It isn’t too late to make arrangements to attend the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, August 8th to 24th, though you’ll pay a premium for waiting until the (relative) last minute.
The hotel with vacancies closest to most sporting venues is the Best Western Olympic Stadium Hotel. We found rooms available during the games for $627 a night. That makes the Best Western your best Olympic hotel option.
Other hotels of reasonable quality in the Beijing city center include the Red Wall Hotel (5,800 yuan / US$805), the Forbidden City Hotel (5,858 yuan / US$815) and the Howard Johnson Regal Court Hotel (6,000 yuan / US$835).
As for tickets, they are allocated through a complicated system that, at the moment, is only for Chinese citizens. Other nationalities will have a chance to get tickets through their Olympic committee, though if you are an American your changes are slim. The best tickets are purchasable from a reliable and established ticket service such as StubHub.
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