Jet Park Hotel.
Photo: RNZ / Katie Todd
They ve succeeded in keeping more than 900 Covid-19 cases out of the community - embracing PPE, teamwork and sweet treats hurled through windows during their 15 months on the frontline.
The innocuous family-owned hotel nestled off the main road to Auckland Airport boasts a restaurant, lounge bar, pool and lush green outdoor spaces, yet Property and Assets manager Ashley Schierhout said it now has some of the country s most reluctant people checking in. You see people arriving and they are scared, some of them, arriving at a quarantine facility and that stigmatism, he said. I think after day two or three it s a complete change of heart. They suddenly realise that we re not treating them like patients, we re treating them like guests.