Welcome to the post-Covid hotel: Next month can’t come soon enough for UK hoteliers – but it won’t exactly be business as usual Hotels are preparing to welcome back guests with three-quarters saying they are ready to open on July 4 Check-in times are likely to be staggered, or set later in the afternoon, to … Read more
Three quarters of pubs, restaurants and hotels could go bust unless the Government’s two-metre rule is scrapped, MPs warned last night. In a bleak assessment, a cross-party group of MPs said the majority of businesses in the catering and tourism sector would find it ‘impossible to operate financially’ if staff and customers were required to … Read more
Cyprus says quarantine hotels for families of coronavirus patients ‘will have a holiday vibe’ with nightly karaoke, shows and bingo – and that no one will need to sunbathe in a mask MailOnline Travel spoke to the island’s deputy tourism minister, Savvas Perdios He said quarantine hotels will have room service and nightly entertainment Mr … Read more
Professor Lucy Yardley, of Bristol and Southampton universities, suggested setting up South Korean-style quarantine hotels to clamp down on people flouting self-isolation rules Britons tracked down by contact tracers should be put up in quarantine hotels to clamp down on the tens of thousands of people flouting coronavirus self-isolation rules, one of Number 10’s scientific advisers … Read more
Millions of Britons are patiently waiting for lockdown to end so they can try and resume normal life. The date on many lips is 4 July 2020, which is when many B&Bs and hotels plan to open their doors to guests again, with a boom in ‘staycations’ expected. While travelling abroad is up in the … Read more
Billionaire hotelier Surinder Arora has always seen himself as a ‘Mr Optimistic’, but the Government’s plan to introduce 14-day quarantine rules tomorrow is casting a cloud over his business. ‘We are going to be hit, big time,’ says Arora, whose string of airport hotels such as the Renaissance at Heathrow and the Sofitel at Gatwick … Read more
Hotels’ reward for our Covid heroes: The extraordinary ways hotels across the UK have been helping their local communities through the pandemic Seaham Hall hotel, County Durham, cooks 400 meals a week for local hospitals London’s Strand Palace Hotel delivers food to ambulance control rooms Best Western chain sends handwritten letters to those isolated by the … Read more
Step back in time, a century or so ago, and this green and pleasant land of ours was blessed with inns and hostelries to welcome weary travellers. But 50 years ago the domestic market paled and could not compete with the lure of a foreign tan and exotic sights. Now, though, home-grown hospitality has come … Read more
Check out the new check-in: Mini bars replaced by sanitation units. Housekeeping robots. And no more buffets… how the virus will change hotels, B&Bs and villas forever Hotel owners are working tirelessly to prepare to please guests once more There are plenty of bargains on offer at hotels and B&Bs to tempt travellers back But … Read more
Tens of thousands of Britons crammed onto packed beaches on the hottest day of the year so far yesterday, leading to questions about where they would be staying overnight, with hotels and campsites supposedly closed amid the coronavirus lockdown. Furious locals claimed to have spotted tents and camper vans late into Wednesday evening, after sun-seekers … Read more