The opening ceremony for the Sochi Winter Olympics are only two days away, but photographs from people who have started to arrive at the hotels in the city show that there is still a great amount of work to be done.
The venues and Olympic Village appear to be completed, and Sochi officials maintain that the other hotels are 97% completed, but 3% appears to be far from perfect with people finding their rooms without running water, and sometimes even occupied by straw dogs or construction workers sleeping between their shifts.
The accommodation for the media is particularly badly affected, with journalists tweeting some of the problems they have found:
CNN booked 11 rooms in one @Sochi2014 media hotel five months ago. We have been here for a day and only one room is available. #cnnsochi
— Harry Reekie (@HarryCNN) February 4, 2014
This is the one hotel room @Sochi2014 have given us so far. Shambles. #cnnsochi pic.twitter.com/RTjEkmyan3
— Harry Reekie (@HarryCNN) February 4, 2014
The reception of our hotel in #Sochi has no floor. But it does have this welcoming picture. pic.twitter.com/8isdoBuytl
— Kevin Bishop (@bishopk) February 4, 2014
Miss you, hot water in my hotel. You were great.
— Bruce Arthur (@bruce_arthur) February 4, 2014
People have asked me what surprised me the most here in Sochi. It's this. Without question … it's … THIS. pic.twitter.com/1jj05FNdCP
— Greg Wyshynski (@wyshynski) February 4, 2014
My hotel has no water. If restored, the front desk says, "do not use on your face because it contains something very dangerous." #Sochi2014
— Stacy St. Clair (@StacyStClair) February 4, 2014
