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FIFA to Ref South Africa's Hotel Prices in 2010

November 10, 2006 at 4:10 PM | by | Comments (2)

As you may or may not remember, we were a little gung-ho about the World Cup this past summer.

But apparently, that's nothing compared to the fans who are anxious to book their hotel rooms in South Africa, the host of the 2010 World Cup. The hotels there were hoping to start charging a fortune for hotel rooms during games until FIFA decided to step in:

Hotel groups and guesthouses contracted by Fifa would have to charge a fixed rate for different grades of accommodation during the 2010 World Cup, the soccer governing body's accommodation and ticketing arm told hoteliers in Cape Town on Thursday night. This did not go down well with some local hotel owners.

The fixed rates should be released soon and from there you can determine how much you wanna spend to see your team of choice. But if you are already counting down the days until 2010, then you probably have your budget figured out already too.

Image of the Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg via South Africa World Cup 2010

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Re: FIFA to Ref South Africa's Hotel Prices in 201

The scary thing is, Cape Town's hotel prices are already the most expensive on the whole continent and not much behind Europe's now that the rand has gotten stronger. How much more were they going to jack them up to gouge the football fans?
Tim L. on November 12, 2006 at 8:43 PM #Permalink

man this is killing

The games tickets are US$120 and 160 for the group stage games... Think about if the hotels are raised?
how many African soccer lovers will have us$1000s dollars? Man they need to discount some of these prices... I will be there on june 16 but only planning to watch three games because out of my plane tickets, hotel, food and transportation i can't afford ten games...
Fidel M Nshombo on November 2, 2009 at 8:48 AM #Permalink

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