FCO advise against travel to Egypt

peachyprice

Voyager2002 wrote: »

You never heard of Neil Armstrong? Nor the Apollo programme?

"One small step for man, but a giant leap for mankind": see if google will tell you where those words were most famously spoken.

Of course I have.

budgetflyer

Id never go to America either since they started holding aliens against their will in area 51.

mgdavid

peachyprice wrote: »

Still wouldn't set foot in the country, I vowed never to go there when they started blowing up tourists in the in the 90's oh, and again in the noughties.

so may one ask where you were living when the IRA were blowing up the residents for 4 decades?

Pollycat

peachyprice wrote: »

And how could I holiday on the moon when man hasn't even set foot on it yet?

Dreadfully off-topic I know, but I saw that programme too. :eek:

And I agree with this:

mick_vandick wrote: »

And to the OP, why don't you try putting all the info on your post rather than trying to scaremonger people? The vast majority of tourists from the UK will be going to the Red Sea resorts which are not affected.

Incomplete information is just as bad as no information.

mcfisco

Pollycat wrote: »

Incomplete information is just as bad as no information.

But that's all you'll get at the moment, no one has all the info on Egypt right now, not the FO, not even the Egyptian government.
It's an extremely fast moving and unpredictable situation that could literally change overnight one way or the other.
Anyone that tells you anywhere in Egypt will be unaffected in a few days, weeks or months time, is making it up.
No one knows.

I'd chance getting on a flight today or tomorrow but I wouldn't book a holiday there for any time in the future until I knew there was a bit more predictability.

peachyprice

Pollycat wrote: »

Dreadfully off-topic I know, but I saw that programme too. :eek:

What programme?

Pollycat

mcfisco wrote: »

But that's all you'll get at the moment, no one has all the info on Egypt right now, not the FO, not even the Egyptian government.
It's an extremely fast moving and unpredictable situation that could literally change overnight one way or the other.
Anyone that tells you anywhere in Egypt will be unaffected in a few days, weeks or months time, is making it up.
No one knows.

I'd chance getting on a flight today or tomorrow but I wouldn't book a holiday there for any time in the future until I knew there was a bit more predictability.

By 'incomplete information', I meant that the OP could have (and imho, should have) posted the link to FCO website which clearly explains and shows the areas affected - and they do not include Red Sea resorts or Nile cruise areas.

Anyone reading the bare details of the first post could have been unnecessarily worried.

So, what the OP posted is not really 'all you get at the moment'.

Pollycat

peachyprice wrote: »

What programme?

http://www.channel5.com/shows/did-we-land-on-the-moon/episodes/did-we-land-on-the-moon

mcfisco

I've not had chance to read through the full details but a speed read of the US State Dept's advice to US citizens is to avoid all unessential travel to Egypt at the moment.

Mind you, I'd swap Sharm el Sheikh any day for my destination early next week - Djibouti
In and out in 48 hrs I hope

DKLS

Hopefully there will be some cheap ish flights for when I want to go to the Sinai later this year, in the highly unlikely event it kicks off there its only a short journey to either Eilat or Aqaba.