29 Sep 2022

Jet Park hotel reopens after years as Covid isolation facility

From Checkpoint, 5:38 pm on 29 September 2022

After two years behind fences and barbed wire, one of the country's most famous hotels is getting ready to re-open its doors this Friday.

Covid made Auckland's Jet Park Hotel popular not with the usual airport guests but with those ill with the virus, needing to isolate.

The Managed Isolation Facility housed Covid positive patients and their families for at least 14 days, but some stayed even longer. RNZ reporter Rayssa Almeida went inside the newly renovated hotel to look at the transformation.