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

[medusawashere]

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 :(

Put a mask on and go home , hundreds not complying ,,none of us know who we’re stood next too ☹️

There's a difference between someone having CoVID and being unaware of it and having CoVID and deliberately putting people at risk. Reading the comments on this thread it's easy to see why we're still in this shit show. No one gives a fuck about anyone else.

Mask up and get home if you can

This is what I'd do

Get the earliest train out of Plymouth tomorrow. It's something like 4:50am

Itll be empty

Wear a mask

You cant stay in Plymouth for 10 days so may as well travel home on the quietest possible train

@Maureen53

Put a mask on and go home , hundreds not complying ,,none of us know who we’re stood next too ☹️

Other people are stupid, so that makes it OK?!?

Wow, great logic there.

Get fiance to pick you up closer to home

I think the OP has made it perfectly clear she was not going to use public transport.

Do you drive ? If so could you arrange for a hire car to be delivered to the hotel . They could sign for it and knock at your room and leave the keys outside .

I’d be a bit upset that my fiancé didn’t want to bail me out too unless he was really ill.

As you are in Plymouth I presume you are visiting family so alternatively are there any friends and family there who can let you isolate there , or someone with a summerhouse ? Good luck with getting something sorted x

Awful as it is I think I would inform the hotel so they do not put their staff at risk and see if they can leave food for you and wait until you have a negative LFT and are fit to travel then either get your Fiance to pick you op or use the train. That might mean Christmas in a hotel but that was a risk you took when travelling close to Christmas.

You can’t stay into the hotel surely your germs will get in the ventilation system and travel to other rooms?

@yabbadabbad

This is what I'd do

Get the earliest train out of Plymouth tomorrow. It's something like 4:50am

Itll be empty

Wear a mask

You cant stay in Plymouth for 10 days so may as well travel home on the quietest possible train

I would too. Triple mask it and wear gloves

Under no circumstances get on a train, mask or no mask. I've just come home via 3 trains after visiting my children over 200 miles away and the trains are packed, on one of them, people were standing and it was so cramped. I can't believe some gn's are saying put on a mask and get home. How selfish and ignorant they are. Can you imagine the num,ber of people, vulnerable, old, and children you might contaminate and even put in hospitalon your journey just to get home. Christmas is one day, you would be risking peoples lives.

Hi I’m sorry your not well but I’d get a PCR test done ASAP . Many of the other tests give false positive. Wait for the results and if positive you should carry on isolating and doing test. The new government guidelines say you should do three flow tests starting on the 4 th day of symptoms, then again on 5 day and on seventh day if you get a negative result and no symptoms you can come out of self isolation. But if results are still positive and symptoms you must carry on with isolating sadly. Don’t use public transport, instead of spending ten days in a hotel I’d use the money and order a taxi and mask up and ask to keep window open a little.
Rather then spending Christmas alone.
But I’d have to say your partner isn’t been fair on you and I know my husband would do anything for me so we could be together for Christmas, plus he’d be worried about me been ill alone.
Explain to him we can take care of each other.
If he’s still not willing to pick you up then I’d take a serious look at your relationship. Using work has a excuse just doesn’t work, he can drive after work. I’m so sorry you don’t have the support you need.
Phone that taxi and go home make sure you use hand gel and keep mask on or scarf you’ll be fine.
Go to your partners for Christmas and think seriously about your relationship he obviously doesn’t have your back.
I really hope you get home for Christmas and have a lovely time.
All the best
hugs

@logsonlogsoff

Get him to borrow or hire a car if he doesn’t have one. Worst case scenario I would mask up and get the train back.

That’s irresponsible, selfish and generally a dick move. Someone could die as a result. I find it really alarming that people hold such shameful views.

No way I could afford 10 days in a hotel in your situation and are they open Christmas Day?
I would probably have someone in my life who could get me home I'd sit in the back masked up etc. This is a shit situation (to state the obvious)

@Cheshirewife

Responses suggesting OP, who is covid positive, gets on a train are utterly reprehensible.

Mask or no mask, that would expose other passengers to significant covid risk. Who knows whether those passengers are old or immunocompromised. Best case is you think their Christmas. In the worst case, you could, very literally, kill people.

Anyone who’d even consider this is beneath contempt.

100%

It’s been reduced to 7 days isolation now. I think that is from first symptoms, but it could be from the first positive test.

@user1471447863

People are making out xmas in peace in a hotel is some kind of hardship? I've spent more xmas's away from home in hotels for work and it's no big deal Anyway if OP is +ve there's not going to be any spending it with family.

In true MN style the man is in the wrong regardless. Had the show been on the other foot and OP posted that her partner was 3 hours away in a hotel and he was asking her to come and get him despite her isolating and working a new job you'd all be chiming in that she should leave the selfish bastard and he should man up and solve his own problem etc etc

Everyone advocating DP drives while sick, that’s riskier for people around than OP getting on a train. Everyone is getting Omicron anyway.

This all sounds a bit far fetched to me 🤷🏼‍♀️

Your fiance needs to sort something unless he's dying in bed, he either needs to get you himself or find someone who will. It's really not on that he isn't helping you. He can't leave you on your own for 10 days over Christmas unwell in a hotel.
If my partner didn't help me out in some way in that situation I would have serious doubts about the future! He needs to step up his game and get this sorted out. I'd tell him straight frankly. I don't think getting on a train is the answer, tell your fiance to pull his finger out is my advice.

Can't someone pick you up? Have you informed the hotel?

@masterblaster

Everyone advocating DP drives while sick, that’s riskier for people around than OP getting on a train. Everyone is getting Omicron anyway.

I totally agree. Especially if you choose a train that isn't busy. I know there are cancellations due to covid absences but there will still be trains that aren't busy.

But I imagine the OP got home yesterday by hook or by crook (or has gone to the relatives in Totnes, maybe they have enough room to let her isolate there).

All these people saying how awful it would be to travel on a train are probably the same ones who park up near a school with their engine running "because they need the aircon", letting the fumes pollute the atmosphere and damaging the kids' health. You are killing people. I judge YOU. I don't judge someone who takes precautions to get home as best they can when ill.

See if anyone has a Zorb ball for hire and roll yourself home hamster style?

Failing that, get the train.