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seriously, this is where I am at.... I'll try to not touch stuff and not tocuh my nose with anything but like it was said, the virus is everywhere, me staying home doesn't change that.
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Everyone with a booked flight across continents in the next 6 weeks... what are you going to do?
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seriously, this is where I am at.... I'll try to not touch stuff and not tocuh my nose with anything but like it was said, the virus is everywhere, me staying home doesn't change that.
Planned to go to France this Saturday for all of next week. In an hour or two I'm going to get on the phone with Expedia and assess our cancellation fees for our trip. Our AirBnB for that week wants to charge us a $300 fee, plus whatever bullshit British Airways charge us... I'm expecting us both to eat about $1000.
Travel insurance through British Air wouldn't have helped, their policy requires a doctors note to prove that we're too sick to fly. Plus, they're only waiving cancellation fees for flights booked since the beginning of March and not - y'know... Six months ago when I booked them.
Plus I haven't taken a vacation in two years and I'm burnt THE FUCK out at work right now.
Could not be more livid atm
Travel insurance through British Air wouldn't have helped, their policy requires a doctors note to prove that we're too sick to fly. Plus, they're only waiving cancellation fees for flights booked since the beginning of March and not - y'know... Six months ago when I booked them.
Plus I haven't taken a vacation in two years and I'm burnt THE FUCK out at work right now.
Could not be more livid atm
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KLM?? just change the dates tp next year or something!!!! don't eat the cost
Travel insurance doesn't cover coronavirus I unfortunately found that out the hard way.
At the end of the month, we were supposed to fly to the Philippines via Asiana for a week, then there to Japan for another week before flying back to the US. We ended up cancelling our Philippines trip. Surprisingly, Expedia was able to talk to Asiana into giving us a full refund. This was a few days before Asiana eventually cancelled the flight altogether (probably because we have layovers in South Korea that last for 12 hours) so I guess that's the reason.
Our issue now is the Philippines to Japan flight, since the airline there is unwilling to give us a refund :(. It sucks especially since we were looking forward to this trip since last year.
Our issue now is the Philippines to Japan flight, since the airline there is unwilling to give us a refund :(. It sucks especially since we were looking forward to this trip since last year.
I was gonna go to Czech Republic sometime in april but i'm gonna skip that. Never booked a flight but i'm gonna hold off doing that for some time now. If i had booked i would not go, depensing on how the situation had escalated and it would not be for my own sake, rather for others and not spread the virus if i wouöd get infected.
Please reconsider.
You should be concerned. Being concerned is not the same as panicking. We all need to make adjustments.
We have a trip to Vegas in 3 weeks.
We followed this check list, and evaluated the risk for our family:
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This is from March 5th, a LOT has changed.
We've pretty much cancelled our yearly family trip to America. It's in June but I doubt things will be settled by then.
With my mother being Asian she just doesn't want to deal with all the added racism (on top of the usual travel bs we have to deal with because of our religion).
With my mother being Asian she just doesn't want to deal with all the added racism (on top of the usual travel bs we have to deal with because of our religion).
I was thinking about going to Iceland in like August/September and unless it gets even worse and they start cancelling flights, I'll probably go regardless.
I'll continue to monitor but at this time I'm not canceling my flight.
I'm off to Osaka mid May and it's touch and go. Not sure what the deal is in Japan, they seem to have a lot less cases but is it accurate, seems not. If the worst of it has blown over we're happy to still go. I'm more worried in case the UK ends up like Italy and then we'll probably not be allowed entry into Japan anyway. Also travelling via Dubai because it's emirates so that might be an issue too. Too early to know for sure but in my mind I'm preparing for it not happening, hopefully able to rebook for later in the year or even next year.
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I am with you but I am not sure what's to monitor :/ the thing is everywhere and we should avoid any unnecessary flying.
flying around cities makes us to some extent at least a bit irresponsible and/or selfish, I will be in 5 countries in a time interval of 7 days... I will do it cause I don't want to flush money down the toilet and I am all by myself, I take full responsibility for my actions.
....but on the 2nd leg of the trip I'll travel to see my family (think Germany-> Holland-> New York - >Mexico) I could arrive at my parents in Mexico with a freshly obtanied coronavirus infection, and infect parents, siblings, friends, etc...
I do feel a tiny little bit irresponsible.
I have a trip to Cuba with my GF at the end of the month.
So far I think it's pretty over control here in Quebec and there...so I'll be taking a chance.
Can't say that I'm not thinking about it though!
So far I think it's pretty over control here in Quebec and there...so I'll be taking a chance.
Can't say that I'm not thinking about it though!
I have a cruise trip from NY to Bermuda in early Sept. It's still far away but with how things are going it's hard to say how it's gonna be by then.
I'm leaning towards it being cancelled but who knows right now.
I'm leaning towards it being cancelled but who knows right now.
They are only covering it under those strict circumstances listed. Since I'm not going to one of those countries and don't currently have the virus it is not covered.
You're vacationing in Mexico right now and you're on here spending precious vacation time making like 5 posts about how not worried you are? Haha! Sure, you really demonstrated how not worried you are....
I'm flying from Ireland to DC to visit family in April, current FCO advice doesn't exclude the US yet so I guess I'm still going. I'll monitor their advice until then.
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Check if there are any COVID-19 rules in place for travel to England from abroad.
Going to Seattle from April 8th to 12th for a quick sightseeing trip.
Was going with a friend, but I have a suspicions he might cancel (he's getting flack from his family).
It be one thing if we were in one of the states with no listed corona victims, but we live in fucking new york city...seems a bit hypocritical to be afraid considering I believe by today's tally we are clearly leading the nation in the outbreak.
I got tix to see King Krule tho in a good venue during the time so as long as that shown is going on im 100% there, solo if needed.
"Dont let the terrorists win" - GW Bush
Was going with a friend, but I have a suspicions he might cancel (he's getting flack from his family).
It be one thing if we were in one of the states with no listed corona victims, but we live in fucking new york city...seems a bit hypocritical to be afraid considering I believe by today's tally we are clearly leading the nation in the outbreak.
I got tix to see King Krule tho in a good venue during the time so as long as that shown is going on im 100% there, solo if needed.
"Dont let the terrorists win" - GW Bush
FIL is cancelling an April trip to stay with us for 3 weeks. Hubby might drive to New Orleans and bring him to Austin though cause if things get bad, we trust the services in Austin more than New Orleans.
He's also cancelling a trip to Taiwan, and MIL is stuck in Taiwan.
He's also cancelling a trip to Taiwan, and MIL is stuck in Taiwan.
I just flew back to NZ from Colombia via LAX this morning, and was pretty cautious about things. With the Snap Partner Summit and E3 cancelled that's two less trips to the US in the next few months.
I'll still go to a conference in Colombia in late May, but will avoid LAX and connect through Santiago, Chile instead. Frankly I consider the US one of the highest risk places to contract COVID19 right now and likely for the next few months.
I'll still go to a conference in Colombia in late May, but will avoid LAX and connect through Santiago, Chile instead. Frankly I consider the US one of the highest risk places to contract COVID19 right now and likely for the next few months.
I had a big trip to Korea and Japan planned for the end of April that I had to cancel. The cancellation fee from Korean Air and Delta were BANANAS. Ironically I booked it all about a week before the news started blowing up.
I have a flight at the beginning of May to Cancun
I have a flight at the beginning of June to Spain and Germany.
TBD on both!
I have a flight at the beginning of June to Spain and Germany.
TBD on both!
I'm on a short trip within the country and I'm already finding it hard to enjoy with the paranoia. Things change so quickly, I can't even be certain that it's safe to take a train on Sunday. When I get back I'll probably be super cautious for weeks.
Exact same boat as you. From Canada, have a 2 weeka trip to Cancun, Mexico booked with my girlfriend for the last week of May. We did buy insurance with our tickets so we can get a full refund, but for now we wait and see.
Worst case scenario, we will get our refund and use that money to go somewhere on those same dates in Canada.
How does the containment efforts in NZ looking like right now? Im flying into NZ in June, and at this point I wouldnt be surprised for an outbreak between now and then.
Shh, he'll just take a taxi. And I suppose taxi drivers are immune?*shrugs*
I'm following the CDC travel guidelines like any reasonable person should. Including sanitation practices which at this point is stuff everyone should be doing anyway so not much of a change. I don't plan to cancel but if they advise to halt non-essential travel then I will.
I'm still going to China, I'm not letting it affect my life. Its not like Emirates or my travel insurance will do shit.
5 cases and no deaths, all contained to Auckland last time I checked (5m population). For all countries, I think it will get worse before it gets better though.
We have a good public health care system too, and tourists can access emergency for free for example.
We are flying to London to Vancouver in April, and are due to be doing a week at Whistler and a week on vancouver isalnd. We are worried that the flights will end up getting cancelled. Spent in excess of 5k on the trip already with flights, passes, lessons etc
We had been planning to go to Sicily in the Summer, but putting that on ice for now.
We had been planning to go to Sicily in the Summer, but putting that on ice for now.