Just postponed my trip to London until the second half of March. We are thinking that there will be a good window for travel in March/April before the next variant rears its ugly, transmissable head.
Still driving to FL late in January, but want to get my car checked out before a long trip. I had negotiated a deal with them when I purchased the car in which they would pick up my car at my house or office and leave me a loaner. They say they are no longer doing that for routine service and so I offered to drive the 20 mins to the dealership and take a loaner. They then told me that they have no loaners due to the car shortage. So, I decided to give the business to a local foreign motors repair shop that is 5 mins away. ShawWife can pick me up.
Am planning a flight to Memphis in March to see my mother and a flight to Florida in April for Passover.
We took all our postponed 2020 travel in 2021. Six trips varying from a two hour drive to a flight to another continent. Luckily all went well. I’m amazed we hit the non-surge windows just right. H retired late 2020 and loves to travel. We’re laying low for now. Have a house in Maui reserved for May, but that can be rescheduled if needed.
There is no way they are adding a domestic testing requirement for flying 2 years into the pandemic - so let’s be real, the airport is filled with symptomatic and non symptomatic positives. The international testing requirement is really doing nothing for us, so they should scrap it for boosted people. Require the vax/booster only! The tests are a joke, easy to forge and are stopping no one.
Yeah, most of H’s travel in the Before Times was overseas, where the personal contact plays a much bigger role, esp when considering language barriers and differing interpretations. He’s talked about how important IRL is for those relationships and negotiations for many years, long before covid.
He’s been asked to appear on a couple of panels for the CA and FL trips. Not a big deal if those cancel, and I’d guess it would be relatively easy to participate remotely.
You’ve given up Europe for all of 2022? Wow. We are rolling with the punches and not letting this covid cold stop us. Definitely planning trips over the next 6 months
Everyone has their comfort level. I wouldn’t want the possibility of getting “stuck” somewhere either. There’s a lot that goes into travel these days regardless of where and how -
We have several trips planned for 2022 but we’re not sure if any of them will happen. We have plans to go to Vienna in April, and then we have a British Isles cruise booked for July 2022 and a Canada/NE cruise in October 2022. We normally plan every detail of our trips well in advance, but this year we’re just going with the flow and not getting emotionally invested in the trips ahead of time since we know we may have to cancel some or all.
I’m just researching trips right now so I can book at the last minute, should things improve. H is retiring this summer, so we can be flexible. It would have to be a country with great medical care.
Hoping the Passion Play in Oberammergau is a possibility.
As long as flights and hotels are fully cancellable/refundable, I don’t see a reason not to book them. In fact, I even booked overlapping trips, knowing I’ll have to cancel some of them (or maybe all of them). With cancellable trips, I locked in the prices if their costs go up and I can rebook them if their costs go down.
We just booked domestic travel in March. It’s the first time we have ever purchased trip insurance…trip can be cancelled for just about any reason with a full refund. It was $60 for two people.
I will not be happy if this trip gets cancelled.
We also have two weddings in August….one in CO and one in NH. Both postponed from 2020. Hoping they are able to happen this time around. One was cancelled last time not because it couldn’t happen at the venue, but because the guest list of 150 had dwindled to less than 50. Hoping for these wedding couples that this Covid wave is gone, and that these weddings can happen.
I’m not sure if trips will be canceled. I think it will be more your personal comfort level with traveling.
Although right this minute, cruises seem dicey. But there are still people cruising.
I had a girls trip to Disney that I really wanted to go on. But my son and dil are due 2 weeks before and between that and Covid, I decided to bow out. I’m sure the trip will go on as planned.
We are thinking of this as having windows between variants. So, we went to Italy (and Memphis and San Francisco and Toronto and the Laurentians) in the window after the worst of Delta and before the surge in Omicron. We are hoping that the next window starts in March (trips to Memphis, UK, Florida) and hoping another window occurs in August when our son is scheduled for an outdoor wedding (All events will be outdoors).
Edit: Forgot trips to Banff in June (for ShawWife’s work) and then to Yoho National Park in BC in July/August (for resplendent natural glory).
So, although I recently postponed my upcoming trip to London, I am just hoping to schedule it during the next window rather than writing off 2022.
It’s official…it’s Maui for 10 days at the beginning of February. Other than a recent overnight trip to a local town…we haven’t traveled.
Plan to put Tahiti back on the books for May.
Have a cruise with stops in Jerusalem,Turkey and Greece on the books for October. Will probably spend a couple of weeks in Germany and or Ireland (with family) before hand
Two spa trips to Mexico - one in April and on in September.
An Hubby has a fishing trip in September.
Will get a Medjet annual policy into place before the first adventure.
$60 for trip cancellation? That sounds like a bargain!
For those who have purchased insurance: What companies do you use? Are they excluding or including pandemic/endemic/Covid or any other health related causes?
You pay premium based on the $$ you are insuring for. I paid closed to 300 for $6000, and I only insured the portion I couldn’t get refunded on. As an example, I didn’t insure 3 nights of hotel in one city because I had up to 24 hrs for cancellation.
I am not sure if I would get trip insurance for airfare because most airlines will waive change fees and some will even give you a full refund.
If you are getting an insurance make sure it will give you Covid related cancellation.