Leicester Lockdown Holiday

cm369

We we live in the Lockdown zone in Leicester and have a lodge booked in Somerset  in two weeks from 13th to 17th July what are our rights if we cannot go due to localised lockdown?

bradders1983

Are the Police monitoring all the roads and stopping everyone? Nudge nudge wink wink.

blindman

Follow the lock down rules until 12th

On the 13th so long as you are not showing symptoms, get in the car and go.
If you are the only ones going to the lodge then self isolate for the next 2 days.

In the very unlikely event anyone stops and questions you on the 13th tell them you're going to see Dominic Cummings...

ikr2

I'm in a similar position (living in the zone just outside Leicester), waiting for a Brittany Ferries ticket refund for sailings on the 11th and 25th July. I think we should get a refund for the 25th as BF have cancelled the sailing. Searching around I haven't seen anything about our rights about the sailing on the 11th. We have been told by the government not to travel except for food and medicine so we can't go. What are our refund rights (particularly as BF can only be contacted by form at the moment and have a 45 day reply time!)?

bradders1983

ikr2 said:

I'm in a similar position (living in the zone just outside Leicester), waiting for a Brittany Ferries ticket refund for sailings on the 11th and 25th July. I think we should get a refund for the 25th as BF have cancelled the sailing. Searching around I haven't seen anything about our rights about the sailing on the 11th. We have been told by the government not to travel except for food and medicine so we can't go. What are our refund rights (particularly as BF can only be contacted by form at the moment and have a 45 day reply time!)?

Do you WANT to go? Do a Cummings.

ikr2

No. Our accommodation cancelled 2 months ago. In our view we don't want to fly, go on a ferry or anything else that has a higher risk of infection, even if our lockdown hadn't been extended. 
Most people who have booked flights/ holidays using a postcode in the lockdown zone have been contacted by operators to let them know they can't travel. Unfortunately Brittany Ferries just doesn't seem to have the customer service capacity to do this.
Cummings is an idiot. He chose to go against medical advice and put his family and others at risk. That was his call.

bradders1983

Right so you are seeing if you can use this Leicester thing as an excuse to get money back? May well be a travel insurance job, and even then they may not entertain it.

[Deleted User]

We're expecting hurricane winds here, in Somerset, this next 14 days  😐

sheramber

Does your insurance cover you for   government advice not to travel?
FCO advice may be lifted by 11 July so  you may be too late to claim that.
 

mattyprice4004

Your inability to get there isn't their problem - it wouldn't entitle you to a refund. It'd be a job for insurance.