Australian quarantine system plunged into chaos as hotels QUIT

Hotels are quitting Australia’s border quarantine system amid fears that repeated outbreaks are damaging their brands – throwing the network into chaos. A dozen establishments including Sydney’s five star Hilton and InterContinental and Melbourne’s Marriott will no longer take part in the scheme, according to reports. The move piles pressure on state leaders to find an alternative … Read more

Covid Australia: Quarantine system in chaos as hotels QUIT

Hotels are quitting Australia’s border quarantine system amid fears that repeated outbreaks are damaging their brands – throwing the network into chaos. A dozen establishments including Sydney’s five star Hilton and InterContinental and Melbourne’s Marriott will no longer take part in the scheme, according to reports. The move piles pressure on state leaders to find an alternative … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Inside the quarantine hotels near London Heathrow Airport

A Brazilian couple among the first passengers arriving in Britain forced to spend ten days in a hotel quarantine today revealed they must stay in their room without even being allowed out for exercise or a cigarette. Wagner Araujo, 43, a removal man, who has lived in London for 20 years, arrived at Heathrow Airport … Read more

Experts fear rooms at quarantine hotels will become Covid hotspots due to ventilation systems

Quarantine hotels could become Covid infection hotspots due to the type of ventilation systems they use, a hotel group chief has today claimed. Meher Nawab, chief executive of the London Hotel Group, warned airport hotels often rely on central air flow systems – in which air is passed through a centralised unit. He warned this … Read more

Quarantine hotels: Travellers being used as ‘guinea pigs’, says paramedic couple returning to UK

A paramedic couple returning to the UK with their five-week-old daughter after four years living in Abu Dhabi have said  travellers should not be used as ‘guinea pigs’. From Monday, UK nationals or residents returning to England from 33 countries will be required to spend 10 days in Government-designated quarantine hotel at a cost of … Read more

Illegal migrants are getting Covid jabs in plush quarantine hotels at Heathrow

At the four star Crowne Plaza Hotel overlooking lawns on the outskirts of London, 20-year-old Abdul from the Sudan says he is pleased with his new life here in Britain. He proclaims proudly: ‘I was given the vaccination yesterday at the hotel to stop me catching Covid. There are 400 migrants living here and we … Read more

BBC Two’s Amazing Hotels show goes behind the scenes at St Lucia’s Jade Mountain resort

Behind the scenes in a Caribbean paradise: BBC Two’s Amazing Hotels show reveals the hard work that goes into creating dream stays at St Lucia’s ‘lost city-style’ Jade Mountain resort Monica Galetti and Giles Coren go behind the scenes at the luxury hotel, where rooms cost up to £2,700pn  All 29 rooms have a private … Read more

SAGE issues stark warning to No10 over coronavirus variants and quarantine hotels, borders

SAGE warned only mandatory hotel quarantine for all UK travellers would ‘come close’ to to stop new strains entering the country, it has emerged.  In a recommendation made on January 21, Government scientists said anything other than a ‘complete closure of borders’ or isolating every visitor in designated facilities would be took weak.   SAGE’s unusually frank … Read more

Hotel chief blasts Government over quarantine hotels chaos

Boris Johnson’s hotel quarantine plans have been savaged by an industry boss who claimed his firm is yet to hear from the Government on how the policy will actually work.  Rob Paterson, the UK chief executive of Best Western Hotels, said his company is being ‘kept in the dark’ by ministers and ‘we simply haven’t … Read more

All foreign arrivals to UK should be quarantined in hotels, says Labour MP 

ALL foreign arrivals to UK should be quarantined in hotels to curb the spread of South African strain of Covid-19, says Labour MP Shadow Home Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds calling quarantine of all arrivals  Priti Patel believed to have pushed for the same but was overruled by the PM Comes after South African Covid variant detected … Read more