bramling
Veteran Member
Agreed, we all know some media outlets love a chance to make the railways look inflexible and evil.
Although it isn't just the railways making things hard if you want to cancel due to following the advice to limit travel, try getting money back from hotel rooms, some are allowing transfers to alternative dates but who knows when it will be safe to resume leisure travel
It’s interesting the definition of “travel” is quite vague. We have hotels booked for May, June and July - we’d be going by car, and apart from eating (which we could get round ultimately by taking a small microwave with us) we wouldn’t be doing anything on the risk list, as pretty much all of our activities are outdoors. As long as the hotels remain open as things stand I’d have no intention of calling off.
Everything we have booked is flexible and pay-on-arrival so no issue with losing money - last year we took maximum advantage of this which with some flexing of work dates allowed us to make the most of the very few decent weeks Britain’s 2019 summer weather offered! Because of the unpredictable weather I simply wouldn’t book a non-refundable British holiday - so I must admit to being miffed that people seem to wish to accept the discount that a non-refundable rate offers and then not play by the rules, and to be fair in my view it’s unfair to the hotels as well.