Joined: Mar 05 2007 Posts: 13190 Location: Hedon (sometimes), sometimes Premier Inn's
So much for the games being for the people, I saw a card on Co-op Travel yesterday offering a night in London with a ticket for 'a final' (no sport mentioned) for £859. There was another for a 2 week all inclusive to Cuba for £839. What a bloody rip off (not the Cuba trip ).
'when my life is over, the thing which will have given me greatest pride is that I was first to plunge into the sea, swimming freely underwater without any connection to the terrestrial world'
Basic laws of supply and demand I am afraid. There is someone out there who will pay that sort of money to go to an event. Likewise, I visit London regularly and am avoiding doing so during the Olympics as I am not paying stupid money for a hotel room.
If you really want to go start looking at websites in France and Germany for tickets. There is loads of availability. They are only supposed to sell to those resident in that country, but most websites couldn't give 2 hoots who buys them.
Joined: Mar 05 2007 Posts: 13190 Location: Hedon (sometimes), sometimes Premier Inn's
Chris28 wrote:Hardly the fault of "the Olympics" if some chancers decide to use this to make money, is it?
I think the high cost of tickets are partly to blame as well. Co-op Travel are hardly chancers, being ATOL and ABTA bonded.
'when my life is over, the thing which will have given me greatest pride is that I was first to plunge into the sea, swimming freely underwater without any connection to the terrestrial world'
Joined: Mar 05 2007 Posts: 13190 Location: Hedon (sometimes), sometimes Premier Inn's
The Video Ref wrote:Basic laws of supply and demand I am afraid. There is someone out there who will pay that sort of money to go to an event. Likewise, I visit London regularly and am avoiding doing so during the Olympics as I am not paying stupid money for a hotel room.
If you really want to go start looking at websites in France and Germany for tickets. There is loads of availability. They are only supposed to sell to those resident in that country, but most websites couldn't give 2 hoots who buys them.
I don't want to go, I was looking at something else. I will be in Egypt for 2 weeks while all the fun is going on.
'when my life is over, the thing which will have given me greatest pride is that I was first to plunge into the sea, swimming freely underwater without any connection to the terrestrial world'
Joined: Oct 19 2003 Posts: 17898 Location: Packed like sardines, in a tin
rover49 wrote:I think the high cost of tickets are partly to blame as well. Co-op Travel are hardly chancers, being ATOL and ABTA bonded.
Selling a night in a hotel and 1 ticket (?) for over £800 suggests an element of trying it on, regardless of their bona fides. Is it the Savoy or a Premier Inn?
Joined: Mar 08 2002 Posts: 26578 Location: On the set of NEDS...
Don't like it then don't pay it. Demand for tickets has by far outstripped supply for the first time in Olympic history making it a target for chancers, hotel prices in and around London started off sky-high, they are coming down as the rooms are not shifting.
I have noted the creation of Olympic only travel lanes, meaning the average road user will get shafted, whilst officials and participants are ferried about in chauffeur driven BMWs.
I, for one,will be nowhere near the place. I plan to avoid London like the plague for the duration of the event.
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