Is Coronavirus affecting your travel plans?

[Searc]

My company just came out with no unnecessary travel (and absolutely no air travel unless approved), they cancelled all our presence at trade shows and conferences, no travelling to other company offices for meetings. I'm pretty surprised by it to be honest. I regularly travel to our office in NYC, won't be doing that until the bans are lifted.

Interesting. There has been no such edict from DH's company. In fact, he has a large group of colleagues on their way to ATL right now for meetings.

 

[Amylc]

Going to WDW March 23 unless they close parks I am not going to let paranoid media freak me out

 

[LSUmiss]

We are on our way back from wdw. We drove, but I just saw there are confirmed cases in Tampa now. Nothing I can do at this point, but it does make me a little nervous that we were so close.

 

[ellbellthomps]

My Wegmans is completely out of stock of every cleaning product imagineable. Gloves, masks, hand sanitizers, hand soap even.
All the cans are almost wiped out too. (I work there, it's normally stocked.)
Last I checked, the gallons of water are gone because everyone's worried about quarantine.

 

[ellbellthomps]

Real talk:
How stupid would I be if I booked a refundable trip to Tokyo in July?
Assuming the Corona thing is over by then, I'd get one cheap vacation.
I doubt it will be, but as long as everything is open, I'm okay with going.

 

[Haley R]

Up until 5 days, yes. So we can take a long wait and see.

Yeah I wouldn’t make any final decisions just yet since no one really knows what’s going to happen. Since you’re driving I think that helps a lot

 

[Searc]

Real talk:
How stupid would I be if I booked a refundable trip to Tokyo in July?
Assuming the Corona thing is over by then, I'd get one cheap vacation.
I doubt it will be, but as long as everything is open, I'm okay with going.

It depends on when you're going. Around Olypics time, ain't nothing gonna be cheap!

 

[pryncess527]

Real talk:
How stupid would I be if I booked a refundable trip to Tokyo in July?
Assuming the Corona thing is over by then, I'd get one cheap vacation.
I doubt it will be, but as long as everything is open, I'm okay with going.

Honestly, if its refundable then not really stupid IMHO.
I don't think we should count on it, but warm weather *could* realistically end this and you'd have an awesome July trip

 

[soccerdad72]

Major conferences are starting to get cancelled. We just had one that 12-15 of our employees were planning to attend cancel today.

 

[ellbellthomps]

It depends on when you're going. Around Olypics time, ain't nothing gonna be cheap!

It would be the end of June - early July, so right before!

 

[ellbellthomps]

Honestly, if its refundable then not really stupid IMHO.
I don't think we should count on it, but warm weather *could* realistically end this and you'd have an awesome July trip

Seriously considering it.
I'm not at all worried about the virus unless it's completely widespread by then. If it's the same as it is now and business is going on (essentially) as usual, I'd totally go.

 

[Haley R]

Real talk:
How stupid would I be if I booked a refundable trip to Tokyo in July?
Assuming the Corona thing is over by then, I'd get one cheap vacation.
I doubt it will be, but as long as everything is open, I'm okay with going.

If it’s refundable I don’t see why not. I doubt everything will be clear by July but you could always cancel if it’s refundable right?

 

[wvjules]

Just got another email from my company.

Based on developments over the past few days, we have decided to defer all non-client international travel and put additional procedures in place with respect to essential international client travel....

 

[ENJDisneyFan]

My company (automotive) also just sent out a directive banning all travel (international and domestic) through March 27th. The email also encourages employees to limit travel when possible and using technologies like Webex and Skype to communicate.

 

[ENJDisneyFan]

Interesting... I just got an email from Disney with a unique offer code for $69 per night at All Stars in April / May. Wonder if they are being hit with lots of cancellations. If I didn't already have an October trip booked, I would be all over this deal!

 

[Haley R]

Interesting... I just got an email from Disney with a unique offer code for $69 per night at All Stars in April / May. Wonder if they are being hit with lots of cancellations. If I didn't already have an October trip booked, I would be all over this deal!

I’d be all over that too if I wasn’t due at the end of April. Plus I didn’t get the code lol

 

[DopeyDame]

My company issued guidance on Friday cancelling all non-essential international travel, and any travel that does happen has to be approved by the VP level.
Absolutely no business travel to any countries on the CDC Level 3 list (right now China, South Korea, Iran, and Italy) and if you go there on your own you have to work from home and avoid interactions with all other employees for 14 days upon return.

 

[DopeyDame]

Interesting... I just got an email from Disney with a unique offer code for $69 per night at All Stars in April / May. Wonder if they are being hit with lots of cancellations. If I didn't already have an October trip booked, I would be all over this deal!

I just got it too.
So tempting!

 

[pryncess527]

Looks like some major companies are pulling out of SXSW -- source

I sort of expect my husband's company to encourage work from home by the end of the week. They are well set up for it already and we have a few cases in our county

 

[morgan98]

Major conferences are starting to get cancelled. We just had one that 12-15 of our employees were planning to attend cancel today.

Out of curiosity, what were the dates? Is this a conference that is next week or two months from now, for example?