Plan your personalised half term staycation with Asda’s Adventure Planner

This year’s half term holiday arrangements are going to be very different to usual, with the pandemic still halting many plans to go abroad. So, to help with the demand of local trips across the UK and to help Brits get back on the road again, Asda Money have investigated the UK’s attitudes around travel plans over the next year with a survey of 2,000 people to discover what Brits’ getaway plans are.

They’ve also used their findings to help create a personalised Asda Money’s Adventure Planner that can help build the perfect UK trip, including over 150 attractions for all ages, groups, budgets and UK holiday dreams!

When asked about holiday plans for the next year, over a third of Brits (36%) said they don’t know when they will travel internationally again, and 15 per cent said they would never travel. This goes hand in hand with the pandemic and the UK’s current feelings towards this, with nearly half (42%) of people saying they were concerned about COVID-19 cases in other countries.

With concerns and restrictions still very much present, this is reflected in people’s holiday plans for this year, with almost half (46%) saying they were more likely to book a holiday in the UK than in previous years, however only 16 per cent said they had already made holiday bookings – showing that there’s still plenty of opportunity to plan a perfect staycation.

Of those planning to travel within the UK over the next 12 months (1,153 people), almost six out of ten (59%) said that it would be for a holiday, over four out of ten (41%) said it would be to visit family, a quarter (26%) said it would be to visit friends, and five per cent said it wouldn’t be for any particular reason, but that they would just like to travel somewhere.

Alistair Ball, Head of Insurance at Asda Money, commented: “The pandemic has impacted us all in so many ways, including holiday plans many of us would usually look forward to. But it’s great to see people are still hopeful in making the most of half term, and getting back on the road to visit loved ones and explore all the beautiful places we have on offer.

“There’s certainly some fantastic trips to be had, and we want to help make that as safe and feasible as possible, which is why we it’s so important to us to offer affordable motor insurance to our customers, so they can spend time and money thinking about other things – like adventures!”