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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:
CheshireKitten123 · 22/12/2021 12:39

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AD80 · 22/12/2021 12:39

Your fiancé needs to come and get you if he can drive. I would do this in a heart beat if it was my partner, so he would be for me even if ill and I hate driving 😅 I guess it depends how ill your fiancé it is. I had head cold symptoms with covid for 3 days so I would have been fine to drive if I had to. I wasn't ill.

Clymene · 22/12/2021 12:40

Oh that'll be why then @SpeckledlyHen Grin

Still, I'd do it for my fiancé

SpeckledlyHen · 22/12/2021 12:40

You don't say whether or not you can drive. If you can I would hire a car to be delivered to the hotel and drive home.

Cheshirewife · 22/12/2021 12:40

@JuergenSchwarzwald

My goodness there are some seriously stupid people around. No wonder we have so many road accidents if so many people think it's safe and wise to do a six hour round trip when you are feeling ill. Yes you can be well enough to WFH but not well enough to drive. I have had a bad cold, gone to collect my husband from the station about 2 miles away and got him to drive back because I didn't really feel well enough. I hope that most of you are just being goady.

I'd risk the train. They are not heaving at the moment despite the claims upthread, and the chances are you can find an empty carriage. That said, you can't really go direct from Plymouth to Bournemouth and having to wander around multiple trains and stations wouldn't be great.

You are far more likely to kill someone if you drive while feeling unwell, than you are hiding away in an empty carriage on a train masked up and maybe put a scarf round your face too.

Afraid you’re one of those stupid people. Am yet to ever find a train in/out of Plymouth with an empty carriage. And a mask, or scarf, will not prevent transmission.

Chance are you’d only ruin someone else’s Christmas - which is bad enough - but you certainly can’t rule out finding someone who’s unlucky/at risk and killing them.

Just how little regard to you have for others’ lives? This genuinely disgusts me.

toomuchlaundry · 22/12/2021 12:41

How long were you planning to stay in Plymouth?

SpeckledlyHen · 22/12/2021 12:41

@Clymene

Oh that'll be why then *@SpeckledlyHen* Grin

Still, I'd do it for my fiancé

@Clymene - yes so would I or I would arrange something else for my fiance. It's frustrating as the OP has not said whether she can drive herself or not.
Grimchmas · 22/12/2021 12:42

"If he is really poorly then he cant really drive 3 hours each way without stopping"

But he could stop. As many times as he needed. Wouldn't have to go inside services to put other people at risk. Could mask up, sanitise and use a pay at pump petrol station if fuel needed. As a man he could ahem park discretely and pee into a bottle if he needs the loo on the way there. Take food and a flask etc. Drive through McDonald's with mask on if really desperate. All of which aren't ideal but are better than OP sitting on a train for a few hours infecting people in her carriage nicely.

Of course if he is too unwell to be able to drive safely, that's different.

Gloriagayn · 22/12/2021 12:43

I can’t believe the shit the fiancé is getting. When I had Covid, I could do a couple of hours work but could not have driven that far. He may be too Ill to drive. Either stay where you are and isolate like everyone else has to or find a different solution that doesn’t put people at risk. The train idea is fucking nuts and I can’t believe someone would suggest that. No wonder we have so many cases in this country.

Clymene · 22/12/2021 12:43

I'm not sure how else she can travel even if she can drive @SpeckledlyHen. She can't hire a car and she travelled by train so doesn't have her own car with her if she has one.

ChloeCrocodile · 22/12/2021 12:44

That’s really shit OP. It’s only 7 days rather than 10 now though. Do you have anyone near by who can drop off some books or anything else to keep you entertained?

6 hours round trip is way too far to drive if your fiancé is unwell. Plus very few cars can do that long of a journey without needing fuel - and he cannot stop for fuel.

BakewellGin1 · 22/12/2021 12:45

Surely if too unwell to drive he would be too unwell to work as well.
Unless bed ridden (clearly he isn't as working) I would collect DH and would expect him to collect me which I presume he would as opposed to me sitting in and paying for a hotel for 10 days.

Yes he should be isolating but given OP is positive he would only be in contact with her.

BakewellGin1 · 22/12/2021 12:45

He could easily stop for fuel. Many petrol stations have card only pumps and provide plastic gloves.

user1497207191 · 22/12/2021 12:45

@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.
What a stupid suggestion.
icedcoffees · 22/12/2021 12:46

Why is everyone slamming the fiancé as selfish and telling OP not to marry him?

He has COVID too - he should be isolating at home, not driving around picking people up. Whether he's well enough to drive or not is irrelevant - he shouldn't be leaving the house.

Working from home where you're not going to be in contact with others is perfectly doable if you're positive. It's also not going to get him a fine if he's caught!

FGS. Yes, it's shitty that the OP is stuck in a hotel but it's not his fault and it's also not his responsibility to risk a fine to help her out.

SpeckledlyHen · 22/12/2021 12:46

@Clymene

I'm not sure how else she can travel even if she can drive *@SpeckledlyHen*. She can't hire a car and she travelled by train so doesn't have her own car with her if she has one.
No but she can hire a car...
Original poster
medusawashere · 22/12/2021 12:47

Thanks so much for your replies. I'd never ever get on public transport being covid positive. Please know that. I'm the sort of person who usually isolates if there is even the slightest chance I might have come into contact with someone who does.

I was just very unlucky.

My fiance is a sweet, kind and lovely man who would usually go out of his way to do whatever he could for me. I think he's worried about work as he's brand new and doesn't want to upset them.

Our plans were basically to meet up Christmas Eve and go to family in Totnes.

I've been in Plymouth (Hotel near the station) since Monday as my sister was having a baby and (despite knowing I wouldn't be able to see her), I felt very strongly about being close by. Obvs with Covid, there's no way I'd risk her and the baby.

OP posts:
Grimchmas · 22/12/2021 12:49

So glad you are sensible.

Sorry again for you. Xx

Tilltheend99 · 22/12/2021 12:49

@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.
Everyone saying “get the train back” are absolute idiots.

Think how you would feel sat near a Covid positive person on the train three days before Christmas!

I was on the train with my baby (after negative lf and pcr) at the weekend to attend a family funeral. There are still many elderly etc getting the train and if they catch it from you they could still be hospitalised or worse.

Even with a mask you will still be touching many surfaces. Would you take wipes and wipe everything you touch?

In all likelihood you will have more Christmases to celebrate, the people you infect may not be so lucky!!!

Luredbyapomegranate · 22/12/2021 12:49

@RNBrie

Mask up and go home. Keep as far away from people as possible even if that means moving seats on the train. Or can you go straight to your boyfriend's and isolate there? If he drives, can he come and collect you so you can isolate together?
@RNBrie

Are you nuts? If the OP gets on a train she will likely infect people who will take it home to infect their elderly relatives. Don’t be so stupid and selfish.

Can you hire a car OP?

cjpark · 22/12/2021 12:49

If your Fiancee is well enough to be working, he's well enough to come and get you imo. He can take snacks, drinks, drive for 3 hours and you can drive back. Otherwise, you need to tell the hotel you have covid, extend your stay and isolate in the room. You cannot get public transport - that would be ridiculously selfish.
Could you possible book a hire car and do a one way drop off Plymouth -bournmouth if desperate?

SleepingStandingUp · 22/12/2021 12:50

OK he's at work but presumably he finishes at 5 Ish? So why can't he come and get you after work? Get some sleep and work from hotel tomorrow then drive home after 5 again? Or you sleep now, he gets to you for 8 and you drive home by midnight? Does he think you should just stay in the hotel for 7 days? Do they provide meals?

pinkcattydude · 22/12/2021 12:50

@medusawashere. You are supposed to call 111 for assistance if you test positive on holiday in the UK and cannot avoid public transport or are too sick to travel. We had a staff member this happened to. Hope that helps.

MsAgnesDiPesto · 22/12/2021 12:51

DO NOT GET ON A BLOODY TRAIN.

You will be your own special super spreader event.

If fiancé genuinely won’t get you, call Enterprise and rent a car. Get something class D or above so it’s biggish and has a larger fuel tank. It will arrive with a full tank of fuel so you won’t need to stop on the way. Explain the circumstances and that you’re positive for Covid, and arrange to either return it to your local depot near home, or get that branch to collect it from you once it’s been suitably quarantined.

Then have a think about what sort of life partner you’ve taken up with.

Tilltheend99 · 22/12/2021 12:51

Cross post. Glad you are sensibly ignoring the people saying to get on public transportation Flowers