H1N1 affecting summer travel plans??

H1N1- are you still travelling with your children?

  • Yes

    Votes: 14 82.4%

  • No

    Votes: 3 17.6%
  • Total voters
    17
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mambo

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Just curious to know how many of you are worried about the H1N1, and how, if at all, it is affecting your travel plans for the summer?

We plan to go back to the US and then a 1 week cruise to Alaska, and onto Canada thereafter with 2 little ones under the age of 5. We ARE hesitant and unsure to continue with our travel plans as most of our travelling is contained on either an airplane, cruise boat and airports.

What is everyone else doing with travel plans in the summer?
 
I cancelled our family back to see the rellies in Germany.

Don't want to take the risk of my 3 year old being exposed on the plane ride. I'm sure the risk is low as our travel destination is pretty safe but I'd rather my child be in HK while this H1N1 business is going on. I went through SARS in Singapore and know that HK (like Sg) would go to greater lengths than most country if there was a problem.

However, I have decided on using this opportunity for a great mummy and girlfriends trip though :yeah2 So I'll be travelling without bub instead. I'd like to think of it as mummy taking a break over summer so that her 3 year old doesn't do her head in. Avoiding heavy outbreak areas though.
 
Does the H1N1 virus affect yr summer travel plan??

we usually travel with our 2 kids during the summer holiday, but now am not sure if we should go ahead with the travel plan to the current world outbreak of H1N1. do you still proceed with your holiday plan with yr family or do you postphone it? just wanna know what your thoughts are.
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funny, that was my question EXACTLY which i had posted on this forum a couple of days ago...and it seemed to have disappeared?

We'll be on airplanes, cruise boat and THEN onto Canada for our holidays. That's my concern when travelling with my little ones.

Curious to see how many are still travelling with their children over the holidays in during this H1N1 outbreak.
 
No but we are getting flu injections this year and we wouldn't normally. Not because the immunisation can protect (because it can't) but because we will be travelling back to HK means we will have a year of winter and will be following the viruses around.
 
anyone else travelling WITH kids. I spoke to a friend of mine who is taking her 2 kids 5, 3 back to canada with no worries.

But then the news of the 1.5 yr old with H1N1 on a Cathay flight from New York got me doubting again.
 
I'm cancelling my June trip to Canada even though I'm very upset about it cause it's my sister's wedding and I won't be attending. I'm 4.5 months pregnant, and the parents on both sides think it's better for me to stay put! :( Good thing is my husband will still go an represent us, but will quarantine himself when he comes back.
 
Great Idea Strawberry415.
I'm off to London/Scotland for a work trip. I'll be looking into organising a quarrantine for myself too.
 
My 15 month old daughter and I will head to Canada on June 1. I am also 15 weeks pregnant. I have some concerns, but not enough to prevent us from travelling. We're aware of the symptoms and know that we need to get to a hospital if we have any of the symptoms.
 
i'll be traveling back to canada with my 8 month old in july. though i'm slightly worried with the h1n1 situation, we'll probably travel as planned. my family & friends back home feels that the situation is overblown in hong kong... apparently not a lot of people are wearing masks nor is it being widely reported there.
 
we are still traveling to hong kong (from canada), I'm not to worried as it looks as though this virus is no worse than a typical influenza virus. I don't stop travelling during flu season in general, so if this one is no worse, have no reason to stop now either. All the comment on it as completely died down here now, you don't really hear of it anymore, not in the media being blown out of proportion either.
 
Although not a long flight, we have just travelled to Sanya and back last weekend, which was just over an hour flight, with my 16m month old daughter and I am 31 weeks pregnant. We figured that it is no different being stuck on a plane full of people than my husband going to work with a rooms full of people everyday, not knowing where they have been or who they have interacted with. Many on the flight did wear masks, and once the plane landed China's health authority boarded and temperature checked every individual, which meant we were stuck on the flight for an extra hour. But, it was reassuring to know that China (and HK for that matter) take it seriously. In the end, they did locate one person who had abnormal temperature and quarantined the 3 rows behind and after that individual. Thankfully we were in the first row so were able to leave after this, and were told we would be contacted if the relevant person was infected (which we weren't). Was a little scary initially, but we still believed it was no different from every day interaction with people in HK. You come into contact with so many people in our day to day lives (work, school, playgroups etc) and you don't know who they have been in contact with. We also figure, the swine flu could continue to be a threat for months to come, we don't want to be house bound or HK bound for that length of time.
 
no cancellations we just finished our baltic cruise and in Copenhagen now and off to London tomorrow. Nothing to fear. No one shudders here when u cough or sneeze. At the cruise they had hand santisers everywhere . we are traveling with 2.6 year old boy
 
for our dog boarding business, we have seen a VERY slight slow down for the summer (usually we would already be fully booked!). however, it is very difficult to say whether this is due to the flu or the economy. i'm leaning towards the economy playing a MUCH larger role in it.
 
We are traveling, but the only thing that's happened is that my dd will have to stay home for 7 days before returning to school. (We are leaving next week, going to be gone for 3.5 weeks). She will be able to go back to school just in time for her kindergarten graduation and the last 5 days of school.
 
Hi. It's good to know people are actually still going with their travel plans! I'm going to Canada with my 1 year old at the end of this month and I was debating whether to cancel the trip. Tickets have been issued and it's been a while since I was back in Canada soI really don't want to cancel my trip. If I was going by myself, I wouldn't have any second thoughts. But because I'll be brining my one year old, I'm worried. If anything happens to her I'd feel horrible.
 
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