Australians in quarantine at Sydney hotel describe 'prison-like' conditions

Inside the building resides nearly 300 Australians who were stranded on the Norwegian Jewel cruise ship and are now in strict quarantine.

Ms Hammond said many have expressed concern about the lack of access to outdoor spaces, adding she was told by medics that they had previously raised the issue with the federal government. Forty-two-year-old Amber Hammond, a concert pianist has described the conditions inside the hotel as"abysmal".new federal government restrictions

There have been no confirmed cases of the infection on board the Norwegian Jewel, and Ms Hammond said passengers had already completed a 13-day quarantine during their isolation at sea. Another man shared a photo of a pile of rubbish, including food scraps, that he left outside the door of his room two days ago, but are yet to be cleared. A permanent resident at the Swissotel, Brooke Pendlebury, said she was only informed the building was being used as a quarantine facility on Friday - a day after the cruise ship passengers checked-in.

Duke of Edinburgh turns 99 today so will he receive a telegram from the Queen when he reaches 100?

gladysmustresign

I'm currently at the Crown Promenade, Melbourne, in quarantine and am extremely grateful that our government has been able to put us up here. Fresh air would nice, but saving lives feels better.

Please don’t waste precious news time on such trivial reports. There are major things to report on.

These complainers need to wake up to their selfishness and lack of gratitude. Boring, yes, but how can you suffer mental breakdown in two weeks? Maybe they’d prefer to be one Of the thousands of Indians without food trudging back to their villages. Toughen up princess!

Your article should read “People quarantined not showered with luxury”. Australians falling sick don’t care. The Australians not sick and don’t want to be don’t care. Tone deaf article.

They should be happy and not complain as this is free and it’s for everyone’s safety

Disgusting!! Why travel amidst Covid19? Return early?..stupid! Typical of selfish privileged now on a 5 star 14 day meals included holiday where we all pick up he tab. What about the homeless, disabled, elderly, unemployed & the cruel inhumane incarceration of refugees for years.

Absolutely Xmas island for quarentine. Who do they think they are

Tough shit. Put everyone else first and just suck it up.

Lara Worthington - your mother is not special. She is like evryone else in this difficult times. Just grow up lady.

Good.

Suggest providing these folks options to choose 5 star hotel OR detention facilities where they can get fresh air, sunshine and space to exercise,

Would they like to swap places with a homeless person just for 2 weeks.

My heart bleeds

Quit whinging and whining, stay put for the required time and make do with what you can. The police and army are there to make sure you do the right thing, because most of you can't be trusted to do so, left to your own devices.

Prison like? You’re in a hotel, three meals a day and a turn down service.

Tell them ‘tough’ and to suck it up. The self centred attitude of these over privileged flogs is nauseating. They happily sit on a plane for hours and cruise for days but a hotel, room service is too hard FFS ZeroTolerance COVID19Aus

Or just stfu, people are dying and they're complaining about hotel rooms

Isn't prison-like conditions typical on a cruise ship?

Suck it up princesses

taxpayer pay their bill

Get fucked SBS! Protecting Australians should be paramount to any loyal local MSM outlet but then again, SBS IS the Al Jazeera of Oceania!

No way,there are alot worse things,but we won't go there right now....

And I hope paying for it!

Poor UNGRATEFUL things. They have a clean bed, linen probably changed every other day. 3 meals a day plus snacks served on a platter. Supplied with toiletries, their laundry is probably done for them. They are asked to stay 2 weeks. 2 WEEKS...These people make me angry

God know why they aren’t doing the same as japan who test people then let them go if it’s negative. Would be a lot cheaper

PRIVILEGED.

Two weeks in a five star hotel with room service on the government’s bill. Inconvenient, yes, but prison? No. I’m sorry you’re not getting fresh towels each day or your turn down service, but please just do your part and be thankful we even have the capacity to do this.

Like darlings Christmas Island is more like a prison than the Sydney hotels.

If anyone here would like a true understanding of what’s going on in the inside and why many ppl have returned from overseas at this point, let me know. I myself am in mandatory quarantine as of today in a Sydney CBD Hotel.

How many left to go overseas after advice was not to ?

What's shocking is they made a public comment. Did they think they would get any sympathy? Embarrassing

We are stuck st home living in prison like conditions except we also have to cook our own meals and clean our own rooms. Fucking primadonnas

Didums

As always, most comments are from people that didn't read the article...

Can anyone tell me are working girls doing home visits. Please

Pathetic to think people are complaining about a hotel room in a 5 star hotel. People are being put up at Crown Towers for christ sakes Anyone who complains should be sent to Christmas Island to complete their quarantine or they should be charged for their room.

Bunch of rejects, they want to know what living in a prison send them to China

Guys —- it’s “prison-like” because they don’t want to be there. Not because of the view, food, room service, bed linen.

Do I hear violins.

So do they have their 'prison wallets' searched?

Christmas island should be the place. Those from Japan were gracious about their 2 week stay. If an up market hotel, presumably paid for by US, isn't good enough, fly 'em back out, or to Christmas island. Self-centred, greedy, spoilt, money grabbing little poxes! Go away!

other than fresh air, I think they are just whining. You can open windows, the virus is not airborne

Good!!!

Anyone would think they'd been put up in the Formula1 joint that used to be near Tullamarine. I'm happy to trade places

Perhaps offer Christmas island detention camp or Nauru as an alternative.

Cry me a river ...

Where is the Aussie spirit of gratitude? Don't ask what for what comforts the government can provide for you but ask what you can do to help others around you at this time of crisis.

Tough luck thousands around the world are homeless and these people are getting 3 meals a day and warm bed. Stop your complaining and think about the health of others

Key word: living. SMH.

Put them back on the cruise ship indefinitely, down below, where 'Jack' from 'Titanic' was

Chinese residents came back from Wuhan quarantined themselves in Christmas Island without any complaining. They knew they should be responsible for their community. I don't understand why these white people complain about! 5 star hotel, what else they want!

“Ambulance chasing journalist goes hunting around quarantine hotel for click bait...”

I especially like how the person is complaining that she doesn’t get to go outside.. I tried to reach through my phone to strangle her .. pfft go outside

We are in a epidemic into a pandemic for 3 mth. Why anyone go on a cruise in the middle of a well announced deadly coronavirus epidemic, pandemic Most cruises are for 1-2 wks, they went knowing they will catch something deadly. Please catch me when I jump off a 8 storey bldg.

Then the rest of us who are not in such dire straits should thank these people publicly somehow. The hotel is named give them a call.

Swiss hotel is the new Syrian war and all these quanrantinees (if that can be a word) are in a war zone. If they live here for 14 days, we must declare a National day in their name.

maybe don't go overseas in the middle of a pandemic

Good! Stay there!

Clearly these people have never been in prison.

Check out where the sick are staying people!

30,000 deaths worldwide, 500,000+ infected, but yes true suffering is two weeks free stay in a hotel with free food. Those poor people 😪

Yet they stayed in cabins on a cruise ship Wouldn’t a hotel room be similar in size? Should’ve just left them on the ship, ungrateful cretins. COVID19Aus

😂😂

Send them to Xmas Island then

I think there would be a lynching if this wasn't taken seriously. But i don't see why one hour stints on the roof can't be done.

Oh, cry me a river. Dickheads.

If any quarantined people truly knew not to go before they travelled or didn’t rush home when they knew. They should have to foot the bill too. Yes it’s not ideal, but if you think about it they r also protecting your own family and friends from you potentially giving them covid

re 'prison-like conditions' - spoiler: no they're not

This will never be perfect, we have never dealt with this before. I understand people being frustrated cause they can’t get medicines etc but if you get a smokers patch instead of being allowed to smoke or don’t get the meal you want, sorry that’s not a big deal.

I have no sympathy at all ... it’s tough luck from my perspective. Build a bridge ...

Can we extend the availability of rooms to the HOMELESS? Give them a floor sep. from the Covid folks and grant them a brief respite from poverty...or give them a hotel of their own and get them onto welfare, get them in contact with services to help. Lets elevate our minimum.

Another well handled government Covid_19 situation (sarcastic).

And? They are at risk of actually causing death. These precious selfish people just need to get over it. It is 2 weeks, not a lifetime. Wonder how they would have coped w migrant hostels 1960.

“Prison like conditions” as you show a picture of a 5 Star hotel... keep up the good journalism SBS.

Idiots that need to understand that if the situation gets critical there will be no beds in hospitals for them if they have a car crash or illness. They think that young people is free from the virus do some research and also: you don't know what prison is like not a 5 star hotel

Oh please!! Who would even publish this rubbish? Be thankful you are here and fed and shielded. This is NO time for complains.

Diddums. Why would these idiots go in a cruise? Covid_19

Oh really why sbs do you have to report this nonsense and give air time to these ridiculous self centred ppl

Over privileged sooks, hope they get stuck in there for 2 months.

Or we can risk further infections....

Christmas Island is looking good . They can get all the fresh air , the views , sun and the sea for the next 14 days.. also where we don’t hear their whining .. 😂🌴🌺 .. see how they feel than ..

Rightly so they brought it yo themselves

4 weeks late.

SBS - breaking the tough news stories.

We live in a world of shrill entitlement. Me, me, me.

Poor excuse for journalism, do better 👎👎👎👎👎

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Tough life when you are being forced against your will not to go out for 2 weeks and (infect) potentially injure or murder people with a disease.

They haven’t done hard timeS till they have no toilet paper - end of story

Oh god. So we're going to hate on each other and pull each other's hair through all of this? Can we direct attention where it's needed?

We can send them to Christmas Island, if they prefer. It was good enough for asylum seekers and returning Chinese Australians 😡

Could we maybe arrange to send some brand new puzzles, crafts, projects to those in quarantine? (if it's possible) We need to look after everyone's mental health. If we can be kind & compassionate. We don't know individuals circumstances & we need to look after one another.

Like any of them would have actually been in prison... Why the fuck did they wait so long to come back?

They’re fine until they get the minibar tab 😵

Wait until they hear about the people fleeing death in their home country for a chance at safety and a better life in Australia who have been in offshore detention camps for 8 years.

Should of happened two months ago instead worrying about this stinking economy.

Prison like conditions. I would bet my head that those in a real prison would love to be where you are

🤷🏻‍♂️ stiff shit! Betterbthat than infecting the rest of us.

If it is so harsh, they can pay out of own pocket for better isolation accommodation and also for the complete sterilisation of their old prison like 5 star hotel.

Many chose to go on holidays in late Feb/March when covid-19 was in full flight..... me thinks they complain too much

lol

johnsy123aus Suck it up princesses!

'prison-like'..... geezus, the entitlement is strong....

Tough cheddar

Well .. let's remember every single one of them stepped on to a cruise ship during a pandemic .. so we already know they believe they are exceptional. I wonder if there is capacity at Bathurst or Long bay?

I understand no one has CV + being tested daily, majority elderly confused people, much compliments to Swissotel staff doing a great job BUT this is publicity stunt by nswpol who can’t afford another negative cruise story after rubyprincess

Boo fucking hoo.

She did leave her home alone to go on her cruise: “Ms Hammond is a single mother and her 17-year-old daughter, who is home alone, 'is not coping'.

WTAF? COVIDIOTS CoronaLockdown COVID19au 🤔😷🤔😷☠️☠️

They were probably made to pay for the 'good' movies too...

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Move them to Christmas Island if they complain. Or stick them back on Ruby Princess.

Well they’ve obviously never been to prison

They should've been back in Oz weeks ago!!!

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Since when is the Swiss Hotel a prison

Bizaare, I know a young chap that just went through several airports to get home. He is now self isolating, here on the community.. he certainly isn't the only one that came home from o/s just couple days ago..

Want to swap places?

Well let’s hope they are ALL well in 2 weeks - they wouldn’t want Covid19 on top of those terrible living conditions 💋

And the travellers should be footing the bill.

Think about someone else for a change. Those 5 elderly people in the nursing home who lost their lives because a sick individual went to work. This is what authorities and a majority of people want to avoid.

Small price to pay! No one forced them to come back to Australia.

This could be minor to what life is going to be like after all this over. Also think about what it's going to be like after your 14 days - we all have to stay at home and use safe distancing if you HAVE to go out. Life as we know it has changed my friend. cironavirus

Have they considered the fact they are Australian and not North Korean

Prison like? Bullshit. That's lazy reporting sbs. You're better than that! Ffs.

Perhaps some may take time to reflect on lack of action to demonstrate against our Refugee detention policies over the last yrs - Manus Is & Nauru were NO picnic...& it was less salubrious & went on for years.

Do they not understand we are in a pandemic, it’s these people that want to go out with “masks”. It more about what you touch after coughing in your hands

I would like an actual prisoner’s opinion on this.

I am sure they are a staunch supporter of Julian Assange now.. ProfSteveKeen

They’ll be in for a bit of a surprise if they turn to crime.

Better than being stuck on Christmas Island

Boo Hoo

Give them a stint in Long Bay! Bet they won't whinge then! quarentineandchill

Poor babies.

I'm going to get someone to drop me off at the airport and say I just flew in from Overseas and spend 2 weeks in one of these Hell Holes.

Ohh poor things🙄just let them know that there are no toilet papers if they decide to get out of the “prison” 😀

Is this a joke? WE ARE ALL ISOLATING!!!

I hope all these people become advocates for prison and asylum seeker reforms after their experience then...

2 weeks of living in a 5 star hotel to save lives... maybe just stick them in an actual prison

'Prison like'? I wouldn't mind being a prisoner in luxury hotel. SBS is a disgrace

...and someone found a hair in the bathtub. Just disgraceful. Those tripadvisor posts are going to be way harsh.

This tells me they were never going to comply with quarantine at home then.

Yes that’s called quarantine!

Tell them to take a cup of concrete and harden the f up.

This would have been a great article for critiquing and contrasting how insanely different the upper class are going through this but, the bland tone just comes across as sympathetic. Total let down.

Not hard enough! Whoever travelled abroad for reasons other than seeing a sick parent/child or medical/political reasons for the benefit of the nation, should be paying themselves. Why didnt they knock up dorms or tents for them intead ? Why are tax payers having to cover this ?

Everyone of us have to make life adjustment and sacrifices. Times have changed. Please looked at the bigger picture of this quarantine . Stop whinging just suck it up. You people in quarantine are saving other people’s lives.

How stupid of the government to not remove other high risk people already in the hotel to a safe location. If they overlap quarantine periods they may well result in higher transmission.

Never knew swissotel shifted to silverwater jail 🤬

Perhaps Christmas Island might be an alternative

Then they clearly have no idea about prison....

Our entire society is anxious, inconvenienced & suffering cabin fever. We are all having to make the best of a bad situation. Our tax pays for these people to be repatriated and accommodated in a 5 star hotel for 2 weeks, they should be grateful for this short term inconvenience

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Ungrateful pricks, I have stayed in that hotel, it’s 5 star

Well they choose to put Australians at risk by disdainfully moving from a high concentration of COVID-19 virus to a lower concentration. Besides, prison-like is something most of these people would never have experienced. I laugh.😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

1 To the Australian complaining after a day in isolation in a 5 star hotel: This a hotel prison holding v sick refugees who came to Australia under medevac 1 yr ago. No treatment & now Aus Health declares them to be the most vulnerable to Covid_19. Speak up for them. auspol

If this is prison-like, then I’m afraid the stay home social distancing is going to fail miserably

Think about the millions of Indians & other developing countries who are about to starve to death

Our generation are so spoilt it’s disgusting. Our ancestors had to pick up guns and lie in trenches during the last war, we just have to sit in a room and watch TV. Yet we still complain about it.

01_The Destruction of Jerusalem - Great Controversy (1911) Ellen G. White

If we can contain the virus, go for it.

Morons

Whatever

So you have your own bathroom, air con, window & food delivered to you. How is this like a prison? Do they know that are homeless worse off than them?

Please feel free to volunteer to transfer to Christmas Island and then have a winge - could have always cancelled or cut the holiday short. This wasn’t a shock good boarder control practices were going to come in as it’s happening around the world for over 2 months !!

Wankers. Oh the problems of privilege.

OMG... the lady they interviewed wanted to get out of her room? Thank god we have them quarantined in there. Imagine if they went back home. 🙄

The fillet mignon was late....

It’s for everybody’s safety and it’s only for two weeks. You are possibly saving lives by being quarantined

Please stop being selfish and stop winging.

Got to remember these people are entitled Australians. How dare we put them up feed them etc at our expense to save their families and the community. Sure they would do the right thing left to their own devices.....thats how we ended up with Coronavirus in the community

I'd want to know how come the government booked a luxury-level hotel rather than somewhere cheaper, which would surely have been available, assuming that the taxpayers are footing the bill? (If returnees are footing the bill, then fair enough.)

Toughen up princesses and get some tissues

Unbelievable. These people are so selfish.

I've stayed in that hotel. It's pretty damn nice.

Oh poor buggars! Maybe should have stayed on ship. Did they expect a luxury hotel with five star service FFS!

It’s only 13 days give me a break and your staying in a luxury hotel. It’s for your own safety to make sure your not sick. I’m always hearing this from people who don’t work in health care.

..or get quarantined on Rottnest Island where u can surf, swim, snorkel, fish, swim bath, feed the quokkas, free toilet paper..

Do they understand that this is for their safety and their families saftey, and community saftey?

Yet they were probably ok with locking up humans on poor nation islands.

Sounds shitty. But as shitty as killing an at risk loved one? No.

So ungrateful. You are being fed and taken care of while receiving appropriate medical attention, something that others would die for.

Lol SBS

Whingers Aussie Aussie Aussie Ou oi oi.

Perhaps they'd prefer the accommodations of returnees from Wuhan who were quarantined offshore just a few weeks ago. No? I thought not.

Tough.

Lol I'm in Central America. I go out every day for coffee, takeawy breakfast, the supermarket, guitar shop every few days. It's awesome having the freedom. Even in the 3rd world country they understand economics

I think Christmas Island would be worse.

I'm sure their most significant citizen Julian Assange wouldn't mind the self-quarantine chez Swisshotel

Should have just sent them to Christmas island

So we r meant 2 feel sorry 4 these ppl who stupidly went on a cruise during the worst pandemic the world has seen! No doubt being forced into isolation would b intimidating but it could b worse accommodation! I wish them & residents all the best with health. But stop complaining

Have done the sex inside this hotel. Can confirm it's very much not 'prison like'.

Why complain when they should’ve ditched going on the cruises a few weeks ago anyhow & to add insult to injury complain about hotel rooms & meals!

Prison like? It's a hotel. People just love to whinge. Get over it.

Oh please!! 🙄🙄🙄

Garbage they’re being put up in hotels to protect the rest of the population especially the extra vulnerable

This is literally a description of quarantine anywhere in the world that is taking it seriously. Grow up.

Suck it up.

Prison-like conditions! Now this is what annoys me about the media dramatising every event to make a dollar. They are heading to nice hotels for their safety and the safety of others, which is being paid by tax payers. forceddowntime coronavirus COVID19Aus Covid_19australia

Also I’m pretty sure they don’t have to shit and sleep in the same room. In fact sleep in the same room while Yr cellmate itakea a shit next to yr head! These attitudes are gonna make this drag out with a full lockdown.

Did anyone define quarantine to these ppl?

If they whinge make them pay the bill - so self centred and an overblown sense of entitlement.

Can we, the taxpayers, vote to send all of the ones that complain to Christmas Island for the rest of their quarantine? These people need to gain perspective

Would have been better to stop the direct Wuhan flights into Australia at the beginning instead of meeting passengers on the air bridge who showed symptoms.

Have they ever been in prison

Oh come on! 🙄

Only our taxpayer funded media would run this crap.

Can abcsydney call them and interview them? I am interested to listen to them without judgement.

Fuck up. Do your bit

Remove plush luxurious king size beds and replace with prison bed. Change room service menu from 5 star to the meals served in the lock up. Come back home earlier and avoid the problem entirely.

mektronik Nice ! Free luxury hotel stay ! Let me fly to Australia immediately !!!!!

Whingers. Suck it up to protect Australia. Next time don’t go on a cruise or overseas during a worldwide viral outbreak.

Oh, how about the cemetery then?

For F sakes, come to Europe, we've been quarentined for 2 weeks now. We're not complaining because we still got Netflix, net and Nintendo, boredom is in the brain

Send them back.

Just be thankful ffs there are Australians stuck and isolated in other countries that are trying to get home

Looks like a Swishotel to me.

Swissotel? Prison?

Should have left them in Hawaii

Aw those poor people 🤣

Just kill them. 🥶

If that's what prison is like I'm seriously considering committing a serious offence lol

Prison 5 star accommodation prison Any of them been to prison? 1st world problems. Dickheads.

Can you please replace them with the homeless then?

I’m at home with 3 kids on school holidays (more than 14 days) so don’t whinge the world is tough on you.

Pretty flash hotel - obviously biurocrats couldn’t organise a root in a brothel !

Stop moaning, bet you don’t whinge about the room service ribeye & bottle of St Henri

Cry us a river.

Tough shit. Shouldn't have been away.

Clearly these people have never been inside a prison.

Haven’t these people caused enough trouble & now they whinge & complain. They should have been sent to s detention centre. COVID19au They should have StayAtHome instead of going cruising.

Gee to think our grandparents were asked to go to war & these entitled brats are whinging about having to sit on a hotel sofa for two weeks? Honestly!!!!!!!!!!

Gee, better not land in Bali then

Piss off back to where you came from then.

I can’t even imagine the level of privilege you need to say that

Could be worse - could be morgue-like conditions.

'Ms Hammond said passengers had already completed a 13-day quarantine during their isolation at sea.' Because as we learned from the Diamond Princess, quarantining in a cruise ship means nothing!

Spoilt Aussies, find them a 6 star hotel pronto!

mektronik Pity the staff...under paid...worried sick...forced to wait on such.

If they’re living in a prison, hell knows what the fuck I’m living in.

It’s good to see them doing it tough! 😯

Have a thought for fellow Aus KylieMooreGilbert in a real prison. She's spent 561 days in isolation in Evin prison, Iran - no phone, no wi-fi, no room service, no comforts, no contact with family Just for doing her job Think about it & sign the petition

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It’s a hard life living in a 5 star hotel

If that's like prison...

For those whinging about our 14 days quarantine conditions.... you got two choices: Either stay on that cruise ship whist being fed 3 square meals OR that very luxurious hotel room in that photo be whist fed 3 square meals Which would you choose to stay in for two weeks?

How are the forced into The law does not come into affect until 11:59pm 28/3 this was posted at 1:45pm today. So I call bullshit reporting!

Oh yeah? Better than sending their sorry asses to Christmas Island.

Unbelievable ! Maybe they’d prefer Christmas Island?

Send them to Christmas Island.

Whats their point? Whatever it is, its wrong. Imho.

Why complain? Who asked u to travel abroad when this outbreak started in Nov. These rich show offs travel like no tmorrow and when hit a road block they complain so much. Pathetic!

Mmm i bet not eveyrone gets the big treatment many rooms look at. brick n glass n may get a flash of sunlight a day. Hopefully hotel staff are fit n well. Still awaiting that fkn surge they were blabbing about. Marshal law

Perhaps they'd prefer to return overseas?

Presumably Ms Hammond left her 17 year old daughter home alone to go on a cruise.

This is exactly why they can't be trusted to self-isolate.

A 5 star prison...⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Well bad luck if they feel like that. They shouldn’t have gone anywhere

And what would they know of 'real' prison conditions! 1stWorldProblems

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Diddums. Would they have preferred Christmas Island? Or Manus?

Well duck up ...we don't want the virus that you may carry .... quarantine is best but why not Christmas island or Darwin I don't know

More fake news from SBS Write about any crap to try & belittle the gov if she worried about her daughter home alone then why go on a holiday Its 5 star accommodation Try living your entire life Agoraphobia then you know what prisons like I would have left them on the ship

If they don't like it perhaps the ADF can setup a tent city for them in an isolated part of Australia. auspol covid19australia

Maybe they would be happier in Christmas island

😂😂😂bet these some real convicts that’d love to stay in this prison.

Oh well why go on a cruise when you know what’s happening it’s for our safety and yours could be so much worse harden up buttercup

Next stop Christmas Island $1000/p pls.

Poor pet I hope she can last 14 days of hell in a luxury hotel

Send them to long baby

When did Australians become such softcocks?

Well , I think let them leave but arrest and fine them then put them back in the hotel

Prison like conditions in a hotel. 😀😀😀😀sure

Its safer for the whole Community

They are probably too rich to compare.

AND ?

STFU and do your time.

Not great advertising for the Swissotel

Since almost all our new admissions to hospital have resulted from people returning from overseas it's ridiculous for them to want to rush back into society when they don't know if they're infected. Two weeks in a hotel under quarantine is hardly prison.

For 14 days....Fk me! How do you get taxpayer funding to file such groundbreaking stuff?

Are you serious? 5 star accommodation!

Awww diddums 😴

This is not reporting fact, very disappointing

Poor,poor little princess! Can't go out from the 5 star room.. Ohhhh! What a pity.. BET YOU HAVEN'T GIVEN A SINGLE THOUGHT TO JULIAN ASSANGE! Poor little princess....

At least they got home. So many of us still stuck overseas, including many pensioners and self employed people. Funds are running out and international contact numbers for Aussies don't work.

Its like people don't know what quarantine means LOL.

That's the NORM FOR THE TURD REICH you will know they have 2small girls on Christmas island with ALLEGEDLY over 100 guards in charge of them how bloody ridiculous is that this GOVERNMENT Is a laughing stock

I don’t think these people have any idea what actual prisons are like....🤷🏻‍♀️

Wonder who are going to pay for this accommodation..

Just like Christmas Island

It could be a Budget Ibis.....

its only 2 weeks; toughen up. just sit on your arse and watch TV, not exactly hard.

diddums

Sad but true

Forgotten, the Chinese - Australian evacuees that spent 2 weeks on Christmas Island at the beginning v hotel rooms..

Perhaps they should put the travellers on Christmas Island & offer the 5 star luxury to health care workers isolating to protect family

At Swissotel .. are you kidding me?

Seriously 🙄

Why did I read this gobshite. I hate everyone who mistakes a luxury hotel for a prison. Astonishing.

They are wonderful people. China's fault let's blame China.

Thing I've heard most from prisoners on TV docos and the like is the worst part is losing your freedom, not being able to move around freely. Guess that's what these people are finding out

Please prison ! No one believes you. There are people without jobs and food, so suck it up and be grateful you will be cared for. Others can’t say the same.

'prison-like' conditions in a hotel, potentially with a deadly disease -GetaGrip. Of course your forced into quarantine this is what humanity have done as an effective method for centuries. You are not a victim you are being prevented from creating victims Covid19aus

They need to stop complaining they knows the virus was spreading but still chose to go on holidays now they can do as their told and stay in a 5 star hotel 😡😡😡

Ha ha ha prison like conditions!. Should of stayed abroad then winey fucks.

They should not have been sent to the five star hotel and to CBD in the first place.

So why did they come back?

I guess they've never been to a prison 🤬

Bollocks. I've stayed there and it is a gorgeous hotel, very comfortable

It’s two weeks , get over it!

Wtf were they doing going on a bloody cruise for anyway?! When did it leave Australia?

Maybe they would have preferred to be sent to Christmas Island! auspol COVID19Aus coronavirusaustralia CoronaLockdown

Prison like. What a joke

They'd rather be on Christmas Island?

The Australians who were out on Christmas Island for fourteen days complained less!

Oblivious whingers 🤬

Tell they are lucky not to be on Christmas Island LearnfromArdern

That hotel is more comfortable than my home, perhaps offer them a bag of dicks to eat?

They are being treated like criminals. How is it there fault. People need to be more sympathetic instead of blaming them for what has happened. Disgraceful. And don’t bother trying to rip in back to me cause my reply will be f**k off

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Yes looks just like a prison! Give me a break!

Nothing like entitled, exaggerating Aussie brats, considering, especially that they could’ve had ten-star luxury on Christmas Island🙄 QuarantineLife auspol

What a load of ignorant arseholes. And I’m not talking about the people in quarantine. Talking bout all these people making comments. Try putting yourself in a motel room for that time and who cares if it’s 5 star it’s still a single room with no fresh air.

They don't know whats like being in a prison🙄 if they didn't want to be in quarantine then they should have stayed in whatever country they returned from

And these people know what prison is like? 🤪

I will swap with them 😂😂😂

Of course they are😱😱

Perhaps they would like to relocate to Villawood.

That’s pathetic. People fucking whinge... about not isolating people... then they whinge about enforced isolation?

meanwhile back in reality people are living rough not knowing where their next meal may come or where they will crash from one night to the next. Or if they will be safe. Pretty sure she will be ok.

Sweet baby jeebus. You have to sit in your arse in a hotel for two weeks. That’s some people’s idea of a holiday

My heart bleeds!😂

*Rich, white & privileged

Sorry folks, not a lot of sympathy from anyone here!

Doctors don't like anything under 5 stars

.... and so is the rest of the country. Welcome to Coronavirus2020

Prisoners everywhere

Bunch of tossers! If anyone that works there reads this please stop supplying toilet paper!

It’s hard to fathom that some people have so little concern for the lives of so many others.

This hypothesis needs to be tested. Once finished their 14 days of quarantine, then, they need to spend another 14 days in Long Bay gaol. Then, and only then, can their opinion/experience be validated COVID19Aus

Pretty close, most crims have better conditions and entitlements than our elderly life long taxpayers in aged care

Homeless people should pretend to be new arrivals. 2 weeks of comfort .

Wankers!

While thousands of Aussies have lost their jobs and are about to end up on the street. This is not journalism how are we paying for garbage like this.

In Swissotel and wingeing about it. Perhaps they should have just been sent to Christmas Island detention centre.

Maybe in the court if public opinion this group of deserve to be vilified except you are all forgetting you are reading a media article. Firstly these Australians returned via the airport NOT a cruise ship. Secondly the NEW Quarantine Rules aren’t law until 11:59pm.

Can’t get fresh air, can’t go outside, no one coming to service the rooms - sounds to me like they couldn’t be trusted to self isolate anyway.

They should be grateful. Serves them right taking so long to come home and exposing themselves and others to unnecessary risk. Send them to Christmas Island if they're going to cry about it.

Why the fuck are SBS even reporting that headline? 🤦‍♂️

Then again , some people are not going to do the right thing

SBS leftists bullshit

Better than the detention camps the refugees are locked up in.

Should be

SBS and CNN must be family. 🖕🖕

Their responsibility for still deciding to go on a cruise in the middle of the pandemic.

Spare a thought for legitimate refuges then!!

My heart bleeds do the right thing people as hard at times as it is we will get through rulesfollowthem

...except it isn't really 'prison-like', is it?

A free prison with room service.

If they’d come back when the sensible crowd did they would have been self quarantined at home and be over this by now.

Yeah, we should release them so they can potentially spread the virus within the community. 🙄🙄

How dare they! 😡🤬

Maybe they should have not been reckless pricks and returned much earlier.

Most involved can get fucked. I googled Ambre Hammond, her piano is amazing, so she can get less fucked.

The same selfish people who would willingly flout quarantine rules and go out and risk infecting others

The buggers have to do the right thing for a change..

So they should, those who continued to travel after this crisis hit are criminals, a hotel is too good for them. It is travelers who are spreading this killer virus!

Should just send them to real prison 🙄

Prison Like

Age of entitlement and utter selfishness and ignorance. Send them to Christmas Island.

Pathetic wingers

Are they getting raped by their room mate or bashed?

Why wouldn't you be sympathetic .. 😂😂😂 Apparently not all rooms have views of the Sydney Harbour or ocean views.. FFS seriously.... If they don't like it send them to Silverwater supermax prison for a taste of reality

Yes security do not want them giving in to their selfish nature and running out to get their freedom I would think.

Media shouldn’t even give this air time

Truly awful

Cry me a river! They need to suck it up!

Suck it up

Five star treatment must be hard try Manus or Nauru

Prison like. It’s a five star hotel Give it a rest

Move the wingers to a Formula 1 hotel room

Boo fucking hoo

Someone take these whinging pricks a definition of quarantine. a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease. a period, originally 40 days, of detention or isolation imposed upon persons on arrival at a port when suspected of carrying some contagious disease.

🤔I suspect dropping the soap in the shower is a lot safer tho...

Good. It’s for the greater good, so suck it up and stop acting like children

Well maybe you all should have thought about coming home earlier. No empathy here! You have had plenty of time to back home.

I'd wager they disproportionately vote Greens

Have they been to prison before?

Ummm noooo... a hotel is not a prison.....

Maybe they need to see what prison is really like? Give them a choice.....

This story does my head in

Yesterday everybody was saying the cruise ship passengers got better quarantine lockup conditions than the ones who went to Christmas Island a few weeks ago. 😕

Australians are forced to pay for 3rd world quality journalism

Oh boo hoo

Oh please!

So very sad that OZ has become like this where ppl who are quarantined at no expense to them complain that they are being treated harshly. You know what is harsh? Giving ppl an illness that can kill them

Put them in a prison for a night for balance

Love the comments here. Every one deserved. Suck it up princess

Oh u poor bastards. Welcome to fifo.

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May be a 14 day hiatus on a tropical island, like Manus, Nauru or Christmas is more their style🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️Their whingeing reminds me that they most probably are entitled franking credit recipients🤬🤯 coronavirusau coronavirusaustralia CoronaLockdown SocialDistancingNow

🙄 maybe they would of preferred to remain on the boat or maybe Xmas island - it’s 14 days ffs My mother is in a nursing home and they are now in to week 2 of no visitors with no end in site and she’s complained less than this mob

14 inconvenient days to save 100s of lives. Sounds good to me

So, tell me of the brutal atrocity again....

Anyone would think they were on Christmas Island.

People are losing their livelihoods and their homes and we hear this? I feel for anyone who has to suffer COVID19 but if your needs are being taken care of right now, best not to complain

And now for another episode of “white whine”...

Because being in prison is like being in a 5 star hotel room? FirstWorldProblems CoronaLife

FFS

Can people be more pathetic, sadly yes

Privileged, self entitled snowflakes who think that ordinary life can continue in extraordinary times. Typical.

I am not sure what the problem is here. If you have CoVid 19 that's fantastic you haven't passed it on to anyone else and if you haven't thank you for being a great Australian and taking one for the team.

Oh FFS!

Have one of these whingers go to one of our prisons for a stay - hardly comparable!

I hardly think so! What a bunch of cry-babies!

Don’t give them airtime. Please.

Two words. Manus Island.

Could be worse. They could have been denied entry.

Send them to Christmas Island

F-off. DefundSBS

stop whinging least better conditions than the refugees got. I wouldn't mind living in a swish hotel for two weeks. if all travellers returning did the right thing this wouldn't have occurred.

Paint the bottom half of their windows dark blue. Voila. Now it’s the same as your fucking cruise ship.

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I’ve visited prisons and stayed in the Swissotel. They are talking shit.

'Prison-like'? In a hotel? With it's own bathroom, Tv, possibly a kitchenette? Electricity? Oh. The horror. 😑

Bad luck, they are in a nice hotel, much better than refugees. They chose to come back now, not sooner

WELL LET IT BE A LESSON FOR ALL AUSTRALIANS TO HOLIDAY IN AUSTRALIA IT'S BIG IT'S BUETIFUL AND SAFE. THE MONEY STAYS IN AUSTRALIA.

Cry me a river

...Because they’ve been to prison

FakeNews if ever there was 😒 COVID19Aus coronavirusaustralia

I'll bet few pay Australian tax, came later than they could have, endangering the country, and are still going to continue, as soon as they are allowed back to the country they came from. Those went on a cruise in the last 2 months can employ their own emotional support fuck-off

Unless they were greeted with ass rape in the showers, I highly doubt it.

Good!!!

I’ve stayed there several times and it’s very comfortable.

How many of them have actually been in prison?

Seriously? They are being quarantined and not released to potentially pass on the virus. This selfishness and sense of entitlement is beyond my comprehension.

Stop whining. No one cares.

I’m guessing they’ve never actually been in a prison......

They would be the same people who are happy to lock up refugees

Do they have mini-bars and cable TV in those cardboard boxes the homeless live in?

Stick the poor dears in immigration detention for six years then give me an update.

Going to run a funny weirdo snowflake editorial cartoon about this?

It is normally 250$ a night. Come on whingers and bludgers

These whingers can get effed. It is a fucking 5 star hotel in CBD. They should be isolated to a motel instead.

How about attacking the real problem!

Wahhhh! Not interested.

It’s Manus Island for citizens, tourists and legals.

Ummmmm Swissotel? Pretty much better than a dorm-style quarantine centre, surely?

They should be there for more than 14 days

We, taxpayer, are paying for this luxury hotel. Still complain that much?! Oh come on.

Do Australians know what their prisons are like? Not nice. swisshotel

WGAF.

Stop sensationalising the story...I arrived from O/S this morning....many people not adhering to simple instructions....so it is what it is...

Then see if can switch for Xmas Island

how about we switch them out with actual prisoners ..... and send them all into jail

The government did issue a request over a fortnight ago for all Australians to get home ASAP, people Ned to get their act together and move and act with urgency

Let me guess they're well to do types and anything less than 5 star is roughing it?

They need watch 'Midnight Express' and get a grip.

Tough shit! Get over it! It is for the protection of the MAJORITY, not snowflakes.

Well boo hoo ! An over spoilt generation I’m thinking They’ve had everything on a platter since birth

Oh diddums

I’ll happily trade with them for a week, room service and movies for two weeks signmeup

Get a grip. It’s not ‘indefinite’ and you got 3 meals a day, an en-suite and wifi.

Obviously these dickheads would be breaking quarantine without these measure based on how much they complain about having to stay inside.

Shouldn’t have flown out of the country pointy end in the first place? FlattenTheCurve

Boo fucking hoo, seriously

Must be true if sky is reporting?

The Diamond Princess was in the news weeks ago. If you go cruising during a pandemic, & have to go into isolation in a hotel, suck it up buttercup. It could be a LOT worse. Or did they think they’d be able to swan around with impunity spreading the virus?

Once I read the article, I thought they had raised some serious issues of mental health and basic facilities. Especially proper support and care for the elderly passengers. More needs to be done.

Prison is this comfy? Wow!

You are back in one of the safest countries in the world, you are alive and ... newsflash ... we ain't doing much out here in the real world anyway 👍

Keep stiring the pot

Poor babies. Take them to Christmas Island instead, ScoMo swears by it.

Swissotel Sydney is a gorgeous, 5 star hotel...

Boohoo!

For a bit of perspective....'Sick refugees who were brought to Australia for medical help have instead been detained in an inner-city hotel for months on end, in some cases not getting the treatment they need.'

How do they know what prison is like? Have they been locked up before?

Try being in offshore detention on Nauru or PNG for 6 years sheesh 🙄

Aren't we all in lock down? Aren't we all staying put for the good of others? It may not be home but I'm sure it beats being in hospital with COVID19

Do they have toilet paper, if they do, that's more than we have in our house.

Maybe they should have left them overseas

Well, sue the government, I dare you.... should’ve left you on the ship?

Should have stayed where you were then. These are the people that wouldn’t self quarantine when returning .

Poor things

Seriously Swissôtel is pretty posh!!

Yeah? Me fecking too. Except I'm not staying in a nice hotel with toilet paper & someone bringing me meals. I'm trapped in my room so I don't get sick & die. Sick of the selfish arseholes me, me, me. It's not about you.Nobody cares about the you. It's about us.Piss back off.

These people are entitled brats. Count your blessings that you're allowed to come back and you have a comfortable bed and shelter.

Regardless is. No time to complaint or winge for this lucky the governtnt is helping them no to dye and try to look decent place up sleep

As someone who has worked for correctional services and been to every prison in Queensland, you are in luxury.

Tough luck

Calling bullshit on that one. Christ. What are they expecting.

and stay there

Human rights have to be limited sometimes in the name of safety. By surrendering this freedom, a person’s life could be saved. It is good to have these Aussies home. Hopefully the hotel isn’t too stressful...

There are military barracks such as on Rottnest Island, Artillery School at North head, unused at present could be brought up to speed for quarantine & the quarantine station at north head in Sydney also.

Tell them to go back to Italy! It’s a beautiful place.

They are in a 5-star hotel. I don’t care how strict the conditions are, they’re in no position to compare it to prison!

there is always Christmas island

So what if it's like a prison. All of us need to be treated as if we're infected especially returnee international travelers. It's time to start arresting & fining non-compliance.

So what

Naw, the poor diddums

stayed there a couple of times, lock me up anytime in that place.

BAHAHAHA!!!! I've never heard a five star hotel referred to as being like a prison

I’m guessing they haven’t been to prison

Sentenced to 2 weeks in a hotel. Lol

Tough

Ummm that's what quarantine is

You should’ve been on Xmas Island or similar 🤬

Whinging never satisfied. Just shut up and accept it.

A free stay at Swissôtel Sydney? That’s some pretty swanky digs for forced quarantine! Suck it up and enjoy yourselves as much as you can...you could have been quarantined on a plague ship!

At least you are getting the best care possible. Ungrateful 🤬 Top Hotel is a hardship, can I swap with you, OMFG

Absolute crap. They are in quarantine FFS in a bloody hotel not some gulag

What? 'Prison-Like'? Maybe a couple of months on Manus would open your eyes about what is or isn't grossly inhumane and prison like? You go home at the end of 14 days or get medical treatment - WTAF

Boo-fucking-hoo

So there's bars on the windows, they're being bashed up, being fed crap? What utter rubbish.

Oh jog on you entitled twats. It must be so hard having to live in 5 star hotel quality conditions

'The main thing I am pointing out is we feel we are held here illegally. It is very intimidating. Guards are intimidating.' Mmmmm, meanwhile we want to vote for the Libs because boats Nauru and all that.

Suck it up.

Anything with Swiss in the title is aristocratic as fuck, and here it is

Let the cleansing begin

Harden up you pillocks. If you like, I will gladly buy you a big cup of perspective.

obviously never been in prison bin thier life neither have I but have been locked up over night once or a few times and have stayed in hotels no comparison idiots just looking for some me time in the media stfu

Send them to Christmas Island and then let them see prison conditions. Selfish and a first world problem. My heart bleeds for them,as if! everyonestaythefuckin

They're at a fucking hotel, I've been in prisons, they're not in prison.

bella_roozy really i wonder how many times they have stayed in prison for a comparison, dipshits.

5 star hotel prison-like conditions ? I'd give my right hand to stay in a place like that.

Stiff. Suck it up.

Tell them to shut up. They should’ve been sent to Christmas islands. And let out at Christmas, not Easter.

Drama queens. I could think of worse places to properly self isolate to save lives.

No reason to treat people like shiy

Luxury prison!! 🤔🙄😢 seriously!

This tripe is what Oz taxpayers pay for - defund the abc and sbs and see how quickly their bias becomes centred - utter bunch of dickheads the lot.

Christmas Island would be better option looks like.

At the... Swissotel?

Chinese soccer team were isolated in a Brisbane Hotel for 2 weeks..they sucked in up with no complaints. If you go cruising during a pandemic then it's not situation normal when you get home. Imagine..if you were a refugee you'd be in a mouldy tent!! CoronaLockdown

Either than or Christmas Island? Stop complaining!!

Sorry ThisIsNotJournalism

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What was wrong with them staying on the luxury cruise liner For 14 days!

On the next episode of Arrested Development...

No sympathy, sorry. Read the room.

Tough Titties! Lives matter, Govt must impliment medical recommendations. Ppl returning from OS are predominantly the carriers.

Tough shit

JohnOSullivan36 Really? Pretty sure even the shittiest hotel room is better than a prison room. What they mean is they've been denied the ability to wander around freely infecting whoever comes near them. Boo hoo.

Think about living like this everyday

HARDEN UP PRINCESSES! 😂 Why are media reporting this policy in a negative context? It’s to keep us safe!

This is why they couldn’t be trusted to self isolate. I’d like to know their original nationality for statistical purposes.

John Poole is an interesting cat 🐱 he’s 74. Has asthma. Has a heart condition. Has come from overseas. Evidently doesn’t feel he’s in the high risk category. Got news for you John, and it’s not good unfortunately old mate

Boo fkn hoo! Get over yourselves.

Don't have much sympathy. It could be much, much worse than a hotel!!

How would they know? Are they all ex-cons?

It's a 5 star hotel..fck off

Terry42580565 'Prison-like conditions'. I'm sure it is quite safe to bend over in the shower to pick up the soap.

Those that went before you caused this. Blame them.

FFS

oh well, you could always chose to die!

Put them in an actual prison for a night and see how they like it, ffs. Staying a paid for hotel for a few weeks can save lives.

Suck it up!

Sounds like they got phone and internet access, so I hope they read all these comments. I got no sympathy for their overprivilged treatment at the expense of tax payers who didnt go abroad when it was fully known a lethal virus was spreading worldwide!

I’ve been in prisons, yeah....that’s a hard no!

Bullshit!!

2 weeks, that’s it , that’s all they have to do to protect others Pathetic

These cruise ship passengers chose to continue on with their cruises, ignoring the pandemic. Do your quarantine and stay inside for everybodies sake

coronavirusau CoronaUpdate This is not pleasant for any one but we are blessed that government is paying for these facilities and there will be a pain but it is much needed for great good of community

How many? One, two, ten, all? Define prison like. Is this first hand reporting or somebody said stuff? So over all the crap!

Yep, suck it up.

They need to get over themselves we are paying for it many out here would not be able to afford to stay there.

no words

🤣🤣 give us a spell..

Be thankful you’re back home

Don’t know what they’re talking about. One of the best hotels I’ve ever stayed in.

I believe there's room on Nauru.

No fresh towels? After 3 days? The horror! There's homeless people on the streets metres away from you. FFS. These people are awful, awful.

Well diddums

Mini bar empty?

They had plenty of warning. Selfish pricks.

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Why are they being quarantined in 5 ⭐️ hotels? Taxpayers are paying for this 🤦‍♀️Why not cheaper ones and use the money saved to provide wage subsidies to workers who lost their jobs to this pandemic. Another cluster %*! decision of this administration GladysB ScottMorrisonMP

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Do you cage deer because a lion might get him ? Of course not . Einstein said questions are more important than a answers. So perhaps it’s time to stop being meek & ask why the detainment of all when the prediction ( only , not actual) is no worse than seasonal flu

I be the Homeless Australians would love to be housed in Hotels. I bet the Military in the bush, or around the world, would think the Hotels, were 5 star, compared to slogging it out in the bush/deserts. Stop pushing the agendas. It's sick!

The comments here are awful 😳 of course they should be allowed access to fresh air, just like the rest of us. 14 days in a hotel room with no open Windows is horrendous. Fear brings true colours our

I've stayed at the Swissotel in Sydney. It's a fabulous hotel.

Rubbish! How many stars do the hotels have?

they’ll cope

Refugees have been kept like this for months here in Australia

Oh those poor entitled people with so much privilege. How will they every survive? I'm sure a tonne of women currently on remand for unpaid fines who are at an elevated risk of Covid_19 would be more than happy to swap!!

According to : The prevention & control of infection centre Swine flu killed once between 150.000 - 500.000 odd. Same as seasonal flu . That’s a lot of people dying from seasonal flu you cry . But there’s a lot of people in ill health that are vulnerable . That’s nature .

Better than a box 6x2

More evidence of a correct decision never to go on a cruise, assholes like these.

Here’s another idea, don’t come home.

Poor bastards...kept in a classy hotel, fed well...I can only imagine their distress 😆

If Swissotel is prison, what would they think of Manus Island or Nauru?

Hope they get a nasty bill from our government for there free accommodation

“He said the eight security personnel outside his room meant he was not able to leave the room he is sharing with his wife. Mr Poole's wife, Cathy, says the situation is intolerable.” It’s clear they think it’s prison because they’re stuck with each other! 🤣 CoronaLockdown

Better than dropping dead or infecting 3 then 9, 27 etc and them dying

Get over yourselves - there are people sleeping on the streets with nothing to eat -

Desperate measures for desperate times. Those who have come before have ignored the rules. That cannot continue.

I've said it before if I have to self isolate for months for immune issues because of travellers bringing this nightmare to us they can self isolate for days.

250.000 to 500.000 die from seasonal flu every year . The stats being used to contain a virus not actually out of control are done by cold computers. Swine flu, according to google was no worse that seasonal flu . All this for what ‘could ‘ happen ( that never has)

Put them in Singleton and move the military to luxury hotels. Far more deserving.

Hahaha prison

Surely, Swissotel is better than their tiny shoeboxes. Whingers nation!

Maybe should send them to a real prison instead if they think this is so bad, soap to drop supplied on entry

😂 ur kidding me 2 weeks in a luxury hotel

已经很好了，还不知足

Please get over it for the sake of the other 25 mil Aussies.

Prison my arse - bunch of whingeing cxxts

Thoughts and fucking prayers

Ahahahahaha. Sure looks like it, you poor things. Now that's what I call sacrifice for your fellow Australians COVID19au Lockdownaustralia socialisolation CoronaLockdown auspol

No comment just look at my location. At least you are home

Oh Boo Hoo. they would rather be free to walk around with it and spread it. Wankers.

How about they rejoice at being on home soil than living in a 5 ⭐️ hotel at our expense to protect everyone? Free room, free internet, free food, as opposed to going home and being locked in instead.

Well they could go to Christmas Island, plenty of fresh air there !

My goodness - it can be so embarrassing to be an Aussie. It seems our adversity tolerance limit is approximately 12 hours. The legend of Australians being as tough as nails is really taking a hammering at the moment.

Unless they have been to prison I call BS. And as I have stayed in a broad range of accommodation and also been in prison I call double BS.

They are lucky to be put up in a decent hotel and we are all lucky also to be protected from them. Think of the poorer countries like India, Indonesia and the Philippines who couldn’t possibly do this. So harden up and enjoy your stay!

Character building for the privileged wankers.

Thank those before you who wouldn't do the right thing

lol fuck those people

I just closed down my business and am trying to work out how to pay my rent and feed my family. Pls let my family isolate in a hotel for the next few weeks.

Perhaps they should be grateful they weren’t sent to Christmas Island like the first wave?

I'm sure Julian Assange would disagree

Move those whining idiots to a caravan park

You know what's difficult... breathing when your lungs are full of infection.

Are they allowed a day pass for a haircut?

Well it is the idiots who went skiing in Colorado and refused to self isolate for 14 days and caused an avalanche of cases in Sorrento who are to blame for lack of trust. This is the only way the governments can protect people old and YOUNG

Oh SBS shame on you for this headline. When is a 5 star hotel in the centre of the CBD a prison?

I’d be wary of media playing this up.

I don’t think they’re being treated like criminals!

Who cares it’s for the safety of all

Ungrateful pricks....this is what a prison looks like.

All these People should be on Christmas Island and NO BOATS SHOULD BE UNLOADED IN AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺

42 year Amber is exactly the type of person who wouldn't have self isolated and why this measure is now in place

Good news

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That’s what quarantine is! I suppose those complaining are having just a taste of life in a detention centre! Dutton stopped those boats but couldn’t stop a cruise ship, an actual threat!

What a load of crap. So they have to piss in a bucket, get assaulted by guards and be not allowed to contact loved ones by phone? They're forced to share underwear? They can only have movement for an hour a day? They get fed inedible food?

pretty sure it would be far better than christmas island or actual prison

Hmmmmm, sounds like some of these people would not have isolated if left to their own devices.

Yeah right all the homeless Australians really feel for you. Do the right thing flew out the window so take one for the team relax enjoy the wifi and tv. Better than being in some foreign sh.. hole?

A hotel room is better then being a family in a funeral parlour.

Stop whining

Perhaps they'd feel more comfortable on Christmas Island?

Problem is: passengers have been put in a hotel that have permanent residents - many who are vulnerable! This is idiotic. The Aus gov LiberalAus should’ve taken over an empty hotel & made it solely, strictly for quarantining people arriving from overseas. healthgovau COVID19

GOOD!

It's that or Christmas Island. Thank the 'wealthy wannabes' from VIC that didn't self isolate & spread it in Aspen & thought it was ok to go shopping in the Mornington Peninsula when they returned home during their 14 day Qaurentine.

Boo hoo

What is wrong with these people? So selfish and lack of empathy for all those who are in hospitals infected with the virus 😡

Suck it up us dickheads

Would they prefer Christmas Island?

Are our taxes covering the mini bar?

What a load of pricks, everyone knew cruise ships were Petri dishes with ones in Japan etc and now they are complaining. FFS people are beyond are joke

Just be thankful you’ve been allowed to return and 14 days in the luxury “Swissotel” Prison you’ll be allowed home.

Planes should have been diverted to Darwin and locked them up in the old miners camp. FFS!

Well, better prison like conditions in a nice hotel than spread the virus.

😂😂😂

If 14 days in the Swissotel is the worst thing that ever happens to them, they are very, very lucky people.

HooncheeW Do they need to have a chat to those who were forced onto Christmas Island 🙄🙄

Did I miss something? She’d rather go home and potentially risk infecting her daughter and maybe others?

Im calling bullshit. I know that hotel

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Ya know what ambrepiano, I think you need to reassess your life outlook, because my tax payer dollars have you staying in a f’ing luxury hotel. I stayed there. It’s super nice! If prison were that nice then I would be there for a bloody holiday. Let the trolling begin...

The prison like conditions of having, 4 walls, a ceiling and one door that you're not allowed to open. But that's the only 'like' conditions between the two

So Nauru it is

+ Oh please, have you seen the rooms at the swissotel - stunning! Think about those returing from China who were sent to Christmas Island.

Prison Like………….in a Hotel, staying at no cost………give us a break.

Send them to Christmas island NOW

Boo Hoo

Hey, there are good rooms and medical situation on Manus Island that would give them more freedom? Ask Qantas to fly them back and forth for some of the 800 million the govt. gave the airline. QuarantineLife RubyPrincess RubyDutton

Are these people tripping, people in 2020 - an jail today have tv toilet & paper, sink water jug radio bed an chair , Sydney Hotel much better but like others said should of gone straight to Christmas Island with doctors an nurses

Lol

They should be in quarantine on Christmas Island, not in the Swissotel on Market Street Sydney.

My heart bleeds for them. Not!

You are being asked to do a small something to help the vulnerable members of the community. 2 weeks or dead forever. Think about other people first please. Plus you are in a hotel with all the mod cons and not in a detention centre or a real jail.

Well, maybe they could sit and count their franking credits to pass time. 😷

Was their soy latte a bit cold? I know, that can be intolerable...

Oh, diddums

I cannot believe that someone has guts to complaint about it? 14 days to sit inside a luxurious room and do nothing all day is a small price to pay towards helping our most vulnerable or not so vulnerable. They should seal borders completely so the people who complain stay out

'We could upgrade you to our Christmas Island suites for no extra charge. Whole island practically to yourself'

Suck it up for two weeks surely no that hard? Think of others and stop complaining!

Boo hoo! Lucky you are not out in the street in a foreign country

Excellent!

Yeah... Pls update how many of these people test positive for covid19.

MiloWh007 Oh well they could always use a coffin and see if that's a better option

Lol I’m 5 star hotels for free. If they didn’t want quarantine then don’t come home

There’s plenty of room at Christmas Island.

I’ve stayed there. It was lovely and spacious!

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It’s a 4 Star Hotel FFS! 🤬🤬🤬

Imagine being in indefinite detention. Self entitled much. 14 days. Suck it up

What a tough life these poor little precious things have eh?

lynlinking Tough titties

WJGunning I remember my in-laws relating to me similar situations in Warsaw and Vienna in the early 1930's. But they were moved on after while by train....not to isolation🇦🇺

Better than the conditions in most homes I wager 🤷‍♀️

Sounds like luxury compared to some of our students returning to Vietnam quarantine camps. Trying to continue course sitting on ground..

What, prefer something like Christmas Island?

How do they all know what prison is like?

Now that’s a prison I would happily be “forced” to stay in for 2 weeks... hopefully near the top floor.

Well, there are people who are still confined in actual prisons during the pandemic. Should I trigger your little entitled imagination and mention those combined in torture Chambers, since long before the pandemic!

Just returned to Brisbane from USA yesterday. Spent my own cash on a hotel for 21 days just to be on the safe side. My elderly parents live a few minutes away. Tiny room, no fresh air. Glad to do it! auspol Australia COVID19 australialockdown

I think they’d be some people in aged care facilities who would sway with them.

Tough shit

People who think this is OK would have cheered on Hitler

Suffer in your jocks

Making me want to vomit, put who ever complained in to an actual jail cell

What a sour and bitter lot of comments. Prisoners in conventional gaols are allowed outdoor exercise, the corridors are not littered, they have limited communication with society. Some weird and divisive envy thing going on here.

Just let the whingers know living in a prison better than living in a coffin covid19australia

What did the motels strip their rooms of bed linen, furniture, fridges and curtains

Wow..... just wow..... the entitlement can actually be felt through the story..... she’ll be bellowing “what about me.....” soon. So selfish. Wasn’t too worried about leaving her 17year old at home while she was off travelling 😡

Christmas Island would have been a much better option, except in the city based hotels, it maintained a few local jobs.

Give me a fucking break.

You are lucky to have time duration for 14 days, unlike some of us being detained indefinitely for years without hope of being released to the community, at detention centre.

Staying in a hotel room for 14 days for the safety of our community is like prison? 🙄

Plenty of room in Christmas Island!! & it would cost less than paying for a Hotel. Wait. Who owns that hotel? Is it owned by a friend of a Lib in Power's cousin 🙄

Wrong. Prison like conditions in Australia still sees prisoners at risk of being exposed to the virus. If these tourists didn't catch it OS, then they're safe, fed and with free wifi for 2 wks.

Ha ha ha ha.. Prisonlike....... Xmas island instead perhaps

Could we pop them in prison for the balance of their time, just to tie a bow on this narrative of theirs?

We’re all called to step up and take a bit of pain for the good of our community. Many people are a lot worse off.

ByClare 🙄🙄🙄

too bad so sad!

We can send them to Christmas Island if they like.

These people would not do very well in an actually prison.

My heart Bleeding Everywhere For them.... Literally Auschwitz

Definitely no communal showers 😊.... how can we possibly take the media seriously when we are subjected to this type of reporting.

I cn unserstnd feeling distressed bout not getting access to some fresh air, but apart from that, you're in quarantine so no - you can't leave your room.

I saw one bloke complaining about it on ABC TV, and he left Australia on 28 February. Are these people stupid?

Will request a transfer to Christmas Island… Idiots.

Next lot, Army Tents in the middle of a sports ground. Shower one a time, two peices of shitter paper.

Do you have to have a Boarding pass? I’d love to go for 2 week staycation! Would save on groceries too!

It would not be pleasant I agree. I hate hotel rooms at the best of times, and no opening windows BUT, this is meant to be strict quarantine, has to happen, and they left to go on a cruise during a pandemic , soooooo .......

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Please.. you're hardly being 'treated like criminals' in a five star hotel. Most of us are in isolation, let's be patient and band together, as a community, until the worse of it passes. at least you have TOILET PAPER, lovely shelter, room service and internet. LUXURY!

Should not have been allowed back into the country in the first place! The borders we’re supposedly closed weeks ago, so why is Australia allowing contaminated people in 😡

If the case, highlights we have plenty of precious types & narcissists living in our midst. The reality check they will need. For the record, I really don't care what they think because it's Australia 1st & foremost, not their precious ego.

Poor things - such terrible living conditions they are forced to endure! Stop complaining & save the rest of the population from whatever virus you might have brought back with you 🦠

Meh....

Wish I got to live in one of those 5 star prisons

Boo fkn hoo

Same people who don't give a crap about Julian Assange.

Might as well send them off to Long Bay then. Would cost us a lot less for the same result.

Jesus people, it doesn’t matter how fancy the hotel they’re in. What matters is the way in which they’re treated. If you you leftists I am very disappointed in you. I’m a socialist, we care about all people. That’s why we fight against injustice.

Oh BOOf*%kinHOO. My HEART BLEEDS. 🤮

TBF non-quarantined passengers should been moved to another hotel.But swissotelICU ward and at least you won't run out of toilet paper

Given the circumstances, Please don't complain. You were asked/advised weeks ago NOT to travel, but you did anyway.

I feel for amber, two weeks being waited on in a nice hotel I hope she makes it

That’s what happens when you still go on your cruise during a global pandemic

Wouldn’t Christmas Island be a better choice for them, like the first plane load the govt evacuated from Wuhan? Or they can talked ScotMo into letting them use the Lodge....

Can i go to that prison. I tried Pentridge for a few weeks 50 years ago. Didnt like the food. Or shitting in public. Maybe she should make a break for freedom. Cure the boredom then see a real prison

Which other country would you rather been quarantined in than Australia? China? (Crematories) Iran? (Mass graves). I believe these people have it pretty bloody good in hotel rooms considering. WuhanFlu

Could be in an open stadium on a camp bed..... Food for thought.

poor dears 😏🙄

People knew things were worsening for sometime and tried to beat the system. They are lucky they are in a 5 star hotel. They should be in a military barracks

We pay for this shit reporting?

Oh that does not sound good. Doesn’t surprise me with the NSW police/ADF. Too early to tell but they may be treated about the same as asylum seekers.

How many times have these people been in prison, to make the comparison

They should get a prison sentence for complaining and wanting to endanger the country.

It's unfortunate people find themselves in this situation; however many who would follow the quarantine requirements to the letter have to submit to this because a number of others have not taken the requirements seriously. Covid_19australia Quarantine

Unbelievable , this people make me sick. Room service too, probably even get free access to the mini bar.

So are the rest of us 🤦‍♀️

At this point in time it will be very hard to garner any sympathy. Stop, breathe and be grateful you are here and not Italy, Spain, China, USA, Indonesia, etc etc etc

1 - the Sofitel or Swiss Hotel is far from a prison. 2 - they had enough warning to get back to Australia before this.

Toughen up,it's two weeks,your being fed,clothed and housed and no one's cutting off your heads.!

Those incarcerated would I imagine gladly trade places. The forced isolation is for their own safety as much as it is for everyone else.

Better to be living in prison like conditions than risk others to the morgue. Talk about selfish!?

Good. It won't spread then.

What about quarantine and check all hostels ?

Not an Australian prison

Only 1 bloody day in Isolation in a 5 Star Resort & these Rich White Aussies are already whinging Your're Govt has Kept & Tortured me in ArbitraryDetention since 20 fucking 16 Youz ignored our sufferings, coz we weren't White Well guess what coronavirus doesn't discriminate

They can be relocated to Christmas Island if they prefer.

What an entitled tw

How does the air conditioning in these hotels work? How likely is it that it will spread the virus, and result in COVID-19 infections amongst guests and staff? What measures have been implemented for prevention?

You know where else you don't get fresh air? Hospital.

Care factor zero. It’s 14 days in a hotel room with free food, potentially saving many lives....versus a lot of people getting sick with some dying unnecessarily......get over yourselves!

It’s for 2 weeks .They’ll manage .Wouldn’t have done well as a POW . May be they would rather be in ICU with a tube down their throat and sedated . Or too old even to consider intervention . It will be difficult but you’ll survive .

Perhaps they’d prefer Xmas island. You know, the one that is a detention centre. The one that only those evacuated from China were sent

Too bad. Suck it up.

A most difficult time indeed - the alternative is being left on a ship indefinitely, or until you die. Whichever is first.

Well there was the Christmas Island option available to them. The poor dears. Once stayed in the Hotel pictured and it was tough counting those five stars. Go easy on the bar fridge the tax payers will not want to fuel your addiction.

A bunch of wingers, I'll swap them my digs for 2wks at the Swisshotel or the Grace Hotel.

Yep it's called quanteen 👍

manus nauru If you voted Liberal, suck it up.

4 fuck sake suck it up butter cup

prison like conditions!! i should be so lucky, give me a 5 star hotel and peace and quiet over 3 cabin fever children and an angry wife any day 🤣CoronaLockdown auspol

Fine. Send them to a detention camp then.

lynlinking I don’t think they’re going to get much sympathy...

And meals are paid for

I imagine if you were stuck in a room with no balcony or window that opened for a fortnight it wouldn’t be much fun, especially if you’re claustrophobic, but apart from that it’s very comfy.

Her name is Ambre Hammond, not Amber. To get a perspective on things, perhaps ambrepiano needs to visit a real prison, once she gets out of the Swissotel 'prison'. After reading about her complaints, I doubt that many people will be buying her album.

whogivesacrap

Oh buck up mates

Ewwwww, mixing with the little people, must be terrible for them.

Perhaps the complainers need to be silent as their words indicate they have no concept of what prison is like and either don’t recognize or don’t care about their responsibility to the nation to keep doctors, nurses and the Australian people safe.

Maybe Christmas Island will suit them better...bigger space. BTW, apparently they are not complaining about the hotel but that they can't go out no matter what ... Well, isn't that the whole point of quarantine!!!!

Didums Boo Boo, maybe the homeless who live out the back of the place report in as saying they have it and were told to Quarantine there for 28 days as they had the previously suspected strain COVID 19 (BS) strain

More selfish people... annoying.

This’s what happens when few don’t listen and stay at home as they are told.

MiloWh007 Good

Boo fkn hoo, go to Christmas Island then if 5 star isn't good enough.

Get on a fucken cruise ship after a pandemic is called, you can suck it up

Probably the same people who support mandatory detention of asylum seekers - for years, not two weeks.

I’m sure it’s not ideal, but if only they had the self awareness to realise how they sound when they complain.

Are they getting gang raped in the showers by the bellboy and the concierge?

You cant have it both ways, no matter the argument, stupid media jump on any and everything. Shangri la was a prison.

Shh and see you in 14 days

I'll be the first to put up my hand to stay in that prison for two weeks, pretty please. 😂

lynlinking Maybe they would have preferred it here. I’ve heard it’s very nice and lots of space to walk around

Must be a sign of the times. Wonder if anyone commenting here read the article before they went into full condemnation mode? Since when are people who go on a cruise 'wealthy' or 'entitled'? Fresh air and exercise are the main issues it seems. Be fair.

Thoughts & prayers

Why not Christmas Island?

Get bent and stay there

JohnOSullivan36 They’re in a f*cking hotel. I’ve been in jail. They can shut up because they have NO idea.

Yes it will seem that way because earlier arrivals proved unable to self isolate and still majority of infections are coming from arrivals into the country. Get a grip SBSNews... this is the new paradigm of biosecurity!!

THIS IS WHAT SHOULD OF HAPPENED MONTHS AGO!

The interests of the elderly people who live in the building are in conflict with the quarantined people wanting to go out for air. It’s life and death.

Just reading that intro, I am reminded of that time when I complained about a conference in a hotel where they served only fancy gourmet food three meals a day. At the end of the conference several of us went down town and had KFC. What do they mean 'prison-like'?

Boo hoo to them shouldn't of left the country with all of the warnings.

wow people living in a hotel think life is hard... GTFOH

The self absorbed wealthy privilege of these people is very obvious. The shock that they have to be quarantined like a regular person 😱

for 14 days. Diddums. Just shut up and stay there.

Add to the list of things we should have started 3 or 4 weeks sooner.

They are not criminals. They are being protected by the Government. It is for everyone's benefit.

And you reporting that as news or opinion?

Everyone gets to experience life as a refugee in Australia

No sense of 'doing it for the greater good'. And it's only for a couple of weeks anyway. And 'prision-like' conditions? Doubt it.

They were told this would happen if they went on holiday during a pandemic and did it anyway.

This aint it

Suck it up Would they prefer Christmas Island?

Its your choice

Evidently they’ve never been in prison

For me its ok I can save myself from others and others from me 🥰 StayHomeSaveLives

Obviously they’ve ever been in prison...

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