Fly me to the Moon - your 3rd travel Megathread - read OP

Van.Bosch · 19-12-2021 11:20am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118345553#Comment_118345553

So you say you didn’t have time to trawl through all the pages, fair enough. At the same time, your opening post had a statement that “no one ever asks it”? So which is it?

TheDriver · 19-12-2021 11:37am

What's the point, we've plenty of Rona here already. Advisory home quarantine more like that all will ignore, like the 5 days advisory testing

19-12-2021 12:14pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118345553#Comment_118345553

most people, white collar workers anyway, are working from home, so that isn’t as much of an issue. I always take my laptop with me when I travel for exactly this eventuality.

it just comes down to cost, and it’s just me and my partner, no kids, and so can hunker down in an Airbnb somewhere pretty easily

Covid travel bans permitting, heading to Tbilisi immediately after Christmas, and set up to have to stay there a while in a worst case scenario

johnire · 19-12-2021 12:23pm

faceman · 19-12-2021 12:24pm

Some of the papers today are reporting leaks of NPHET will push for a full lockdown by the end of the month if things dont improve. There is even talk of schools staying closed. No doubt focus on travel will return too.

johnire · 19-12-2021 12:26pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118345981#Comment_118345981

Enjoy Tbilisi. It’s a great city- so much to see and do.

Valhallapt · 19-12-2021 12:28pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118346014#Comment_118346014

We’ve been debating if we go to Portugal or not, if the schools close we will definitely go. Pack the laptop and enjoy some blue sky until the schools reopen.

19-12-2021 1:39pm

Germany just closed its borders with France (as well as banning UK travel) so I guess that the idea of a common EU wide approach to border controls blown out of the water

Doctor Jimbob · 19-12-2021 1:45pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118346014#Comment_118346014

If things don’t improve? Things have been improving and that hasn’t stopped them increasing restrictions over the last month. If other countries go into lockdown we’ll do the same, regardless of what the situation is actually like here.

Valhallapt · 19-12-2021 1:49pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118346247#Comment_118346247

I really thought the EU would get a common approach this time around, at least inside Schengen.

Covid travel certs are now pointless, only useful if you want to go to a strict pub in ireland before 8pm

M_Murphy57 · 19-12-2021 3:49pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118345553#Comment_118345553

You stated "no one ever asks it" that implies you had searched. Very odd to get offended then and say you don't have time to look. My point was that "lots of people ask it".

I travelled this summer and brought my laptop so I could work remotely if I got stuck or if my kids tested positive.

Other people chanced their arm and dealt with the fall out if they were unlucky.

If that's not an option for you then you are right, you personally should not risk travelling.

bikeman1 · 19-12-2021 4:46pm

I find the question, “what do I do if I test positive?” funny.

Just think about it! Do you ask the government to do everything in your life for you!

At anytime in the pandemic you could test positive. If it’s while away, you make plans around it and get on with it. Be an adult and stop asking for help. This happens to thousands of people every day.

johnire · 19-12-2021 6:22pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118347003#Comment_118347003

Who mentioned the government? I didn’t. Don’t be so rude.

joseywhales · 19-12-2021 6:25pm

In fairness it's not clear, I would assume I book a hotel room wherever I am situated. Do I have to tell them I'm positive, I assume so, can they refuse to take my booking? If so, do you wander the streets for two weeks?

bikeman1 · 19-12-2021 6:46pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118347586#Comment_118347586

Exactly just go wandering around the streets for two weeks spreading Covid around some more.

Just do what normal people do, go online book a room for two weeks and isolate.

Chris_5339762 · 19-12-2021 7:12pm

There are stories of hotels refusing to allow people to quarantine there after they have tested positive... basically saying they aren't a quarantine facility.

It is an unanswered question TBH.

Liberty_Bear · 19-12-2021 7:14pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118347971#Comment_118347971

Yes this is a huge matter. Ive told friends to double check that their travel insurance covers them in the event that if they are abroad and test positive to make sure they can sort alternative accommodation. THe lack of direction from the EU on this is worrying. On their reopen side they have very little past what the measures are. Like its designed to disinecentivise people to go away....

M_Murphy57 · 19-12-2021 7:20pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118347971#Comment_118347971

Book an Airbnb with a key pad for entry then ie one you can get into without meeting someone on check in. It's one of the filter options.

If that's not available your choices are 1) sleep on the street (and hope you don't infect your fellow homeless) or 2) take the small risk of a brief interaction with reception staff behind glass, check into a hotel, live off room service.

If you/one don't feel like you have the ability to make a call on how to put a roof over your head if you/one tests positive then international travel during covid is best avoided.

bikeman1 · 19-12-2021 7:36pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118347995#Comment_118347995

How is it a huge matter?

I’ve stayed in all sorts of accommodation around Europe. Not once did I have to disclose that I had Covid or not. Just check in and go to your room and isolate. Pay the bill and go home after your isolation period.

It really is that simple.

20-12-2021 2:28am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118347971#Comment_118347971

Would you want to stay in a hotel if you're quarantining? Surely an airbnb or apartment with a kitchen would be more suitable anyway. And would be no issue in booking into that type of accomodatiion

greenheep · 20-12-2021 11:47am

I was travelling recently and our hotel said in its rules that it cannot be used as a place to quarantine. I guess Air BnB would have been the best option but they can be difficult to find sometimes depending on where you are.

Another problem is how do you get food and medicine delivered if you are in a country with no family or friends to support. Takeaway food 3 times per day? Maybe call the local police station and ask them to do some shopping for you? This scenario is putting a lot of people off travelling.

M_Murphy57 · 20-12-2021 11:54am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118350722#Comment_118350722

"Putting a lot of people off travelling"

Yes. That's by design.

Having said that I've never seen anything in the last 2 years asking me to confirm I'm not quaratining from covid and I've been in multiple countries.

DLink · 20-12-2021 12:14pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118350722#Comment_118350722

Apart from your moral compass and the "greater good", what's to stop you leaving the hotel if you are trapped abroad?

FlubberJones · 20-12-2021 12:32pm

Looking at booking 5 days in Gran Canaria early Jan, found a decent deal and flights are spot on... fully vacced and will be be boosted too... Just hope some dramatic change in the travel restrictions don't come in....

20-12-2021 12:37pm

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You mask up and just go essential food shopping.

if you can afford it, are not travelling with children, and have a job that you can do remotely, it’s not that big a deal

we are going to Tbilisi for a few days immediately after Christmas and taking the laptop for exactly this eventuality

joseywhales · 20-12-2021 12:42pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118350958#Comment_118350958

I assume you might be sick, like fever in bed all day. It sounds like a tough spot to be in. Foreign country on your own, fever, hungry, afraid of being tossed out on the street for having COVID. Have to go get some food and medicine without being noticed. What a nightmare.

M_Murphy57 · 20-12-2021 12:48pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118350985#Comment_118350985

People who are vaccinated but still terrified of getting extremely sick from covid simply won't travel.

If you ended up in a hotel too sick to even pick up the phone for room service you should probably call an ambulance.

If that's too frightening a thought don't get on a plane.

Chances of a young triple vaxxed person getting that sick abroad are tiny. I haven't hear of it happening myself.

Quags · 20-12-2021 12:58pm

NPHET/Gov have done exactly what they set out to do by introducing these guidelines, they have scared thousands into not travelling due to them getting fear of Covid, which is mad considering before vaxxed people needed tests to travel they could pass the virus on & didnt bother them then. If you wear a proper mask, wash hands etc then you wont catch it.

I have being abroad 4 times since August, we cant keep putting our lives on hold but again if your willing to forgo holidays "incase" you catch Covid then so be it

20-12-2021 2:46pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118350985#Comment_118350985

I’m vaccinated, boosted and in good health. I’ve had Covid and it was nothing. So not worried about your scenario even a little bit.

But, yes, people in more vulnerable categories, or unvaxxed, probably think careful before travel

johnire · 20-12-2021 3:15pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118351070#Comment_118351070

Fly me to the Moon - your 3rd travel Megathread - read OP

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