Sharm - would you?

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pincher

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8,497 posts

216 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Looking at holidays at the moment and the kids quite fancy Sharm again, as we haven't been there for a few years.

Obviously, the situation in Tunisia has made people a little more nervous and the FCO rates Egypt (ex Sharm) as potentially a high-risk area ( link).

Would you consider it right now? Part of me thinks it'd be fine but another part of me thinks why go to a place where it could easily kick off?

NormalWisdom

2,139 posts

158 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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I would. Have been trying to get a fortnight in Tunisia but operators seem to have pulled most deals. I will not let these cowardly bds dictate how I live my life.

BoRED S2upid

19,643 posts

239 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Personally I wouldn't. You would have thought Tunisia was safe a few months back.

Fingers crossed ISIS don't know where Wales is as that's where we are off to this year roll on this heat wave we've been promised.

hornetrider

63,161 posts

204 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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fk going to Africa for the time being, frankly. The world is a big place.

Mermaid

21,492 posts

170 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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hornetrider said:
fk going to Africa for the time being, frankly. The world is a big place.
Zanzibar? Mauritius?

Rosscow

8,723 posts

162 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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I have to say that normally I would fly in the face of this kind of crap, but there's no way I'd risk my family by taking them to Egypt, Turkey, Cyprus, Tunisia etc. at the moment.

Plenty of other places to go on holiday.

mr_fibuli

1,109 posts

194 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Far more likely to die from the taxi drivers, food poisoning, or sharks...

I went to Sharm a couple of years ago when it was kicking off in Cairo and loads of people had cancelled - the best bit was having most of the hotel to ourselves.

Rosscow

8,723 posts

162 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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mr_fibuli said:
Far more likely to die from the taxi drivers, food poisoning, or sharks...

I went to Sharm a couple of years ago when it was kicking off in Cairo and loads of people had cancelled - the best bit was having most of the hotel to ourselves.
I'm sure you probably are.

And that's what the people going to Tunisia probably thought as well!

WinstonWolf

72,857 posts

238 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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We're booked for our fifth visit next year already. The IRA didn't stop us doing things, I'm not changing the habits of a lifetime...

hornetrider

63,161 posts

204 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Mermaid said:
hornetrider said:
fk going to Africa for the time being, frankly. The world is a big place.
Zanzibar? Mauritius?
Yeah maybe, although I'm not familiar with Zanzibar. I meant mainland Africa.

Jarcy

1,559 posts

274 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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I'm booked with the family in a month's time. Certainly concerned, but am determined not to let these lowlifes influence our plans unless there's a change in the situation.

Rosscow

8,723 posts

162 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Jarcy said:
I'm booked with the family in a month's time. Certainly concerned, but am determined not to let these lowlifes influence our plans unless there's a change in the situation.
Interestingly, if you had not of booked before the shootings in Tunisia, would you have after?

twing

4,996 posts

130 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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I'm about to book for September. Thought twice about it but decided that, the way things are nowadays, I'm just as likely to get shot on a day out in London as anywhere else.
Plus I've been there a few times and seen the amount of AK47-wielding soldiers kicking around.

//j17

4,471 posts

222 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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I would. In many ways this is one of the safest times to visit a tourist destination in north Africa, as the recent attack will have made other countries step up the security around their tourist resorts that are often a major source of the countries foreign income.

Also in 2014 1,713 people were killed in road traffic accidents in GB, which is far greater than the numbers of British people killed by terrorists that year. Hell 'only' 453 British soldiers had been killed in Afghanistan between 2001 and April 2014.

The risk of being in any way caught up in an attack in Sharm, let alone killed or injured are probably FRACTIONALLY higher than the risk of being caught up in a terrorist attack here in the UK.

benters

1,459 posts

133 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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I have been to Sharm a few times, and I would go back now. Whilst the threat might be raised, I would like to think so is the awareness of the good guys patrolling the location.

Where as, it could be argued, the other traditional places may need to initiate troops and security as a precaution.
It's impossible to protect yourself against every risk, albeit wise to consider things thoroughly.


Timmy40

12,915 posts

197 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Apart from being cheap, and unless you're mad on diving why would you go there? There's Cyprus and a host of other places that are similar climate/price without the terrorism.

toasty

7,441 posts

219 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Last time I was there, we stayed in a hotel full of Russians.

Not such a bad thing, I can't imagine ISIS want to tread on Putin's toes.

Muzzer79

9,806 posts

186 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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I'd go. The chances of anything happening are massively remote.

Not so long ago, some scumbags bombed the Tube on 7/7. Doesn't stop me visiting London.....

ETA - biggest thing that would worry me about going to Egypt is getting the uncontrollable squits.....

pincher

Original Poster:

8,497 posts

216 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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I can see both sides of the coin - whilst I agree that the chances of anything happening in Sharm (or anywhere you might pick to go on holiday) are reasonably remote, I'm not sure that I want be putting my kids in a situation where something 'could' happen. We've been through a lot in the last 2 years and that region is, and always has been, a bit more volatile than mainland Europe.

Obviously, anything can happen anywhere these days and you never know where or when - maybe I should just stay at home with my tin(foil) helmet on smile

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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WinstonWolf said:
We're booked for our fifth visit next year already. The IRA didn't stop us doing things, I'm not changing the habits of a lifetime...
Paddy's modus operandi and that of ISIS are somewhat different.
rolleyes