We booked a two week trip to Greece for the end of July/early August. Bringing our 2 daughters and one friend. We are travelling between islands. Most of our trip will be outdoors, so we feel fine with the decision.
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Our September 2020 Italy trip was postponed to October 2021. I remade our hotel reservations, only got vouchers for tours so scheduled them. At this point, I see a 70% chance of it not happening. Itâs too early, but I donât want to travel like that for our first big foreign trip with our sons. Even if most things are open, I donât want to be having to wear masks outside (they have to now), or have places not completely open. I will make my final decision end of July/beg of August.
If cancelled again, Iâll push out to May 2022. I donât want to wait another whole year. We will then just vacation somewhere in the states in the fall.
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Our plan for fall 2021 is another driving trip somewhere in the states (National Parks) and skiing the week before Christmas again. We are not looking at booking any foreign travel until 2022 and it probably wonât be until the fall since we like to ski in the winter and spring and we donât care to travel abroad during the summer.
I have an Italy trip planned for Oct. I donât have worries of getting back to US. Look at India now, there is no travel from India to US unless you are an American citizen. If there is a complete lock down in Italy then I could cancel my trip and money back. I fully expect to get a vaccine booster sometime this year.
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We discussed the potential trip this weekend and even S21 wants to go! So, we decided that we will make sure everything can be cancelled in case things are still bad. It doesnât seem worth it to go to a country if restaurants etc are still shut down. We had been saving miles for this so we can get all of the tix on miles and some VRBO let you cancel within 2 wks. We are planning on August and keeping fingers crossed.
Missing international travel and with retirement in full swing this summer, weâd otherwise have multiple trips booked. We are holding off until circumstances are clearer in a variety of potential destinations. Thatâs about what is open, what we feel comfortable doing, and how overwhelmed or recovered medical facilities, including their staff, are likely to be. Though our health is good, I have spent in-patient time in Europe with a broken bone requiring surgery after a fall, and know how complex even that was pre-Covid.
I am following travel alerts and would also value local, âon the groundâ guidance about how things are going before planning a trip. Looking forward to getting out there.
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If enough things open up to make it reasonable (restaurants, sites, museums) and we (all vaccinated) can go without needing to quarantine, we plan to go to Amsterdam and a few cities in Belgium in late July or early August.
In an ideal world, we would probably hold off until spring '22, but there are some factors with regard to my Hâs health that make this summer our window. So, it might not be the trip we planned it to be when we planned it for last year, but itâs the trip we can take. Iâm operating on the notion that we may end up buying the tix and making reservations just a couple weeks out as I think things will be up in the air until the last minute.
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We are trying to plan a trip to Portugal, Spain and Greece for the summer. Plan on calling hotels and determining cancellation policies etc.
We are all vaccinated and ready to go!! If the countries will let us inâŠ
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I believe the EU meeting to discuss travel rules is taking place next Wednesday (May 19). So there should be some more clarity after that about whether and when travel will start to open up.
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Please, please folks! Go to Europe!! Europe is amazing! I highly recommend!
(This will mean more Hawaii for us! 
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I have not been to Hawaii yetâŠon the list. Other than the flora/fauna is it much different than anywhere else in the US? Same stores there as most other places in the US?
I lived/worked in the Former Soviet Union for 15 years and was able to travel there, to Thailand, and to Europe quite a bit and the thing I really liked was it was so different. These days, even Stary Arbat has Wendyâs, KFC, Dunkin, etcâŠjust not the same. Definitely a downside of globalization IMO.
We have a Canadian Rockies trip that was cancelled last September and rescheduled to this September. Based on the status of the US-Canadian border, we arenât convinced it will happen this year either.
We are hope Canada will be open to the US by early 2022. We plan to do a skiing road trip and want to go to Lake Louise.
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Planned a trip to Croatia in September. It has a low vaccination rate (4%). If my relatives are typical, itâs not getting much higher in 4 months. I can get a refund on the tour. Didnât book a flight. Was waiting to see if direct flights I learned about will happen. I am really on the fence.
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Weâre going to reschedule our canceled 2020 vacation to Europe for 2022. I just donât want to take a chance on this summer and risk the pain of cancelling all our reservations and getting our money back. Ugh.
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Sad but smart. The EU seems to be struggling so much with their vaccinations. The UK is better but theyâve yet to lift their quarantine requirements. Hopefully 2022 will be better!
Weâd like to schedule Scotland for fall 2022, but need to wait and see if our fall 2021 Canadian Rockies trip takes place, or if that gets kicked to fall 2022, after already getting moved from 2020 to 2021.
Weâd like to schedule something for spring 2022, but need to see how the world handles next winter. If things go well we may drive to Nova Scotia next spring. Fingers crossed.
Weâre sticking with US destinations this summer. Hoping for Portugal in 2022.
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Hoping to go to the Australian Open (1/22) with some tennis friends.
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Australia recently confirmed that it wouldnât open its borders until at least mid 2022.