Watching Bermuda in the World Cup will not be a cheap affair ? and you have to hurry up and get your tickets if you want to go.

That is the message from C Travel, announced as the official travel agent for next year's cricketing spectacular in the West Indies, who are expecting the number of travelling fans to be in their hundreds rather than thousands.

After a four-month "arduous bid process", the self-styled cricket specialists will now be the only vendor of match tickets for Bermudians keen to watch their side in action.

Tight security regulations from the World Cup organisers ensures Bermudians can only buy their tickets from C Travel and C Travel can only sell their tickets to Bermuda residents.

There is also a tight deadline for sales, with those keen to go and watch coach Gus Logie's men take on India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in the most prestigious international matches in the Island's history, urged to do get their orders in within the next two weeks.

Delays in announcing the official travel agent by the World Cup organisers themselves have left C Travel pressed for time and they encouraging cricket fans to contact them as soon as possible for charter travel, accommodation and tickets.

The travel agent are running charter flights to Trinidad to cover the Bermuda group games and to Barbados for the final stages, although tickets for the final itself are only available for those purchasing tickets for some of the earlier knock-out games as well.

Even those with their own accommodation and travel already arranged still have to go through C Travel to watch the games as all match tickets ? by order of Cricket Logistics, who are overseeing the operation ? have to be sold with "attachments" which can be either travel, hotels or transfers from accommodations to the venues.

"We are delighted to have been chosen as the official travel agent," said C Travel CFO Lois Wilson.

"It was three of four months ago that we put in our bid and it was quite an arduous process. Things have moved a little slower than we perhaps would have liked and we are only now in a position to actually begin selling the tickets.

"As part of the bid process, we had to prove that we had the experience in both major sporting events and in dealing with sport and it is exciting for us to be involved in an event of this magnitude."

C Travel had sold packages for both the previous World Cups in the UK and South Africa, although those groups were of just around 45.

Pam Maybury, C Travel's Caribbean Charter and Sports specialist, believes that more will go this time but not the thousands originally expected to follow the North Rock Warriors, who qualified for the 2007 event last summer at the ICC Trophy in Ireland.

"I would say we wouldn't be looking at much more than about 200," said Maybury, who revealed that the idea of chartering a cruise ship was explored but would have worked out at as much as $10,000 a head.

"We have charters going out to both Trinidad and Barbados and I would say we have already half filled both of them, and that was before we were also allowed to sell the tickets.

"It is not going to be cheap which is why I don't think there will be the thousand or whatever originally expected ? many of the hotels are as much as double their usual prices.

"We are doing everything we can to offer the best value to all those who want to go down there."

Maybury has been organising cricketing charters to watch West Indies Tests for the past 18 years and said those ten day trips, due to the lower hotel prices in the popular destination Barbados and the ease of getting match tickets, were around half the price of this.

Anyone interested in tickets should contact Pam Maybury on 294 6908, at pmayburyctravel.bm or visit the C Travel store on Queen Street.