To wish I had shares in the hotels providing quarantine

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£1750 for ten days?

I get three meals a day, need for security, maybe £200 for the Covid tests and transport in a taxi, but even then it must be £125 a night for the room. Even allowing for a deterrent effect seems excessive

Are the hotel owners Tory donors?

£175 a night for a london hotel and three meals a day. Sounds about right to me.

The money was made early last year buying shares in diagnostics companies. Novacyt and ODX for example.

£175 a night for a hotel and meals sounds an absolute bargain.

Security, medical staff, training, POE. Hotel can't be used for other use.

I don't understand how anyone can imagine being quarantined in a hotel room is would be fun

As the wife of someone manages hotels... A few months ago we were looking at what to do with our hotels. Should we rent the rooms out to university students who needed to quarantine, and lose $200,000 a month, or just keep the hotel open to regular travellers and lose $400,000 a month?

We seriously considered questions like which was most likely to stave off foreclosure.

We've lost one of the hotels but managed to keep the others... just.

BTW this was after months of offering rooms free to medical staff who were temporarily in the area as a result of the pandemic.

Transport , 24hour full security team,30 meals 10 days of snacks and refreshments, tests .

The hotel can't take any other business so no matter how big the hotel they could only have a handful of people staying very limited income . Staff for deep clean

The whole quarantine system has to be paid for, IT systems and staff all that is financed out of the £1750 .

The price is not too dissimilar to what countries like Singapore are charging for similar quarantine rules. They cannot leave the room there AT ALL for 14 days.

I get they'll be a few people caught out by it, although it took way too long to implement once it was decided. People had weeks to get back not days before it started.
If you need to fly in from a red list country then either stay there to avoid quarantine or suck it up and stop moaning.

If you need to fly in from a red list country then either stay there to avoid quarantine or suck it up and stop moaning

^^ This. I know there will be 'deserving cases' of people who must travel due to sad domestic reasons like ill relatives, loss of employment oversea or medical staff coming here to work etc, but the vast majority will be business travellers or wealthy individuals travelling largely by choice so they'll just have to suck it up.

The cost for what is provided isn't disproportionately high.

"Even allowing for a deterrent effect seems excessive*"
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It's definitely for deterrent and as such does not seems excessive.

I hope it works! It's way too late now.. What we really needed is to close the borders in Feb 2020 when it was so obvious that something so deadly is circulating killing people fast. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that it's only a matter of days, hours even, before it hits the UK!

Now, almost a year later finally a real measure to limit cross border movement. it's better than nothing i guess but not near enough measure to deter and way way too late.

Are you having a laugh?

They will not be making much off this and it will not go far to cover the huge loss of revenue they have suffered over the last year or so, no to mention the fact that travel is likely to be limited for a while yet and could take years to return to normal. I wouldnt touch those shares unless I had ten years to sit on them.

I can smell a rat. A big backhander of a huge amount of Money I suspect.

So this is for full board accommodation plus extra security costs/PPE etc?

Can these hotels have non quarantine guests as well? Are any of these hotels likely to have 100% occupancy or even numbers equivalent to normal trading?

Do these fees include administration costs?

I'm doubting that the owners are coining it in, Tory donors or not.

Would you be happy if they bankrupted hotels to provide this for £50 per night to the guest?

Th see hotels will have been closed for much of the last 12 months or running on low occupancy.

In normal times £125 a night might get you bed and breakfast in a Holiday Inn or Premier Inn. But wouldn't cover lunch and dinner too.

The hotel industry has suffered enormously and are far from out of the woods yet.