London Olympics
Feb 7th, 2012, 09:46 AM
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London Olympics
We are going to London the end of June, beginning of July and I am having a hard time finding hotels with availability. New went last year and didn't book until the end of March. Bim thinking with the Olympics starting there in summer it might be "crazy busy.". We've noticed some places that are available are much more pricier than what we paid last year. I guess I'm wondering when the city will start to get busy with all of the activity. Maybe we'll skip London this year. We are also planning on Paris and Amsterdam, so we'll have to figure it out. Thanks in advance.
Feb 7th, 2012, 10:21 AM
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It's difficult to forecast all this.
All inbound real-people bookings for this summer in London are substantially down - as everyone knew they'd be, including the Olympic groupies who just ignored the fact when they burbled on about how wonderful all these table-tennis games were going to be. But there's a huge block of hotel rooms allocated from late June for IOC hangers-on (the fat scum too idle to get a tube and so up themselves they think they're entitled to their own private road lanes, just like the Communist dictators they wish they'd had a chance to be).
No-one knows whether this shower will have the energy to actually turn up. But it's virtually certain that at some point a lot of the rooms will be released, and the hotels will realise this circus is putting real visitors off, so they'll discount heavily.
When? No idea. If you book now, you'll probably be locked into a crippling rate. Wait till, say, April or May and you'll probably get terrific bargains as well as an almost empty tourist London, since the few visitors we'll get will be miles away watching Nicaraguans do synchronised swimming.
You have to decide whether to bet I'm right or the Olympic boosters. And I don't have to put my money where my opinions are. Nor of course do all the people getting paid to tell us outright lies about how this pointless exercise in gratifying global bureaucrats is going to transform our economy for the better
All inbound real-people bookings for this summer in London are substantially down - as everyone knew they'd be, including the Olympic groupies who just ignored the fact when they burbled on about how wonderful all these table-tennis games were going to be. But there's a huge block of hotel rooms allocated from late June for IOC hangers-on (the fat scum too idle to get a tube and so up themselves they think they're entitled to their own private road lanes, just like the Communist dictators they wish they'd had a chance to be).
No-one knows whether this shower will have the energy to actually turn up. But it's virtually certain that at some point a lot of the rooms will be released, and the hotels will realise this circus is putting real visitors off, so they'll discount heavily.
When? No idea. If you book now, you'll probably be locked into a crippling rate. Wait till, say, April or May and you'll probably get terrific bargains as well as an almost empty tourist London, since the few visitors we'll get will be miles away watching Nicaraguans do synchronised swimming.
You have to decide whether to bet I'm right or the Olympic boosters. And I don't have to put my money where my opinions are. Nor of course do all the people getting paid to tell us outright lies about how this pointless exercise in gratifying global bureaucrats is going to transform our economy for the better
Feb 7th, 2012, 01:39 PM
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Hmmm, I am looking to book for the olympics, and now you have me wondering if I should wait! We were just going to do the Imperial/President blocks ( seems like that is all that is showing up available right now without spending a fortune)
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Appreciate the insight, now where is that crystal ball...
Feb 7th, 2012, 02:24 PM
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Saw this article online about a week ago about rooms being released for the Olympics: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16780962
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