Foreign holidays could be back on the agenda.
The date when you could be jetting off for some sun has been indicated, although Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says there are no "cast-iron guarantees".
A glimmer of hope for Nottingham residents eager to take up foreign holidays was given when Shapps said he was "hopeful" that people will be able to travel abroad this summer.
Mr Shapps said that under the road map out of lockdown in England, the earliest people would be able to travel overseas was Monday, May 17, but he urged caution when it came to booking, reported BirminghamLive.
"We know you won't be able to travel until May 17. I would say that it makes sense to see how the course of the pandemic unlock proceeds," he told Times Radio.
"I am hopeful but, as with everything to do with this virus, you can't say for certain.
"There are a lot of issues that we need to work around but I am working with international partners, both governments and organisations, to try to make it happen. We can't provide cast-iron guarantees on it."
Speaking about the coronavirus pandemic and the Test and Trace system, Mr Shapps said the pandemic would have been "one heck of a lot worse" without the system.
In a highly critical report, the Commons Public Accounts Committee said there was no clear evidence the scheme had contributed to a reduction in coronavirus infection levels.
However, Mr Shapps told Sky News: "It certainly hasn't been cheap fighting coronavirus but it has absolutely been necessary.
"9.1 million people have been contacted by Test and Trace. These are people who otherwise would be wandering around, often unaware that they had coronavirus and spreading it around further.
"Whatever the coronavirus experience we have had as a nation, good or bad, it would have been one heck of a lot worse if we didn't have a Test and Trace system which has contacted so many people and prevented the disease spreading further."
