8:01:33 GMT -5
We were supposed to be in Denver right now visiting my in laws (a 4 hour flight away). We haven’t seen FIL in pretty much exactly a year now. MIL did come out here in September and then when H was having a mental health crisis in February she came out to help me out (silver lining I guess?). We did rebook for the end of July but it’s through southwest so very flexible if we aren’t comfortable going then.
Post by verycontrary247 on Apr 5, 2020 8:11:33 GMT -5
No.
We had plans to go to Philly, NYC and Boston for our last child-free trip in July. I'm due late August/early September, so there's not really a good time to reschedule this year.
I just cancelled our trip to Disney in September yesterday 😓. I haven't cancelled my Sonoma trip in June yet but I'm fairly certain I will, especially since both myself and my friend I'm going with are out of work.
We are supposed to go to New Zealand in late November. Typically we take our big family trip over the summer, and it’s just by coincidence that we had a later trip planned this year. We had already booked our flights and our first Airbnb but have put all other planning on hold.
We also planned a long weekend in the Poconos to celebrate my in-laws’ 70th birthdays in late August. We are hoping we can still do that since we will be driving and staying at an Airbnb.
We spend a lot of our summer at my parents’ beach house but the shore towns have been asking non-residents to stay home. We always go for Easter but obviously we will be staying home this year. It will be sad if that continues through the summer.
Nope. We had travel plans this week, our 10 year anniversary is Friday, and those are canceled. We'd planned to go to Florida in June, that's on hold, and likely canceled. I'm crossing my fingers that maybe by this Christmas we'll be able to do something, otherwise we already had Disney cruise/Disney World tentative plans for 2021, I guess we'll just save a little more for those trips, maybe splash out on some on-board pampering and a better excursion, or longer trip.
I admittedly feel guilty being sad about travel when other people have WAY bigger problems.
I’d be shocked if anyone is allowed to travel out of the county in 2020, certainly this summer. No way is that a good idea. We are all social distancing and isolating until there is a vaccine to save lives.
We're supposed to go to Chicago for a concert the last weekend in August. I have no idea if that will be feasible or not, hard to know. We haven't bought airline tickets yet.
I’d be shocked if anyone is allowed to travel out of the county in 2020, certainly this summer. No way is that a good idea. We are all social distancing and isolating until there is a vaccine to save lives.
I’ve admittedly not been watching the news closely because work is crazy and that’s enough news. But is that what experts are recommending now? That non-essential stuff will be shut down and we need to social distance until there’s a vaccine?
I’d be shocked if anyone is allowed to travel out of the county in 2020, certainly this summer. No way is that a good idea. We are all social distancing and isolating until there is a vaccine to save lives.
I’ve admittedly not been watching the news closely because work is crazy and that’s enough news. But is that what experts are recommending now? That non-essential stuff will be shut down and we need to social distance until there’s a vaccine?
Yes, some areas might have more herd immunity but most of the US cities are in single digits infection rate. If we don't stay with social distancing/isolation then we will just have another peak after peak until vaccine.
If we get better testing, at home testing, faster results, anti-bodies, and contact tracing then maybe we can have a slightly more normal life but I don't see that happening anytime in the next three months.
Maybe to the grocery store, but that's probably about it.
Dh was going to give a talk at a conference in Milan later this year and I was hoping to go along, and there was a family reunion in AZ planned for October, but not anymore.
We were supposed to spend Christmas with one of our daughters, her H, and our grandsons, but I am thinking that is not going to happen. We were hoping to all travel somewhere together, but now we're glad that we hadn't made our plans yet. She is immunocompromised and her health and safety has to come first.
I’ve admittedly not been watching the news closely because work is crazy and that’s enough news. But is that what experts are recommending now? That non-essential stuff will be shut down and we need to social distance until there’s a vaccine?
Yes, some areas might have more herd immunity but most of the US cities are in single digits infection rate. If we don't stay with social distancing/isolation then we will just have another peak after peak until vaccine.
If we get better testing, at home testing, faster results, anti-bodies, and contact tracing then maybe we can have a slightly more normal life but I don't see that happening anytime in the next three months.
Can you share a link please? I’d love to read more.
I’ve admittedly not been watching the news closely because work is crazy and that’s enough news. But is that what experts are recommending now? That non-essential stuff will be shut down and we need to social distance until there’s a vaccine?
Yes, some areas might have more herd immunity but most of the US cities are in single digits infection rate. If we don't stay with social distancing/isolation then we will just have another peak after peak until vaccine.
If we get better testing, at home testing, faster results, anti-bodies, and contact tracing then maybe we can have a slightly more normal life but I don't see that happening anytime in the next three months.
Is this something that's been published or otherwise spoken about by experts or people in charge or is this just what you think will/should happen?
Yes, some areas might have more herd immunity but most of the US cities are in single digits infection rate. If we don't stay with social distancing/isolation then we will just have another peak after peak until vaccine.
If we get better testing, at home testing, faster results, anti-bodies, and contact tracing then maybe we can have a slightly more normal life but I don't see that happening anytime in the next three months.
Is this something that's been published or otherwise spoken about by experts or people in charge or is this just what you think will/should happen?
Will we need social distancing until there is a vaccine?
Our model suggests that, with social distancing, the end of the first wave of the epidemic could occur by early June. The question of whether there will be a second wave of the epidemic will depend on what we do to avoid reintroducing COVID-19 into the population. By the end of the first wave of the epidemic, an estimated 97% of the population of the United States will still be susceptible to the disease and thus measures to avoid a second wave of the pandemic prior to vaccine availability will be necessary. Maintaining some of the social distancing measures could be supplemented or replaced by nation-wide efforts such as mass screening, contact tracing, and selective quarantine.
Post by litskispeciality on Apr 6, 2020 13:18:18 GMT -5
On the radio this morning a mayor said that they don't anticipate we'll be back to "normal" or even work in person by the early May deadline put out in our state. If we get the surge predicted for mid-April it could still take 30 days of SIP or longer for that to die down. They cited that Italy hopes to be past the biggest surge, but is still on lockdown. They're at least 1.5 weeks ahead of the US, and much smaller, so I think it makes sense to assume we'll need even longer. It sucks, it really does but if it saves lives...I just wish a lot of businesses could do something so they don't permanently close.
Post by Patsy Baloney on Apr 6, 2020 13:22:59 GMT -5
I didn’t check to see all of what was linked, but I’ve heard the term, “Whack-a-mole” used with regards to what we can expect once this first wave is isolated and hot zones are calmed. Periodically, outbreaks will happen and measures will have to go in place to contain them.
I don’t necessarily believe that means we will be locked down until a vaccine has been distributed to the population.
Post by leshoequeen on Apr 6, 2020 13:23:43 GMT -5
We rescheduled our March spring break trip to August through HomeAway. Both HomeAway and the property owner were complete jerks about it. I'm starting to have doubts about being able to go in August although I hope we are able. We tried to reschedule to March of 2021 but they wouldn't hear of it.