[gommm]

Wow, that must have been rough, I was lucky in that I came back just before they changed to the hotel only quarantine. One of my friend had to go through hotel quarantine and ended up getting a windowless bedroom during the entire 14 days (the hotel website definitely didn't mention that when booking).

By the way, always fun to meet people from HN in HK, so shoot me an email and we could have lunch or drinks after the fourth wave is over.

[KMag]

When we came back, it was the period where (if you arrived in the evening), you'd spend the first night in a government hotel, and then 13 nights in any hotel that would take you. At 2 a.m. in the government hotel, we discovered a problem with our booking the next day. We called up one hotel's front desk at 3 a.m., and the poor guy on duty told us they accepted quarantine guests. We kept trying to get our original booking problem ironed out for the next 6 hours, but eventually gave up at 9 a.m.

Luckily, we gave the second hotel's front desk a second call at 9 a.m. to double-check they accepted quarantine guests before making our online booking. The day shift guy who came in told us that they didn't accept quarantine guests.

Now, it's a bit better organized, with an official government list of all acceptable quarantine hotels. Though, prices have gone up significantly for those few hotels. When we arrived, there was a government list, but it was just a subset of all hotels accepting quarantine guests, and of course prices shot up and vacancies vanished for those hotels on the government list.