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Vancouver 2010 ticket package information released
Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun
Published: Thursday, September 18, 2008
Vancouver Olympic organizers have revealed details on the Olympic experience ticket packages it promised to offer as an easy means for spectators to get a total flavour of the 2010 Games.
And the packages will probably be a buyer's best chance of getting tickets to the 2010 Games. Though there are a limited number of them, the Olympic experience packages will be allocated tickets before single-session ticket requests.
The packages, 58 of them in all, tickets for several events bundled together, giving potential ticket buyers one item to select when trying for 2010 Olympics tickets instead of hunting through dozens of individual events and matching them with your schedule.
Tailored to either local residents or short-term visitors on three-to-six-day schedules, focusing on events in either in the city (Vancouver, Whistler, West Vancouver) or Whistler, or a combination, the packages are priced at $140 to $1,267.
Those prices, however, do not include surcharges. Dave Cobb, executive vice-president of revenue and marketing for the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games, said charges, and whether or not those charges would include local transportation costs, will be finalized before applications for ticket sales open Oct. 3.
Cobb said ticket surcharges would not cover travel to Whistler events. Riding a shuttle to the resort community will require an extra fee, though Cobb promised the fee would be considerably less than the price of a round-trip bus ticket now.
Vanoc CEO John Furlong said the ticket schedule "was designed in a particular way to touch all potential customer groups," and their potential budgets.
Cobb said pricing has been designed to price half the 2010 Olympics' 1.6 million tickets at $100 or less, with 100,000 of them priced at $25.
"So, I think for a comparable entertainment experience you can get in North America, we're quite pleased at how we stack up from a value standpoint," Cobb said.
Cobb added that packages were put together based on Vanoc's research on the public's desire of consumers to see more than one event if they come to the Games. However, people are not locked into buying packages.
Sales start with the opening of general public ticket applications, which runs from Oct. 3 to Nov. 7.
Prices are based on the cumulative face value of tickets for each event, with no bulk discount.
There are four different basic Olympic experience package (OEP) groupings: City Packages, Whistler Packages, Mixed Packages and Local Packages (both for city and for Whistler). Vanoc is expected to have full details on all packages by Thursday morning. Below are some examples.
City packages: (25 in total)
City OEP1: $1,032
Feb. 12, Opening ceremony.
Feb. 13, Women's hockey preliminary.
Feb. 14, Speed skating, 3,000 metre final.
Feb. 14, Vancouver victory ceremony at BC Place Stadium.
City OEP2: $457
Feb. 13, Short-track speed skating, women's 500 metre qualification, women's 3,000 metre relay qualification, men's 1,500 metre qualification/ final.
Feb. 14, Figure skating, pairs short program.
Feb. 15, Women's hockey preliminary.
Feb. 16. Vancouver victory ceremony at BC Place Stadium.
City OEP 3: $557
Feb. 13, Speed skating, men's 5,000-metre final.
Feb. 14, Women's hockey preliminary.
Feb. 14, Vancouver victory ceremony at BC Place Stadium.
Feb. 15, Figure skating, pairs free skate.
Whistler packages (eight in total)
Whistler OEP 1: $1,240
Feb. 12, Opening ceremony.
Feb. 13, Men's luge singles qualification.
Feb. 14, Biathlon, 10 k spring.
Whistler OEP 2: $220
Feb. 12, Men's ski jumping.
Feb. 13, Men's alpine skiing, downhill.
Feb. 14, Men's luge singles final.
Whistler OEP 3: $270
Feb. 13, Men's ski jumping final.
Feb. 14, Men's luge singles final.
Feb. 15, Cross-country skiing, women's 10 k individual, men's 15 k individual.
Feb. 16, Alpine skiing, men's super-combined qualification/ final.
Mixed (City and Whistler events) packages (17 in total)
Mixed OEP 1: $750
Feb. 12, Opening ceremony.
Feb. 13, Women's freestyle skiing, qualification and final.
Feb. 14, Men's Nordic combined event.
Mixed OEP 2: $850
Feb. 12, Opening Ceremony.
Feb. 13, Biathlon, women's 7.5 k sprint.
Feb. 14, Women's hockey preliminary.
Mixed OEP 3: $407
Feb. 13, Short-track speed skating, women's 500 metre qualification, women's 3,000 metre relay qualification, men's 1,500 metre qualification/ final.
Feb. 14, Alpine skiing, women's super-combined qualification/ final.
Feb. 15, Vancouver victory ceremony at BC Place Stadium.
Feb. 16, Figure skating, men's short program.
Local packages, eight in total (five city and three Whistler-specific), which package four to six events spread over weekends and evenings.
Local City OEP 1: $1,267
Feb. 12, Opening ceremony.
Feb. 17, Men's preliminary hockey.
Feb. 18, Women's snowboarding, halfpipe qualification/ semifinal/ final.
Feb. 18, Vancouver victory ceremony at BC Place Stadium.
Feb. 20, Women's curling qualification.
Feb. 20, Women's hockey semifinal.
Local City OEP2: $352
Feb. 13, Women's freestyle skiing, moguls qualifications and final.
Feb. 17, Men's hockey preliminary.
Feb. 19, Vancouver victory ceremony at BC Place Stadium.
Feb. 20, Men's curling qualification.
Feb. 24, short-track speed skating, women's 1,000-metre qualification, men's 500-metre qualification and women's 3,000 metre relay final.
Local Whistler OEP 1: $335
Feb. 13, Men's ski jumping, normal hill individual final.
Feb. 17, Men's luge doubles, runs 1 and 2 final.
Feb. 20, Cross-country skiing, men's 15 + 15 k pursuit.
Feb. 21, Alpine skiing, men's giant slalom, qualification/ final.
Feb. 26, Biathlon, men's 4 x 7.5 k relay.
Feb. 27, Bobsleigh, men's four-man runs 1 and 4 final.
Whistler OEP 2: $730
Feb. 14, Alpine skiing, woman's super-combined qualification/ final.
Feb. 19, Men's and women's skeleton, runs 3 and 4 final.
Feb. 21, Biathlon, men's 15 k mass start and women's 12.5 k mass start.
Feb. 23, Men's Nordic combined, large hill team and large hill team relay.
Feb. 26, Men's bobsleigh, four-man runs 1 and 2 qualification.
Feb. 28, Closing ceremony, BC Place Stadium.