2021 Travel Plans

I could be wrong but I don't think there is any ban on travel, it's just that when you return you will have to quarantine  as TG says. The FCO has advised against travel but that is not a ban. Like others I would use the Tunnel as there is minimal contact required. As you say you are vulnerable so you have the weigh up the risks. With regards the boat are you not paying the moorings to look after it for you? 

David

You are right - there's no ban. Two young friends have just gone over from Plymouth for a week's carp fishing in France. I am sitting by the woodburner and they are in a small tent by a lake ! 

They took the  ferry to Roscoff which is still sailing three times a week all through October - they had a cabin and said there were just a handful of other passengers on board - on a ship which can normally carry 2400. That ferry company is certainly losing a lot of money.

2 sets of wardens on the site i am currently on, always overwinter in Spain, one set leaves next Tuesday for Javier, will stay until early March 2021, the other set will leave late October for Mazarron and stay until early March. Have to say they are not in the at risk category and both sets have secured medical insurance, their only concern if as per last year, some sites were forced to close and campers sent packing, but it would appear lots of concessions were made for those who were over wintering for long periods.

for us we are planning a trip to southern Spain via France commencing April 2021 returning Jun 21, hopefully, right now the situation in Spain is too volatile, and the government do not hesitate to roll out the troops to help enforce lock downs etc, so not for us this year.

As a precaution we have booked present site for 1 month Sept 2021, as staycations are bound to be on the increase with sites getting booked up very quickly

I note that the Club have now published details of holidays next year promising if FCO advice changes to advise again not to travel, then deposits or payments will be refunded.  This isn’t really the crux of the problem.  What is a problem is the inability to be insured in case of local lockdowns and getting home as prices immediately soar.  Secondly is the risk of quarantines being imposed at short notice which for most working people, the risk is too great.

The offer to refund if you haven’t travelled and a quarantine is imposed might resolve some of these issues but I guess is not financially practicable 

Some info for anyone thinking of using the Hull to Zeebrugge route next year, it has been announced it will not return and will be axed. Hull to Rotterdam will still be sailing.

Hull Zeebrugge 

Looking at the link that Metheven posted does make for depressing reading and whilst, as David says, not entirely surprising does show that any thoughts that we will just resume travel in 2021, as if we have just had a year off, may be very misplaced.

Sometimes stats can be overdone but one that jumped out at me yesterday was that Exeter Airport saw 97000 passengers in August 2019 and just 9 in August 2020.

BF reports of 55-65000 cancellations is awful but if they do do not, or cannot re-book, thats going to make the likelihood of a return to pre covid levels of crossings and frequencies very unlikely. 

And now its started raining!

Not making plans but always have "hope".

Reading some articles it appears that any vaccine may not appear for most until second half of 2021. Any trip abroad taken by us would normally be in Spring but not set in stone and we have ventured abroad in September. I'll wait and see having seen last 3 planned trips overseas cancelled for various reasons.