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What s it really like to quarantine in a hotel? Tales from around the world Quarantine experiences vary widely across countries, but all who go through them must find ways to pass the time, from bowling with water bottles to making Tinder connections.
In an undated image provided by Pete Lee, Pete Lee, a San Francisco-based filmmaker, directs a shoot in Austin, Texas, over Zoom at 4am one morning while in quarantine at the Roaders Hotel in Taipei, Taiwan. Air travellers around the world are finding themselves in similar situations, enduring mandatory government quarantines in hotels as they travel to countries that are very serious about containing the coronavirus. (Photo: Pete Lee via The New York Times)
Travel quarantines: Enduring the mundane, one day at a time
25 Feb, 2021 07:49 PM
10 minutes to read
A woman stands at the window of her hotel room during mandatory quarantine in Sydney. Photo / Getty Images
New York Times
By: Lauren Sloss
Running a half-marathon in your hotel room. Hearing the sea, but not seeing it. Fixating on food. Here s how some travellers passed the time during their mandatory quarantines. May Samali knew she had reached her limit when she saw a tentacle emerging from her hotel dinner in Sydney. I called downstairs and said, I m a vegan now, thank you! she said. It was just so much fish. I d gotten to the point where even thinking about it made me gag.