Brexit and city break??

CirrusDesAigles

mustardtree6 wrote: »

Is it a good idea to book a city break to Vienna on 1 November, a day after Brexit? It will be ATOL protected.

Are you all British passport holders? I'd not fancy it if not unless you are or have EU settled status.

My wife's Belgian family have cancelled plans to visit the UK on 4th November after Priti Patel stated free movement would end if we left without a deal (and didn't state any replacements to free movement).

Austrian immigration shouldn't pose any issues bar having to queue up with non EU visitors instead of the quicker EU queue but I would be concerned about crossing the UK border unless all your party hold UK passports.

TheShape

Cisco001 wrote: »

Go to somewhere not in EU & flight not flying over EU?

With continental Europe occupying the South and East and Ireland to the West doesn't that become quite difficult. Might be limited to Iceland, Norway and South America.

foomanchu

I went to France on the last Brexit deadline. Flights were cheap.

zagfles

bradders1983 wrote: »

Oh for gods sake. Why would it be a bad idea?

Yeah, cos we're unlikely to have left the EU by then whatever Boris says However as above it'll be expensive as the current mess has made the pound worthless.

Cisco001

TheShape wrote: »

With continental Europe occupying the South and East and Ireland to the West doesn't that become quite difficult. Might be limited to Iceland, Norway and South America.

flight that stop over iceland to america will do:p

But that is not a city break...

Reykjavik may be a good choice for city break if money and weather is not an issue...

mgdavid

zagfles wrote: »

Yeah, cos we're unlikely to have left the EU by then whatever Boris says However as above it'll be expensive as the current mess has made the pound worthless.

Not worthless (silly remark) but merely the same as it was for a large part of 2008-2009 and life carried on regardless.

zagfles

mgdavid wrote: »

Not worthless (silly remark) but merely the same as it was for a large part of 2008-2009 and life carried on regardless.

Yup, similar to while we were in the worst recession in living memory. In fact, even worse if you compare against a basket of currencies rather than just the Euro.

https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/bank-of-england-spot/historical-effective-exchange-rates/GBP-history

Oh well, at least it'll benefit places like Bognor.

Sharon87

I'm going to Italy on the 6th November.

Brexit's gonna be a s*** show, but it shouldn't affect holiday makers too much - except the pound plummeting at least!

It's more likely to affect businesses than holiday makers. When the Shengan area are introduce the ESITA (like an esta) UK citizens will have to get one.

gettingtheresometime

Sharon87 wrote: »

It's more likely to affect businesses than holiday makers. When the Shengan area are introduce the ESITA (like an esta) UK citizens will have to get one.

Given I've just spent 10 minutes getting an esta then I won't worry to much about spending another 10 minutes getting one for any EU country I may want to visit

leylandsunaddict

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

Given I've just spent 10 minutes getting an esta then I won't worry to much about spending another 10 minutes getting one for any EU country I may want to visit

I agree. Personally I think introducing the ETIAS is a good idea anyway. British citizens could have ended up having to apply for a visa for Schengen, so only an electronic application is great.