Mandatory hotel quarantine for passengers from designated countries

All passengers arriving into Ireland from designated States after 4am on the morning of Friday, 26 March are now required to pre-book accommodation in a designated quarantine facility, and to pre-pay for their stay.

The first facility that will be available to receive arriving travellers is the Crowne Plaza Dublin Airport Hotel in Santry. Costs range from €1,500 for one person up to €3,485 for a family of 2 Adults and 2 Children. 12 Night Quarantine Package - Rate includes overnight accommodation for 12 nights, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Rate also includes transfer from Airport/Port to hotel and security and 2 tests for Covid-19,

Designated States currently include many African countries, South American countries, Austria and the United Arab Emirates.

All passengers arriving into Ireland from designated States after 4am on the morning of Friday, 26 March are now required to pre-book accommodation in a designated quarantine facility, and to pre-pay for their stay.

The well-established 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 important 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.

People arriving into Ireland must also enter mandatory hotel quarantine if, regardless of which country they arrive from (designated and non-designated states), they do not provide evidence that they 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 they arrive into Ireland.

More information is available on www.gov.ie/quarantine.

The portal to make the hotel booking is now live here; www.gov.ie/quarantine.