Originally Posted by narvik

Unfortunately it appears to be a matter of the remaining available hotels being mostly 'booked out', i.e. they limit the amount of people doing +7 quarantine at each hotel (used to be 30/hotel I think, maybe even less?).
Just checked with the hotel I stayed at back in November 2021, and they're now booked out until March.

Had friend call, and this hotel is okay to book RIGHT NOW (see *):
****HOTEL INFO SENT VIA PM***

NOTE *:
IIRC, your last day of quarantine is going to be EXACTLY on CNY and all hotels will be booked out!!!
Also: it's NOT the same as before; you are now required to STAY IN YOUR ROOM the whole time, but can order food from outside. NO HOTEL RESTAURANT visits are allowed, no going outside.

Hope you see this SOON, as this availability might be gone even as fast as later on today.....