Spring Festival is once more approaching. But we’re still not out of the woods with COVID, and for many, the normal big family get-togethers might be disrupted. For international arrivals unable to leave quarantine on New Year’s Eve, hotels are stepping up to the plate with creative solutions.
The table is groaning with luxurious dishes. The family gathering for a big New Year’s Eve dinner is an annual tradition. But the new variants of the coronavirus could put a brake on big gatherings for a second year running.
Hotels are having to find flexible solutions. Here they’re offering individual New Year’s dinner deliveries and takeaway boxes. Travelers who stay here for their quarantine can enjoy the exact same meal as their families in far places, and connect online.
Lin Kuo-wei
Marketing director
What we know now is that it’s hard to even get a booking in a quarantine hotel. Lots of people may be forced to spend New Year alone in a hotel.
But travelers can enjoy exactly the same New Year’s spread as their family, in individual portions.
Chen Kun-huang
Chef
The theme this year is none other than bringing the four seafood delicacies – abalone, sea cucumber, shark fin and fish maw – into our menu.
The hotel says that New Year takeaway bookings have soared in recent days. Bookings are 50% higher than they were this time last year. Lots of people are thinking ahead to New Year and planning their get-togethers early. And with COVID still in the picture, businesses have got to get creative.
