I saw some people dancing, did they look like these guys/taitai? C O R N A!
So on the Facebook group people are reporting that they received e-mails from their booked hotels that these hotels are not "designated" and a list of "designated" hotels to try...anyone seen the list of these hotels?
I do feel like info is lacking- on the procedures for landing for example- before you board the plane they should tell you to download the stayhome app and to fill out the health declaration form (did not know about the latter until they announced it on landing, then scrambled to fill it in). They need to tell you about how long you can expect to wait (I really thought I would be going to the Rambler or whatever), simple things- that's why I posted my pics- people have a right to know what to expect.
https://www.coronavirus.gov.hk/pdf/i.../hotels_en.pdf
Could this be the one? I’m not sure due to the language about specified places.
Good plan to restrict flights and hotels. We are nearing critical usage levels of both quarantine and ICU. No need to jeopardize that for people who want to travel to high risk countries. This year is not a normal Christmas and we need to just accept that fact.
There is INFINITE capacity if they let people quarantine at HOME!! Good grief, the number of cases, by international standards, is LOW, I don't remember hearing about returnees spreading it to family members as most positive returnees are caught at the airport, not so many positive tests on day 12.
If you are a student and the dorm/hostel is closed, might not be anywhere for you to go! So you need to come back to HK (especially if you are under 18 and no one will rent a room to you for being underage). I saw genuine KIDS in the testing center, some of those were the ones released at 4AM...bet their parents were thrilled.
this is the bizarre thing about the existing policy. You can stay in ANY hotel listed as a registered hotel in HK. That hotel obviously needs to want to accept high or low risk quarantine and some people have tripped themselves up by booking through agents or online such as hotel or booking.com then finding out that they are not taking Covid cases. The FB advice has always been contact hotel directly because the prices are different too (naturally inflated). Note air bnb, serviced apartments etc are out of scope.
so many hundreds of people have booked a hotel in good faith following the rules and for about 10 days now they talk about changing the rules without providing any clarification. So it doesn’t just impact people that have booked but people that want to book. Already some people have been moved out of their existing hotels by the hotel to another hotel. Utter chaos