The Olympics are just some 500 miles away!! I know, this may sound like a daunting distance number, but considering the Olympics are a fun, once-in-a-lifetime experience, that distance isn’t daunting.
That’s only $30 of gas!
Or, you could catch a plane, roundtrip from DIA to Salt Lake on Delta Airlines, for a mere $400.
And for the truly committed, a straight-line walk or run would only ring up 470 miles.
Before you go toughening up your feet for the treck, you may want to know what tickets are still available. If you’re tall and not prone to nose bleeds, you’ll get in. Tickets are available for some events every day of the Olympics. Most of the sold out events are the finals. However, tickets remain for such finals as the men’s 10,000 meter sprint, women’s two person bobsleigh, K120 individual ski jumping and women’s 1,500 meter speed skating.
Also, tickets for gold medal events, like women’s ice hockey, still remain, but not for men’s finals.
If you’re interested in seeing which events are open, go to www.olympics.com and check under the ticket information link. Depending on the event and round you choose, tickets will run anywhere from $100 dollars (qualifier, preliminary rounds) to $400 (some final and gold medal rounds).
So, within reason you can get to the Olympics and watch some events, but finding a place to sleep looks a bit more diffcult.
According to the listings at visitsaltlake.com, close to every hotel is sold out. Any remaining space is severely limited to particular days, packages and accommodations (the number of beds, size, amenities).
Even when checking out the hotel listings for distant areas like Wyoming, the listings were still pretty dismal. If you’re actually thinking about trying to find a room, go to your hotel of choice, check for openings and then formulate your itinerary of events you plan to watch around the room openings. When, and if, you find a room, expect to pay $200 and up per night.
In all, going to the Olympics may just bankrupt you, but as they say “no pain, no Olympic game.”
