Sochi Visitors Can Stay in Rail Hotels

By Bloomberg

March 1, 2010

The organizing committee for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi plans to use passenger trains as “minihotels” during the games, RIA-Novosti reported Saturday.

The cost of staying in a sleeper car at the games would be included in the price of a rail ticket to Sochi, the state-run news service reported from Vancouver, citing Dmitry Chernyshenko, president of the Sochi organizing committee.

“If anyone wants to come to watch the competition for a day, he can buy this package,” Chernyshenko told RIA-Novosti.

He said using sleeper cars would reduce the burden on Sochi’s hotels.

Russian Railways, the country’s rail monopoly, signed a contract in Vancouver to become the eighth national sponsor of the Sochi Games.

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