Accommodation for Winter 2010 Olympics… A Status Update
If you are planning to attend the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games as a spectator, you may be wondering where to find accommodation in the Vancouver area.
In general, conventional booking engines will not accept hotel reservations more than twelve months in advance. Attempts to book a Vancouver hotel rooms on Expedia as of December 24, 2008 returned the error message “We can only accept dates that occur between 24/12/2008 and 19/11/2009. Please enter a new date.” Similar attempts using Travelocity returned much the same result.
There are, however, viable accommodation options for spectators wanting to book accommodations during the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Your first option is to rent the home of a Vancouver-area resident. Not all Vancouver residents want to attend Olympic events in 2010. Many will prefer to escape (perhaps to warmer climates) during the 2010 Games.
What is a private rental likely to cost? Using a sample of about 200 listings from the website Rent 2010, local homeowners are seeking a nightly rate of about $350 (CAD) per bedroom (on average). A number of pro-active travelers have even placed Accommodation-Seeker listings of their own on Rent 2010, and on other popular websites such as Craigslist.
Your second option is to arrange for a hotel room through a reputable tour company. While conventional booking through Expedia and Travelocity are not yet possible, a handful of operators have managed to pre-arrange a limited number of rooms for their clients. A sample of hotel package rates can now be found at Rent 2010’s Hotel Info page.
As February 2010 is still more than a year away, travelers are advised to explore a range of accommodation options before making their bookings. Contact the hotel tour operators, speak to several Vancouver homeowners, and consider advertising your own needs pro-actively as an “accommodation-seeker”. Your early and thorough travel planning will greatly enhance your enjoyment of the Winter Games in 2010.
9 Comments to Accommodation for Winter 2010 Olympics… A Status Update
Below is an update on Olympic accommodation rates. Rental rates listed in this table are based on research of multiple websites that are advertising private property rentals for 2010 Olympics. Research was done by GoldenCityRentals.com on January 2, 2009
AREA NUMBER OF BEDROOMS
1br 2br 3br 4br 5br
Vancouver Downtown 599 905 n/a n/a n/a
Vancouver 479 611 1271 1595 n/a
(all communities)
North Vancouver 325 890 1057 1550 2050
West Vancouver 480 900 1338 1675 2733
Burnaby 362 738 923 1230 n/a
TriCities 350 532 830 950 n/a
(Coquitlam, Port Moody, Port Coquitlam)
Reserve My Home will be offering housing in the Vancouver and Whistler areas during the months of Feb - March 2010. Currenly will are gathering a large inventory of homes which will require a Vancouver law office to sign off on each owner/renter match for the 2010 games. To read more please visit:
http://www.reservemyhome.com/Vancouver_Whistler_Rental_Homes_and_Condos_id-641.html
or conact me directly. Thank you, Scott N.
Would you rent out your house to a total stranger? Not sure packing up the whole of the house would be that easy, although I know of someone doing exactly that for a golf tournament in St.Andrews. They stayed with ‘the mother in law’ and made some cash renting, but I don’t know if it was worth it to stay with the In Laws.
SOCALgirlFebruary 20, 2009
I checked out the website Scott Norris mentioned,www.reservemyhome.com. It is an easy, clean and inexpensive website to list and book homes! Wow! Too cool. I’m glad we’re finally able to book homes around the work like hotels! I suggest for anyone reading this to definitely check this site out.
12 months in advance? This bites! I guess we can sleep in the airport or bus station!
CanadianBoyMarch 30, 2009
I checked out the site as well SOCALgirl and your right, very nice site indeed. I’m actually looking for another site to post my condo for the olympics. It says that they advertise in some unique areas, do you know these areas?
The sites that my home are under now doesn’t advertise at all, they just want your money and leave it cluttered on there site.
12 Month in advance!? This is the olympics, but still, that’s a hole year in advance. Maybe there is a payed local service to find you a hotel from now, but book it later and it still will be available?
Awesome service form this company and they go well beyond any other listing service or site that I am aware of for 2010 Olympic vacation rentals or accommodations.
Thank you guys!
C and S
Thank you for the tip with the Vancouver residents that do not want to attend the olympics. Looks like a promising alternative to me!
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