Photo: Alexia Russell
There is significant demand for the 4000 MIQ rooms.
Available rooms appear at random on the MIQ website and are booked on a first-come, first-served basis.
One woman in her late 60s said she had no chance of being able to type her details in faster than a skilled computer user.
Karen Thorp only has a mobile phone and no computer which makes it highly unlikely she ll be able to input her data faster than someone else. The rooms she does see available are quickly booked by someone else by the time she gets through the application process, rendering them unavailable.