If you have a particular hotel in mind, call them, make a reservation now (as long as it's refundable). Many of the hotels repeat, list to list. If refundable, make redundant reservations, possibly for slightly different dates in case of the very real possibility that your flight is changed (mine was changed returning to TW, stories are all over the quarantine group of canceled/rescheduled flights). I think my coworker had 3 redundant bookings for his return to HK. Keep trying until you find an acceptable (to you) hotel will to take your reservation, then check when the list comes out if you're still in business.
And, yes, it's totally nuts and if you do ever decide to go on Facebook there are some heartbreaking stories of things that have happened to people, arbitrary denial of boarding because a comma was missing on a document somewhere, it's nuts.