The Kerryman (South Kerry Edition)
Majorca will still be there next year...’
A LISTOWEL woman who had planned on travelling abroad to Majorca at the end of this month has now cancelled her trip over increased fears about contracting COVID-19.
Deirdre O’Connor planned to head over to the Spanish island in a few weeks but has now settled for holidaying at home this year and potentially next year as well if the situation has not cleared up.
Speaking to The Kerryman, Deirdre said it was not so much where she and her family were travelliing that was the problem, it was the getting there which was causing her the most worry.
“We had decided even at the start of the whole thing that we wouldn’t be going anywhere. Even when it was in China and then when it went to Italy, I said there was not a hope that I was going now,” she said.
Going on, Deirdre - who had booked a package holiday with travel agents, TUI - said that she has been lucky enough to be getting a full refund but said that even if TUI rang them up and said that it was safe for them to travel, Deirdre would not risk her or her families health.
“It’s the flight and the airport that I’d be most uncomfortable with. When you’re over there, I think you’d be fine because you could keep to your own little bubble. You’re in such a small space on a plane and you could easily come away with a cold or flu from a plane at the best of times. You just don’t know who you’re with or who you’d be beside on a plane or in an airport,” she said.
Even if they got over there safely and even though she said that it would be easy to keep social distancing while there, she said that it would not be the same holiday experience that you’re used to because you could never fully relax.
“You’d be watching yourself doing everything and for me with kids, you’d have to watch them constantly. If one of them got sick, I’d never be able to relax at all, It just wouldn’t be the same,” she continued.
Honestly, Majorca will still be there next year. We’re not that desperate for a holiday and if things haven’t cleared up by 2021, we might not head abroad even then, it’s really not worth the risk at all,” she said.