11 May, 2019 @ 16:26
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EXCLUSIVE : Over 96% of Madrid’s hotels FULL as prices skyrocket to €26,000 for two nights on Champions League weekend

HISTORY: Tottenham and Liverpool have set up an all-English Champions League final in Madrid on June 1, after two of the competition’s best ever performances this week

FORGET a cheeky spring escape in Madrid at the end of the month.

For the average price for a two night stay in the capital is coming in at around €5000 for the hotel accommodation alone.

Take Booking.com – 96% of the site’s rooms are now booked in Madrid, with rooms running out quickly, and hostels charging 10 times what they usually do!

A two night stay on the weekend of May 31 to June 2 could be the most expensive ever in Spanish (even European history).

PRICED OUT: The average cost for many rooms in Madrid is now over €5,000

The Olive Press was unable to find one place for less than €1000 on Booking.com or Trivago.

Plenty are over €20,000, including Hotel Wellington at €24,000 and Santo Mauro at €26,000 (where David Beckham once lived) and that’s before you even order a Coke!

And if you thought you were clever – perhaps staying in Toledo, Aranjuez or Chinchon, three attractive towns within easy reach of the capital – well give it a go.

For that weekend they are already full and what’s left was around the same price.

NOT CHEAP: The exclusive Santo Mauro hotel, previously home to David Beckham, will set you back €26,000

And Airbnb is no different – most flats and apartments were costing well over €2,000 for two nights!

It comes as Liverpool and Tottenham fans have been advised to fly via Palma to Madrid after flights also shot up to more than €1500 this week after the British teams’ decisive victories. Tickets for the game were weighing in at a horrific 3000 to 4000 euros a ticket with many sporting and ticket sites offering them for much more.

The English clubs booked their spots in the Champions League final on June 1 after pulling off two of the best comebacks in history by beating Barcelona and Ajax, 4-0 and 3-2 respectively.

Alternative routes have been revealed for those travelling to the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium, including flying from Manchester to Brussels, to Palma, and then Madrid, and returning to Manchester via Berlin, working out at just €175.

This mammoth journey does however mean setting off on May 30 and not returning until June 4, having spent five nights in Madrid.

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor)

Jon Clarke is a Londoner who worked at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday as an investigative journalist before moving to Spain in 2003 where he helped set up the Olive Press.

After studying Geography at Manchester University he fell in love with Spain during a two-year stint teaching English in Madrid.

On returning to London, he studied journalism and landed his first job at the weekly Informer newspaper in Teddington, covering hundreds of stories in areas including Hounslow, Richmond and Harrow.

This led on to work at the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Mirror, Standard and even the Sun, before he landed his first full time job at the Daily Mail.

After a year on the Newsdesk he worked as a Showbiz correspondent covering mostly music, including the rise of the Spice Girls, the rivalry between Oasis and Blur and interviewed many famous musicians such as Joe Strummer and Ray Manzarak, as well as Peter Gabriel and Bjorn from Abba on his own private island.

After a year as the News Editor at the UK’s largest-selling magazine Now, he returned to work as an investigative journalist in Features at the Mail on Sunday.

As well as tracking down Jimi Hendrix’ sole living heir in Sweden, while there he also helped lead the initial investigation into Prince Andrew’s seedy links to Jeffrey Epstein during three trips to America.

He had dozens of exclusive stories, while his travel writing took him to Jamaica, Brazil and Belarus.

He is the author of three books; Costa Killer, Dining Secrets of Andalucia and My Search for Madeleine.

Contact jon@theolivepress.es

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