Pool, books or buffet: Limited options in Tenerife's locked down hotel

A woman plays with a child on the hotel terrace in H10 Costa Adeje Palace, which is on lockdown after novel coronavirus has been confirmed in Adeje, on the Spanish island of Tenerife, Spain, February 27, 2020. REUTERS/Borja Suarez

TENERIFE, Spain (Reuters) - At first glance, the hotel looks like any other. It bustles with holidaymakers choosing their food and drink from the buffet while others bag sunloungers by the pool.

Only the protective masks give a glimpse of how unreal life has already become for the 700-plus guests in Tenerife's H10 Costa Adeje Palace Hotel on the third day of its lockdown after four cases of coronavirus were detected there.