The Paralympic Games are here! These 2010 Olympics will be easier than previous years on the budget and travel time due to a location quite convenient for Asian and North American visitors lining up for tickets and reservations.
As you make your plans to attend the 2010 Olympics, visit the most authoritative sites for information on events, venues, transportation, lodging and food.
Attending the Games
Tourism Vancouver (www.tourismvancouver.com) is a fantastic site full of everything you need to know to plan your visit. The section on dining in Vancouver will whet your appetite and get the juices flowing. Indian, Thai, Italian, Tapas, and Russian are just a few of the cuisines on offer around the town.
“The number of truly outstanding restaurants in Vancouver is astonishing, and the prices are ridiculously low when compared to other food capitals…” according to The New York Times.com.
Vancouver or Whistler
Frequently asked questions about the 2010 Olympics, including how you’ll get to the venues, driving directions and access, scheduled events, advice about restaurant reservations and so much more is also available at the tourism site.
Whistler
, of course, will be the site of all the alpine and Nordic skiing events including cross country, biathlon, and the Nordic combined; ski jumping; and “sliding” events such as bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton.
Getting Where You Want To Go
Vancouver visitor kiosks will be scattered around the city for last minute changes you decide to make when you realize how much more is available in a cosmopolitan city of this size and diversity. Even on a dreary day the city is animated and fascinating.
During the 2010 Olympics you will have the added benefit of all the interesting, unique other visitors to observe, converse with and remember fondly. Bring those digital cameras! Hopefully the Sea-to-Sky Highway to Whistler will be open. The Vancouver Olympics will be a week to remember forever. Be there.
The games will be held February 12-28, 2010. Prepare yourself and all your senses to be wowed and delighted. The goal of the Vancouver Organizing Committee is ensuring fast, efficient and sustainable travel for both locals and visitors to the winter games. They are undertaking a multi-jurisdictional traffic management plan and it promises to be quite dramatic. You will get where you are going, so plan on getting the whole experience in spades. Plan, plan, plan and don’t risk missing any part of the Canadian hospitality laid out for guests.
The city is dedicated to making this a successful Winter Games and with the right planning, you can be in the center of the action.