Holiday plans. Do you have any?

[wiggydiggy]

A nice surprise today, I'm getting things booked for this year and a cottage I booked just refunded me some money as a reward for booking direct rather than with a site like arrghhhhbnb.

 

[figbat]

OK, so the latest in the figbat family final once-in-a-lifetime holiday plans.

Recap:
First it was a western Canada fly-drive - vetoed by teenagers who “don’t want to spend the whole time sitting in a car looking at mountains”.

Next was Hawaii - vetoed because it’s the USA and we’re just not going there as things currently stand.

Then was Tahiti, Fiji etc - vetoed because all connecting flight options went through LAX (which is USA, see above).

Now we’re closing in on the Seychelles. We normally plan and book everything ourselves, using things like AirBnB or other direct booking options, plus flights and car hire etc. However to put together a multi-island itinerary ourselves was getting overwhelming so we engaged a ‘travel consultant’ who have rather rapidly created a great-sounding plan for us which we’re getting close to approving.

This is our last family holiday, it comes after some difficult times in the household, involving involuntary termination of work and a parental bereavement plus there is the impending culmination of our kids’ studies (GCSEs and a C&G advanced diploma), which has led us to say “sod it” and just do it. I recognise that we’re lucky to have to time and funds to pursue this; the last several years have been in a caravan somewhere in England.

So fingers crossed this is the last iteration.

Oh FFS! We just paid the deposit on this, which includes flights through Dubai, and Donald Fxxxxxg Trump decides that there’s not enough deflection and so the Middle East needs some freedom installing.

Hopefully either this will all blow over or we can re-route via somewhere safe. If there is anywhere safe now…

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Oh FFS! We just paid the deposit on this, which includes flights through Dubai, and Donald Fxxxxxg Trump decides that there’s not enough deflection and so the Middle East needs some freedom installing.

Hopefully either this will all blow over or we can re-route via somewhere safe. If there is anywhere safe now…

What’s he doing to Dubai? We connect through there in May en route to Japan. I don’t watch or listen to the news so I’m out of touch with his tantrums.

 

[dicko]

We have but it all hinges on the Middle East at the moment

 

[figbat]

What’s he doing to Dubai? We connect through there in May en route to Japan. I don’t watch or listen to the news so I’m out of touch with his tantrums.

The airspace is closed, flights cancelled, people trapped all over the UAE and nearby countries that have US assets.

 

[Alex321]

What’s he doing to Dubai? We connect through there in May en route to Japan. I don’t watch or listen to the news so I’m out of touch with his tantrums.

It is what Iran is doing to Dubai (as an ally of the US & Israel), in retaliation for what Trump & Israel have done to Iran.

And it basically means most of the middle East airspace is currently closed to commercial traffic.