LateRooms.com - Get in the Olympic Spirit at London 2012 Festival

    LONDON, ENGLAND, May 24, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The London 2012 Festival will see more than 12,000 events and performances take place in the capital and other cities around the UK this summer.

Kicking off on June 21st and running until early September, the festival will allow people to celebrate the arrival of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games with some of the biggest names in music, art, comedy and theatre.

Damon Albarn, Stephen Fry, Tracey Emin, Jay-Z, Tim Minchin and Julie Walters are just some of the stars due to take part in the London 2012 Festival, which will feature artists from all 204 participating Olympic nations.

In total, the line-up of events is set to encompass more than 25,000 artists, 900 venues and 130 world premieres.

Anticipated highlights of the festival programme include BT River of Music - a series of concerts in six special Thames-side locations that will feature Scissor Sisters, The Noisettes and Matthew Herbert.

More than 160,000 free tickets will be made available for these events in July, with registration due to open on Tuesday May 15th.

"The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be an astonishing event and it's only right that we use the opportunity to showcase our world-leading arts and culture when the eyes of the world are on us," said Fry, who is set to appear at venues across the country as part of the London 2012 Festival.

LateRooms.com recommends a wide range of London hotels that could appeal to people visiting the city this summer, including The Gardens.

For more information, visit http://www.london2012.com/.

Editors Notes:

LateRooms.com is part of B2C sector of TUI Travel PLC's Accommodation and Destination Division. Also within this sector are AsiaRooms.com and Hotels-London.co.uk.

LateRooms.com is the UK's leading online accommodation site offering fantastic deals in over 50,000 properties worldwide, ranging from bed and breakfasts to five star luxury hotels.

LateRooms.com offers customers a saving of up to 70 per cent off the normal room rate for a variety of independent and branded hotels.  Customers can book online or by phone 24/7, whether booking 12 months or 12 minutes in advance - whatever time, whatever day. No other accommodation site offers this flexibility.

LateRooms.com arms customers with information to help them choose the right hotel.  Users can read from over 1.2 million true hotel reviews, written by customers who have booked through LateRooms.com and actually stayed at the hotel.

LateRooms.com is the first online site to use VisitBritain's official national classification system to rate its hotels, bed and breakfasts and guest houses. This ensures customers know the standards of quality they can expect when making a reservation.

To view LateRooms.com press pages, please see http://press.laterooms.com/

Follow LateRooms.com on Twitter - @LateRooms

Join LateRooms.com on Facebook - www.facebook.com/LateRooms

# # #