Euro 2008 bedder book quickly!

there’s still 2 months to go, and a whole host of (extraordinarily important) Championships, relegation and promotion to be decided within the domestic game – but it seems that anyone looking at booking accommodation over at Euro 2008 should do so quickly, or so our pals at India eNews tell us anyway. You see, with only 31,000 hotel beds available for the hundreds of thousands of fans expected to descend on the normally tranquil towns of Zurich, Berne, Geneva and Basel – those that haven’t got in already may well be scrumming for campsites, town centre benches, or pleading with barmen to let them sleep on the floor if they promise to drink the bar dry.

And the situation already looks a touch hopeless, with Berne tourism spokesman Bernhard Rhyn telling the Swiss wire agency ATS/SDA “In Berne the hotels are all booked up for match days.’ The city has just 2,000 hotel rooms while between 60,000 and 120,000 guests are expected. The situation is similar in the other three cities.”

And with cruise ships moored up in Basel to accommodate more fans – expect to see a number of crazy schemes put in place from those enterprising Swiss. Already with so called Fan Camps springing up to provide additional overnight accommodation (or plans for them at least) – I won’t be surprised to see spare rooms, sheds, or even tree-houses with ‘To Let’ signs above them come June 2008.

But why should one visit Euro 2008 other than for a feast of non-English related football? Well, just follow this link for some very good, (large-breasted) reasons from World Cup 2006….