2006 World Cup Fans to be Accommodated in German Living Rooms
BERLIN, The online portal www.rooms-worldcup2006.com provides World Cup visitors with a free accommodations search service featuring low cost rooms in private homes; Germans eager to accommodate fans in their homes. With less than 100 days to go before the starting whistle of the 2006 Soccer World Cup, visitors are still somewhat slow about making their travel arrangements.
BERLIN, The online portal www.rooms-worldcup2006.com provides World Cup visitors with a free accommodations search service featuring low cost rooms in private homes; Germans eager to accommodate fans in their homes
With less than 100 days to go before the starting whistle of the 2006 Soccer World Cup, visitors are still somewhat slow about making their travel arrangements. And with a great many German hotels already booked up, a lot of fans are wondering where they should stay. Budget hotel rooms are in particularly great demand.
Private accommodations are the optimal solution for cost conscious World Cup fans who would like to get a first hand look at life in Germany. Such fans will find a helpful partner for their room search in the leading German real estate portal ImmobilienScout24, which operates a service called "Staying with friends." The service is available at www.rooms-worldcup2006.com, where soccer fans from around the world can search for accommodations in World Cup cities and their environs comfortably and free of charge for the period extending from June 9 to July 9, 2006. Fans who use www.rooms-worldcup2006.com will also be contributing to a good cause, since all of the profits on the fees paid by individuals who rent accommodations through www.rooms-worldcup2006.com will go to the foundation for young soccer players headed by German trainer Jürgen Klinsmann.
As was the case with World Youth Day in 2005, for the 2006 World Cup Germans are eager to welcome guests from all over the world into their homes, a fact attested to by the over 7000 rooms currently available at
The www.rooms-worldcup2006.com portal is mainly intended for private individuals who would like to advertise a room or apartment. These individuals pay an 11 euro fee. In addition to a German Web site www.WM-Zimmer-2006.de , there is also an English Web site www.rooms-worldcup2006.com . The portal also offers a series of other useful travel planning services and information. .
"The large selection of private accommodations available at www.rooms-worldcup2006.com shows that the World Cup motto, 'A time to make friends' is not just empty words, but is a flesh and bones reality," said Mr. Kwiatkowski. "Many of the people that list with us are interested not so much in the money, but rather in the opportunity for an intercultural experience."