$500,000 Costs An Ultra-Exclusive Package For The 2024 Paris Olympics. “Something Very, Very Unique and Special”

GR8 Experience, an “international experience agency” partly owned by basketball star LeBron James’ business manager and tennis player Rafael Nadal’s public relations manager, is selling Olympic packages it claims include tickets to 14 events, such as would be the men’s 100 meters final and the opening ceremony. The amount for such a package: $381,600. There are other and more expensive packages, writes the cited source.

In addition to the so-called Category A tickets, the agency claims it can arrange “priceless experiences” including meet-and-greet with the athletes, tours of restricted areas such as the athletes’ village, private after-hours access to Louvre and a “royal dinner at the Palace of Versailles”.

Barnabas Carrega, chief executive of GR8 Experience, told The Guardian that his firm offers the super-rich “access not available to the public, including time with the athletes”.

“There are several tennis players for the Olympic Games. And a number of other athletes, but I am not in a position to name them”, staggered Barnabas Carrega, executive director of GR8 Experience, told The Guardian.

From photos to lunch with the athletes

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Their cost “depends on the structure of the meeting”, which, according to Barnabas Carrega, ranges from “15 minutes to take photos and have a quick chat to other meetings, including lunch”.

The price ranges from $25,000 to $500,000 “if we’re talking about one of the best athletes who spends a lot of time.”

Carrega said he is “very selective” about the athletes his company works with and said some may not provide the experience customers are looking for.

“Some athletes have a huge name but may not have the charisma needed for customers, others offer a real experience. The athletes have to look like they want to be there, not to say ‘hello’, but then, in five minutes, it’s obvious they want to leave,” Barnabas Carrega said.

He also stated that he could sell the access to be “part of the Olympic ceremony”. While official Olympic Games partner On Location is offering “Riverside Gold Package” tickets to watch the opening ceremony for €7,500, excluding taxes, along the Seine, Carrega said he was able to offer access “inside the Trocadero”, where the main part of the ceremony will take place, overlooking the Eiffel Tower.

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“You can’t buy this. You have to use your relationship with the sportsmen’s families and with the (countries’) delegations”, revealed Barnabas Carrega.

He currently has six to eight spaces available for the opening ceremony that would cost about $25,000 each, having already sold a few to a high-net-worth client.

“Obviously, at this price level you have to be a very qualified person to want to spend this money. It’s the access that money can’t buy, the inaccessible level to something very, very unique and special”, Barnabas Carrega said.

The Paris 2024 organizing committee says it is the only official supplier

On the other hand, the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee stated that On Location is the only “official and exclusive hospitality provider for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games”.

“Any entity selling ticketed hospitality packages that is not an official sub-distributor of On Location is doing so illegally. Access to the athletes’ village or to participate in the opening ceremony is not based on tickets and is authorized only to those who have a valid accreditation”, says the press release of the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee.

At the same time, the organizers draw attention to the fact that those who buy packages outside the official channels “risk very much that the tickets or packages will not be delivered or that access will be denied by the Paris 2024 organizing committee, in accordance with the terms and conditions”. said a spokesperson of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

The 33rd edition of the Summer Olympics will be held in Paris from July 26 to August 11, 2024. See also images from the Olympic Flame lighting ceremony: