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Old Sep 27, 2020, 9:48 am
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IMH
 
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Berlin
Programs: BA Gold; IHG Diamond-Amb; Accor & Meliá & HH & Marriott Gold
Posts: 5,435
Hi all, nice to see people touching base.

In mid-March we spent a night at the Heathrow T5 Sofitel (see, this isn't off topicl!) before hearing the US President speak and concluding that flying to Texas wasn't a great idea after all. We flew back to Hamburg and the Fairmont Austin became our first Accor cancellation (and was gracious and generous).

The past six months have seen more cancelled plans, long and short haul, and the next few months look similar. We won't be flying to Japan next week and the 'sabbatical' trip we had planned for December-January now looks like a bad joke: SIN / KUL / PER / MEL / SYD / TYO, including some nice long flights in F -- booked with miles at ungodly hours -- that we'd been looking forward to. A couple of hotels still left to cancel (3x Accor in SIN, KL and PER, plus the T5 Sofitel again) but fortunately most accommodation was still to be booked.

Missing out on (or delaying) those trips is only an inconvenience on the grand scale of things, of course. Not getting to see family is tougher, but we're fortunate not to be seriously concerned about anyone's health at the moment so can't complain too loudly about anything really.

In the meantime, we get to do new things. Wandering rather than rushing around the city we live in. Going on short-ish trips by rail and road. Without SARS-CoV-2 we almost certainly wouldn't be planning a weekend in Wolfsburg, for example...

@ jackr27: I'd take a closer look at Meliá, given your location. There are sweet spots and you might be able to get a status match or status via a credit card.
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