Small price to pay to stay well

While it sounds like bliss for us, 2 weeks away with nothing to do. The actual experience is anything but that. Knowing someone who had to hotel isolate I wouldn\’t have wanted to trade places – no fresh air, food that was appalling and overpriced, security guards walking the hallways, but no daily check ins to make sure the occupants behind the doors were actually ok. The idea behind it great for safety but the execution awful.

It sounds like bliss to me!! Lots of sleep and food delivered to my room, perfect!

I would love it. I’ve spent longer than that in hospital and not been allowed out for ‘fresh air’ or allowed visitors. Two weeks in a luxury room, regardless of not being able to use the pool, but having meals provided and TV, would be great. As long as I could read! I usually come back from travel tired and/or sick anyway, so it would give me time to recover/

This was one thing that really got me angry. Was that everyone wsa complaining about it. The truth is not everyone coming back from overseas was following the correct procedure. So they had to put something in place to protect everyone. Well they should be lucky they actually got to come back to Australia or be stuck over there. They didn’t have to pay for accommodation or the food. Yes I would preferred my own house like everyone else but I would of done it. I think everyone needs to take this a little more serious

If I had to do it, I’d do it. Would I get bored, hell yes but at least I know in doing the right thing.

I can imagine it’s the fact you’re locked up without options. But, in the scheme of things, 2 weeks where everything is provided for you… it’s a necessary evil to keep you and everyone else safe.

I’m in 2 minds about this. I would probably love it for the fact of not cooking, no cleaning and no work. But I have seen they get 3 square meals a day and not much choice so that would irk me but… I mean FREE. I am also a huge sloth of a person but even I’d get bored with Netflix and lack of fresh air. And we have kids; keeping them amused would be a task because even after awhile they’d get sick of devices. I think it comes down to choice. I’m fine being lazy and doing SFA when i’m CHOOSING to do so, but if it feels like I’m being TOLD… I’d probably buck a bit. Still; there are worst things to happen to travellers so I think they should just suck up and see.

Depends- if you literally had to stay in a room two weeks would be horrible. If you could go for walks, swim in the pool, maybe get a massage and there’s unlimited movies and Netflix, sure.

As long as there was netflix, internet and food I would be perfectly fine to do this, maybe that’s just because i am a homebody hermit type person!

I think it is the best way to keep loved one safe after you have travelled overseas.

I would not mind staying two weeks all expenses paid for the safety of others. All you need is a positive attitude! Have a plan to walk around the room and exercise and read and watch TV and people watch out the windows. Plan your meals keep eating healthy and talk to people via the phone. The internet is there for you too! Food for thought… Elderly people who are hospitalized then need to live in a nursing home and just returned back to their residence are put into isolation. Stuck in their room, served their meals for two weeks in their rooms with the door shut. Some don’t have access to a phone or they do not have anyone to call. So being in a nice Hotel sounds good to me! It’s not forever two weeks is nothing!

I would love this – someone else having to cope with my husbands dietary restrictions due to his COPD and being on dialysis 3x a week and the fact that his oesophagus has been torn and might likely tear again [not if but when] – I would have two weeks away from worrying

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  • • Ellen replied
    • 30 Apr 2020 , 3:29 am

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  Aw bless, sounds you can do with a break !

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    • • rachel1970 replied
      • 30 Apr 2020 , 6:43 am

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    I too have dietary restrictions, my oesophagus has torn on multiple occasions resulting in long stays in hospital. (the only thing I don’t have is the dialysis, thank goodness) so I can feel your pain. Would be a treat to be in that kind of jail-getting fed and just able to relax.

I would welcome it though it’s quite restrictive. It would be good in the sense to have some down time.

Just do what is necessary to keep the community safe.

It would be hard. But having corona and spreading it to vulnerable others would be worse. Suck it up. It will be over in 2 weeks.

We should appreciate all expenses paid stay in hotel room though it’s not ideal but still much safer.

It’s not something I would want to do with young children, and thankfully won’t have to! But the people staying in hotels do need to just accept it. Yes, it’s smaller than a normal house, and yes, if you get ticked off with your partner there’s nowhere to go to get a break, but you do need to think of others lives. As much as they may not like lockdown they would hate knowing they infected others and were maybe even responsible for their deaths!

It would kind of depend on the standard of the hotel I would be in and what they would be supplying in the paid for list. Even so, it would be really hard for to not be able to go outside when I wanted

Its definitely not a holiday staying in one room for two weeks, but the consequences of not doing so could potentially be far far worse. So, catching up on movies and eating food already prepared for you are the wins you need to hold on to. Also, there are people doing it far far tougher than us – hotel room for two weeks if a first world issue.