Travel and holiday price hikes

DomRavioli

ThinkingOutLoud wrote: »

Really? Why do you live here? Surely putting up with " horrible" 47/48 weeks of the year can't be your best option? :-) I live here because I have both caring responsibilities which I cannot take with me, and quite simply because financially I have no choice being a disabled person and would struggle to find work abroad due to my disability. But please, carry on.

Seriously, there are some fabulous places to holiday in the UK. I love to see the rest of the world too - but from the Lake District to Cornwall to the Cotswolds to the Scottish Highlands and so on - there is so much on your doorstep. The lake district is boring unless you're 80, Cornwall is 10 hours drive away and seriously expensive, Scotland is just a never in a million years destination (can't understand the scottish accent at all), and again boring cotswolds. Once you've seen one hill, you've seen them all. Plus for what I could stay in the UK for, I could have an amazing couple of weeks touring the world.

I live on the edge of the Pennines. Once you've seen one set of hills, you've seen them all.

I'd rather spend my hard earned travelling to somewhere with weather I want, different culture, and usually for less than a wet weekend in some terribly cheap british place.

ThinkingOutLoud_2

DomRavioli wrote: »

I'd rather spend my hard earned travelling to somewhere with weather I want, different culture, and usually for less than a wet weekend in some terribly cheap british place.

I love to travel abroad for many of the same reasons you do (weather and culture), but I don't have a downer on my own nation.

Some of your arguments seem self-defeating though:-

• Surely the hills everywhere else are the same? Why go.
• I assume you don't speak every language, so your Scottish argument fails.
• It takes 10 hours home door to hotel door to get to most places beyond near Europe (although Google says 7 1/2 Pennines to Cornwall)

Seems we have different views on what is on your doorstep. I sense your attitude is what it is, so let us agree to disagree.

Apologies for not suggesting the Pennines as destination too :-)

worried_jim

The pound is up 100% against the Egyptian pound since November. Also up about 12% against the Turkish lira since August. Guess where I keep going on holiday. Much cheapness!

PompeyPete

DomRavioli wrote: »

I live on the edge of the Pennines. Once you've seen one set of hills, you've seen them all.

I'd rather spend my hard earned travelling to somewhere with weather I want, different culture, and usually for less than a wet weekend in some terribly cheap british place.

Where do you go?

Voyager2002

DomRavioli wrote: »

Nobody I know has changed their holiday plans, and none would ever stay in the UK. Its horrible.

Sounds like you don't have many friends, then.

Seriously, the Lonely Planet organisation describes Britain and Ireland as being just about the most beautiful islands in the world. I have travelled widely (about 150 countries, including a long stays in the "paradise islands" of Seychelles and Philippines) and I agree with Lonely Planet. The bottom line: anyone who cannot appreciate the best that the UK has to offer has so little taste that travel is wasted on them.

Having said that, tourism in the UK is horribly expensive while the weather is often challenging. Unfortunately the fall in the pound will only encourage our tourism sector to exploit foreign visitors, meaning that those of us who have incomes in sterling will have to visit Turkey and Egypt.

I long for a dollar salary to enable me to explore Chester.

andrewf75

DomRavioli wrote: »

I live on the edge of the Pennines. Once you've seen one set of hills, you've seen them all.

I'd rather spend my hard earned travelling to somewhere with weather I want, different culture, and usually for less than a wet weekend in some terribly cheap british place.

I feel genuinely sorry for you if you have such little appreciation of our country. Don’t get me wrong I love foreign travel and reliable weather is a huge plus, but Britain has some amazing places and to suggest that one set of hills is the same as another is utterly ridiculous!

mahmoodhus

Hi

A question to forum members on some advice four of us are travelling to Zurich in June 2019 to cycle the whole of the Rhine from Switzerland to Rotterdam in Holland. We have booked all the hotels via booking.com but not paid for them yet. What are peoples view is it best pay for them straight away or wait until after brexit. We have option of paying either before or on the day.

Many thanks

Mahmood

Archergirl

We have world wide travel ins that will cover us now and after Brexit just the same, I hate these scaremongering people.
We joined the Common Market if it had stayed the same we would still be in it.

Gloomendoom

DomRavioli wrote: »

Nobody I know has changed their holiday plans, and none would ever stay in the UK. Its horrible.

Nobody I know has changed their travel plans.

Plenty are staying UK though.

jackieblack

mahmoodhus wrote: »

Hi

A question to forum members on some advice four of us are travelling to Zurich in June 2019 to cycle the whole of the Rhine from Switzerland to Rotterdam in Holland. We have booked all the hotels via booking.com but not paid for them yet. What are peoples view is it best pay for them straight away or wait until after brexit. We have option of paying either before or on the day.

Many thanks

Mahmood

Probably better (as in, you'll get a better response) to start your own thread, rather than resurrecting one on a slightly different topic that is more than 18 months old.