Summer holidays 2020

[survivalist]

EddieSteadyGo said:

PHlL said:

I'd personally be quite worried about the travel insurance, especially for health care.

Still yet to delve into it myself, but I imagine anything covid is going to be excluded so it does a bare a risk, one I'm not sure I'd want to be responsible for.

You would need to check with your travel insurance company. If the trip was booked before March this year, I believe it would be covered. New bookings made after March have covid excluded.

Most hotels and accommodation providers are though extending their cancellation policy to take the risk themselves.

If you needed hospital treatment though for suspected covid I'm not certain whether or not it would be covered if it was for a new booking.

It’s more likely to be linked to FCO travel advice at the point of travel. Currently they are advising against all but essential travel, so most policies won’t Cover you regardless of when you booked. The pre/post Covid thing is more about paying out in the event that you can’t travel.

I recon there’s a very high chance the FCO advice will change soon, although if we can travel we will be going either way. It’s only Europe so low risk.

[EddieSteadyGo]

survivalist said:

EddieSteadyGo said:

PHlL said:

I'd personally be quite worried about the travel insurance, especially for health care.

Still yet to delve into it myself, but I imagine anything covid is going to be excluded so it does a bare a risk, one I'm not sure I'd want to be responsible for.

You would need to check with your travel insurance company. If the trip was booked before March this year, I believe it would be covered. New bookings made after March have covid excluded.

Most hotels and accommodation providers are though extending their cancellation policy to take the risk themselves.

If you needed hospital treatment though for suspected covid I'm not certain whether or not it would be covered if it was for a new booking.

It’s more likely to be linked to FCO travel advice at the point of travel. Currently they are advising against all but essential travel, so most policies won’t Cover you regardless of when you booked. The pre/post Covid thing is more about paying out in the event that you can’t travel.

I recon there’s a very high chance the FCO advice will change soon, although if we can travel we will be going either way. It’s only Europe so low risk.

The FCO advice is a separate item. My travel insurance company (and many others) let the person who is travelling decide what is "essential".

My understanding is that covid has been added as a policy exclusion to all UK travel insurance policies for new bookings (made after late March). If the booking was made prior to this it would be covered for covid related matters.

[JQ]

EddieSteadyGo said:

My understanding is that covid has been added as a policy exclusion to all UK travel insurance policies for new bookings (made after late March). If the booking was made prior to this it would be covered for covid related matters.

Sorry, just to be clear - with Covid as a policy exclusion, would that mean if you required hospital treatment whilst abroad for Covid, it would be your own responsibility?

[PHlL]

JQ said:

Sorry, just to be clear - with Covid as a policy exclusion, would that mean if you required hospital treatment whilst abroad for Covid, it would be your own responsibility?

That would be my understanding, but I'll stand corrected.

Within Europe we do have our EHIC which I'd imagine would still cover.

[seefarr]

After eleventy-billion weeks locked in a London apartment, we've booked a week working away in an AirBnB in Cornwall from the 5th. Now we just pray that the only pub in town opens....

[EddieSteadyGo]

JQ said:

EddieSteadyGo said:

My understanding is that covid has been added as a policy exclusion to all UK travel insurance policies for new bookings (made after late March). If the booking was made prior to this it would be covered for covid related matters.

Sorry, just to be clear - with Covid as a policy exclusion, would that mean if you required hospital treatment whilst abroad for Covid, it would be your own responsibility?

I asked my travel insurance company - they said all claims related to covid, including healthcare, would not be covered if the trip was a "new" booking made after late March. And they told me all UK travel insurance companies were applying this covid exclusion for new bookings.

However, I doubt this would be quite true. Certainly you wouldn't be able to claim for losses from flight cancellation, accommodation, car hire costs etc.

But with healthcare, it is such an grey area - if you go into hospital and you were found to have covid, does that mean no treatment would be covered? What about if the treatment didn't appear to be related to covid, yet you were +ve? I doubt they would be able to exclude it in practise. But hard to get a super definitive answer on this from a call centre.

[hyphen]

Can visit 10 countries without quarantine from next week, paper says


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8457279/B...

[vaud]

hyphen said:

Can visit 10 countries without quarantine from next week, paper says

They seem to be leaking to the Mail and the Telegraph.

Sorry, "unattributable background briefing"

[hyphen]

EddieSteadyGo said:

I asked my travel insurance company - they said all claims related to covid, including healthcare, would not be covered if the trip was a "new" booking made after late March. And they told me all UK travel insurance companies were applying this covid exclusion for new bookings.

However, I doubt this would be quite true. Certainly you wouldn't be able to claim for losses from flight cancellation, accommodation, car hire costs etc.

But with healthcare, it is such an grey area - if you go into hospital and you were found to have covid, does that mean no treatment would be covered? What about if the treatment didn't appear to be related to covid, yet you were +ve? I doubt they would be able to exclude it in practise. But hard to get a super definitive answer on this from a call centre.

Suspect it will be an add-on as per winter sports cover.

Fat? Old? Sorry sir, the online system cannot quote...for a potential 6 month stay in ITU abroad. Call us for a £5k quote with a string of stipulations and exclusions.

[Terra1]

Downward said:

Anyone got issues with passports ?
Not that i’m going but I heard you can’t get them unless it’s for urgent travel.
I’m fingers crossed they cancel my flight. This week they have reduced the flight price to £25 each way on the dates we fly. You would have thought they would have increased prices if they thought it was realistic that they will fly ?

You can still apply online but they are trying to put you off unless urgent. Sounds like it's pretty hit and miss on how long it's taking to process though. We submitted a renewal on Monday for travel on August 18th so fingers crossed.

[wjwren]

Tried contacting tui today. The customer service in India is ste. They fob you off. The online reviews reflect this. My wife works for TUI and she brings up the customer service at every training meeting.

[PushedDover]

"In"

Had a yacht charter for Turkey held off since the turn of the year, and just pressed the button for the flights to suit.

Spoke to a sea dog out there this morning that said : "Hiya,
I’m out teaching this week, surprisingly busy. There are no real issues here out in the bays or on land in Gocek. So it’s pretty much business as normal here. Issue is flights and when they will start. Expectation is around 15 July here but nothing concrete."


And then the video sent sat there bobbing at anchor over breakfast just pissed me off

[PHlL]

vaud said:

They seem to be leaking to the Mail and the Telegraph.

Sorry, "unattributable background briefing"

Looks like it's leaking through most news outlets which I hope means it's reliable.

I love reading the BBC comments

[anonymous-user]

wjwren said:

Tried contacting tui today. The customer service in India is ste. They fob you off. The online reviews reflect this. My wife works for TUI and she brings up the customer service at every training meeting.

If she works for them, can’t you use some employee number or employee scheme for anything to do with holidays and flights etc?

I work for an airline and all our discounted flights and holidays etc (and any issues) are all done through a completely different system.

[ElectricSoup]

I booked a private villa in the South of France for mid-July back in October. Have been in two minds about whether it'll be possible to use it for several months now, but I think it looks increasingly likely today. I'll be driving there but haven't booked a crossing yet. Will get on the Eurotunnel website shortly.

[omniflow]

ElectricSoup said:

I booked a private villa in the South of France for mid-July back in October. Have been in two minds about whether it'll be possible to use it for several months now, but I think it looks increasingly likely today. I'll be driving there but haven't booked a crossing yet. Will get on the Eurotunnel website shortly.

I've just been on the Eurotunnel website and it's completely sold out for a return to the UK on Sunday 30th August. I'll either need to get the Ferry, or stay another night somewhere in Europe.

[ElectricSoup]

omniflow said:

ElectricSoup said:

I booked a private villa in the South of France for mid-July back in October. Have been in two minds about whether it'll be possible to use it for several months now, but I think it looks increasingly likely today. I'll be driving there but haven't booked a crossing yet. Will get on the Eurotunnel website shortly.

I've just been on the Eurotunnel website and it's completely sold out for a return to the UK on Sunday 30th August. I'll either need to get the Ferry, or stay another night somewhere in Europe.

Availability is there for my dates, but it's 50 quid more each way than usual. Hey ho.

[Shnozz]

ElectricSoup said:

I booked a private villa in the South of France for mid-July back in October. Have been in two minds about whether it'll be possible to use it for several months now, but I think it looks increasingly likely today. I'll be driving there but haven't booked a crossing yet. Will get on the Eurotunnel website shortly.

Doesn’t quarantine still apply in France (as well as in return)? Or are you thinking quarantining are the villa?

[towser44]

Shnozz said:

ElectricSoup said:

I booked a private villa in the South of France for mid-July back in October. Have been in two minds about whether it'll be possible to use it for several months now, but I think it looks increasingly likely today. I'll be driving there but haven't booked a crossing yet. Will get on the Eurotunnel website shortly.

Doesn’t quarantine still apply in France (as well as in return)? Or are you thinking quarantining are the villa?

Not if they announce these bridges between countries which sound imminent where quarantine doesn't apply

[ElectricSoup]

Shnozz said:

ElectricSoup said:

I booked a private villa in the South of France for mid-July back in October. Have been in two minds about whether it'll be possible to use it for several months now, but I think it looks increasingly likely today. I'll be driving there but haven't booked a crossing yet. Will get on the Eurotunnel website shortly.

Doesn’t quarantine still apply in France (as well as in return)? Or are you thinking quarantining are the villa?

It's voluntary on the French side. But we'll be mainly "quarantining" at the villa, just pop out for food occasionally. Nothing more than we do here. But there, we will have a private swimming pool and great weather....

Quarantine still applies on return, I expect that to change soon, but even if it doesn't it's no hardship. We work from home, kids on school holidays, online groceries, no problem.