In Singapore, you can spend your 40s in luxury hotels

Singapore's “hotel lottery” allows luckier newcomers to self-quarantine in luxury hotels -

To deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, several countries have set up quarantines concerning arrivals on their territory.

When in the United Kingdom this is mandatory under penalty of a fine, some countries such as Iceland offer to be tested at the airport to shorten the self-containment period.

A real source of anxiety for travelers, the compulsory quarantine in Singapore can, on the contrary, turn into a luxury stay ... for the lucky ones only.

This is the “hotel lottery”, where most newcomers have to spend 14 days isolated in their rooms.

"We won the jackpot"

It is impossible for travelers to choose their hotel and the bus drivers who make the connection between the airport and the place of destination are required to maintain secrecy until arrival.

Some people therefore find themselves "in the obligation" to stay in places of dreams (marble bathrooms, huge flat screen, breathtaking views, delicious meals ...) costing up to $ 400 per night, for a fraction of this. price.

"We won the jackpot," enthuses the 

Joy Van Dee, an interior designer who came straight from Amsterdam with her very young child.

Forty years for the small family means a stay in a 5-star establishment, the Ritz-Carlton Millenia, in a comfortable 50 square meter room with a view of the river.

Far from a full five-star experience, guests cannot leave their rooms and housekeeping, for obvious sanitary reasons, is not included.

For hygiene, customers receive new towels every three days, and new sheets after one week.

Meals are available in cardboard boxes placed in front of customers' doors.

While remaining of a quality worthy of a palace.

“I've finished all my desserts, which isn't my thing,” says Jessie Ling, a consultant from Dubai who lives at the luxurious Marina Bay Sands Hotel.

Tens of thousands of rooms requisitioned

For lottery losers, the mandatory quarantine is more like a painful time to endure.

Cramped rooms in small hotels, rooms with windows that cannot be opened ... All newcomers are not accommodated in the same boat, but pay on average the equivalent of 1,200 euros, plus a hundred euros for the Covid-19 test for all of their 14 days of isolation, reports the

.

Of the 67,000 rooms available in Singapore, more than half are requisitioned for quarantine measures in the city state of more than 5 million inhabitants, where the Covid-19 figures stand at 57,000 cases for 27 dead.

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