The Munich district court had to deal with the question of whether an officially ordered hotel quarantine constitutes a travel deficiency within the meaning of package travel law. No, the judges ruled, dismissing a couple's lawsuit.
They had booked a package tour to Cyprus in January 2020, i.e. before the start of the corona pandemic in Europe. They started on March 8, 2020, but then events gradually took their course. Two days after landing there was the first bad news, because one person who was in the tour operator's group fell ill with Corona. As a result, all were quarantined until March 24, 2020.
The tour operator is said to have paid for the catering costs and also assumed the costs for two more overnight stays, which were necessary due to the official quarantine order. But that was not enough for the holidaymakers, because they legally demanded the full reimbursement of the travel price.
The Munich District Court dismissed the lawsuit, arguing that the quarantine ordered by the authorities was outside the tour operator's sphere of influence. It is a risk that is personally to be blamed on the travelers and could have affected them in a comparable way at any time in everyday life in Germany. According to the Munich District Court, an official quarantine order does not constitute a travel defect.