How To Find Accommodations At the Vancouver Olympics
- November 12, 2009
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Find a home away from home during your trip to the Vancouver Olympics.
You Will Need
- A computer with internet access
- Luck
- A house to swap
Step 1: Find a hotel
Find a hotel by checking hotel and tourism web sites like 2010destinationplanner.com, and tourismvancouver.com. Finding a room may be tough, but rooms could pop up as people cancel reservations and hotels make rooms available.
Look for hotels in the suburbs to increase your chances of finding a room and find cheaper rates.
Step 2: Look for a hostel
If you don’t mind sharing a bathroom or sleeping in a dorm-like environment, search for openings in hostels.
Step 3: Rent a house
Search “rent 2010” for a list of web sites dedicated to people in the Vancouver or Whistler area renting their homes for Olympic spectators and volunteers.
Step 4: Home swap
Trade homes with a Canadian looking to visit your neck of the woods. Search “housing swap” on online forums to find people interested in trading housing during the games.
Step 5: Book a boat
Book a room on a boat or cruise ship that will dock in Vancouver for the games. It may sound strange, but with skyrocketing hotel prices, booking a room on a boat may be cheaper than just getting a hotel room. If not, there’s always 2014!
More than 25,000 volunteers from all over the world will help make the Olympics in Vancouver possible.
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