Anyone in the hotel trade? Event at Millenium Stadium and all hotels are showing no availability...

[ChippyMinton]

a whole year ahead.

Every year DH goes to an event in cardiff and every year it's almost impossible to find a hotel room. Surely the whole city is not booked up for June 2009? Please can anyone advise me how I can get around this and actually book a room? Thanks

Have you callled the local tourism centre?

Its because the Speedway is on.

We've had to find accomdation for collegaues coming from Germany, and the only nice hotels we could find we're in Neath/Swansea. All the hotels etc in Cardiff are fully booked for about 3weeks

Sorry, crap spelling.

Are they all booked? wow
here some can you stay a bit further out at all?

yes, it's the speedway they go to

www.yha.org.uk/find-accommodation/wales/hostels/Cardiff/index.aspx?hostelid=000048

We have just joined YHA for £10 via details on here. Some of the places are really nice and have ensuites, family rooms etc

any campsites nearby?

[shrug stupid suggestion emoticon}

I used to work in hotels. They wont have sold all the rooms but they will have taken block bookings for companies/groups for this event that will have taken up all the extra rooms they have.
The hotels I used to work in had 295 rooms and about 150 or so of these rooms were already taken on any particular day due to allocations of rooms for airlines, corporate accounts etc, so by taking extra groups for this event they will in theory have "sold out". However in reality not all these rooms will end up being taken, some being released back into their system anytime from months before to that day.
It is a complete pain especially as you only want a couple of rooms.
Have you phoned any of the hotels direct? they may show no availbilty on the web but have some left in their internal system.
Alternatively you could try a couple of middle men like expedia, superbreak, FHR.
These companies usually have allocations of rooms per night and you may be able to get one or two this way.
One of the problems with Cardiff is thatthey have a massive stadium and very few hotels, if they are prepared to travel a bit have you considered other towns or even over the severn bridge?
Hope some of this helps, good luck!

Fimbo - thank you!! I have just booked a family room at the YHA. Looks like we are all going next year

brokenbiscuits - there is a campsite in the city centre, but DH wasn't keen.

Chippy - that's great. I have been having a pretty crap week and that post has actually cheered me {misty eyed emoticon]

and thanks to undertheduvet for being chopped liver

for Fimbo. I have joined the YHA for £10 too, just in case we want to make any trips in the meantime.

for catinthehat

to you too!
Can't say I'm impressed when someone troubles to write out a lot of useful stuff and is..well..blanked I think is the right word.

You may have a point catinthehat but I think it's rather rude to come onto a thread that you have not contributed to, and start policing it. And I have no idea what the rather vile reference to offal means

underthduvet and runnyhabbit, thank you for your help

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but what does it mean cod?

oooooOOOOOoooh - tetchy!
Try clicking the link? Then check out the section "chopped liver in popular culture". (Cod got it)

can't be bothered, thanks all the same.

not being childish at all then

diddums

Why are you being so unpleasant?

Undnertheduvet wasn't ignored- if you look at the timing of the posts it's likely that the Chippy was booking whilst UTD was typing.

Happens all the time, doesn't it.

Undnertheduvet wasn't ignored- if you look at the timing of the posts it's likely that the Chippy was booking whilst UTD was typing.

Happens all the time, doesn't it.

Spot on SueW. And it was late at night, I wanted to get to bed not re-read the whole thread. Threads would be HUGE if we were constantly acknowleding each other's input (although I do agree this was a very helpful post)
Just rather perplexed as to why someone I have never heard of should step onto my thread and start flinging insults around.

What about B&Bs, plenty of them around.

Thanks ripeberry, but we are sorted - I booked a family room in the youth hostel, as suggested by Fimbo