Hypotheticals putting me off interstate travel:
• Flying home is out of the question.
• Could extend stay or find alternate accomodation, but am I under any moral/legal obligation to disclose my COVID status and risk being turned away?
• Are hotels obligated to let me stay to isolate? What happens in an Airbnb and the place is double booked?
Theoretical if you have no symptoms and test negative to a rat test you should not be contagious
The hotel would not be obligated to allow you to stay. You can just imagine the total fiasco that will come from a group arriving for their holiday and not having their accommodation available due to the scenario you've painted.
What happens to you? You'd need to dig through the various public health sites, but I assume the default position will be hospital isolation if the whole "hotel quarantine" business is not still going.
What Happens if I Develop COVID on Interstate Holidays?
You extend your stay (at your cost), and if you can't, you book somewhere else.
It is not the hotel/hosts fault you have covid, so they don't have to put you up for 'free' if that is what you're thinking.
I know and I'd be willing to stump up the cost. Just wouldn't wanna be turned away from every inn like Mary and Joseph.
Most Hotels will have 'room' to extend your stay if the worse happens, but if it is AirBNB then see if you can extend but it might be booked so I guess you book into another contactless AirBNB.
It also depends on what part of the covid cycle you are in. If checkout day is last day of your iso period, then meh travel home as planned.
So if you can't afford it you have to go to a cheap hostel or something instead for two weeks, dripping with covid? And if you can't afford a taxi then you catch a bus too?
So if you can't afford it you have to go to a cheap hostel or something instead for two weeks, dripping with covid? And if you can't afford a taxi then you catch a bus too?
Sounds like someone shouldn't have went on holiday then!
Also catch up, its only 7 days ISO now, not 14. Unless you are one of 'those' unvax people.
It was 14 days in SA, but the new Premier just announced it will go down to seven days like the rest of the states.
I do think by this point the various states/territories health departments have come across the situation enough times and have playbooks on what to do.
If you're worried, I'd book a hotel opposed to an airbnb where there is more chance they do have the ability to easily extend your stay
Not sure how long you’re going away for but I’d say a fair few people would not test themselves whilst they are away and therefore wouldn’t know they had COVID. There would be several people with COVID on any flight you board as there is no testing requirements to get on a flight. I imagine most people just get home first then do the test if they are symptomatic, as dodgy as that seems I think that’s what most people would do.
If you did test positive, yes you’d have to extend your stay, if the hotel wouldn’t keep you, you’d have to call the relevant COVID hotline or local public health unit in that state for advice. In Queensland if you had no accommodation and COVID I think you may be put in Wellcamp or one of the quarantine hotels (not sure if they are still running these). If you were sufficiently unwell then hospital. Depending on how far away you were from home I think it would also be reasonable to drive home in a private vehicle, so long as you didn’t stop and get out of the vehicle in public spaces,
I was interstate last week on holidays - all the hotels have a playbook on how to respond when their guests test positive.
Push through.
You do what you to if you get sick - you stay in bed in your hotel room / minimise contact with the outside world and you extend your stay if you need to.
Hotels or Air Bnbs are not obligated to extend your stay - this is something you would have to arrange yourself with alternative providers if required.
Yes it would be highly irresponsible to get on a plane with covid and possibly even illegal.
Fortunately most people have fairly mild cases so I image you may only need to extend your stay by a few days in the worst case.