Isolation at airport hotels.

[itsgettingwierd]

I maybe being thick and missing something obvious.

But I just don't understand how come 1000 people a day are travelling from red list countries and therefore more in total?

We aren't meant to be travelling. So no one should be going on holiday?

Anyone got any insight and could explain it to be better so I can make sense as I don't trust the negative MSM continuous reports which are opinion more than actual fact most if the time!

Fwiw I agree with the quarantine and think we should have been better at it earlier (like a year ago!)

I thought a lot of countries had closed their borders to people from the UK, so I am also surprised that people got out in the first place. Not so closed borders, then.

For work, in DH case.

@poppycat10

I thought a lot of countries had closed their borders to people from the UK, so I am also surprised that people got out in the first place. Not so closed borders, then.

I think there are a lot of 'exemptions'. Many countries have stopped direct flights to/from the UK - that isn't the same thing at all.

Is anyone banned from flying to the UK? I know some countries don't let ieave but for any that do, is there anything to stop you flying to the UK?

@pinkhappy

Is anyone banned from flying to the UK? I know some countries don't let ieave but for any that do, is there anything to stop you flying to the UK?

Yes I believe entries from the 33 red list countries are currently banned except for UK citizens who have to go into hotel quarantine

I know of a family that came back from South Africa recently. Husband had a 2 year contract, accommodation supplied by employer. Contract Finished in January and they had a week to vacate the house. No job and nowhere to live so no choice but to come back. They did rent an Air BnB to quarantine before moving in with family.

I mean say I want to visit my boyfriend and I live abroad and am happy to quarantine, is there anything stopping me?

At DS’s private school they have a few international boarders mainly from Hong Kong. When they returned home for Christmas they had to quarantine in hotels before seeing their families

DH will probably be one of those in a few weeks. He lived in the ME for 4 years (we stayed here) and 95% of his work is there. If he can’t travel, he doesn’t get the business and therefore we will have no income. It bemuses me why they have included Dubai on the list as they have handled Covid far far better than most countries.

Medical research teams, diplomatic reasons, businesses with import/export relationships, people sorting out family inheritance estates that legally can't wait, TV/creative work and some with time and money on their hands because they want to.

The best bit is that they can leave their hotel rooms for exercise

@hollybollyy

The best bit is that they can leave their hotel rooms for exercise

Did not know that

So what then happens if they have an asymptomatic case who passes it on and say - 5 people - in spectate rooms test positive? Do they then have to isolate for a further 10 days in the hotel and at who's cost?

I don’t think it’s a well thought out plan for citizens who have homes to isolate in. It didn’t work well on cruise ships, which are basically floating hotels.
I seems a politically based decision not science based.

Not forgetting professional and elite athletes along with their support staff 😬

My DP should have been in the UAE currently but managed to get someone else to go in his place as he could see this was coming. He works in Motorsport and was going to a big race where there will be hundreds of other UK workers all needing to quarantine when they get back (they were originally going to be exempt from isolating altogether). Also when he travels for work he just wears shorts/t shirt so probably would look like he'd just been on holiday if he was on the news.

Article from the guardian, limited exercise in the hotels grounds so not much but it's not staying in your room for 10 days like Australia and NZ!

I’ve got friends living abroad who have decided to move back home!

A friend who is a photographer and his work are still sending him on trips all over the place

My husband has had to travel abroad a few times as his mum is elderly with dementia and has been in and out of hospital and he’s needed to go and look after her a few times

Another friend is travelling back to her mothers funeral

There’s heaps of reasons people are travelling

If a couple arrive are they allowed to quarantine together, so can share the £1,750 cost? Just wondering, I'll not be travelling a while yet. In fact I think our passports will expire before we ever set foot in an airport.

@LizzieMacQueen

If a couple arrive are they allowed to quarantine together, so can share the £1,750 cost? Just wondering, I'll not be travelling a while yet. In fact I think our passports will expire before we ever set foot in an airport.

My understanding is it's cost per person and not per room.

I haven't seen anything about paying for children

This is a funny thread. We live in a truly international country and London is a global hub for business.

Just amongst the people I come into contact with there are the following examples:

• couple of people who commute back and forth to the UK because they live work in another country. My DH did this for many years, living here but working abroad
• research scientist who travels for work
• the company I work for - v international. Closed down all travel last March but it quickly became clear it was unfeasible to do that long term so many of my colleagues have travelled in the last few months
• journalist and government worker who regularly travel back and forth to mainland Europe

New Zealand can much easier close its borders than we can

@LizzieMacQueen @itsgettingwierd my understanding is that it's £1,750 plus an extra £650 for each additional person in the same room aged over 12.

I should add I also have several friends and colleagues who's family live in different countries

But there’s this, er, pandemic ... I’m sure masses of us have family in other countries (including me) but we are not travelling as it’s not essential.

The people at Heathrow didn’t look like oil-rig workers or diplomats to me.

I'm fascinated to know what you think they are meant to look like?

FWIW when I used to regularly travel into LHR I usually didn't wear my workplace clothes, and quite often on my flight I would have be accompanied by work colleagues of the same or opposite sex..we might even spend time chatting to each other in the queue...

....and then hey presto, shortly after immigration and customs we'd be suited and booted and wearing our essential workers clothes....

You can't judge what people do by appearances.

Oh, and can I be the n'th one to state than not everybody travelling is on holiday, the border is not shut to non Brits, etc etc

DH travels in baggy shorts and a hoody too. I'm not sure what he's meant to look like?