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Trump has just announced a 30 day ban for travel between USA and Europe. It excludes the UK apparently. This sort of ban on international travel may become more common as the virus spreads

BC wrote: Yep...we're flying Qatar as well but it's part of a package with Trip-A-Deal so not sure what the go is there.

Yeah mate, its all up in the Air literally..

Im into Istanbul and out of Larnaca...so far so good.

mikeh wrote: Trump has just announced a 30 day ban for travel between USA and Europe. It excludes the UK apparently. This sort of ban on international travel may become more common as the virus spreads

Yeah, mate, its getting full on now, imagine the imapact of no US tourists to Europe.

Thusfar, Trump's ban on EU travel is only one way ie inward to the US.

I would have thought it would be pretty simple to get around, by travelling to the UK, and then onwards to the US.

BC wrote: Yep...Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia in July...then South Africa next March. The July trip is a watch and wait at the moment and unfortunately pandemics is specifically excluded as a reason to claim a refund on travel insurance if we cancel. If the government declares any of those three as no go zones then we're ok but otherwise we're stuffed too if we chicken out.

Our travel provider has just given us the option of deferring the trip until 2021 or taking credits in lieu which is pretty good of them I think. At this stage we'll be taking them up on the offer....bugger.

BC wrote:

BC wrote: Yep...Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia in July...then South Africa next March. The July trip is a watch and wait at the moment and unfortunately pandemics is specifically excluded as a reason to claim a refund on travel insurance if we cancel. If the government declares any of those three as no go zones then we're ok but otherwise we're stuffed too if we chicken out.

Our travel provider has just given us the option of deferring the trip until 2021 or taking credits in lieu which is pretty good of them I think. At this stage we'll be taking them up on the offer....bugger.

Sounds like you’re one of the lucky ones BC.

Yes mate...they're slugging us $500pp for the privilege as they reckon that's what the tour company and airlines are hitting them but it's better than losing the whole lot.

Bazza wrote:

30plusyeardrought wrote: Yep fly late April and travel till early June.
Fly to New York 4 nights,jump on an Cruise Norwegian Getaway to Europe various ports and docking in Rome then we hire a car travelling. up the north of Italy then over to France.

Sadly it looks like it’s not going ahead and the thing that pisses me off is we won’t get a full cash refund instead it looks like they’ll offer a Cruise credit only.

Ouch...not a good one mate.

Looks like our trip has been cancelled.
At this stage a full cruise credit will be given and can be booked up to December 2022.
The only thing we are not clear on is the accomodation and flights side of the trip which was part of our package deal.
Should know all that within a week or two.

BC wrote: Yes mate...they're slugging us $500pp for the privilege as they reckon that's what the tour company and airlines are hitting them but it's better than losing the whole lot.

I'm assuming an astute person such as yourself BC had all the appropriate travel insurance covering all scenarios for such a trip and it was booked well before this Corona virus outbreak so I would have thought insurance would cover all of this without any out of pocket expenses, perhaps barring any excess?

Have you contacted your insurer?

BC wrote:

BC wrote: Yep...Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia in July...then South Africa next March. The July trip is a watch and wait at the moment and unfortunately pandemics is specifically excluded as a reason to claim a refund on travel insurance if we cancel. If the government declares any of those three as no go zones then we're ok but otherwise we're stuffed too if we chicken out.

Our travel provider has just given us the option of deferring the trip until 2021 or taking credits in lieu which is pretty good of them I think. At this stage we'll be taking them up on the offer....bugger.

Qatar are offering full refunds on flights to Italy China Korea and Iran at this stage, there is a good chance that will be extended depending on spread.

The only thing we have booked are the flights at this stage.