Mandatory hotel quarantine

I've done it twice in Perth WA and I'm doing it in Doha as we speak.

You don't chose the hotel. They're several that are allocated and if you can't pre-arrange one they are allocated on arrival at the airport and you go straight there.

In Australia this was on a bus with two police escorts from arrivals to hotel fire escape. In Doha allocated Taxi, possibly open to shenanigans.
 
Caesium137 said:
I've done it twice in Perth WA and I'm doing it in Doha as we speak.

You don't chose the hotel. They're several that are allocated and if you can't pre-arrange one they are allocated on arrival at the airport and you go straight there.

In Australia this was on a bus with two police escorts from arrivals to hotel fire escape. In Doha allocated Taxi, possibly open to shenanigans.
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You get about a bit!
 
Caesium137 said:
Am meant to be off to Brazil after this trip but it has been getting dragged out and dragged out since December. I've not been to South America yet so I'm hoping a way can found for it to go ahead. The OT will be nice too!
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Its nice Brazil.

I'm assuming this is all work related? Are your work happy for you to spend so much time in isolation? What do you do?
 
atypical_boro said:
Its nice Brazil.

I'm assuming this is all work related? Are your work happy for you to spend so much time in isolation? What do you do?
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Subsea inspection of oil and gas infrastructure. Yes, all work related.

I quite enjoy it. It is better than being stuck offshore, the hotels are nice and everything is on expenses if the provided food isn't up to much.

Work are very open with us, non of it is enforced and if you don't want to travel you don't have to. Prior to the hotel thing they've paid for guys to stop in hotels in Teesside so they knew they were clear before moving back into home with family. I work for a pretty good company on that front.

I'm ex-military so in my previous life I used to get sent away for four months in a 16 man tent with no OT or significant allowances for nights away. I'm now handsomely remunerated for my efforts. And, it's not like I'd be going anywhere at home..........

I've got a big HDD too!
 
The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
Government mandated hotels, usually airport hotels, no choice just what you're allocated.

So no Air B'n'B's, but equally you can't upgrade to a suite to make it a bit more comfortable. At least that's the theory anyway.
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Can’t speak about Australia’s MIQ but I’ve just gone through it in Auckland. It wasn’t t an airport hotel as such but one not too far away. A 4 star. We had a small balcony fortunately that looked out over the gardens in the middle.

We could exercise as often an we wanted but within certain hours. A small circuit running track was also a ailable - that had to be booked Food was very good. Three good meals arrived on the dot in paper bags at 8, 12 and 6pm. Food was ordered by an app on the telephone the day before. A sort of mini Deliveroo. Talking of which if you didn’t like the food you could order from outside to be delivered. You could also order beer and wine 24 hours a day. You were temperature checked every other day, Covid tested on Day 3 and Day 12 and a mental health and well-being team were on call to help. They could provide games, books newspapers and generally chat if you felt alone.
Tv channels were plenty inc most sports, Wifi signal always consistently on. Whilst the last few days dragged the experience was a lot better than expected.

MIQs over there are going to have to be staffed by health professionals, mental health support, catering. In fact the army control it here. Escorted us off the plane through customs and into waiting buses. The whole plane of passengers (19 of us) went to the same hotel. It was a military operation both in and out but boy was it worth it. At the moment in NZ I can go to the pub now, eat in a restaurant and watch live sport.
 
Ingleby_Flash said:
Bear I think it was a blanket policy, but watered down to high risk areas. We‘ll see later.

Brother in law’s done it twice travelling for work, apparently it’s grim, you can empty Netflix in a week.
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You can make it anything you want. You can either sit on your **** watching Netflix eating take aways, or you can anticipate it, take some books, make use of some time to yourself.

Works perfectly fine in Australia, it's a small price to pay for some assurance. This should have been in place way back last Summer, especially for the idiots flying to Covid-19 hotspots such as Spain and Italy.
 
Abel Tasman said:
Can’t speak about Australia’s MIQ but I’ve just gone through it in Auckland. It wasn’t t an airport hotel as such but one not too far away. A 4 star. We had a small balcony fortunately that looked out over the gardens in the middle.

We could exercise as often an we wanted but within certain hours. A small circuit running track was also a ailable - that had to be booked Food was very good. Three good meals arrived on the dot in paper bags at 8, 12 and 6pm. Food was ordered by an app on the telephone the day before. A sort of mini Deliveroo. Talking of which if you didn’t like the food you could order from outside to be delivered. You could also order beer and wine 24 hours a day. You were temperature checked every other day, Covid tested on Day 3 and Day 12 and a mental health and well-being team were on call to help. They could provide games, books newspapers and generally chat if you felt alone.
Tv channels were plenty inc most sports, Wifi signal always consistently on. Whilst the last few days dragged the experience was a lot better than expected.

MIQs over there are going to have to be staffed by health professionals, mental health support, catering. In fact the army control it here. Escorted us off the plane through customs and into waiting buses. The whole plane of passengers (19 of us) went to the same hotel. It was a military operation both in and out but boy was it worth it. At the moment in NZ I can go to the pub now, eat in a restaurant and watch live sport.
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About the same as Perth, but I was in a city centre one so no balcony or exercise area, 14 days in the room.
 
Abel Tasman said:
Can’t speak about Australia’s MIQ but I’ve just gone through it in Auckland. It wasn’t t an airport hotel as such but one not too far away. A 4 star. We had a small balcony fortunately that looked out over the gardens in the middle.

We could exercise as often an we wanted but within certain hours. A small circuit running track was also a ailable - that had to be booked Food was very good. Three good meals arrived on the dot in paper bags at 8, 12 and 6pm. Food was ordered by an app on the telephone the day before. A sort of mini Deliveroo. Talking of which if you didn’t like the food you could order from outside to be delivered. You could also order beer and wine 24 hours a day. You were temperature checked every other day, Covid tested on Day 3 and Day 12 and a mental health and well-being team were on call to help. They could provide games, books newspapers and generally chat if you felt alone.
Tv channels were plenty inc most sports, Wifi signal always consistently on. Whilst the last few days dragged the experience was a lot better than expected.

MIQs over there are going to have to be staffed by health professionals, mental health support, catering. In fact the army control it here. Escorted us off the plane through customs and into waiting buses. The whole plane of passengers (19 of us) went to the same hotel. It was a military operation both in and out but boy was it worth it. At the moment in NZ I can go to the pub now, eat in a restaurant and watch live sport.
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I imagine thats exactly how it will work in the UK.

Especially when the government outsources and awards the contract to a Tory party donor or the likes of Serco et al, who will then sub contract, and people will end up being isolated in diss-used and abandoned Little Chef restaurants dotted up the A1 with a government supplied food hamper per day of half and apple, a fun size mars bar and some dirt.
 
We knew what was heading our way in late 2019, probably even before then. We had quite a few months to prepare ourselves but instead in March we let thousands of Spanish football fans head to Liverpool when the COVID cases in Spain had already become significant and 170,000 people attend 5 days of the Cheltenham Festival before heading back to all points North, East, South and West. Absolutely crazy
 
Billy69_uk said:
I imagine thats exactly how it will work in the UK.

Especially when the government outsources and awards the contract to a Tory party donor or the likes of Serco et al, who will then sub contract, and people will end up being isolated in diss-used and abandoned Little Chef restaurants dotted up the A1 with a government supplied food hamper per day of half and apple, a fun size mars bar and some dirt.
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Yes but the usual suspects will still back de fefel and his useless cabinet
 
FatFrank said:
You can make it anything you want. You can either sit on your **** watching Netflix eating take aways, or you can anticipate it, take some books, make use of some time to yourself.

Works perfectly fine in Australia, it's a small price to pay for some assurance. This should have been in place way back last Summer, especially for the idiots flying to Covid-19 hotspots such as Spain and Italy.
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There were a few what you call idiots but I'll just refer to as people on here who went abroad over the summer.

@Abel Tasman how much is a flight to New Zealand? I'd love some me time to myself for a couple of weeks. 😂
 
I pity anyone who has to stay in a Britannia Hotel for a couple of weeks. The prospect of that should be enough to put off anyone from coming into Britain.
 
Britaininia hotels worth it for the breakfast alone, all that bacon you get to separate yourself , those scrambled eggs in lumps , fried bread swiming in cooking oil, instant shop brand coffee....mmmmm
 
How will people travel to the hotels? That has been a key difference between UK and Aus, NZ, HK and Far East in the past. They all made absolutely sure all transport from airports was closely monitored and so covid did not spread in that way. I have been told you could jump into a taxi or into a train/bus from our airports over the course of the last year - it always seemed like madness to me, putting everyone at risk. I presume that is not still the case.
Also arrivals lounges are really unsafely crowded because so little is open, often everyone is compressed into one queue. Things like this have not been thought through in UK - we should have been following best practice in countries around the world, surely.
 
fmttmadmin said:
How will people travel to the hotels? That has been a key difference between UK and Aus, NZ, HK and Far East in the past. They all made absolutely sure all transport from airports was closely monitored and so covid did not spread in that way. I have been told you could jump into a taxi or into a train/bus from our airports over the course of the last year - it always seemed like madness to me, putting everyone at risk. I presume that is not still the case.
Also arrivals lounges are really unsafely crowded because so little is open, often everyone is compressed into one queue. Things like this have not been thought through in UK - we should have been following best practice in countries around the world, surely.
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When I arrived in Perth you needed permission to travel from the government immigration services. They were allowing a maximum of 75 people a day in, so it could be handled easily. I fail to see how this can work with the sheer numbers coming in to the country through so many different points of entry, without massive organisation and an efficient fool proof system being implemented by the same people who haven't delivered a track and trace App after 9 months.
 
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