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-- -- security there will be a great deal of it in London this -- the Olympics of calls.
Beginning in London on July 27.
This year if you haven't got your tickets yet.
Going to be getting quite expensive Robert Reid is the US travel editor with lonely planet.
The best travel guides -- the planet Robert good to have you here thanks for I guess everybody is planning to go to London this summer.
Probably the first thing they should do it.
Apply for six more credit counselor for Panamax every one of them it's an expensive city in the best it's yes it is I mean this is not this is you know that people love to go see that the Olympics here it's -- of a once in a lifetime dream you have to treat it like that and budget for like that you know us.
One and has a lot of ways to do.
Things more cheaply if you get that a lot of free -- things on there are some of the Olympic Games themselves that are free to see cycling.
On that the main mall for -- -- marathons there's some events you can get into the Olympic village for ten pounds right and there's some first computers Florida says -- thirteen dollars yeah yeah thirteen fourteen dollars a -- like that that's a good deal you get it really spirited 16 and everyone's going to be watching and places like you.
Trafalgar Square.
And Hyde Park and you can go and be.
You know where where the locals are tied right England plays football that'll be of them at a great time to -- it it's still -- -- the weather is good they do know how to have fun outside watching these events the -- itself right I'm not what's -- what about hotels -- at this point I mean that's.
Surely accommodation is gonna be your biggest single -- -- in the -- every time there's an Olympic Games.
You see a lot of gouging prices and things like that that has been happening in London and strangely enough it's harder to find a good package deals -- almost better working kind of ala cart and finding things on your -- You can go to the site London 2012 dot com it's one of the Olympic sites and you can find hotel there.
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You get like 200 dollars but their hotels on what sort of -- so you're always gonna be thinking about.
You know how to how to commutes that is a little bit of a -- and the classic fruit from west slowly into the Olympic site that's seriously going to be at two yeah yeah that is but he gets it.
Hang out with great londoners on that.
-- -- to my goal is lovely people that you meet on the -- in London good luck with that.
I so did what about her restaurant it's everything is everybody price -- -- just going to be he's sort of fleeced where you go or.
I in my favor I lived in London -- ten years ago my favorite things to do people like to make fun of food there and stuff and a lot better than people like the same right I just like going getting you know us amateurs salad someplace to go parks are so wonderful on one and he might be there watching an -- -- there's always ways to do things that.
A little bit it's to help your you know budget and if you did an apartment for something like air Bambi you maker breakfast and things like that go where locals -- pick up things you can save money I don't think the restaurants community.
Necessarily more expensive if you're away from where the Olympics are -- what about what it -- says now yeah good -- different.
More expensive than last year originally finding 111213.
Hundred dollars to London.
And you know I gotta get a reality check if if you're not if the Olympics isn't the top -- your bucket list.
You can go to Delhi the summer for about the same price associates talked to my -- really you know so why you might think about things even farther than normal because all of European -- are pretty expensive the -- -- you can't really -- to Paris and take the train over making savings unfortunately but if you look around.
You flexible on what days ago I've seen some.
Bargain fares to London like on Expedia for about 980 dollars that's pretty -- some of yeah this is it's not that that is a little more expensive than it was last.
But as you say that the Olympics.
For most people who gonna go and do -- it's a once in a lifetime event and what that if you really wanna go.
Yeah yeah absolutely do you think about the events you want to think about the free ones may be -- Quarterfinals rather in the final to save money you see prices from.
45 dollars to 500 dollars depending on what have been it is a good us cycle close sport -- CEO sport dot com.
And that's where you can buy individual tickets he's still can get tickets threat.
And people can finally -- to travel tips that -- of -- on the -- dot com yes lonely planet dot com and they're probably still.
Some of those old fashioned books that you publish as well that article actually read yes and I have we have a lots of -- Voting planet it is a great series of travel -- I'm sure -- -- seen them -- go pick up wherever you're going this summer and that.
As Robert said it sold their -- line -- lonely planet don't calm as well US travel editor for lonely planet from Rory thanks so much great guys good to be --
