We Answer Your Most Pressing Questions About Coronavirus and Travel

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🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

With the near-constant stream of coronavirus news on our feeds these days, we understand if you want to run screaming from another coronavirus-related chat. But we promise this is not all doom and gloom. In fact, we hope that by answering some of the most frequently asked questions about travel and the coronavirus (Should you cancel a fall trip? Hop on a flight deal for later in the year? Use your vacation days now or save them for later?), we can give you a glimmer of hope about what's to come.

Note that this episode was recorded on May 14. You can find all of our up-to-date coronavirus coverage and travel resources at cntraveler.com/coronavirus.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone, and welcome to Women Who Travel, a podcast from Cunningass Traveler.
0:08.0	I'm Meredith Carey, and with me, as always, is my co-host, Salaericoglou.
0:12.0	Hello.
0:12.9	This week, we are rounding up some of the questions we're seeing again and again in our Facebook group
0:17.8	in a special coronavirus edition of our Frequently Asked Questions series. Don't worry, this will not be all doom and gloom, but hopefully instead
0:25.8	give you some practical tools for dealing with your upcoming trips and give you a little bit
0:29.7	of hope for the future. And if you get to the end of this episode and still have questions,
0:34.8	head to seeandraveller.com slash coronavirus for more info.
0:38.6	Today, we are joined by associate editor, Megan Sparrell, and transportation editor, Jessica Puckett,
0:44.3	to help get some answers.
0:47.2	So, Jess, I have a question for you to kick things off, which is, in the past year,
0:52.9	you've had not one, but two two trips cancelled the first was a trip to
0:57.2	California because of wildfires and the second was a trip to Italy because of the pandemic
1:02.1	what do you think you've learned from all this travel stress do you think you've become more
1:08.2	or less of a planner do you think that you'll be able to accept that certain things are beyond your control or do you think you've become more or less of a planner? Do you think that you'll be able to accept
1:11.6	that certain things are beyond your control? Or do you think you're just going to travel the same
1:15.7	when this is over? No, I mean, I think this is definitely, the past year of trip planning has
1:22.3	definitely changed the way I approach all my vacation and trip kind of scheduling. Yeah, like you said, I had to
1:30.4	cancel a trip to Italy. Like most people had to cancel travel because of the pandemic, but also last
1:36.6	October, I had to cancel a trip to Napa Valley because of the wildfires that were happening
1:43.1	out there. And yeah, I think travel
1:45.7	stress is definitely the term that I used to label both these things. I took many phone calls,
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