The Rise Of The Five-Star Hotel Quarantine
Although leisure travel is currently a pretty lousy idea in most of the world, there are still times when people really need to travel. (Covid isn't the only emergency in the world right now.) And with hotels struggling to stay afloat, it makes sense that some of them are turning to a new way to delivery hospitality—to take care of their guests.
For those essential travelers who are abroad, for those who are returning to their own countries and have families at home, or for those who just want to treat themselves to a few indulgences during an otherwise un-fun couple of weeks (and maybe for many more, if the UK mandates the hotel quarantine that it's considering), some courageous and considerate hotels are opening their doors and becoming ports in the storm.
In London, Flemings Mayfair has been welcoming a steady stream business and essential travelers who need to isolate over the past few months. General manager Henrik Muehle explains that its ten spacious one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments have fully outfited kitchens making them a comfortable home away from home.Of course, the kitchen are just the start. For a Premier League football player who recently quarantined at the hotel, they provided fitness equipment in his apartment so he could keep up with his training over Zoom.
