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2012 Olympics: Visitor's & Londoner's Perspective  
User currently offlinezippyjet From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 4724 posts, RR: 13
Posted (9 months 1 week 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 926 times:

I'm curious, are there any Londoner's who have an opinion on the Olympics that just concluded? Those locals who had to work and live their day to day lives while the 30th. Olympiad went on? How about folks such as airline employees, hotel workers, cab drivers? What was life like in London during this time? How were the visitors, athletes? For tipped employees did you make more, less or the same as during a normal period? And for those fortunate enough to visit London for the games what were your thoughts, feelings? If you had the chance would you patronize another Olympics like Rio in 2016?
For you Londoners would you reccomend being the city that hosts a future Olympics?


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User currently offlineozglobal From France, joined Nov 2004, 2598 posts, RR: 4
Reply 1, posted (9 months 1 week 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 846 times:

Well organised, but mean, unseemly profiteering to milk every last penny out of visitors leaves a bad task in the mouth about the UK and London. The IOC needs to make some major reforms on how tickets are sold and re-sold via agencies. 10s of 1000's of seat were left empty as the two American firms who monopolize overseas sales maximized their yield on packages, not caring if this mean many seats were never sold nor available for resale.


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