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Help! I've got Covid and I'm stuck in a hotel

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medusawashere · 22/12/2021 11:26

I travelled to Plymouth for Christmas and did all the right stuff. I'm double jabbed, booster booked for early Jan and have been doing lateral flow tests every day to stay safe and protect others.

This morning, I woke up coughing, sneezing and with chest pains and my LF is positive.

I'm stuck in a hotel with no way of getting home! I live in Bournemouth and my fiance (who was going to meet me Christmas Eve) has also tested positive.

Does anyone have any bright ideas or am I stuck in a hotel room for ten days? I'm devastated. I just want to go home :(

OP posts:
OakPine · 22/12/2021 15:54

Do people not understand the word quarantine!

No, you can't get a train.
No, your partner cannot drive 3 hours to pick you up!

Suck it up. You travelled and now you are stuck in a hotel.

Buy the movie channel. Get some food delivered. And tell housekeeping so that you don't infect them.

SlothMama · 22/12/2021 16:00

When he feels well enough surely he could drive as long as he stays in his car?

Obviously don't get on a train!

TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross · 22/12/2021 16:01

This s the weirdest thread.

The OP can’t drive - but that doesn’t matter to the people insisting she hire a car and drive home.

Her fiancé has Covid - but that doesn’t matter to the people insisting that he should just put on his big boy pants and drive three hours to collect her.

The OP has Covid - but that doesn’t matter to the people insisting she get a train home.

What is wrong with these people?

Lovemusic33 · 22/12/2021 16:03

@TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross

This s the weirdest thread.

The OP can’t drive - but that doesn’t matter to the people insisting she hire a car and drive home.

Her fiancé has Covid - but that doesn’t matter to the people insisting that he should just put on his big boy pants and drive three hours to collect her.

The OP has Covid - but that doesn’t matter to the people insisting she get a train home.

What is wrong with these people?

Because if her partner isn’t that ill surely he can manage to drive and collect her without coming into contact with anyone else? I agree that the other options are crazy.
kwiksavenofrillsusername · 22/12/2021 16:07

@OakPine

Do people not understand the word quarantine!

No, you can't get a train.
No, your partner cannot drive 3 hours to pick you up!

Suck it up. You travelled and now you are stuck in a hotel.

Buy the movie channel. Get some food delivered. And tell housekeeping so that you don't infect them.

Yes surely it’s safer to stay put in the room if nobody can get you? Let front desk know so that they don’t send housekeeping up and get food delivered. Basically treat it as a quarantine hotel.

That was the advice last year to guests who developed symptoms while staying in a hotel.

TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross · 22/12/2021 16:07

OP - you inform the hotel you’ve tested positive and they will tell you what to do. It may be that you have to stay put but you knew this was a risk when you decided to travel. At least if you test negative in seven days, you’ll be able to be at home well before New Year. Hope your hotel room is reasonably nice and that you are able to get things you need delivered - painkillers and so on. When I had Covid, the main things I needed were plenty of fluid and painkillers.

I hope your sister appreciated you being in the same city as her when she gave birth after all this!

TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross · 22/12/2021 16:08

Because if her partner isn’t that ill surely he can manage to drive and collect her without coming into contact with anyone else? I agree that the other options are crazy.

But she says he’s unwell.

PriamFarrl · 22/12/2021 16:11

Yes surely it’s safer to stay put in the room if nobody can get you? Let front desk know so that they don’t send housekeeping up and get food delivered. Basically treat it as a quarantine hotel.

But that’s miserable, the hotel might be closed and it’ll be expensive!

gannett · 22/12/2021 16:18

Because if her partner isn’t that ill surely he can manage to drive and collect her without coming into contact with anyone else? I agree that the other options are crazy.

He has Covid. He is unwell. Posters are assuming he "isn't that ill" based on absolutely nothing (or seem to think that being well enough to sit at a desk is the same as being well enough to drive for 6 hours).

Lockheart · 22/12/2021 16:18

[quote HaveringWavering]@lockheart he stays in the car the whole journey (men can piss in bottles). OP comes out of the hotel to the car. OP can’t walk home, the hotel can’t accommodate her and there is no other solution that doesn’t involve exposing an uninfected person to Covid.[/quote]
Where does it say OP can't stay in the hotel?

The only options open to OP are:

  • stay in the hotel (which is a shit option but still an option)
  • ask a friend or family member if they can take her
  • phone the covid line (119 I think) and ask what her options are

Her fiance cannot leave the house even if he is well enough to do so.

diddl · 22/12/2021 16:19

"But that’s miserable, the hotel might be closed and it’ll be expensive!"

What's the alternative?

It's a risk that Op was prepared to take & only for a couple of days now!

neveradullmoment99 · 22/12/2021 16:21

@itsgettingwierd

Agree about getting home and asking someone to take you.

But I'd also be re considering marrying someone who won't put me first in this situation and pick me up.

You should come before a job.

Your fiance is utterly selfish. My dh would come to collect me without question. Unless there is another reason for him not being able to get you, or he is so sick it would be dangerous, then he really clearly does not care for you enough.
CommanderBurnham · 22/12/2021 16:22

Agree, speak to the hotel. They might know of a way of getting you home.

GreenFingersWouldBeHandy · 22/12/2021 16:23

He is refusing to drive here

Well, he sounds charming.

Lockheart · 22/12/2021 16:25

@neveradullmoment99 Unless there is another reason for him not being able to get you

You mean like the trifling matter of the govt-mandated isolation period for those who are positive for covid-19 which means he shouldn't be leaving his house?

neveradullmoment99 · 22/12/2021 16:28

[quote Lockheart]**@neveradullmoment99* Unless there is another reason for him not being able to get you*

You mean like the trifling matter of the govt-mandated isolation period for those who are positive for covid-19 which means he shouldn't be leaving his house?[/quote]
Well he has covid.
If he doesn't leave the car, what's the problem?

immigrant002 · 22/12/2021 16:32

@OakPine

Do people not understand the word quarantine!

No, you can't get a train.
No, your partner cannot drive 3 hours to pick you up!

Suck it up. You travelled and now you are stuck in a hotel.

Buy the movie channel. Get some food delivered. And tell housekeeping so that you don't infect them.

Please explain to me how her partner (if he is well enough that is ) will infect anyone driving alone in his car alone to go and get her ? And don't tell me that's the "rules" Hmm obviously i would not get the train but my dh would definitely come and get me and i would not stay for 10 days alone in a room over xmas like a martyr
immigrant002 · 22/12/2021 16:33

[quote Lockheart]**@neveradullmoment99* Unless there is another reason for him not being able to get you*

You mean like the trifling matter of the govt-mandated isolation period for those who are positive for covid-19 which means he shouldn't be leaving his house?[/quote]
Hmm

TempNameChangexx · 22/12/2021 16:35

If your other half is positive anyway, couldn't he drive to you tonight, stay overnight then drive you both home tomorrow (obvs no eating in the hotel restaurant etc.)

And as he is positive, don't rely on an LFT - book yourself in for a PCR as soon as you can as it will be more accurate

CommanderBurnham · 22/12/2021 16:39

A six hour journey is likely to need fuel
If there is an accident or breakdown, it risks others
He could become more unwell on the journey, and not be able to return.

Also, he's ill. Maybe with the shortened isolation it will only be a few more days before he feels better

lovemelongtime · 22/12/2021 16:40

"He is refusing to come and get me" - these are the Ops words not posters.

This would imply he IS well enough but is choosing not to. Sorry but there is no way I would leave my partner/husband in a hotel on their own with Covid .

He can drive and pee in a bottle if needs be - no need for contact with anyone.

LakieLady · 22/12/2021 16:40

@medusawashere

Fiance is unwell and has to work from home. He is refusing to drive here
That's a bit mean.

Unless I was so ill I couldn't leave the house, I'd drive to pick up a partner in your circumstances. And I know my DP would have done the same.

theemperorhasnoclothes · 22/12/2021 16:43

@TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross

This s the weirdest thread.

The OP can’t drive - but that doesn’t matter to the people insisting she hire a car and drive home.

Her fiancé has Covid - but that doesn’t matter to the people insisting that he should just put on his big boy pants and drive three hours to collect her.

The OP has Covid - but that doesn’t matter to the people insisting she get a train home.

What is wrong with these people?

Agree!

It is possible to hire a private taxi, yes it will cost a lot, but it's possible.

In your situation OP I'd phone up a company and tell them you've got a positive LFT, are symptomatic and want a taxi home. There may be taxi drivers recently recovered who are willing to take that risk - but you do need to be up front about it so they can make a decision with all information. And expect to pay. But staying in the hotel will probably cost more.

theemperorhasnoclothes · 22/12/2021 16:44

You will put one person at risk in that scenario, but there may be drivers recently recovered who feel it isn't much risk.

LakieLady · 22/12/2021 16:47

Are you well enought to drive yourself home, OP?

The big car hire companies do one-way rentals, so you could hire a car from somewhere like Hertz or Avis and drive yourself home. It wouldn't be cheap, but probably cheaper than 7-10 days in a hotel.

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