Olympic - opening ceremony tickets

Glen I am very very suprised by your last statement. Have you been living in Antartica all your life.. ? lol Even people who do not like or watch sports enjoy seeing the Opening Ceromonies of the Olympic Games.. I remember watching the 1976 Montreal Olympics as a child on tv news and being very interested. And I am not sporty at all lol ,, its all the countries outfits I like to see. Tickets for the Opening Cermonies are always in great demand and are snapped up immediatly.

@Pat the smiley face at the end of his comment denoted the sarcasm. @Glen try ticket brokers or Craigslist. If there are any be prepared to mortgage your home to pay for the tickets. :-0

I cannot help you for London, but I have friends who went into the draw for tickets for the Beijing opening ceremony and missed out. They later said that they wished they had bought one of the high priced packages with guaranteed Opening Ceremony tickets. Admittedly these were people for whom price is no object. So it depends how big your budget is, and I do mean big.

They're presently going for $4400.0 - 9350.00 each on a ticket broker web site. Oh, what we could do in Europe besides sit in a stadium with that much disposible cash! I'd stay away from Craigslist, go with a well known ticket broker.

Thank you everyone for your help. Sadly - I know I am looking late --- very late for these tickets.
I only found out last week that I will be able to go and then I hit the ground running. Looking for and booking whatever I can. I'm still in search of tickets however I know my options are limited. If you hear of anything I am all ears. Thanks Again

Glen have you checked out this site: http://www.thomascooklondon2012.com/

There are masses of scam artists out there - use extreme caution.

Glen: There were two opportunities to have purchased opening ceremony tickets. Back in April or so of last year cosport.com, the official seller of Olympic tix in the USA, had seats in A for $4,800, B for $3,800, C for $2,800, and D for $500 (approximately). I applied for a D ticket and did not get one. The sellers are a bit secretive about how many tickets were allocated for each event, including opening and closing, and how many people applied for them. In the UK I believe that each opening ceremony seat had, on the average, 20 applicants. Also, in that market they had $80 tickets, and I have absolutely no idea where those might be. My guess is that $80 let you on the Olympic Park grounds where you would watch the ceremony on a large screen. Several months ago cosport released some more tickets for high demand events including opening ceremony. I believe that it was only the A or maybe B tickets that were available. My guess that these were originally part of a very expensive tour package which did not sell so the tickets are being sold separately from the accomodations. Good luck on getting a ticket, and be prepared to shell out lots of money. I will be attending 12 events during the Summer Games, and these do not include opening or closing ceremonies.

NY Times travel section just posted this article about "last minute" planning for the London Olympics: http://tinyurl.com/7nmxltw

Hi Glen, I spent a lot of time investigating Olympic tickets when we considered going to England this summer. Switched to Germany, so we abandoned the Olympic dream, but here are a few bits for you. Be VERY CAREFUL about buying tickets from re-sellers. The London committee is tightly controlling the tickets. Tickets are issued in the purchaser's name and you could be denied entry, or even fined, if your name does not match. Cosport, the only licensed ticket vendor for the US shows all of their OC tix as sold out. You should register on their website, just in case anything becomes available. All resales are being managed through the www.tickets.london2012.com website. The resale process (for returned tix) is supposed to start "spring 2012," but there is nothing up there yet. I would register for their electronic s and check every day for tickets. Also, you must be a UK resident to purchase from that site. If you have a UK friend who can buy them for you, that might work.
Residents of other European countries may also be able to get access to tickets through their national Olympic Committees. Time to work your network. Best of luck! I hope you get to go!!

Thanks, Michael, for the web article you posted. I found this list of unauthorized sellers--word to the wise!
http://www.london2012.com/spectators/tickets/ticket-checker/

Thank you everyone --- I'm still looking and keeping my eyes open. I'll continue to research the details you provided.