The places in the UK and abroad our travel experts are booking holidays this summer
If you re torn on whether you should be optimstic and book, or hold on, our experts offer advice on when to book and where to go
11 February 2021 • 4:38pm
Confusion reigns when it comes to summer holidays. Will we be able to go abroad, and – if so – which destinations are the best bet? Should you book now, or wait until the last minute and risk missing out on your dream hotel or holiday apartment? Here’s what our travel experts are doing.
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Matt Hancock’s heading to Cornwall. Dominic Raab reckons its “too early” to book summer holidays overseas. Of course, the main lesson that parents of school-age children have learnt from the last ten months is to take the Government’s pandemic proclamations with a pinch of salt (and, by this stage, a shot of something steadying, for Dutch courage). Yet just for once, they’ve captured the problem facing all families when it comes to booking a summer holiday right now.
I’m not saying it won’t be possible. Holiday companies are reporting surges, in response to the vaccination roll-out. EasyJet says its summer bookings are 250 per cent higher than this time last year. I can’t think of many points in my life I’ve felt more deserving of some cheap sun and sangria than now – ten months into staring at the same four walls, watching rain fall outside, pretending that I know what a fronted adverb