And you can’t go to the bar or the restaurant – and you have to change your own sheets and towels and be accompanied by a security guard if you want a fag!
Arrivals at Heathrow, for instance, will have to pay £1750 for a single adult, £650 for an additional adult and £325 each child. The rate is set by the government to stay at the Ibis! Yes, that’s right, the Ibis.
So, for a family of thee at a budget hotel for 10 days, that’s £2,725.
The hotel usually charges around £60 for a standard room including breakfast, which would normally work out at £660 for 11 nights – the length of the quarantine stay.
Nothing wrong with the Ibis, we often stay at them on our travels, cos they are cheap!
The one at Heathrow has 125 rooms and is a 12-minute drive from Terminals 2 and 3 – is expected to be closed to ordinary guests over the length of the scheme.
A second Heathrow three-star Thistle hotel, is also expected to be part of the quarantine programme.
Travellers arriving in England from 33 ‘red list’ countries who don’t pre-book a space at a quarantine hotel face a £4,000 fine – and will still have to pay the hotel bill.
The package includes the costs of transport from the port of arrival to the designated hotel, food, accommodation, security, other essential services and testing.
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I’m sure we are all sorry for those people who have tried to get back to the UK to be with family here or other humanitarian reasons. I wouldn’t like to be in that position. But though these seem like Draconian measures, these are indeed Draconian times we are living in. Many people are saying that these rules should have been imposed twelve months ago. Other countries are apparently already confining people in hotels with even greater restrictions. For instance the going out for fresh air (or a ‘fag’) would be seen as too risky. Let’s hope the majority of travellers will alter their arrangements and leave it until Corvit has been tamed to some degree. It’s also sad to see that the prices are so inflated. It was ever thus.