Hope all provinces drop it down to 7 days of hotel quarantine for entering the country. Two years ago I went through 14 days of misery in what is arguably the worst hotel in Zhengzhou (because Air China cancelled the direct route to PEK and sent us to Zhengzhou instead), and I had to PAY about $500 for the privilege of staying there (couldn't pick the hotel I was sent to), and the quarantine room rate was much higher than the normal room rate I checked on trip.com. There was a roach infestation in the bathroom (other rooms reported roaches too), everything in the room was dirty (nasty carpeted floors), no amenities, AC didn't work, wifi was terrible, no "view" to speak of at all, and the air pollution was punishing (though not the fault of the hotel)... at least the 3 meals a day weren't bad. My colleagues who managed to fly directly into Beijing got put into hotel rooms that were at least clean and didn't have a pest problem. One of them even got a a nice big suite. I also saw my friend who entered Singapore and quarantined for 14 nights at the f**king Shangri La Sentosa Resort and only paid about $2000 for a nice ... room, 3 meals a day, and had a beachfront view with a balcony that she was allowed to use.I had wondered why the local government would commandeer a hotel in such poor condition for their centralized hotel quarantine program...maybe the owner had some friends in the Party, or maybe Zhengzhou just sucks.

After 14 nights being pissed off and living in less than desirable hotel conditions, I "checked out" of the hotel in the morning of my 15th day and told them the hotel is not sanitary due to the roach infestation. Actually, we were allowed to leave at midnight after the 14th night, and I saw in the quarantine group chat that some guests were leaving immediately to the JW Marriott Zhengzhou because they hated their time in quarantine so much and couldn't stand one more sleep in the hotel. Yet the JW staff gave them a hassle even though they got the quarantine completion certificates and negative PRC test. In the case for the rest of us who didn't immediately jump ship, Air China had a bus for us leaving to the Zhengzhou airport at 7 AM...where we would wait around for a 5 PM flight to Beijing... no thank you. I left for BJ via HSR in the early morning, and enjoyed an excellent and affordable business class train journey. Then I chose to spend 7 nights at the St Regis BJ for "health monitoring" (not quarantined, it was an additional requirement for me in my situ.) and to regain sanity that was stolen away from me by the 郑州大酒店 (Zhengzhou Grand Hotel). Good riddance.