Is anyone considering postponing a trip?

[leeniewdw]

My goodness, what a run of bad luck! I hope your Mom is feeling better soon!

Short trips are certainly risky to pull off with challenge of air travel! We did a 2 nights trip in early Dec and that was my fear, though I have to say those 2 flights were on time (early on arrival) and smooth (other than the giant lines at security leaving MCO). Of course, that was very early on in the "omicron" phase.

 

[wilkydelts]

I'm trying to console myself that at least I'm avoiding a trip to the Covid Capital of the USA.

That is incorrect and false information. Please check your numbers before bashing Orlando and Florida.

 

[FCDub]

That is incorrect and false information. Please check your numbers before bashing Orlando and Florida.

A city is incapable of feeling shame, so it’s not a big deal.

 

[hauntedcity]

That is incorrect and false information. Please check your numbers before bashing Orlando and Florida.

It was meant tongue-in-cheek, and I apologize if I offended. I realize that it's not a great idea making light of the situation.
I know a couple other states have more overall cases than FL, and several states have higher per capita.

 

[hauntedcity]

2 days before a quick weekend trip to run the Half Marathon, I thought we were about 90% sure to go. Barring widespread flight cancellations, I thought the trip was a lock.
My wife and I have done this many, many times. The kids stay with family, we fly down Friday, run on Saturday, have a fun Saturday afternoon, fly home Sunday. We have contingencies available, and it’s always gone off without a hitch.

Here's what happened in a 24 hour period (some of which directly affects travel, others directly affect our brains):

The Challenge	The Result
My wife slips on a student's dry erase tablet (left on the floor) and hurts her wrist.	Her legs are okay! She can still run!
Our childcare for the weekend gets COVID.	Okay, this is bad, but contingencies kick in! Grandparents can watch them. Grandma just got a new knee, but the kids can help her out. All is well.
Our furnace starts shouting at us at 2am. No heat when we have 10 degree F temps.	Technician was out at 8am, and the house is once again heated! We are good to leave the next morning!
My sister took my mom to the ER	My mom tested positive for Covid. They live about 1.5 hours away, and news is trickling in very slowly... I trust my sister to take care of mom... we can probably still go?
I have to pick up my daughter from school at noon for Covid contact tracing	She takes a test, and comes back negative! Good news!
Even negative for Covid, she's not allowed back at school until Tuesday	Okay, we can handle this... we can drop her off at my wife's parents' house tonight... the other daughter can go to school on Friday... we can still do this?
My mom is sent back home from the ER. Her tests were okay, but she is very dehydrated and not getting enough nutrition.	My sister is skeptical about sending her home, but the doctors think she's at more risk of catching something else if she stays at the hospital. She's getting prescriptions and ordered to drink a lot to stay hydrated. She's in good hands, though... we probably can still go?
At 3pm yesterday, we get a text from Southwest that our flight is cancelled.	But there is an alternate flight that has a connection, and will get us there in time to visit the Marathon Race Expo... but...
I try and book the alternate and it's already sold out.	That was pretty much the straw that broke the camel's back. No other Southwest flights could get us to the Expo in time to pick up our race bibs. There are a couple other potential flights from other airlines, but they are too expensive and would cause significant childcare issues, because we're not comfortable leaving our non-quarantined daughter at home for hours before boarding the bus.

We had been fighting and fighting for 24 hours to keep the trip alive, but in the end, we had to call the trip dead. I'm hoping Run Disney will take pity and refund at least part of our race fees (totaling almost $400), but they have no obligation to do so. We booked hotel with our DVC points that expire at the end of this month, so it's a long shot to get anything from those.

Right now, my wife and I are just in shock. We've spent the last 6 months training for this race and never seriously considered that we couldn't do it. I'm trying to console myself that at least I'm avoiding a trip to the Covid Capital of the USA. We invested in some N95 masks, but we probably would have been very uncomfortable among so many people. At least that's what I'm trying to tell myself.

We are now planning a full family trip for July, and will be driving down for that trip. It's just very painful to miss this race after so much training, planning, re-planning, and hoping.

I have one silver lining... if we HAD left this morning, I would not have been home to notice our kitchen flooding.

Yeah, I just spent the last couple hours shoveling and mopping up water.

 

[CSPAGHETTI]

We ended up postponing our Jan 10-15 trip to mid-Feb in hopes that things will be improving by then. The most painful part was cancelling our Space 220 reservation -- oh, and being on the phone with Disney for 2 hours in order to modify. Apparently it's more difficult when you buy the trip insurance

 

[RNTeacher]

@hauntedcity, Murphy really moved in to your household! you took the “whatever can go wrong will go wrong” to the limit! Hopefully everyone heals and nothing else goes south!

 

[pixiedust2u]

2 days before a quick weekend trip to run the Half Marathon, I thought we were about 90% sure to go. Barring widespread flight cancellations, I thought the trip was a lock.
My wife and I have done this many, many times. The kids stay with family, we fly down Friday, run on Saturday, have a fun Saturday afternoon, fly home Sunday. We have contingencies available, and it’s always gone off without a hitch.

Here's what happened in a 24 hour period (some of which directly affects travel, others directly affect our brains):

The Challenge	The Result
My wife slips on a student's dry erase tablet (left on the floor) and hurts her wrist.	Her legs are okay! She can still run!
Our childcare for the weekend gets COVID.	Okay, this is bad, but contingencies kick in! Grandparents can watch them. Grandma just got a new knee, but the kids can help her out. All is well.
Our furnace starts shouting at us at 2am. No heat when we have 10 degree F temps.	Technician was out at 8am, and the house is once again heated! We are good to leave the next morning!
My sister took my mom to the ER	My mom tested positive for Covid. They live about 1.5 hours away, and news is trickling in very slowly... I trust my sister to take care of mom... we can probably still go?
I have to pick up my daughter from school at noon for Covid contact tracing	She takes a test, and comes back negative! Good news!
Even negative for Covid, she's not allowed back at school until Tuesday	Okay, we can handle this... we can drop her off at my wife's parents' house tonight... the other daughter can go to school on Friday... we can still do this?
My mom is sent back home from the ER. Her tests were okay, but she is very dehydrated and not getting enough nutrition.	My sister is skeptical about sending her home, but the doctors think she's at more risk of catching something else if she stays at the hospital. She's getting prescriptions and ordered to drink a lot to stay hydrated. She's in good hands, though... we probably can still go?
At 3pm yesterday, we get a text from Southwest that our flight is cancelled.	But there is an alternate flight that has a connection, and will get us there in time to visit the Marathon Race Expo... but...
I try and book the alternate and it's already sold out.	That was pretty much the straw that broke the camel's back. No other Southwest flights could get us to the Expo in time to pick up our race bibs. There are a couple other potential flights from other airlines, but they are too expensive and would cause significant childcare issues, because we're not comfortable leaving our non-quarantined daughter at home for hours before boarding the bus.

We had been fighting and fighting for 24 hours to keep the trip alive, but in the end, we had to call the trip dead. I'm hoping Run Disney will take pity and refund at least part of our race fees (totaling almost $400), but they have no obligation to do so. We booked hotel with our DVC points that expire at the end of this month, so it's a long shot to get anything from those.

Right now, my wife and I are just in shock. We've spent the last 6 months training for this race and never seriously considered that we couldn't do it. I'm trying to console myself that at least I'm avoiding a trip to the Covid Capital of the USA. We invested in some N95 masks, but we probably would have been very uncomfortable among so many people. At least that's what I'm trying to tell myself.

We are now planning a full family trip for July, and will be driving down for that trip. It's just very painful to miss this race after so much training, planning, re-planning, and hoping.

I’m so sorry. Not just for your cancelled trip but but everything you have going on. It sounds like you could really use a break. Maybe someone could still take your kids for a night and you two could go to a local resort, or in the very least a nice dinner.

 

[hauntedcity]

I’m so sorry. Not just for your cancelled trip but but everything you have going on. It sounds like you could really use a break. Maybe someone could still take your kids for a night and you two could go to a local resort, or in the very least a nice dinner.

thanks for the kind words.
Now get this… Friday evening my wife started feeling bad and guess what? Yup, Covid.
So, if we HAD been able to get to WDW, we still wouldn’t have been able to run AND we would have been stuck in Florida!

2022, everybody! Give it a hand!

 

[emmabelle]

Our daughter tested positive on Saturday, she's vaxed and boosted. Luckily she's not very sick. I knew she would be the weakest link in our household.

 

[diskate10]

My sister and I are both fully vaccinated/boosted so we did not plan on cancelling. Fully packed and ready to fly out this evening for our first girls trip ever... but her husband tested positive this morning! Trying to work through cancellations and rescheduling now.

 

[tentaguasu]

My sister and I are both fully vaccinated/boosted so we did not plan on cancelling. Fully packed and ready to fly out this evening for our first girls trip ever... but her husband tested positive this morning! Trying to work through cancellations and rescheduling now.

Sorry to hear that.

Story's like yours make me feel much better about my decision to postpone from December to May. At the time, it felt like the right decision, but also uncertain - like maybe I was overreacting.

We all have our own risk tolerances, of course, but just the number of ways things can get messed up via Covid makes me feel like we made the right call.

Of course, who knows what May holds.

Believe it or not, my May airline tickets are purchased with trip credit from the flight I cancelled in December which was purchased with flight credits from a cancelled flight to Europe August of 2020 which was a reschedule of a trip to Europe for May 2020....

 

[diskate10]

Sorry to hear that.

Story's like yours make me feel much better about my decision to postpone from December to May. At the time, it felt like the right decision, but also uncertain - like maybe I was overreacting.

We all have our own risk tolerances, of course, but just the number of ways things can get messed up via Covid makes me feel like we made the right call.

Of course, who knows what May holds.

Believe it or not, my May airline tickets are purchased with trip credit from the flight I cancelled in December which was purchased with flight credits from a cancelled flight to Europe August of 2020 which was a reschedule of a trip to Europe for May 2020....

Thank you. It's been a morning for sure! I feel as though everything is a "what if" game right now. I have DVC points that are expiring and so we knew we were taking a chance, but our kids and husbands are all vaccinated so we were most concerned with airline cancellations... and then boom! Never know what's going to happen these days! I'm sorry to hear about all of the rescheduled trips and flights. Fingers crossed for May!

 

[kylenne]

Sorry to hear that.

Story's like yours make me feel much better about my decision to postpone from December to May. At the time, it felt like the right decision, but also uncertain - like maybe I was overreacting.

We all have our own risk tolerances, of course, but just the number of ways things can get messed up via Covid makes me feel like we made the right call.

Of course, who knows what May holds.

Believe it or not, my May airline tickets are purchased with trip credit from the flight I cancelled in December which was purchased with flight credits from a cancelled flight to Europe August of 2020 which was a reschedule of a trip to Europe for May 2020....

I can believe it. I have $500 in travel bank credit from all my cancelled JetBlue flights since May 2020 and that's after using some of it last July. Not to mention something like 80k in TrueBlue points. After we canceled again over the 50th we tried to aim for May 2022 only to have to move it again because of my job. Now we're looking at going around Labor Day and hoping they don't run out of Greek letters.

 

[hsmamato2]

thanks for the kind words.
Now get this… Friday evening my wife started feeling bad and guess what? Yup, Covid.
So, if we HAD been able to get to WDW, we still wouldn’t have been able to run AND we would have been stuck in Florida!

2022, everybody! Give it a hand!

Oh whatttttttt? for real? Your story has me properly freaked out

 

[bsmcneil]

I can believe it. I have $500 in travel bank credit from all my cancelled JetBlue flights since May 2020 and that's after using some of it last July. Not to mention something like 80k in TrueBlue points. After we canceled again over the 50th we tried to aim for May 2022 only to have to move it again because of my job. Now we're looking at going around Labor Day and hoping they don't run out of Greek letters.

Very much this. I actually have written off most of my travel credit because I don't think I can use it before it expires (even as that date has been pushed back some both by rescheduled travel and new variants). I forgot I have AirBNB and United stuff - like a PP, I had originally planned a trip to Europe for March 2020. I changed it to Hawaii (before covid) and had taken part of my trip but cancelled most of the trip while in Hawaii so I could come home. I would've been really out of luck with my original plan.

 

[Jrb1979]

My family postponed and aren't even sad about. The product Disney is selling right now is not what we want. With the price increases and the nickel and dining, we will visit other things in Orlando.

 

[leeniewdw]

Our daughter tested positive on Saturday, she's vaxed and boosted. Luckily she's not very sick. I knew she would be the weakest link in our household.

I've told my husband (due to him having to go into his office with people who are not at all cautious) that he was my canary in the coal mine (I work from home). This morning he woke up with a sore throat, went to work to find out their receptionist tested positive this weekend (she was out on Friday). So the "joke" isn't quite as funny anymore. He got a PCR test this morning but they are saying 1-3 day turnaround. We had a stack of rapid tests, but we used them for 2 family gatherings over the holidays. Now waiting on some to arrive that I ordered last week.

 

[Vohdre]

Cancelled our trip that was next week (1/18). Will likely end up losing at least some of the DVC points, but the Covid surge is just too big right now to risk it.

 

[emmabelle]

I've told my husband (due to him having to go into his office with people who are not at all cautious) that he was my canary in the coal mine (I work from home). This morning he woke up with a sore throat, went to work to find out their receptionist tested positive this weekend (she was out on Friday). So the "joke" isn't quite as funny anymore. He got a PCR test this morning but they are saying 1-3 day turnaround. We had a stack of rapid tests, but we used them for 2 family gatherings over the holidays. Now waiting on some to arrive that I ordered last week.

canary in the coal mine!

I bought tests at Target only to find out there was just one test per box, you have to download an app to get the results and they were $26 each. Found some $10 a piece tests on CVS. I'll be returning the Target ones.

We still plan on going on 2/4. If I can stay negative having someone who lives with us who's positive, I must have some super hero antibodies. At least that's what I'm telling myself.