Vacation V Staycation Costs

Nah!!!! do either Singapore or Hong Kong and maybe throw in Dubai as an interim stop, and if you can afford it do Business Class, anything over 6 hours and the company always paid for business class

We stayed at Singapore and Dubai last time. I really enjoyed Singapore  but wasn't too enamoured with Dubai  -  Burj Khalifa was good though and is  another one for ttda's list  . 

Shh! don't mention Business Class, my wife is determined that is the way to travel in future, I 'm trying to hold out!! 

Last time we went it was 8rs, 8hrs then a few days in Singapore followed by a very friendly 8hr Quantas flight to Sydney.

Coming back it was 14hrs to Dubaii, a couple of days stopover then 8hrs to home. The second  outbound 8hrs flight was the worst. The 14 hrs flight was so easy and I was dreading it beforehand.

The only flight that wasn't on the A380 was the Quantas one. The A380 is some plane, just a pity we weren't upstairs!

Nope. Won’t be tempted into any place that doesn’t value the female sex. I have my standards and afraid this is one of them. Takes a good few gorgeous locations off the itinerary, but I’d rather freeze in hell than part with cash to any country that doesn’t consider me an equal human being.🤨 I like natural wonders more than artificial ones as well. Or at least very old man made structures. 

According to most informative websites, it’s unlikely Antipodes will welcome many overseas tourists this year. They are brighter than us, and have kept their countries at a reasonable Covid case rate. 👍

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Vacations just got a whole lot more expensive.

We're stopped from escaping but the incoming will be as porous as ever I'll warrant. I don't know about surfers looking for the seventh but the third wave is on its way. 

I try to avoid posting media reports as, on CT, they are mostly someones opinion however, as the below text shows its no wonder that people are sometimes confused.

I was drawn to the question that Prof Hennigan asks as this is one that will face us all once its 'legal' and we consider going 'over there'.

To be clear, I am not advocating one approach over another, we must all take our own decisions, but just reflecting on the confusion and uncertainty that maybe we all thought was coming to an end.

"Care minister Helen Whately yesterday repeated official warnings that booking a trip abroad would be ‘premature’.

But top scientists yesterday backed allowing foreign holidays this summer.

Carl Heneghan, a professor of evidence-based medicine at Oxford University, said:

‘We were allowing people to go on holiday last summer, without any testing programme, and now we have got the vaccination programme and the testing programme. Given that, you have to ask the question, “What will it take if that’s not sufficient?”’

Professor Robert Dingwall, who sits on the Government’s scientific advisory group Nervtag, added: ‘We should have been able to complete the two rounds of vaccinations for the over-50s and clinically vulnerable by the end of April, early May.

‘Add on a couple of weeks for these things to take effect and you wouldn’t really have much of a case for going beyond the end of May [for extending the travel ban].’

However, given the picture in Europe it appears increasingly likely that foreign holidays will be delayed until at least June 21, the same day the Government plans to remove all domestic restrictions.

Oh, by the way this was in the Mail Online, just now.

Hi CY, Just cross posted.

I noticed the headline about the £5000 fines and what I posted was in the same article.

There doesn’t seem to be much progress/info re vaccine passport from the EU nor UK leaders🤷🏻‍♂️. I’m thinking-if someone gets the 1st jab in April the 2nd will be up to July then apply for vax passport so getting away is still doable👍🏻

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