what is cheapest method to attend china olympics?
On Jan 7, 1:53 am, baldeagle wrote:
On Jan 7, 5:18 pm, "tim....." wrote:
"baldeagle" wrote in message
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On Jan 7, 12:06 am, "Jim" wrote:
On Jan 5, 1:27 pm, PeterL wrote:
any secrets for Americans to securing cheap western-style motel rooms
and eating well with minimum expense inside china during the
olympics? Can we bid on cheap hotel accommodations on priceline?
There is no chance to secure hotel rooms or service
appartments in Beijing during the Oympics....all hotel
rooms, cheap or not so cheap, are all fully booked.
And if you believe that you'll believe anything.
What they mean is that they've allocated the rooms to the package tour
companies who are trying to sell packages at rip-off prices.
True. The tour companies have been active since Dec, 2007
in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Hong Kong
selling tours (with guaranteed admission tickets) at two to three
times the normal prices...plus cost of tickets.
If you have tickets, or friends to purchase tickets locally,..
it is far cheaper to stay at Langfang (including transport)...
at less than 20% the cost of package tours.
But many of these rooms are bound to go unsold and will be released back to
the hotels in a couple of months.
What if there is no room left... I wouldn't gamble with
the chance of a life time...to watch the Olympics in
Bejing.
Athens probably has less hotel space than Beijing has, and it was not full
during the Olympics because casual travellers wern't prepared to pay the
prices being asked. The same will happen in Beijing.
It is not the same. The Americans and the Europeans
may be put off by the high prices. But ..the Chinese
in SE Asia and Hong Kong are cash rich and are fanatical
in their support of the Beijing games. All the rooms in Beijing
are NOT enough for the supporters from SE Asia alone...
if no millions ...at least a few hundred thousands.
but the richest people in se asia, taiwan, is boycotting the games
because proc would not let their team in.
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