UEFA President Michel Platini has expressed concern over the high prices set by Ukrainian hotels for accommodation during the Euro 2012 European Football Championship.
"We’re a bit worried about the increase of prices in Ukrainian hotels, but there are authorities, which, I hope, will manage to resolve this issue," Platini said at a briefing at the Arena-Lviv stadium on Thursday.He added that French journalists told him that they are alarmed at the overpricing of rooms in Ukrainian hotels.
In turn, Ukrainian Vice Premier Borys Kolesnikov said journalists could ask hotels owners about the reason why the prices were so high and advised them to conduct a journalistic investigation into the issue.Platini also said the remaining details that should be improved by the Euro 2012 Championship were discussed during a meeting of UEFA supervisory board on Thursday.
As reported, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych Kolesnikov and Economic Development and Trade Minister of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko to regulate the prices of hotel services at an economically reasonable level."We’re also speaking about the period of the holding of the Euro 2012 European Football Championship finals in Ukraine," reads the statement of the president’s press service.
The Board of Tourism and Resorts made up a list of hotels that artificially overpriced their rooms by ten to twelve times before Euro 2012.Earlier, booking.com Web site offered 25 places for accommodation in Kyiv on June 15-16, 2012. Accommodation in a tent for two persons in a camping on Trukhaniv Island will cost EUR 73.37, a standard room for two persons in the Bratislava Hotel (Dniprovsky district in Kyiv) will cost EUR 134.17, accommodation in the D’Lux Kiev Hostel, located within a five-minute walk from Lvivska Square and Sofia Kyivska, will cost EUR 104.82 per person in a room for eight persons.
According to information on the official Web site of the Ibis hotel network, accommodation in a standard two-bed room at the Ibis Hotel in Kyiv (1.64 km from the city center) on June 14-15, 2012 will cost EUR 280, while the Warsaw-based Ibis Hotel (2.83 km from the city center) proposes a special price of EUR 52.74 for accommodation during Euro 2012, compared to the usual price of EUR 115.36.
