UPDATE: 6:06pm - Some Travelodge guests have reported hearing an announcement in their rooms stating they will be moved to another quarantine hotel. Returning Australians are calling for a reevaluation of hotel quarantine facilities after arriving to what guests described as “unhygienic” rooms with “sticky handles” and “clumps of someone else’s hair” on surfaces. Expat Lauren Farmer said that her mental health spiralled after arriving at her $3,000 hotel quarantine room at Travelodge Hotel Sydney on Friday where she became “distraught” by the state of the accommodation. Lauren Farmer Farmer took photos of the clumps of hair on the hotel room's sofa. “When quarantine first started we were taking 3,000 arrivals a day in Sydney alone,” Michael Johnson, the chief executive of Tourism Accommodation Australia told The Guardian.

Source: Huffington Post August 25, 2020 06:38 UTC