JohnM20 replied on 26/02/2021 09:52
Posted on 26/02/2021 09:52
Last October we booked a CL in Cornwall and another in Devon for a week at each in the second half of April. We figured that we might get our first Covid vaccine in February, based on the general information coming from HM Gov with the second dose three weeks later. In late January we got our Covid vaccine appointments come through and although the first dose was the 1st February the second was not until 20th April, an 11 week gap, right in the middle of our first week away. Sod's Law!! Try as we might it proved impossible to get any sense out of the vaccine booking system. No we couldn't have an appointment for the second dose four days earlier but we could have it sometime after we got back in May, but appointment dates that far ahead had not been released.
After several phone calls to them to see if things had changed and also contacting my GP to no avail we resigned ourselves to cancelling the first week of the holiday. Not really what we wanted to do but had no other option, we thought. Then last night the CL owner at St Ives phoned to check that we were still going in April. I explained the problem to which she said "why not change the date? You can come the following week". I hadn't considered this as an option as I thought that by now CLs would be pretty well all booked up. I was obviously wrong.
Changing that one CL at St Ives meant changing an overnight stop on the way down and changing the dates for the second week in Devon followed by a couple of nights near Tewkesbury on the way back home. A few phone calls later and I'd surprisingly I'd managed to change every booking so HAPPY DAYS! Roll on late April., second jab done and holidays all intact.
JohnM20
Caravanner from Derbyshire