So with someone I know going through quarantine currently getting back to China & my plans to do what is necessary to get back to China myself in March 2022 - I started to look out for others who have elected to post about their quarantine experiences in China to learn and start to plan my survival guide to China Quarantine.
It is currently listed as 1 of 3 options:
14 + 7 days
14 + 14 days
14 + 7 + 7 days
First 14 days - is what we all know as solid hotel quarantine - put into a hotel room and cannot leave for 14 days.
The +7 or +14 days is on top, where you can go to your home, or another hotel - or remain in the same quarantine hotel if you don't have a suitable option to self isolate at home or another hotel. It is basically home isolation, which you can only go out to do the 2 virus tests you are required to do per week, but freedom to do it at home or a different hotel of your choice if the location is acceptable to officials. Otherwise default is another 7-14 days in quarantine hotel.
Shanghai is the only current location with 14 + 7 days, which means you are out, but cannot travel anywhere else in China until day 29 - otherwise the other provinces will make you start quarantine again when you cross over into them if you dare post day 22 from Shanghai.
The lottery about food is the one thing that stumps me the most - it is down to each hotel. And you have no say in which hotel you get to go. Most in Shanghai seem to prohibit any fresh food to be delivered to you - that any food items to be delivered to you in hotel quarantine must be commercially packaged and must have a use by date on it that is more than 30 days in the future when it is delivered. It is a rare gem of a hotel that you can order in food - hence most are stuck with any food they take with them and what the hotel serve up.
I am told by law they cannot charge you more than 100 RMB per day to supply/serve you food - so they charge 50-100 RMB per day for the 3 basic Chinese meals they supply.
I think I am looking at my baggage allowance and hauling in what I need to eat to survive the first 21 days!
While there are a few videos - this one is probably the most interesting of an Aussie flying SYD-CAN and going through quarantine in Guangzhou -
Blondie in China