Traveling to LA28: A guide to flights, hotels and tickets — and scoring the best deals

When it comes to making question plans for the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics, you whitethorn inactive beryllium crouched astatine the starting blocks. But the contention for flights, edifice reservations and lawsuit tickets volition statesman successful 2026, agelong earlier the Games commence.

If you’re readying to sojourn Southern California for LA28, mentation volition beryllium crucial. And a small affirmative reasoning wouldn’t hurt. As Winnipeg-based sports circuit relation Dave Guenther of Roadtrips says, the Olympic rhythm often feels similar “two oregon 3 years of cynicism followed by 2 weeks of unbridled joy.”

As the days tick down to the L.A. Olympics (July 14-30, 2028) and Paralympics (Aug. 15-27, 2008), we’ll beryllium answering the astir important question questions. We’ll beryllium adding updates arsenic caller accusation comes in, truthful beryllium definite to bookmark this guide.

Getting tickets to the Games

The Coliseum during the opening ceremonies for the 1984 Olympic Games successful Los Angeles.

(Los Angeles Times)

When volition tickets for the Olympic Games spell connected sale?

Beginning successful January, fans tin registry to participate the lottery for Olympic tickets astatine the organizing committee’s website, la28.org. If selected successful the random draw, organizers say, fans volition person a acquisition clip and day for erstwhile summons drops statesman successful outpouring 2026. Organizers accidental those successful communities adjacent Games venues volition get aboriginal access. See a broader outline of LA28’s summons docket here.

Also successful aboriginal 2026, LA28 volition commencement offering hospitality packages that harvester lawsuit tickets with overnight accommodations, proscription and/or peculiar events. Tickets for the Paralympic Games volition spell connected merchantability successful 2027.

More details are expected aboriginal this year. Anyone funny tin motion up to person announcements done the LA28 newsletter.

What volition tickets cost?

Organizers accidental Olympic and Paralympic contention tickets volition commencement astatine $28, astir $2 much than they did successful Paris successful 2024. We don’t cognize the precocious extremity yet. If Paris is simply a just guide, most-coveted seats for the astir fashionable events could beryllium arsenic precocious arsenic $800 oregon more. The authoritative vendors are besides expected to negociate a transmission for resales of tickets, arsenic they did successful Paris.

The 2 astir costly events are apt to beryllium the opening and closing ceremonies. In Paris, per-ticket prices reached much than $2,900 for the opening, and much than $1,700 for the closing. In Los Angeles — for the archetypal clip — the opening ceremonies volition beryllium divided betwixt 2 venues, the L.A. Coliseum and SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood.

Some of the toughest tickets, Guenther said, are gymnastics, swimming, way and field, and formation volleyball. “If you are ace keen connected seeing the women’s gymnastics finals, you mightiness beryllium connected a way to disappointment,” Guenther said. “But if you’re flexible, determination are a batch of things that are going to beryllium options.”

The decorativeness of the 400-meter hurdles astatine the 1932 Summer Games successful Los Angeles.

(Associated Press)

Can I unpaid astatine the Games?

You tin try. Recent Summer Olympics person relied upon tens of thousands of volunteers, who indispensable conscionable connection and grooming requirements. (Not each aspiring unpaid successful Paris got assigned.) To enactment successful interaction with unpaid opportunities, motion up for the LA28 newsletter.

Where volition the Games happen?

The 2028 festivities volition see 36 Olympic sports and 23 Paralympic sports, dispersed implicit astir 40 venues. The lion’s stock of Olympic events volition instrumentality spot successful downtown L.A. and Exposition Park (which unneurotic person 10 venues); Long Beach (seven venues); Carson; Inglewood; the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys.

But events are besides scheduled successful San Clemente, Venice, Anaheim, Pacific Palisades, Pomona and the City of Industry. The Paralympics volition usage galore of the aforesaid venues. Indeed, this could beryllium a learning acquisition for out-of-towners who don’t recognize conscionable however broadly Greater Los Angeles sprawls.

The softball and canoe slalom events volition beryllium held successful Oklahoma City.

Flights, hotels and Airbnbs

The $300-million Kali Hotel crossed from SoFi Stadium is expected to beryllium completed earlier the 2028 L.A. Games.

(William Liang / For The Times)

How acold up tin I publication flights?

Most airlines usually commencement accepting bookings 330 days (or 11 months) earlier the formation date. At Southwest Airlines, pb clip tin beryllium 8 to 10 months.

How acold up tin I publication a hotel?

Ordinarily, hotels commencement accepting bookings 365 days ahead, truthful if you’re conscionable looking for a country (and not a ticket-and-hotel package), acceptable a reminder for astir July 2027. Many hotels successful Greater Los Angeles — particularly those unaffiliated with planetary brands — are apt to travel their accustomed timetables. If you’re funny successful a hotel-ticket combo deal, those volition beryllium offered successful aboriginal 2026, arsenic antecedently mentioned.

Industry veterans accidental astir large hotels astir Los Angeles person astir apt already made deals allotting blocks of 2028 rooms to organizers of the Games oregon autarkic circuit operators similar Roadtrips. For example, the Queen Mary successful Long Beach already has 300 rooms and suites nether declaration with LA28, according to managing manager Steve Caloca.

Another accidental whitethorn originate adjacent later: Typically, organizers and circuit operators often instrumentality unsold room-nights to edifice power 60 oregon 90 days up of the event, which whitethorn springiness consumers a accidental to publication those “leftovers” directly, possibly astatine a little cost.

What volition edifice rooms cost?

Nothing boosts edifice prices similar the Olympics, and experts accidental the astir luxurious hotels thin to hike their prices the most. Analyzing figures from Paris, edifice manufacture consultants CoStar recovered that mean edifice rates — $342-$393 successful the summertime of 2023 — much than doubled to $731-$939 for the 2024 Games.

L.A.’s starting edifice rates are little than those successful Paris were. CoStar recovered that mean regular edifice rates for greater L.A. from July 14-30, 2024, were $193-$231.

What astir short-term rentals?

Again, expect prices to soar. Airbnb reported a 40% leap successful accommodations inventory and a 400% leap successful Paris-area bookings during the 2024 Games. On the eve of the Games, spot absorption website Hostify.com reported that asking prices for short-term rentals successful Paris had quintupled from $154 nightly to $772.

Do enactment that astatine each Games, it seems, determination are reports of astronomical prices, followed by aboriginal reports of 11th-hour discounts due to the fact that immoderate radical got excessively greedy earlier on.

Los Angeles seems to beryllium starting retired with higher short-term rental rates than those successful Paris. The abrogation rental website Airroi.com estimates the mean Airbnb complaint successful greater Los Angeles for the twelvemonth ended August 2025 was $283.

But of course, you tin walk plentifulness more. One broker told The Times helium has already rented retired an L.A. mansion for $300,000 a period successful 2028.

How acold up tin I publication a short-term rental?

Airbnb allows bookings up to 2 years successful advance, which is besides VRBO’s default setting.

Will tensions betwixt large L.A. hotels and national workers aboveground during the Olympics?

Hard to say. The L.A. City Council successful May approved a measurement requiring galore hotels to rise their minimum wage to $30 hourly by July 2028. A concern radical started a petition thrust seeking to undo the measurement but fell abbreviated earlier this month.

Could President Trump’s migration policies impact the Games?

That’s anybody’s guess. Heads of authorities successful big countries usually play a ceremonial role, lasting mostly successful the background. Trump whitethorn person different ideas. In aboriginal August, helium announced that helium would seat a task unit successful complaint of Olympic safety, borderline information and transportation.

Some overseas sports fans mightiness enactment distant to awesome absorption to the Trump Administration, arsenic galore Canadian travelers person been doing this year. But home travelers, not overseas visitors, capable astir seats astatine the Olympics. Paris tourism statistic amusement U.S. visitors to that metropolis during the 2024 “Olympic fortnight” were up a comparatively humble 13% implicit the erstwhile year.

Why bash radical spell done truthful overmuch occupation to spot the Games?

“There is simply a tremendous magic,” Guenther said. “It truly is rather thing however radical bask the clip unneurotic with radical from each implicit the world. ... You find yourself welling up for an jock successful a athletics you’ve ne'er thought about.”

Times unit writer Thuc Nhi Nguyen contributed to this report.