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2024 Paris Olympics Review:
2024 Paris Olympics Review: While we are frequent travelers, we had never attended the Olympics before and decided to sign up with the BLE group to assist us with what initially seemed to be an overwhelming process to attend the 2024 Paris Olympics. Unfortunately, this was an expensive mistake as we paid a lot of money and received minimal/very limited services (i.e., basically an average hotel room and airport transfers) from this group from the beginning to the end - to the point that we frequently questioned whether this business was legitimate or not. As such, we cannot recommend BLE for future travel to major events. More specifically, these are the facts related to our experience with BLE: we found this group to be very disorganized from the time of our initial reservation/deposit in 2022 to a few days prior to our actual attendance at the 2024 Paris Olympics when we struggled to get confirmation of an excursion included with our package (i.e., we kept being promised that info would be coming by a specified date(s), with no follow-up communications when such information was delayed). Also, during the 1+ year of payments for our Olympic package, we were rarely provided with specific information about the Olympic process (i.e., obtaining tickets for Olympic events, info re: transportation options/tickets to events). When such information finally appeared in our inbox, it was provided at least a month or two late, to the point that it was totally and practically useless. The disorganization and delays from the BLE staff were also always accompanied by excuses, to the point that it became a joke for us. Since we were attending this major event as part of our 40th anniversary celebration, we ended up figuring how to buy tickets to our desired Olympic events and transportation passes on our own long before BLE provided this information to us. We will also note that we had an awesome time at the Paris Olympics despite the disorganization of this group as we ended up focusing on making sure that they did not ruin our time and experiences once we arrived in Paris! So, the bottom line for us, save your money if you are looking for assistance in attending major bucket list events and find another travel group!