I am traveling to Turin for the Olympics as well (and from not too far from NJ). I have never been the Olympic games before but have found a great deal of info from the 2006 Olympic site: torino2006.org. Event tickets are now for sale. (Americans can buy event tickets through cosport.com website). As someone in the hotel business, I am putting my own arrangements together.

Good luck!

Ciao guys,

my name is Roberto and I work in the field of Hospitality and incoming Tourism. I'm from Torino.

Let me tell you that it will be a hard job to find whatever type of accommodation during the Olympics. There are not many solutions in town and they're almost all fully booked.

I suggest you both to hurry up.

ciao,

Roberto

buon giorno Roberto,

I hope you do not mind me asking this question:

can you recommend any places that may still have accommodations available? We would like to stay in Turin for a few nights before moving out to Bardonnechia or another mountain site. There are many places on the internet, I am just having trouble gathering all their websites and email addresses.

Many thanks,

Melissa (melissa72@email.com)

Ciao Melissa,

I do not deal with hotel accommmodation. I just know some small b&b I collaborated with in the past and that I use to suggest to friends visiting Torino. Because of the relationship established and because of the fact that I speak a decent English, they asked me if I could help them in managing foreign visitors bookings for 2006, and so I did.

Unfortunately it was just a matter of a few rooms, and they're all gone.

Good luck for your search, I'll contact you if I know about anything available.

Roberto

HELP!!

I have looked all over and can't find availability for a rooms for 3 nights for 2 adults 19/2/2006 - 22/2/2006 in Turin. If anyone out there knows where I could find one I would be very grateful.. Thank you in advance.

minx,

try looking on turismotorino.org website and try some of the B&Bs. All the 3, 4 and 5 star hotels are allocated to the organizing committee and have to be booked through their agency. The B&Bs are taking reservations (some now, some in a few more months). Good luck!

thanks for that I will try that out and let you know how I get on

try http://www.albergoluserna.com

sorry http://www.albergoluserna.it not com, doh

There is one night in the mountains for Feb 17th on eBay.