@ragged
Suppose admin costs are about £200 by combined govt & hotel
Suppose security costs are... (3 security guards at any one time for 30 people, 3 shifts day, 9x£200/day = £1800 for 30 people, £60 per person per day
PPE for security guards, £5/day per resident?
2 Tests also included, I gather the commercial rate is about £100 each.
11 days food? Call it £15 day for food itself (since all prepackaged stuff and with delivery), £5 for food packaging disposal = £20*11 = £220.
Those hotel rooms were paid for in advance by govt who didn't know how much demand there would be, they were trying to recoup the cost from individuals. Mostly basic hotels, right? No daily cleaning but presume that balances costs of transport, deep cleaning too, so should be £100/day, £1100
£60+£1100+£220+£200 = £1580
That leaves 2285-1580 = £705 not easily accounted for.
What did I forget to include?
Just guessing at these numbers.
@ragged
I think it’s so much worse than that, especially the extra adult cost I mention at the very end of my much room long post (
@Suppermumzy - you might be able to use the numbers from my final paragraph in your complaint). These are the absolute highest numbers I thought we should use:
Hotel and admin costs:
We know they’re using the Novotel Heathrow. Nearby Novotels are £107 a day. One is £85. And those were the rates to the public. The government bought out the whole hotel, and paid the government rate in bulk. So I think £100 a day is WAY too much. Call it £60
Hotel cost: £60 *11 = £660
Security:
Average security guard in the UK only makes £8.74 according to Payscale (£9.53 says indeed.) So…
9 x £70
£21 per resident, per day (* 11)= £231
I would say half that for security PPE since they’re buying in bulk, but bump to £3 to be very generous. It might be £0.50. We’ll just say £3 is for security and desk staff.
£3 per resident, per day (* 11) = £33
2 tests - tough one. I’m not sure if we’re saying hotel rate or rate they charge travel? Either way, they’re promising two tests to travelers from amber countries for £136, so it would be wrong if red countries are more (they should, in fact, be less, since bulk buying):
www.businesstravelnewseurope.com/Air-Travel/Cost-of-UK-PCR-tests-to-be-cut-by-up-to-20-
PCR tests: £136
Food per day
I think it’s VERY GENEROUS, based on what we saw, to say £10 a day, not £15. Again, bulk buying, bulk cooking, very low quantities of meat, more rice and bread, etc. I bet it’s actually MUCH less than ten.
Food: £10 per day (*11) = £110
And I think hotel and government admin (one time fee) for transport and…? It’s cheap for the government, so maybe the fees to retrofit hotels to make sure the A/C doesn’t recirculate are being recouped as a small fee from each person? So I’d say - £100
660+231+33+136+110+100 =£1270
£1270.
And they’re now charging £2285.
Where in the fuck is the extra £1015 PER ROOM going?! No wonder hotels signed up.
It’s quite possible they’re making a profit of £30,000 (for just 30 rooms) every 10 days. Wish some reporter would get the exact figures. What hotels pay for PCRs, food, etc.
And that was splitting security by 30 people. There are significantly more than 30 rooms in the hotel.
And we know it’s all shite, because 1 adult is £2285. Yet two adults cost £3715. So a second adult in the SAME room is an extra £1470. Subtract £136 for the PCR tests (and I’m just sure they cost the hotel less), and that means the only extra cost for them is food and a slightly larger bed. There is no way in hell that OP is getting £121 of food a day. She could have 3 restaurant deliveries of whatever she liked for that!