Where are people staying?
Post any info on accommodation in Macedonia in here. I'll try keep a summary of the main links in this thread.
Other links -
Flights (or other means of getting there)
Charter travel (incl tour operator bookings, charter buses, taxis, etc)
The game (match tickets, kick off time, directions to the ground, etc)
Places (towns, internal travel, reccies, etc)
Pubs (things to do, other chat)
General (things to do, other chat)
Last edited by pineapple stu; 26/03/2010 at 12:35 PM.
Where are people staying?
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
Have a couple of places on hold. VIP Hotel and Hotel Ani.
From what I was reading on ybig it looks like hotels are a little more difficult to come by now due to a conference also being held at the same time. I will be releasing one or other of these hotels nearer the time, if you are struggling just PM me.
EDIT: I used booking.com if you are looking. Can reserve without paying in advance.
Last edited by Junior; 14/02/2011 at 11:00 AM.
I thought you were off the drink Ronnie?
"No, I drink to help me mind my own business....can I get you one? (c) Ronnie Drew
Ah ok thanks junior. What prices were you looking at?
naively i left it a little longer, as prices seemed to be ok at the holiday inn but are now over £100 a night. Im going on my own by the looks of it too, so I don't want to paying too much for a room on my own.
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
working out at £23 pp pn.
I thought you were off the drink Ronnie?
"No, I drink to help me mind my own business....can I get you one? (c) Ronnie Drew
I booked through the hotel ani's website myself and got email confirmation of the stay. No cc details taken. Surely that should be enough eh?
Here they come! It’s the charge of the “Thanks” Brigade!
Couldnt say tbh. However, if hotels rooms are getting scarce which they appear to be and there are occurences of overbooking etc.. dont' be surprised if the booking with no cc details is the one that gets shunted out to the nice hotel 10km from the city centre!!!!
Only messing with you but you probably want to consider whether its worth some form of additional confirmation.
I thought you were off the drink Ronnie?
"No, I drink to help me mind my own business....can I get you one? (c) Ronnie Drew
whats the link for the ybig accommodation?
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
Not sure there is one, but this is the thread where they are posting travel details etc...
http://www.ybig.ie/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=19258
I thought you were off the drink Ronnie?
"No, I drink to help me mind my own business....can I get you one? (c) Ronnie Drew
We're hostelling it. Staying in 'Nice Hostel', 550m from Macedonia Square, €10 a night.
Have you ever won the treble?
We're staying in the Hotel Victoria. It's central, has air conditioning which will be vital if it's even nearly as hot as expected, has good reviews on Tripadvisor, and at €60 a night for your own room, is quite reasonable.
http://hotelvictoria.com.mk/en/
http://www.tripadvisor.ie/Hotel_Revi...ia-Skopje.html
Just FYI - One of the hotels I booked on booking.com (I have had reserved a couple of different ones depending on final numbers) has debited my credit card for the booking which was not supposed to happen, as you should be able to cancel up to 24hrs before without penalty. However after a few emails back and forth, they are well aware of the football match and are asking for pre-payment for any rooms booked. The feckers should have communicated this first but just thought I'd bang it up here in case anyone else is in the same boat.
I thought you were off the drink Ronnie?
"No, I drink to help me mind my own business....can I get you one? (c) Ronnie Drew
Getting expensive, this is going to be an expensive enough trip i fear. These former communist bloc states always seem to try and rip you off. I know thats a wide remark, a generalisation, but on my few trips to these places thats what ive found!!
Anyway I went with hotel victoria, it seems equ-distance from the centre as VIP and got slightly better reviews for around the same price(now 177 euro for 3 nights).
My mate says he is coming but i think when he sees the price of it all he wont(junior he still hasn't booked). So if anyone has a spare room going or anything at a cheaper rate in any of the hotels please do contact me.
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
The expensive bit is the flights. Accommodation can be found relatively cheap, depending on what you look for. Cost of living is laughably cheap by our standards.
Alternatively, you could go with Abbey, where everything is twice as expensive than it needs to be.
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My post 50 euro each a night is not cheap for a bog standard hotel that is.its still months away and i don't believe a conference is going to have that big effect.the d4 hotel in Dublin lovely hotel is half the price sharing
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
Mypost is right. The main expense of this trip is the flight. I think that 50 or 60 quid a night for your own room, in a fairly central hotel with good reviews is decent enough. There will obviously be cheaper if you're prepared to share a room in a kip, which we did in years gone by. When you're at this gig long enough though, you just need your own space!
I think its the VIP kingdom
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
ya decent in dublin price terms. Flights are expensive, these are 3 star hotels at most with basic facilities from all reviews ive read. Its the equivalent of accor hotels/etap/formule1 whatever in western continental europe and you'd get a room there (which could fit 2 even 3 if you wanted) for around 40 euro or under. Now do you honestly think the capital of a poor country like macedonia compared with this is worth 25%-35% more?
And the centre itself looks very small, so the likes of VIP/victoria are a good 1- 1.5km away.
£400-£450 3 nights flights and accomodation, flights booked well in advance, accomodation(basic no decent facilities) booked 3 months in advance, is a lot of money for a relatively poor country.
Last edited by paul_oshea; 02/03/2011 at 12:50 PM.
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
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