Are you still travelling (overnight trips) for work?

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DH manages projects for the electricity generation industry, so key work but he has worked from home since the start of lockdown.

He has a new project starting 200 miles from here next week. The industry expert who would usually supervise on site would have to travel from another continent, so that will not be happening and DH has been asked to go instead, he'll be away 5 days pw for 5 weeks, home at weekends.

He's found a hotel that is open and will do B&B but what does he do for his dinner?

To answer your original question, no. All the flights from where I live have been stripped right back too so I’m kinda stuck even if the office did want me back in.

Tourists are still flying in to the country.
Business people who fly every week will be exempted from the quarantine rules
Some internal business flights are operating.
Only the stay at homes think that the whole country is locked down

I'm really surprised that the company hasnt managed to get him a bit of a better hotel tbh, I'd have thought some hotels with an suite bars would do room service etc due to key workers having to travel.
Does his company give him s meal allowance? When I travel for work it's quite a generous 20 pounds a night allowance which is decent. We get to choose our hotels and my manager has this far managed to book me into tidy hotels with an en site restaurant eg a beefeater, or hotels that have room service. Other colleagues from different sites haven't been so lucky and have found themselves having to get takeaway or whatever which I would have struggled with as I cany drive.

My advice would be for your husband to try and get self catering if at all possible, in a air b n b. If not, he'll have to make do although I really wouldnt recomend supermarket sandwiches and salads for a week! A lot depends on the facilities in the place - if he has a kettle , a fridge, a microwave and similar. Otherwise takeaway may be the only option. There are some healthier options out there but it depends on location, rural will likely have more limited and traditionally 'crap' options than a bigger city tbh. It may be that he has to live on takeaways that arent the healthiest for a bit. Not great for his waistline but he can get that off eventually. Also even ctap places eg KFC do some not so bad options like rice boxes and you can make a Chinese or Indian relatively healthy or at least not so shit!

Hotels are only open for keyworkers and it seems to be only the lower end ones.

Depending on where he is going, I would have a look for self catering companies. My boss has officially closed his holiday home business but is renting out some as residential lets. Some are for key workers and a few are for people who needed to move out for, eg, house fires etc. It’s fully legal, my boss had to run it past the council first for approval, but you would never have known it was possible just by looking at the website.

Email around or even call - don’t forget holiday home owners and Airbnb owners are losing money and are desperate to fill properties!

Hi OP - last week a Holiday Inn gave me the option of a limited food service option. But I’ve also done apartments and would really recommend that for five weeks Coronavirus or not (Its as dull to eat in restaurants every night as have supermarket deli/salads and takeout/delivery - though neither is impossible if required!).

DH has just rented a studio apartment for 2 weeks (though he came home at the weekend, this is his second week there).
The apartment had a kitchenette with fridge, microwave, hob and small oven.
It also had a washing machine.
It was actually very cheap and the owner gave details if he ever wanted to book direct and save on the price as they pay commission to the booking website.
He probably will need to go back in the future but it's in a coastal town so once they are allowed holidaymakers that might be more complicated.

No way would I eat sandwiches or takeaways for that length of time but a small apartment with cooking facilities should be fine. They should book it but I usually find the place or hotel I want then send the details rather than rely on them to choose a random hotel.