Can you imagine walking up to the hotel desk on the last day of a trip to check out, only to be told by the hotel staff that not only will you be unable to check out, but you are going to be quarantined in the hotel for the next seven days?  While this might sound like something that you would see in an episode of The Twilight Zone, this scenario has become a reality for around three hundred and fifty guest of a hotel in Hong Kong.

On Friday, the government of Hong Kong made the decision to quarantine all the guests of the Metropark Hotel (which is a four-star hotel that is frequented by tourists and business travelers).  The reason that the government made this decision is because they confirmed that a guest of the hotel had the swine flu virus.  The guest was from Mexico, and this became the first confirmed case of swine flu in Hong Kong.

After the quarantine was imposed, doctors were sent in to check all of the other guests, as well as providing them with doses of Tamiflu.  While the guests can go wherever they want within the hotel, under no means will they be able to go outside during the course of the quarantine.

Although this is obviously a very serious decision and issue, there is one humorous element to this story.  For whatever reason, the Hong Kong government decided that the guests would appreciate being sent fruit baskets, chocolates and Calvin Klein underwear during the course of their time under quarantine!