A bit more detail about the process I was subjected to getting into BNE.
Obviously it would vary, particularly by state.You need your PCR COVID test and your Federal inbound travel declaration to checkin, but I wasn't asked for either on arrival. The important piece of extra doco seems to be anything your state requires, which varies.
QR landed 22:12, about 40 minutes late. Bit of a taxi to the gate from the new runway, and about a 10 minute delay on the aircraft while they got the gate into position and played a narky announcement about quaro.
Off the aircraft...
1. temperature check and ask for symptoms. Different process no doubt if you have any.
2. Qld Health QR code scanner, I waved a printout and got to bypass this, which got me front of queue.
3. duty free - gone. Buy before you fly!
4. immigration desk before baggage claim. usual arrivals card. Temporary counters before baggage. e-gates are gone.
5. baggage off carousel as usual
6. AQIS as usual.
7. exit left to Quarantine Registration desk at end of terminal, not straight ahead the old way. Manned by QPS. Here you provide passport and your Qld entry QR code, and you are given your direction to Quarantine and told your hotel. It's formally read out to you and they email it to you. This is when the clock starts for your 14 days of lawful custody. (IIRC the timing of release varies by state). You also get a form to complete for hotel reception.
8. Qld Health desk. Got some more leaflets here, but that's all. There might be a process here for people with special needs.
9. Waiting areas for buses. QPS assign you to an area that matches your Quaro hotel, or possibly to your bus. BTW, the Police were great, friendly and sympathetic all the way.
10. Called to bus, bags are loaded by ADF, then one to a seat pair if you are on your own.
I was among the first through, onto the first bus and it was just under an hour from touchdown to direction time, and about another hour from direction to bus departure.
11. Bus with QPS escort to hotel. In my case Rydges in the Valley. Possibly not the shortest of short straws but definitely not the longest!
12. Not your regular hotel checkin. Bus arrives, ADF unload and guard bags. Pass the completed checkin forms to QPS (who are everywhere) at front of bus. They call out names and people exit one by one, room key given on way out, collect bags and proceed to lift queue, which is kept short.
13. Ride the lift, signposted 'red zone', to your floor, where you are escorted by QPS who open your room. The room key goes in the usual slot for power, it doesn't open your door. It doesn't need to!
14... days of four small walls. If you're on your own, suspect you're pretty well guaranteed a basic room.
The lift was the slow point, one red zone lift, one PAX each time (two if together), and hotel checkin was the slowest process. I was the last called off the first bus, about 45 minutes after arrival at the hotel. There were four buses.
cheers skip
