mattwnz:
sbiddle:
And as predicted MIQ is just becoming a total lottery. Looking this morning there are now 3 night available until the end of May (1st April, 25th April and 23rd May a matter of days after this became available). It's gonna be a total shambles in the 2nd half of this year as people start traveling again.
Are people going to start travelling in the second half of this year? I though NZs borders are going to be closed for the rest of the year. Except for maybe an NZ - OZ bubble. Until NZ has immunity I can't see how travel is possible, and as are vaccination program looks to be behind other countries, I can't see much travel occurring for a long time yet
As the rest of the world potentially starts to open up from the middle of the year or so then more people are going to travel and that's simply going to make the MIQ situation far worse. I already know people who have been through MIQ multiple times.
The problem we have with a bubble with Aussie (if it does happens) is that Australia is going to probably be opening it's borders well before us since they plan to have their vaccination rollout complete by September or October whereas NZ is due to be complete by April 2022. What happens if Aussie starts letting people in again later this year (which is a rough timeframer they're talking about) whereas we're still closed up until 1st July 2022? Do we then need to suspend the bubble due to the risk it poses?