Trip to the South of France

Insurance? Payout might depend when you booked, pre or post lockdown date. 

Well, if you worried at all, I would phone the Sites, see what they say/advise, then phone Club for advice. Sincerely hope you get there, but think it will be touch and go. France has rescheduled it’s largest sporting event to October now, rather than July, so I would start thinking about finding out what situation is going to be if you can. Good luck👍

Have a look in the overseas holiday section at the top of this page, click on the updates for foreign travel. CAMC states that some places are unavailable for phone contact at the moment and using emails is making things longer to sort out etc. I would guess you need to take some sort of action to enquire about your holiday.

edit you responded as I was posting so it looks like you are making a bit of progress. 

Tour de France revised date showing on their website as 29/8 to 20/9/20. But Devi Sridhar, 35, professor of global public health at Edinburgh University has condemned the Tour, saying in effect that it is an open invitation for Coronavirus to start again, but this time right across France, because of the huge distance of each stage, and the distances between the regions on the Tour. Social distancing problems,multinationality of riders, crew and fans, danger of being gobbed on by riders or sprayed by discarded drinks bottles from the peloton etc are just some of the challenges that could be avoided by cancelling this year's Tour.

I love the Tour and love France, but this year is not one for us to visit. Our French hovel is in desperate need of some running repairs and maintenance, but it will still need them the following year. If I visit too soon, the maintenance could be someone else's problem.

Steve

Its another 5 or 6 weeks so a lot will change by then including a U turn for the 14 day quarantine rule, hopefully tourism will open beginning of July (in fact latest statement form the club confirms that) and travel to EU allowed again.  As for insurance I guess itts going to be  a chance to take this year .

If you need health care in the EU the E111 is still valid.

Hi rich, You may be right that not much will change, but equally it might, and I hope that you do get your holiday.

If you are referring to Covid 19 only then, as you say, almost all insurers will not give you cover but, and its a big but, I think that to say "we are young, fit and healthy" and "I would get us home anyway" is , without the benefit of travel insurance, quite a bold statement.

Hi David, After my last post I tried to find the info re cover fot travel and have spoken to UK Insurance who provide the Nationwide Flex Plus policies.

Interesting call, with Gary, who said that yes I was still covered, then I changed tack and he said "so far as I am aware".

I said that I would not set sail on such a flimsy guarantee so he asked the question of his manager-all done by email as staff are working from home-and the answer came back that you would be covered BUT only if your trip was classed as 'essential'. 

That is what I presumed, and was curious as some posts seem to suggest travel without insurance, so for us its still fingers crossed for a Cornwall Rally in September and possible foreign trip once the FCO advice changes.

For us, with only myself as a driver, the issues that could require a claim are perhaps greater than for many others.

"We have a trip planned for early September will only go if all is safe"

Which year is that? I think there may be a great variety of opinions on what constitutes "all is safe" and for some maybe September will be too early.

Of course it matters what cover you have-all the reasons for insurance pre the virus are still there-but if the FCO advice remains as now you have no cover.