Vacation V Staycation Costs
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Out of control forest fires last year, unprecedented floods this year, they've certainly had it hard over the past 24 months. But, I agree, not a reason to lose hope for future times.
We've got NZ pencilled in for 2023 to celebrate our joint 70's. If it turns out to be impossible that'll be bad luck, but it doesn't stop us looking forward to it, even from this distance!
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We have been before and had a 2/3 day stop over each way. When we were planning to go last year, the suggestion by a few frequent travellers was "don't bother just do it in one hit" but only time will tell, which we choose.
It seems very unlikely that the travel company we were intending to book with for the NZ trip will have survived.
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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!!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Hi CY, Just cross posted.
I noticed the headline about the £5000 fines and what I posted was in the same article.
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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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A380 and upstairs was the way to go. Will they still be available when we can again?. Actually we had the Dreamliner when we last went, even better.
Roughly 12 hours to Singapore, then 12 hours in to Auckland for us usually. Have tried all sorts, stopovers in Singapore fabulous for 3-4 nights, 10 days in Thailand was the best, but sure added to the cost! Anywhere between 1-10 hours, 1 usually means no chance to stretch legs properly and sometimes a mad dash as the plane is held for you! Singapore airport is almost worth a destination in itself 😉
Not used Dubai, don't fancy it as a place, I echo takethedogalong views, and only 6 hours means much longer haul for 2nd leg.
I always think the last leg in either direction is the hardest. Usually very bumpy over OZ and the Blue Mountains which I dont enjoy.
Maybe by the time we can travel again they'll have us arriving within a few hours of leaving 🤣🤣
Personally I really hope we cant travel out of the country, for what we can bring back - that always applies BUT especially at the moment. But as cyberyacht says we do need to stop/really isolate those coming in. NZ has cases developing in MIQ, mandatory isolation quarantine, at 12 days, 1 case 10 days after 14 day isolation 😱. MIQ workers have caught and currently 1 infected another when they were abused to exercise from city centre, so they are still learning............ Most seem to have started from the UK, they report 😉
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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"
Mail in my hand just now says £5k fine for going abroad without a valid reason effective from end of week until end of June, France to go on red list with possibly the whole of the EU, how exciting
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B2 we also feel sad for you, that trying to see your family is so difficult. We are in the same position, as our son and 4 of our grandchildren live in Hong Kong and Macau. Our eldest grandchildren we haven’t seen since Christmas’19 and our youngest in Macau was 2 last month and we have only seen her once at 4 months old. It’s great that we have FaceTime but nothing compares to real life. Heaven only knows when anything will change. I really dislike long haul flights having done many to Hong Kong and Singapore (when they lived there) we always did that trip in one 12/14 hour flight. Our last trip out to the Far East was June ‘19 and we changed planes in Doha, never again, as it seemed to make the whole trip so much more tiring! Oh, what a different world it all was so recently!😢
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Yes...My 'Source' has confirmed that the new legislation...effective from Monday..will ban all oversea travel until 30th June which is when the legislation ends....with a £5000 fine for non compliance.... That is unless there is a move to extend for health and safety reasons..
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Bakers2... there is no need to travel as far as NZ to experience the Dreamliner, we flew on the Dreamliner to Croatia with TUI in 2019
. It is normally used on their flights to the Carribbean.Yes I'm not convinced the A380 will fly again as it would need to be full to capacity for it to be economical. I still prefer the A380, so much space for stretching your legs on a long flight.
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Deleted User User I feel for you, not sure that being closer in miles is better or worse!
Brue thank you but it's something we've had to come to terms with. Makes us chuckle as our daughter didn't take her place at Christchurch Canterbury - too far from home 🤔😂😢. Stayed at home and went to Essex Uni, now I thank God for those extra years. But she wouldn't have met her husband if she'd gone to Kent 🤫
Heddlo I hate flying full stop - but at the moment I'd jump on the plane. Not sure that it will happen again as highly likely OH won't be allowed to. Could be more shorter hops, but that prolongs the flying and adds to the cost 🤣. It was 2018 when we last made the trip. Now the grandchildren are at school, youngest starts in June, they could only do winter here trips. UK in December January is such an enticing destination 😉. Maybe a halfway meet up. I completely understand where you are coming from.
Our local grandchild, well 70 miles away, is due very soon and I thought I'd be able to watch it grow from the inside 😱 unlike the kiwi ones, but that hasn't been possible. Fingers crossed we can visit when it arrives, even if its only to stand and stare!
All I can say is thanks for modern tech stuff, my grandad's sister emigrated to Canada in the early years of 1900's and things drifted. We are slow starters in our family - 3 of my grandparents were all born in the 1890's but that grandfather 1870's!
Sorry for the thread drift.
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