2012 London Olympic Hotels

On July 6th 2005 London was announced as the winner of the bid to host the 2012 Olympics. This will be the third time London has hosted the Olympics having held it previously in 1908 and 1948, a feat not achieved by any other city in modern times. Hosting the games has put the UK in an awkward position, politically the government may have wanted to boycott the Beijing Olympics of 2008, or at least not support it publically, over the Tibet issue and human rights abuses but the fear of retaliatory action come 2012 may well have changed their minds. The games are also the subject of controversy over how they came to be based in the capital. When the then London Mayor, Ken Livingstone, came up with the estimate of £4 billion pounds for the cost he later admitted that this was actually a 'best guess'. He was simply looking to put forward a figure that he believed would be acceptable to the government in order to that London had a chance of hosting the games which would mean huge government investment in the run down areas of East London.
The correct title of the London games is the "Games of the XXX Olympiad". While various events are spread out over London and other parts (33 venues in total) of the country the main stadium and park is located at Lower Lea Valley. The main venues are LONDON VENUES: Olympic Stadium (Athletics), Earls Court (Volleyball), Excel (Boxing, Fencing, table tennis, martial arts, weightlifting, wrestling), Horse Guards Parade (Beach Volleyball), Hyde Park (Triathlon, 10k Open Water Swim), Lords Cricket Stadium (Archery), O2 Arena/Millennium Dome (North Greenwich arena) (Artistic Gymnastics, Trampoline, Basketball), Greenwich Park (Jumping, Dressage and Eventing, Modern Pentathlon, Pentathlon), Regents Park (Road Cycling), Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich (Shooting), University of East London (Water Polo), Wembley Arena (Badminton, Rhythmic Gymnastics), Wembley Stadium (Football Finals). Wimbledon (Tennis), OUTSIDE OF LONDON: Broxbourne (Canoe, Slalom), Dorney Lake/Windsor (Rowing, Canoe Sprint), Hadleigh Farm, Essex (Mountain Biking), Weymouth and Portland (Sailing). The Olympic village will be home to 17,000 athletes while the stadium will hold 80,000 spectators. The nearest train station is Stratford at 0.6 miles.
Official Olympic Website 

Below are the closet hotels to the actual Olympic stadium and village. However by using the map you will see the full range of London hotels in relation to the location. Many of the better class hotels and/or larger hotels will be around the docklands or within central London itself. Olympic Games 2012 Hotels cover much of London depending on which venues you wish to be nearest and if you would rather be closer to the main tourist areas or the actual Olympic village in east London. For the mian tourist areas see >>central London hotels.

>>>VIEW OLYMPIC STADIUM, VENUES AND ALL LONDON HOTELS ON A MAP
The official IOC hotel is the Hilton Hyde Park.
The official National Olympic Committee hotel is the Intercontinental Park Lane.
Holiday Inn are the official hotel services providers to London 2012 Olympics.