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Mr Brightside1978 said:
not had an email yet from jet2 for my flights in april - checked my booking & saying its canceled. Phoned them up, refunded. Cancelled hotel (white island) & hotel - car park in Glasgow...still got July but cant see that happening either but have to pay the full amount on the 28th April. In a dilemma,
do we pay & wait with fingers crossed...:confused:
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28th of April is a long way off with how the world has been changing. If there's no difference to you (financially) between cancelling now and cancelling then, you may as well put this out of your mind for a month and wait to see the state of things much closer to the cut-off date.

OTOH, if you can't put it out of your mind and you're not out anything if you cancel early, then doing so may give you some peace of mind. Much as I was disappointed to have to cancel a recent trip, making the decision to go or not was causing me a lot of anxiety. I felt a great sense of relief once I'd made a final decision and all the plans were cancelled.
 
Mr Brightside1978 said:
not had an email yet from jet2 for my flights in april - checked my booking & saying its canceled. Phoned them up, refunded. Cancelled hotel (white island) & hotel - car park in Glasgow...still got July but cant see that happening either but have to pay the full amount on the 28th April. In a dilemma,
do we pay & wait with fingers crossed...:confused:
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Can you not request to pay a bit later and see what happens?
 
cunninghamali said:
Can you not request to pay a bit later and see what happens?
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good idea, will give them a call tomorrow...:), they are doing an exchange for flights prior to the 1st May -


"If you were due to travel before 1 May 2020 and have been affected by cancellations, you can now change your booking without paying an admin fee, whether you want to change the departure date, hotel, destination or who’s travelling on the booking."
 
Tourist said:
cabin fever started to hit hard today. immersed in music I love helps.

staying positive. no self-pity. plenty have it worse - esp tough for folk far from loved ones. stay safe all x
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More fitness posts on Instagram please, this time a bit more risqué (beetles bonnets, that kinda thing?)
 
DelMarSunset said:
Haha!

If it was a small family holiday i'd take the hit or it would be easier to re-arrange. We have a family villa booked for 2 weeks and the wedding is the middle Saturday. We have another 40 people booked at various hotels and flying from around the UK so it's going to be complicated trying to get them over to the island if we can't do it on the date we have booked.

I realise that companies aren't going to just hand us money back and will try to re-book at a later date if July doesn't happen but that means everything needs to be changed for everyone. Just from a purely financial point of view, we had a minimum person/spend in place and it's thousands of Euros.... if we get 15 people turning up instead of the minimum 35 then i still have to pay for 35. What's the point in that?

I've also been told by everyone (venue, villa, photographer) that any postponement and carrying over of deposits lasts for this calendar year only. If we can't do it in July as normal and aren't able to re-arrange for later in the summer then we lose everything (about 9,000 Euros so far)
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We've unfortunately cancelled our June fortnight. Regardless of what happens virus wise, being self-employed and the massive turn down in work, coupled with the falling euro means it's completely unaffordable.

Hotel and car hire cancelled without penalty or payment. We're now in catch 22 with squeezyjet flights. We can change them to something else without fees, but highly unlikely we'll be able to afford a break even next Feb. So it looks like leaving them for june and keeping fingers crossed they get cancelled so we get refunded.
 
kaboom said:
We've unfortunately cancelled our June fortnight. Regardless of what happens virus wise, being self-employed and the massive turn down in work, coupled with the falling euro means it's completely unaffordable.

Hotel and car hire cancelled without penalty or payment. We're now in catch 22 with squeezyjet flights. We can change them to something else without fees, but highly unlikely we'll be able to afford a break even next Feb. So it looks like leaving them for june and keeping fingers crossed they get cancelled so we get refunded.
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No way theyll be flying in June, will be the peak and absolute carnage sadly
 
UAE stopping all flights in/out and transit within 48hrs. They've finally closed the malls and restaurants properly now for a rolling 2 weeks period.

KSA (where I still have stranded team members) are now on lockdown curfew each day.
 
Ibiza got around 137.000 living there(legally)
And 31 with coronavirus. Do they test people?
In the Faroe Islands there live around 149.000 they do test more then other places,
and have 118?
 
Notice Ibiza is trying to extend the season well into October https://theibizan.com/autumn-is-the-new-spring-campaign/ with events rescheduled for then. From the UK I find that flights tend to dry up, eg companies in September flying 7 days a week reduce to four in October, and once here public transport in Formentera (well, the buses, basically!) reduce their services drastically - ie no L1 later than 7pm - and the lateferries back to Ibiza disappear off the timetable.
All that's no hassle for me, I'm used to it and can work around it. But if the Junies and Julyies decide to come in October instead, then the local transport, bars and hotels need to make sure they can accommodate them just like summer. "Ibiza - "Please come, please come, please come....oh, don't expect a bus at 10pm or a ferry at 11 or your favourite bar to be open". The latter gives the wrong signals.
 
2H76 said:
Notice Ibiza is trying to extend the season well into October https://theibizan.com/autumn-is-the-new-spring-campaign/ with events rescheduled for then. From the UK I find that flights tend to dry up, eg companies in September flying 7 days a week reduce to four in October, and once here public transport in Formentera (well, the buses, basically!) reduce their services drastically - ie no L1 later than 7pm - and the lateferries back to Ibiza disappear off the timetable.
All that's no hassle for me, I'm used to it and can work around it. But if the Junies and Julyies decide to come in October instead, then the local transport, bars and hotels need to make sure they can accommodate them just like summer. "Ibiza - "Please come, please come, please come....oh, don't expect a bus at 10pm or a ferry at 11 or your favourite bar to be open". The latter gives the wrong signals.
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I’m sure businesses everywhere will be able to be very flexible about things like that when we get back to normal.
 
2H76 said:
Notice Ibiza is trying to extend the season well into October https://theibizan.com/autumn-is-the-new-spring-campaign/ with events rescheduled for then. From the UK I find that flights tend to dry up, eg companies in September flying 7 days a week reduce to four in October, and once here public transport in Formentera (well, the buses, basically!) reduce their services drastically - ie no L1 later than 7pm - and the lateferries back to Ibiza disappear off the timetable.
All that's no hassle for me, I'm used to it and can work around it. But if the Junies and Julyies decide to come in October instead, then the local transport, bars and hotels need to make sure they can accommodate them just like summer. "Ibiza - "Please come, please come, please come....oh, don't expect a bus at 10pm or a ferry at 11 or your favourite bar to be open". The latter gives the wrong signals.
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Weather wise Ibiza can support probably 3 weeks more 'summer holiday' weather than it does at the end of the season. The season ends when it does mainly due to the industry moving to ADE but also locals and workers wanting a rest after a long season.

Will still be a hard sell though, people will be reluctant to pay for flights until they are 100% sure it will go ahead.
 
Late September/early October is a great time to visit.

I’m planning a post London marathon blow out on second week of October. It’s the hope that keeps us going!
 
Matty92 said:
Rather than paying extra tax can we just take it from bone idles peoples benefits instead?
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Wow. The stupidity of this comment. The majority of benefits gets paid to those in work. People going out to work everyday and being paid such poor wages that they need the state to top it up so they can live.

The idea of ‘bone idle benefits claimants’ is so comforting to you isn’t it. I suggest you direct your anger towards such employers. Or how about those huge multinationals who through clever accounting pay relatively minuscule amounts of tax (you’ll no doubt find a few who are asking to be bailed out by the taxpayer right now funnily enough!)
 
soha said:
A friend of mine posted this a few days ago when everything shut down and it made me laugh... (because its true)

"To all the people who never worked a day in your life, how r you going to manage now you can't go on holidays and down the pub everyday?"
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So true.
 
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