European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Fair facts there Are a variety of admission tickets for expo 92, which can be bought in Advance or at the Entrance. The scale ranges from adult one Day tickets at 4.000 pesetas about $40 to free tickets for children under 5. Children 5-14 and adults Over 65 will get in for about $15. Passes for three Days not necessarily consecutive Cost about $100 and May be transferred from person to person. A night pass Good from 8 . Until the 4 . Closing is about $10. Season tickets Are priced at about $300. It is estimated that it would take a person eight Days to see All the exhibits. Prices for food and drink have already doubled in the last year in Seville and the Cost of Many hotel rooms have tripled. Twenty new hotels were to be ready by expo s opening giving Seville some 25,000 hotel rooms and 35,000 rooms in private lodgings. While prices in the City s top hotels Are More than $500 per night for a double rooms in simple hotels will be about $100 per night. Seville is providing a tent City for campers and is also expected to offer accommodation in Mobile Homes for about $40 per person per night in addition organizers have contracted with the russian government to use seven Volga River cruise ships As floating hotels. The ships Are to provide 2.000 Beds in air conditioned Cabins each with a private bathroom refrigerator and stereo. Spain s first High Speed train line is being opened for expo cutting to three hours the travel time from Madrid where More rooms will be available. Travellers will be Able to get off the train at the Entrance to expo. Most travel firms Are running trips to expo and the most economical Way to get there May be by taking a package tour to a resort in Southern Spain and then Day tripping to the fair. The Spanish government has made a great Effort to improve its Highway system in anticipation of heavy traffic. Expo organizers Are operating booking services to find rooms in hotels apartments private houses and elsewhere. The Telephone number for the hotel service known As Coral is 5-560-7474. Sevilla Aberta open Seville is booking rooms in private Homes apartments and hostels its Telephone number is 5-427-6883 the Telephone number for expo 92 s information office is 5-448-1992. The staff Speaks English. All Telephone numbers Are for Calls within Spain if calling from outside the country be sure to add the country code. A j. King Cruger a is work Crews in one of the final stages of construction raise panels for a 300-foot-Long Wall of water that will front the . Display. A amps photos Joy Jim Derheim an ariane rocket Points toward the sky in the european space Agency s exhibit an experimental High tech looking Cooling system will use the Low tech practice of circulating water to provide Relief during Southern Spain s scorching summer. April 16, 1992 stripes Magazine 5
