Mandatory hotel quarantine from Friday
THE booking portal for mandatory hotel quarantine is now live and can be accessed at www.gov.ie/quarantine.
All passengers arriving into Ireland from designated States after 4 a.m. on Friday, March 26, are now required to pre-book accommodation in a designated quarantine facility, and to pre-pay for their stay.
The cost for an adult passenger arriving from one of 33 designated states is €1,875 for 12 nights.
The first facility that will be available to receive arriving travellers is the Crowne Plaza Dublin Airport Hotel in Santry.
The Tifco Hotel Group have been appointed as the service provider to assist the State in delivering mandatory hotel quarantine.
Additional hotels from the group will be added as required to support the State in implementing this public health measure.
Tifco Hotel Group will provide full board accommodation services to guests in facilities designated exclusively for the purpose of quarantine.
In addition, the service provider will provide ground transportation and security services, as well as health and wellbeing services for travellers, within their facilities.
All passengers travelling to Ireland from designated States, including those who have transited through a port or airport in a designated State, even if they stay airside or portside, in the 14 days prior to their arrival in Ireland, must enter mandatory hotel quarantine.
This applies to all passengers who have been in, or transitioned through a designated State, regardless of nationality. The aim of this measure is to protect the population when there is a high risk of importation of infection from Covid-19 and from challenges posed by new variants of concern.
You must also enter mandatory hotel quarantine if, regardless of which country you arrive from (designated and non-designated states), you do not provide evidence that you have a negative or ‘not detected’ result from a Covid-19 Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test carried out no more than 72 hours before you arrive into Ireland.