Yep, I am staying on the Louis Olympia in the Adler Port. All things considered, it seemed to be the best option. Plus, how many chances will you have to say you stayed on a cruise ship in the Black Sea during the Winter Olympics?

To elaborate: If you need to be near the Mountain Cluster, the cruise ships are most likely not the best option. If you need to be near the Coastal Cluster, it's almost impossible to get any closer than the ships in the Adler Port without being in the Olympic Village. Hotels are around the same price as the cruise ships, but locations are generally not going to be as convenient. There is always the possibility that point redemption options become available closer to the Games, but I didn't want to take that chance since some properties (specifically Marriott) aren't even viewable on the website. Some have also recommended Airbnb, but those prices are not regulated by the government and are thus absurd during the Games.

Thanks so much, I sent you a PM for a little more detail.

If anyone still needs tickets, check the CoSport site. They are still putting up new tickets. For example, just the other day they put up Cat C tickets for the Opening Ceremony.

I am still interested in meeting up with some fellow flyertalkers! I will be there Feb 6th through Feb 24th!

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I will be in Sochi Feb 9-13 and would love to meet up with fellow flyertalkers. I will be staying in the city center.

I'll be in Sochi from 2/9 to 2/12. If you're there, feel free to PM and we shall grab drinks or some food!

I've added a wikipost to this page, to make it easier to coordinate any kind of FT get-together(s).

Feel free to add/edit/remove your schedules as needed.

Awesome, thank you!

Hey, thanks for the wiki! No idea how to create them, but they can come in handy. :) I did a minor edit to put names in order of arrival (just makes it cleaner if, by chance, things gets out of control and there are lots of us down the road).

I would love to meet up with people whenever our times coincide, but I'm going to wait until I get that visa confirmed before making plans. It's getting a bit ridiculous at the moment - Organizing Committee tells me I can only get my 'humanitarian' visa through the Embassy in Ottawa, and their website says I must apply in person (I live in Vancouver!!). Of course none of this is a direct conversation with a live person - it appears no one answers the phones in Ottawa and Russian communication is all by email that appears to have gone through Google Translate. Sigh. I don't do well with red tape. I hope you guys aren't having as rough a time as spectators!

Totally looking forward to getting there though! Should be an awesome time! :D

Just added my name to the wiki; I'll be there Feb 12-22, onboard the Grand Holiday.

nomadic.relief, are you in the Facebook Sochi volunteer group, they've pretty much figured out the whole humanitarian visa process over there. I applied to volunteer but couldn't commit to long stay they asked of me, so I'll be a spectator instead.

kjnangre which one? LOL I'm in the Canadian one and it seems like the visa invitations are just coming out there and so there is still some confusion. I've got this week off, so I'll just keep hitting re-dial until someone answers at the embassy! ;)

nomadic.relief, there's one main group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Soch.../?notif_t=like

And then yes, dozens of national sub groups

Thanks kjnangre! I'll add myself there too - all my documents have been mailed off, so now it's just waiting for the best Christmas/New Years/birthday present to arrive! :D

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