How COVID Could Change the Way Australians Think About Hotels Many five-star big-name hotels have been turned into quarantine facilities, which may disabuse future hotel guests of their notions of luxury. In Australia, New Zealand and around the world, COVID has turned luxury and semi-luxury hotels into quarantine facilities. Among the four and five-star hotels reported as having been used for temporary detention are Sydney’s Intercontinental, Marriott, Hyatt Regency, Sheraton Grand, Sofitel Wentworth and Novotel Darling Harbour; Auckland’s Rydges, Crowne Plaza, Grand Millennium, Four Points by Sheraton and Ramada; and Melbourne’s Stamford Plaza, Mercure, Park Royal and Rydges on Swanston.