The Government has pledged to provide refunds for rail and coach tickets bought for the previous Christmas travel window between December 23-27.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said this will apply to journeys in England booked on or after November 24, when the Christmas travel window was announced.
Mr Shapps said: “This ensures no one is left out of pocket for doing the right thing – staying home in Tier 4, and elsewhere staying local and only meeting your Christmas bubble on Christmas Day.”
It comes after Boris Johnson announced a dramatic scaling back of the Government’s relaxation of coronavirus restrictions over Christmas, which is now limited to just December 25 for people in Tiers 1-3 in England, rather than the initial five days.
There will be no bubble in the new Tier Four covering London and the South East.
The bubble has also been reduced to one day in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
It comes after a new variant of Covid was detected in the Uk - with scientists saying it is 70 per cent more infectious.
Countries in Europe and across the world have slammed shut their borderes with the UK - banning travel and freight.
