The Telegraph reports that London hotels intend to treat tourist as prostrate milch cows eg:
- A double room at the Sheraton Park Tower, in Knightsbridge, this month costs £209 a night. The price quoted for a stay in August next year is £605.
- A night at the West London, in Leicester Square, costs around £290 this August. The same room during the Games will cost just under £540.
- The Berjaya Hotel in Kensington, goes for broke and intends to increase some of its room rates by a factor of 10. Rates typically range from £89 to £199. For every day of the Olympics, the price is £999 a night.
As noted many time before on this site, the Olympics are not about sport but are in fact about money.
Given the ongoing financial turmoil, it is to be hoped that these greedy hoteliers get their fingers well and truly burned for their naked opportunism.
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