The Government’s hotel quarantine booking portal is now live

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• John says:

  11 Feb11 February 19:18

  No

  • meta says:

    11 Feb11 February 19:31

    Release is possible from home quarantine rather than hotel quarantine after a new test on day 5 under test and release scheme, but you still need to take a test on day 8.

• Doc says:

  11 Feb11 February 19:22

  Apart from Birmingham, no other northern airports (I assume Scotland will set its own rules for GLA and EDI arrivals.)
  Also the list of people not needing to quarantine or indeed take a test before arrival is worrying with hauliers and government officials not needing to quarantine? Anyone remember our esteemed prime minister being admitted to hospital with COVID?
  One rule for them or sod everyone else. Great idea but too many loopholes.

  • Aston100 says:

    11 Feb11 February 19:23

    Birmingham is not in the North.
    Thanks.

    • Doc says:

      11 Feb11 February 19:27

      Never said it was😂
      I meant nothing North of that. Manchester is a pretty big airport that Northerners like me like to use (not that I am going anywhere of course). But not sure if the government know anything exists north of Birmingham though 😀

      • Brian W says:

        11 Feb11 February 22:42

        “Apart from Birmingham, no other northern airports” clearly implies you believe Birmingham is in the North. It’s there in black and white!

        • Rob says:

          12 Feb12 February 08:47

          As a Yorkshireman I wouldn’t treat Birmingham as North.

      • kitten says:

        12 Feb12 February 12:32

        North=North of the Watford Gap.

        People in Brighton probably think anything North of London is North.

        • Ng says:

          12 Feb12 February 18:24

          Surely the North starts at Camden High Road.

        • Ziggy says:

          12 Feb12 February 19:26

          People in London think anything north of London is North

  • Colin MacKinnon says:

    11 Feb11 February 20:10

    No arrivals in Scotland now – apart from North Sea oli flights to Aberdeen from Norway.

    (And some Dublin ones on Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon – at the last count)

• Tarmohamed says:

  11 Feb11 February 20:03

  So how does the testing on day 2 and day 8 actually work? Do they post you the test that you have to post back, or do they provide it at the airport?

  • Tarmohamed says:

    11 Feb11 February 20:04

    I’m referring to those who need quarantine at home.

  • Ian M says:

    11 Feb11 February 20:55

    You have to go out to take the test, but you’re not allowed out, so you can’t take the test. Then you get fined for failing to comply with the rules 🙂

    • TGLoyalty says:

      11 Feb11 February 20:58

      You can leave is it’s essential

      Food if it can’t be delivered
      Compassionate grounds like someone who is dying or funeral
      Medical emergency
      To take a test
      If you’re a government minister

• Jimbob says:

  11 Feb11 February 20:28

  Does this stack with Marriott’s double elite nights promotion and fast track my way to Platinum Elite?

  10 days off work as well!

  • The Streets says:

    12 Feb12 February 03:43

    In Hong Kong it does

• Callum says:

  11 Feb11 February 20:30

  It’s interesting that if you test positive on day 2, you leave quarantine on day 12 with no further testing.

  I know you’re very unlikely to still be contagious by then, but it seems like an easily mitigated and completely unnecessary risk when you’re going to the trouble of organising such a strict regime.

  • meta says:

    11 Feb11 February 21:09

    You can still be contagious if you have a fever after 10 days or present any other symptoms other than cough or anosmia. This is from the official NHS guidance. So what happens if you still have such symptoms after 12 days or 18 days (test positive on day 8)? Some people might even have a fever longer than 18 days.

    • Callum says:

      11 Feb11 February 21:44

      Especially as they aren’t necessarily going to be telling them about the symptoms if they’re worried that they will be quarantined for longer.

    • Margaret says:

      12 Feb12 February 09:07

      Or you may have caught covid at the hotel itself, like others in places like Australia have.

• Paul says:

  11 Feb11 February 20:31

  £30 night for room £20 for food so £700 for 14 days! Which Tory donor pockets the grand! With mass testing and security on minimum wage can’t help but think someone doing very well out of this.

  If it’s 10 years for not filling out the form correctly! How long will Johnson and his odious gov minister get for their negligence, herd immunity policy, care home and PPE scandals?

  • bafan says:

    11 Feb11 February 20:49

    This is all about heading off the public inquiry isn’t it. No doubt the report will excoriate it them, then it won’t be released on some trumped up “national security” grounds or something.

  • Ian M says:

    11 Feb11 February 20:57

    It’s 11 nights in the hotel, so £550. Where’s the remaining £1,200 going? Maybe it’s £1000 for the mini bus contractor to drive them to the hotel…

    • Callum says:

      11 Feb11 February 21:43

      The security, the transport, the admin, the testing staff, the PPE, the empty rooms, the extended stays for positive patients, the medical treatment, the welfare support?

• Anon says:

  11 Feb11 February 21:34

  Security Guards would be charged around £16.50ppph+vat and paid the living wage.

• Super Secret Stuff says:

  11 Feb11 February 21:45

  I bet the quarantine Hotel for Farnborough will be the Aviator, can’t have Boris’s cheque books staying in a Premier Inn!

  • TGLoyalty says:

    12 Feb12 February 09:42

    Never heard of it but not too bad.

    • Super Secret Stuff says:

      12 Feb12 February 11:05

      It’s quite nice, the best in Farnborough

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