£40 room costs £640 on night of Sheeran gigs

ED SHEERAN fans face paying up to 16 times more than normal for a hotel room in Cardiff when the star plays the Principality Stadium next year.

The Grammy award-winner is set to play a record-breaking run of four gigs at the venue in June.

Tickets for all four gigs were snapped up almost as soon as they were released, with demand for accommodation equally high, sending prices skyrocketing.

On the Booking.com website the one remaining room, a twin room, at the Big Sleep Hotel on Bute Terrace on Thursday, June 21, 2018 – when Sheeran will play the first of his concerts – is advertised for £640. But the cost of a twin room just one week earlier on June 14, 2018, at the same hotel is advertised for just £40, which the site states includes a 44% discount. The £640 charge for July 21 is 16 times’ higher than the cost for a room a week earlier, which is a hike of 1,500%.

A twin/double room for two adults at the Radisson Blu Hotel, also on Bute Terrace, on June 14, 2018, is £71, while one week later on the night of Sheeran’s first gig, the price has gone up to £395 – a hike of 456%.

A double room at the Holiday Inn in Cardiff city centre is priced at £404 on Booking.com on Thursday, June 21. A week earlier the same room is £270.

According to Booking.com, there are only five rooms left at the Cardiff Marriott Hotel on Friday, June 22 and the price for a double room is £599, up from the usual £90 rate.