FFS holiday in jeopardy

You could but you wont.

Everyone who has criticised or supported a school has done so from their own experiences of how they have found the education system through this lock down period. Just because it differs from your partners experience at her place of employment it doesnt mean the posters opinions are either incorrect or invalid.

For example, my nephews school closed a month ago for a "deep clean" and hasnt reopened. Barring end of year reports my sisters had nothing re his education other than see you in September.

 

Told us if we don’t attend our flight tomorrow morning to mainland Spain we will not get a refund we can only amend our holiday to a different date or destination

Surely if the government are advising against all but essential travel to mainland Spain we should get a full refund like tui and easy jet are offering

 

Go on your bloody holiday.

 

They are still running the flight so it's up to you to decide if you go on it or not. If the flight was cancelled then you'd have got a refund.

 

The problem here is with the government not the holiday company.
The weak ass government is only advising you not to go. It's nothing but a suggestion.

And to be honest it's absolutely pathetic that the hospitality industry in the UK has been forced to lock it's doors for months yet holiday makers are just advised not to go on holidsy bringing the virus home with them. We have made more effort to protect Spain's hospitality industry than we have our own.

Personally I'd be amending my holiday to the furthest date in the future possible and having a week in whitby

 

With no travel insurance?

 

No, I firmly believe that everyone's experience of covid-19 has been different, and incredibly difficult and challenging in different ways. But what you see on the face of it, as an individual parent - which I am too - is only a single sided understanding of what happens behind the scenes,and judgements on that teacher can't be fairly made, let alone on a whole school or even a profession.

I am in no doubt the quality of work set has varied from school to school. My daughter's has been poor and far lower than the standard my wife has driven at her school. But with the best will in the world you can't teach young kids remotely, and I'm sure there's a new nationwide respect for how hard teaching is.

My wife would have loved to have had her kids in. But the government decided it had to be in classes of 15. And once that decision was made it was impossible even to get all the year groups who were identified in full time. And every school's circumstances differ and vary. There have been a whole series of terrible government decisions and opaque guidance that have stopped schools doing what they want to do - provide education in safe environments.

And Jamdrop's post is an excellent insight as to what teachers have been doing.

 

And let me guess - "Don't bother doing the quarantine on returning"?

You ****.

 

I’d amend the date for the future and enjoy your week off here.

 

Same, feel sorry that you’ll be missing out but we wouldn't be going and under the circumstances. Imagine the costs if you fell really ill over there with invalid travel insurance. If it were me I’d be deferring to later in the year. Heatwave here at end of week get yersen to east coast and have a barbie.

 

It doesn't necessarily invalidate your insurance though. I've just got a quote for insurance now from the post office for me to fly to benalmadena today for a week for £7. Fully insured for everything normal but if I become ill with coronavirus it wouldn't cover me which is fair enough. However if I had taken out the insurance prior to the government announcement yesterday I would still be covered for emergency care and repatriation in the event I became unwell due to it.

 

Good on you but pack wellies and waterproofs. May’s good here but normal service (pissin darn) always resumes in August.

still at least the fells r green and the waterfalls look good.

 

Martin Lewis advice page on the imposing of quarantine for trips to Spain here

https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...errer=https://www.google.com&amp_tf=From %1$s

 

Where in Cumbria? Are you a ‘Wainwrighter’?

 

I feel sorry for those who have been waiting to go to Spain since before Covid. Anyone who's booked to go there since we've been in lockdown well that's just silly. They are having thousands of new infections a day and people still want to go there. Whilst you have Vietnam who have been one of the best places in the world for dealing with Covid going to the extreme of evacuating tens of thousands because of 3 infections.

 

Same here, I love travel and 2 trips were cancelled (thanfully able to get refunds) but one long haul which is pending for September (which hopefully also gets cancelled or its a very expensive none event) that was booked in January.

But I'm not going anywhere til this thing diminishes itself through mutation (a massive unknown) or a stable vaccine is found.

I'd love to, but for me, I don't feel safe enough to do so.