Day One

After a fabulous sleep (bodes well for the next 13 nights) we were just awake when we got the knock on the door with our breakfast. Cooked breakfast this morning with all the extras, enough food to last us all day. Took our time eating and we can make our own tea and instant coffee thankfully.

Lots of firsts today as we tried to figure everything out. So many things to work out, what sort of extras can we request, extra pillows (tick) but no luck with an extra desk and chair. I discovered that I can have pretty good soy latte delivered hot to our room so very happy with that. Exercise has to be booked in early. When we enquired at midday all the slots for the day had been taken.
Exercise is just circuits of a terrace outside our room so might need to have a podcast handy to sort the boredom. Regan did bring a skipping rope and discovered that the ceiling is too low to allow internal use.

Daily routine will be a health check in the morning, temperature check and usual screening questions. We will have a covid test on day 3 and day 11 which will be a first for both of us. We are still waiting for our welfare daily call. We also had to decide our our food for the next 4 days. Each time we open our door we have to wear a mask. We now have masks hanging on our door handle.

We did have a big reality check this morning, on the hotel PA system we were informed there had been a positive infection amongst one of the passengers. Luckily not someone from our flight. We were confined to our rooms for about 90 mins. We were allowed to leave around midday but were restricted again between 2 - 3 as they were transferred to full quarantine at the Jet Park hotel at the airport and did a deep clean of the lobby. There are two large flights arriving at this hotel early tomorrow morning so we are again confined to our room from 4am to 8am so not really going to affect us. Flights are coming from Japan and Doha.

We can go outside the main lobby at any time for 20 mins if there are less than 12 people outside. It took about 1 min to do a lap but it was the best 20 mins of the day soaking up the sun and fresh air with more security guards than inmates. The rest of the day was spent organising our room, connecting our work laptops, doing a bit of work, doing some Pilates and now we are enjoying a very pleasant Pinot Gris waiting for our dinner delivery.

Update: Dinner was seriously delicious and we ended the evening with a video call with friends and a 20 min walk in the front car park.Les mer