UK staycation boom predicted

Whereas I've just booked the main destination sites and will find others later, assuming the whole thing isn't cancelled again. There'll always be something to grab for a night en route.

Last night I booked a two day stop over as I felt we might be tempted to do the journey in one go and we're going through an area that others use as a stop off too. 

Never easy to get out and enjoy our own area in summer, looks like it will be even worse this year! We usually head for the peace and quiet of our static van site. Hope we can get there more this year. Spoke to someone on the site who said they are having a real sales boon, people buying from viewing on the internet. Maybe the people who normally go abroad.

I have had a lovely staycation for the last six months - here in a cottage in Cornwall - sheltered from the storms, granite walls a metre thick, two acres of land, four tons of logs in store for the wood burners, good neighbours within a mile or so, and good wi fi to read all your frustrations and hear of all  your plans.

But I have no plans for any other staycations at all. When circumstances permit, and if I am well enough I will head off to somewhere else -   but I might never bother with a caravan again. I have discovered greater freedom without one. 

We have a few CLs and 1 site booked for the end of April (if we are allowed) Having just had our first jab today that puts us around the 6th May for our second jab if it goes all the way to 12 weeks, if a bit earlier that will mean having to move a few things around or make a drive home without the caravan.

We still have a Bilbao ferry booked for end April but that isn't going to happen so not to worried about that, its a flexi booking so can move it nearer the time or wait and see if they are going to cancel. The tunnel booking that has also been carried over since last year will hopefully get extended again. If all is going well we will go away to France/Spain later in the year.

In the meantime I will look out somemore CLs/sites in the UK, all the ones I have looked at so far are all offering refunds/amendments should we not be able to go due to restrictions etc. so happy to go ahead and make bookings.

I would think that the site for the G7 meeting was chosen a long while ago, well before the virus first feared it's ugly head. It was probably chosen as being in a very scenic area and act as holiday propaganda for the S.West. With all the security arrangements that will have had to been carried out it probably isn't feasible to move it to another venue. Perhaps with the restrictions still in place when it happens there won't be crowds of  holidaymakers about anyway.

It's my view, Nellie, that if the restrictions are still in place in June then no one should be visiting, least of all a crowd from around the world with their entourage and press. That goes for anywhere in the country, btw, not just Cornwall.

I wonder if any leader of a G7 country, had they been hosting the conference, would cancel it? On a slightly different tack, if the restrictions are still in force, will all the guests be required to quarantine for 10 days prior to the meeting in a hotel, at their own expense of course?

No they'll have to do a Zoom meeting like everyone else...

I've booked a few C&CC sites, it was easy to move the deposits by phone last year and all the rest are none deposit CLs and CAMC sites. I wonder if the VAT reduction will be extended another reason for booking earlier.