A Note From My Accountant- RE: Cannes
It might be months since this year's Cannes film festival, but I'm still feeling the reverberations from my time spent in the company of our fair leader Matt on the (occasionally) sunny Croisette. I may have been blogging for another site this year, but I was still part of the OWF crew that descended on the South of France.
Anyway, the reason I'm going back to it in the months following the festival, as I've waited patiently for the cinematic releases of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and Blue Valentine (the twin highlights of the festival this year) to creep closer, I've been locked in a series of time-sapping endeavours (NEVER move house, by the way) which have made sorting out my post-festival expenses and the like a ridiculously belated affair. I've finally done them, and the news isn't great.
It turns out that Cannes is bloody expensive. Big surprise huh?
France is already notoriously expensive, and the appeal of hiking prices as hordes of the industry's international press seems to have been an irresistible prospect for the price-setters on the Southern resort. Our hotel was a reasonable looking place, all mod cons, a swimming pool- the usual things you tick off when you're looking to book any hotel, but for ten days an awful lot of Euros crossed hands. We booked early as well, and outside of the centre of Cannes to save money but not be too far to travel in every day: but really, had money been no object, or had we been able to secure some kind of money off deal, we'd have got right into the centre, to be at the crux of everything. And I'd say to all prospective Cannes coverers to aim for the same thing.
So, because I'm a charitable type, and I always look for ways to beat the system one tiny brick at a time, I'm bringing news to everyone who plans to head to the 2011 Cannes Film Festival of a discount offer from VoucherCodes.co.uk for use on Hotels.com that'll net you 10% off a booking- and do it quick, the two keys to getting good accommodation for the fest are to book early and to try and get as much money off as possible. Gotta keep those overheads down.
So get to it, seriously, your bank account will thank you for it come July next year.