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Two weeks ago, New York’s luxury Four Seasons Hotel announced that it would allow medical staff to stay for free as they tackle the coronavirus pandemic. Since then, the Midtown hotel has had a sometimes-heartbreaking battle to transform itself from a luxe hotel — beloved by Jennifer Aniston, for whom it has been a home …
Two weeks ago, New York’s luxury Four Seasons Hotel announced that it would allow medical staff to stay for free as they tackle the coronavirus pandemic.
Since then, the Midtown hotel has had a sometimes-heartbreaking battle to transform itself from a luxe hotel — beloved by Jennifer Aniston, for whom it has been a home away from home, and Lionel Richie, among other stars — into a makeshift barracks for those fighting on the front lines of the outbreak.
We’re told that after the hotel made the announcement, there was an immediate deluge of applications from medical workers.
Page Six received an impassioned plea from a nurse asking for help to get a room at the hotel — since she was desperate to isolate from her family, whom she was scared of infecting. She told us some of her colleagues were even sleeping in cars to keep their loved ones safe.
Other hotel insiders told us that they had received thousands of requests for rooms, and some medical workers had literally shown up on the doorstep hoping for a place to stay.
The hotel staff told us that there was a delay in admitting guests in order to first set up a system per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s safety guidelines.
They hired Dr. Robert L. Quigley, of medical services firm International SOS, to “adapt and implement the CDC’s stringent policies and advisories to an urban hotel operation,” one insider told us.
The hotel was told that it was only safe to use 225 of its 360 rooms, and that it should check in only 25 people per day. Staff expects to have all of those rooms filled by the end of this week. We’re told that everyone coming into the 57th Street building is screened, with staff taking each person’s temperature and asking questions about their health. After guests check out, their rooms are left empty for three days, then deep cleaned and disinfected.
Owner Ty Warner is footing the bill for the whole operation. He told us, “I’m gratified everyone associated with the hotel was able to pull together and do something that’s never been done before, especially under such challenging circumstances.”
