FINAL LEG ACCOMMODATION ANNOUNCEMENT

The time has come to reveal who you will be sharing a room with in Berlin during the LETR Final Leg.

But first, a little bit of information about where we will be staying

The Sheraton Berlin Grand Hotel Esplanade is a world class hotel located in the center of Berlin within walking distance of many of the main tourist attractions in the city, including the Brandenburg Gate, Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin Wall Memorial and Tiergarten.

We've put together a slideshow to give you an idea of what the hotel looks like:

The accommodation at the hotel is all twin share and we've tried as hard as possible to keep team members together.  There have been a few occasions where we could not manage this - where we had an uneven number of female torch runners on a team; or where our Berlin or Brandenburg torch runners did not have english as a second language - but otherwise you'll generally find yourself teamed up up someone from your own team.

Click on the image below to download the Accommodation Listing PDF

The PDF shows you the room listings in team order and then in the second section shows who you are sharing with in alphabetical order.

PRE AND POST STAYS IN BERLIN

We know from the travel itineraries that most of you have submitted that some of you are planning to either come into Berlin ahead of time (ie before June 12) or stay on afterwards (after June 19).  You may already have everything in hand accommodation wise and that's fine if you do.

But if you haven't booked accommodation yet, please hang off for a couple more weeks.  Mark McCorkle and Greg Dawson will be travelling to Berlin at the end of April for a series of meetings and announcements and will be talking with the Sheraton Hotel to see what can be done in terms of room availability and (hopefully) competitive room rates.

They will be back from Berlin in the first week of May and we'll let you all know what they have found out.

That's about all we have on the accommodation front at the moment

Scott

 Hotel Accommodations - Sheraton Berlin Grand Hotel Esplanade

Greetings Final Leg Team. 

It's been awhile since our last communication and we completely understand that you are starved for more information (in many respects, so are we). I am pleased to announce that our hotel accommodations in Germany will be at the Sheraton Berlin Grand Hotel Esplanade. The entirety of our stay in Berlin will be at this property.

As you can see from the map, the hotel is very centrally located and is walking distance from the Tiergarten, Brandenburg Gates, Potsdamer Platz and Checkpoint Charlie.

I know many of you intend to either arrive early in Berlin, or like me, stay a few days later. Like me, you would probably prefer not to change hotels.

The Local Organizing Committee (LOC) is attempting to extend the rate they received for our Team stay, for those who wish to arrive early, or stay later. We are still waiting confirmation on availability and rates. 

If you search this property online, you will see the normal nightly rate in June is approximately €293 or about $318 US. 

If you are interested in arriving early, or staying late, and would prefer to stay at this hotel, I need you to follow the link below and complete the form as soon as possible. The information will be shared with the LOC to determine what rooms are available to us.

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO FILL IN THE FORM

If you do not wish to wait and want to book your own accommodations elsewhere, please do so. 

As always, please reach out with any questions.

 Travel to Berlin & Shared Rooms

Greetings Final Leggers. We realize it has been quite awhile since we've communicated, however, stand-by for a plethora of notifications. Please check this space often going forward. 

First, we will post information later today specific to our hotel accommodations. 

In a broader sense, it has come to our attention that further clarification is needed regarding travel to Berlin and room accommodations. 

You have been assigned a mission by your respective LETR programs to carry the Flame of Hope through parts of Germany and safeguard that Flame to the Opening Ceremonies on 17 June. A couple of very important points we will make as clear as humanly possible:

1. This is not a vacation

2. You will be up very early each day, and to bed very late

3. There will be NO time (ZIP, ZERO, NADA) to spend with others not on our team

4. Family members are expressly forbidden from traveling with the team. It is a huge distraction to our mission

5. You will be assigned a roommate, likely from the Team to which you have been assigned (these will be announced shortly)

6. If your family wishes to join you after our mission is complete, they are more than welcome

7. Your job while you are with the team is to enjoy the brother and sisterhood of being apart of an absolutely amazing experience, ensure the athletes enjoy the time with the team, and create a network of new partners in furtherance of the LETR

8. We promise this will be an experience of a lifetime, but it needs to be within the parameters of what we know works, based on our collective experience

One, we hope this message is clear, and two, we hope you understand why we need to be so firm on these requirements. 

Thank you very much for all that you do!

As always, if there are any questions, please ask.