Parents to pay £100 for their newborns for London Olympic Games 2012
It has recently been announced by the London Organising Committee for Olympic Games that parent spectators who will be bringing along their young babies to be a part of the London 2012 Olympic Games will not be able to afford a free ride for their toddlers.
The entry of the youngsters would require an amount of £100 which will be charged on the ticket.
Due to the recent information about the ticketing process of the Olympic Games, there has been wide spread dissatisfaction amongst the holders of the tickets who had been interested in bringing along their young ones to watch the show.
The following comments were made about the matter by the spokesperson of the London 2012 Olympic Games, “We want families and young people to come and enjoy the Games, which is why we created pay your age tickets at a third of sessions. Of course we understand
that some new mums may want to take their babies to events they have tickets to and we will look at what we can do when the remaining tickets go on sale in April.”
The ticket prices that have been quoted for the young ones are not for all the events that the London 2012 Olympic Games will be featuring as one third of the Olympic events have another deal for children who are under the age of 16.
One third of the Olympic events have offered its spectators the choice to pay the amount that is equivalent to the age of spectators who are under sixteen years of age. However, all other remaining events require that youngsters pay the total amount of £100
for the Olympic Games.
The reason given by the LOCOG for charging the newborn babies as well is that a track of the number of spectators at the particular venue needs to be kept so that the capacity of the site does not exceed its limit.
This is not consistent with the policy adopted by the Vancouver Games in 2010 which did not charge parents who were with babies under the age of one year.
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