How to plan for the 2028 Olympics

Official ticket access runs through draws and registered sales, not a forum. Subscribe to the LA28 list and use the official platform. Public inventory in the first draws was thin because of presale. Later drops still go to people who are already registered. This page is not a guide to resale or scalping.

Short-term rental calendars for July 2028 started opening in 2026. Watch them. A hold you can cancel is useful; a non-refundable loft before you have tickets is how people pay for a Games they cannot enter. How far ahead to book still applies, with a two-year fuse.

Many hotel brands only list about 13 months ahead. Expect July 2028 rooms to appear in mid-2027, then move fast near venues. Downtown Los Angeles connects; Pasadena, the San Gabriel Valley, and the South Bay are the usual cheaper belts with longer rides. Book a base you can repeat every night, not a new neighborhood for each sport.

Flights are expected about a year out, around July 2027. Set an alert now. Buy when the fare hits a ceiling, not the hour the calendar opens. Open-jaw into one airport and out of another only helps if both ends serve the same zone you sleep in.

The Games use venues across a wide footprint. A morning in one cluster and a night final in another is a two-hour ride on a good day. Sleep where the Metro (or a repeated shuttle) makes the events you hold tickets for. Organizing by day is that map test. Geography first, sports second.

Event days are the event. The morning after a night final is slow. Neighborhood walking in Los Angeles sits on the days without a session, the way a weekend in the city would — one area, not a star of pins. Planning around any big event is the same order of operations with the Olympics dates filled in.

Tickets in one zone and a hotel in another because the listing photos were better. Two sessions on opposite sides of the county with 90 minutes between them. A 6am flight the morning after closing. Buying 2028 flights in 2026 from a screenshot of a fare that cannot be ticketed yet.

If you only get four days of the Games, pick one cluster of venues and treat the rest as television. That is a full trip. Stacking Santa Monica, downtown, and a far valley venue into the same Saturday is how the medal session starts from a parking garage.

Read the Los Angeles destination page for neighborhood trade-offs before you fall for a loft. The listing photos will not tell you which zone you booked.