Those lucky enough to consider travelling once the international borders are opened again (whenever that is) - where are you thinking to go and why?
Sorry, voting option limit of 30 (if not mentioned write in comments)
Once The International Travel Ban Has Lifted Where Are You Planning to Go?
LHeadless on 26/08/2020 - 18:07
Poll Options
- 3Argentina
- 175Australia (Stay local)
- 13Canada
- 3Chile
- 25China
- 6Colombia
- 5Egypt
- 11Fiji
- 8France
- 10Germany
- 9Greece
- 12Hong Kong
- 44India
- 18Indonesia
- 25Italy
- 299Japan
- 19Malaysia
- 5Mexico
- 71New Zealand
- 3Peru
- 13Philippines
- 16Singapore
- 25South Korea
- 9Spain
- 5Sweden
- 42Thailand
- 24UK
- 2United Arab Emirates
- 29USA
- 53Vietnam
Comments
Hospital
Japan is the only answer
Cambodia
It's tough kid but it's life!
Yeah totally no corona there it's safe already!!
Would love to go to Europe and immerse as things start to pick up and the crowds are less and help the local economy at the same time.
Indonesia first as I have a current ticket currently on-hold thanks to lockdown.
After that, two weeks in Japan or anywhere Europe.
Malaysia. My favorite country.
Loved Penang and Ipoh when I last visited. Any other places to add to the must visit? Food and culture are top priorities.
Melaka is a good spot as well for Baba and Nyonya food. Each state has a great food culture. I'd recommend checking out Sabah and Sarawak as well! Beautiful beaches and mountains. People are so friendly too.
Oh yes how could I forget, Malacca was awesome too! Hated KL though :(
Is Kuching worth a visit? Any places in particular in Sabah and Sarawak?@dajackal: Yes, Kuching is worth it. I love Sabah as well. You can go island hopping and stay near the mountains. Seafood was great there too!
Depends on how expensive tickets are i reckon flights are going to triple what they were pre-covid
Gotta factor in quarantine cost on return so add another couple of Gs at least.
Hobart 😷
Boy people are going to be in for a shock when Japan flights aren't what we're used to.
You reckon it's gonna be a 3-4k trip per person in the future?
Doubt it, Japan is always so cheap as flight to HK is cheap and connecting flight is cheap.
Its like 200AUD to fly from HK to Japan using a budget airline. Japan is like bali to alot of HK people, a yearly holiday.Sweet. I've only flown Qantas and Jetstar but I will check that out in the future.
all i can say is brush your teeth well before flying. wearing a face mask highlights how bad your breath can be,
once the international borders are opened again (whenever that is)
I thought they were already opened? Well one guy on here managed to get through somehow….
Requires permit on application.
oh…then get one? unless the permit is hard to get?
Yes. I know a few people who got it. The criteria to leave were not something you could just BS, and getting back is not automatic either.
I'm overdue for a holiday but I'm going to wait another 3-4 years. No way in hell I'm knowingly putting myself through 2 weeks of quarantine.
Wanting a holiday isn’t going to get you a permit.
Well one guy on here managed to get through somehow….
He traded one prison for another : marriage! shudders Not worth it, imho .
Japan. We went in February and I was supposed to run a marathon that ended up being cancelled because of COVID. I’ve got unfinished business…
we were going to Fiji, then Covid happened,
now we have no plans until this is over, i.e. mass vaccines level and a couple of years down the track i guess.
so far we have the 'land' portion of our trip back, but the airfares is another story…Japan for sure; they seem a lot more pro mask, pro social distance and hygiene aware (despite if there's a vaccine, IMO that vaccine will be like the flu vaccine and not a silver bullet). A few of my friends are there currently and even with restrictions lifted, many still stay away from the tourist areas and cities so the place is a lot more empty for visitors.
I'm planning to go to Costco.
Amazon will send an Anaconda after you!
Stay home, I like it here.
UK; my fiancee is living there (British Citizen) and it sucks to still be stuck in separate countries.
- Go back to Japan to catch up with friends, Skype calls have been so boring.
- Family trip back to Singapore and Penang.
Sudan - its going to be "safe" once they can cough up $330m.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/26/us-propose-t…
I've been everywhere, man
Friend: Let’s go to Bora Bora.
Me: Man, I wanna go, but I’m pora pora… :(Where's the option for The Marshall Islands!?
Turkey.
Cuba, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Japan.
China, Vietnam, Thailand
Would love to say "all of the above" but life just isn't long enough. I'll settle for "whatever has a good deal" and go from there.
my fridge,
for an ice cold bevvy
North Korea. They have no Covid cases so they are the safest country in the world.
They had one unconfirmed case at one point. I guess there was a ditch nearby as it didn't come to anything.
North Korea
I won a trip to Japan so will definitely be heading there as it's one of my favourite travel destinations anyway.
I want to go back home to australia, having no money being stuck in japan is great for freedom aside from the rolling lockdowns in australia, I'm better off in japan for the long haul i guess, can't afford quarantine costs as one had no income 9 months now and force fees on return is circumventing my rights to return home
Moldova
Taiwan for food….and before China eats them.
After 6 weeks in the mainland gone to Taiwan and found normal people. Highly reccomendded even if snake blood is not what one is craving for. Stinky tofu again is testing the cultural senses. After falling in love with the taste of durian one can survive it.
by the time this is over, probably Mars
ive got a pre-booked holiday to Fiji worth thousands stuck with a travel agent… i'll be certainly heading there as soon as the borders open (as long as they haven't gone bankrupt or stolen my money)
Bangkok baby!
The pub?
If you're in Vic, come to East Gippsland, its been a bad year for local businesses (the strain is visible). The fires and now COVID. Its not a place to spend a week, but if you've got 3 or 4 days spare, there is enough to do (Buchan Caves, Lakes Entrance, Raymond Island etc)
Taiwan please
It's there - China
ROC is great, PRC well thumbs down!
I think your comment upset some Mainlanders
@payless69: Lol how naive. You mean some of the western world.
You know there's actually a world out there beyond what the western media tells you.@cktftw: Yeah so sad, there was once thriving HK, thriving Tibet, Uyghurs outside concentration camps, less corrupt South America and even independent Africa. I met so many Tibetans in exile,we went to see little Tebet in Delhi, their exiled home in McLoed Ganji…..Oh I forgot we witnessed so many putting down wreaths on Mao statues…
@payless69: Yeah I know. I've also met plenty of aboriginal people whose ancestors once lived quite happily before an invasion brough about diseases, massacres, genocide, enslavement, a stolen generation as well as decades of systemic racism. Not to mention the statues of colonialists.
ROC: "I'm China."
PRC: "No, I'm China!"
ROC: "OK, I'm Taiwan."
PRC: "No! You're China!"
I'm travelling local, North Queensland.
Montenegro!
Don't really have a choice, need to take the new bub back to China to see the relatives. At least I will get some extra cash out of it.
5.1km from my house
Haha. An extra 100m of crowded bike path to explore !
To the Middle Kingdom ASAsafe as have elderly relative in poor health.
Apart from that, we have lost interest in OS travel for the moment. We will do some Aussie travels over the next few years.I think it is missing the option of not going anywhere. At least we won't now that we have a baby.
Greenland
You mean America, lol.
wuhan…..nah j/k
Was supposed to move and work in Japan, currently on hold for now until they open their border, very sad
Where is Bali? /s
it's one of them north Austrian islands
No option in the poll for somewhere over 5km away?
Most of those countries you won't be able to travel for 2 years+
They released some countries which will probably be open first and it was like Scandinavia excluding Sweden, Singapore, Japan, New Zealand, UK, Germany.
Who the hell wants to go to America….
South America? Argentina might be ok.
Too risky without insurance and who will issue that?
Can reliably tell you - be prepared to see no one agree with an America trip in the next 2yrs at least
Ipswich Heights
Given that traveling interstate for a holiday is currently banned, international economy class travel is many years away.
The race riots and conflict has turned me off America. I reckon continental Europe, Russia or Japan would be on the cards for later.
First, local, perhaps queensland ONLY IF we have zero cases here and don't import more.
Second, China or Japan
China - totalitarian rule works to matt down outbreaks unfortunately, but only if they don't impose a 2 weeks quarantine for all visitors and I don't get bashed by the locals.
Japan - cleanest asian city, natural mask wearers lol. I'm sure the poll reflects this.Would love to go to Thailand above all else but I don't see this happening until middle of next year or end.
Eventually Norway but no clue when, perhaps years from now.
Spend your money locally will benefit every one. Personally, I want all your bastard out of the country so I can enjoy all for myself.
yeah tried that (booked flights and accom etc), then got screwed over by QLD border reclosing. we have given up on local holidays for now.
Very true about the spending but people need to get out and spend more. This does not mean going to Woolworths to stock up and stay home for the week because that only benefits a behemoth organisation.
Dine at a local restaurant, go to the pub, wine bar, cocktail bar, enjoy a coffee at the cafe, spend your Sunday afternoon having a 'Sunday Session' - and this means spending lots - go for it.
Don't hold back that it is scary out there, you can still do lots of things and remain quite safe.
We just spent two weeks in far North Queensland and it was great. We usually holiday overseas so it was something different. It was pretty packed with overseas tourists and Victorians too scared to go home.
I wouldn't go to Hong Kong with the new laws where they can cherry pick any of your social media and send you to a lovely Chinese Hilton vacation .
Yes they can but it would be extremely unlikely- unless you have a million followers and have been very vocal being anti-Chinese. There are many things you do not do as a tourist depending where you go; nobody goes to Thailand to criticise the royal family, you just do not do it unless you want to be beaten up.
The truth is millions of tourists have visited China over the past 20 years to see The Great Wall, The Forbidden City, Tianmen Square, Beijing, Shanghai, Three Gorges Dam, Guilin, the Giant Pandas, take a river cruise or whatever tourist thing to see etc etc gone there, taken photos, posted it on their FB and IG acount, and came back home perfectly fine.
Home :D
damn only one option. We have a few destinations that we have planned and have delayed.
Japan (after olympics)
Galapagos islands/machu pichu
Antarctica
and
Europe/RussiaI expect we may be in Japan next year. The others though I suspect we are looking at 2022/23
You were pretty lucky there. Missing out on those Tokyo sites were a bit ordinary in my opinion. Kyoto is way better,