" LISBON Roger Martinez Colombia Camiseta , May 14 (Xinhua) -- All eyes will be on Portugal for the European Champions League final, but many Spanish football fans might have to make do with watching the game from their television sets at home.
As the big game which will see Real Madrid face Atletico Madrid looms, hotel prices in Portugal's capital Lisbon have soared as soccer fans scramble to find a place.
And over 97 percent of hotels in the city are already occupied, according to the Portuguese Association for Hospitality.
""This is completely normal. It's a demand and supply logic and happens around the world in all the big games and championships,"" Luis Vega, director of the Portuguese Association for Hospitality Abel Aguilar Colombia Camiseta , told Xinhua Wednesday.
Vega said that in Lisbon there are usually 24,000 rooms and 60 percent of them are occupied, meaning around 9,000 are usually free. And he said with around 40,000 Spaniards expected to come to Portugal for the match, it was ""completely logical"" for rooms to be overbooked and prices to rocket.
Xinhua found that booking a room was virtually impossible on Wednesday.
""We only rent rooms for two nights,"" a receptionist at Inspira Santa Maria, a four-star hotel in Lisbon, told Xinhua on Wednesday. ""And we only have an en suite left, with a jacuzzi.""
The price? ""The room for the 23rd is 2 Carlos Sanchez Moreno Colombia Camiseta ,000 euros (2,741 U.S. dollars) and 8,000 euros on the 24th. That's 10,000 euros in total,"" she said.
Xinhua also inquired whether there were rooms available at HF Fenix, which has three hotels in Lisbon Wilmar Barrios Colombia Camiseta , but the receptionist said there were no rooms available. All rooms were also booked at Holiday Inn Express.
These prices have been criticized by members of the opposition who say they are a threat to the tourism industry, one of the debt
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