London Hotel Rates To Soar During Olympic Games | Telegraph.co.uk

Visitors to London during the Olympic Games next summer could have to pay up to 10 times the usual rate for a hotel room.

With one year to go until the start of the Games, hoteliers in the capital have begun taking advantage of an anticipated influx in visitors from home and abroad. Although the majority of hotels have not yet released their rates for the period covering the Games – July 27-August 12 – those which have are quoting prices well in excess of what they would usually be at that time of year.