Germany away (2 September 2006) - all info in this thread

[Forever Dreamin]

Nah a friend lives there. The original plan was to head down on the Friday night but now we can't (long story). No problem with hardship just don't fancy driving after having a load of beers the night before and then only 2 hours sleep!!! ;)

Ah sure, I'll struggle through!!! :p

fair coment, sorry for taking the ****, wasn't thinking about arriving late or whatever, were arrivng weds just to be safe,

[BaZmO*]

fair coment, sorry for taking the ****, wasn't thinking about arriving late or whatever
No worries. ;)


were arrivng weds just to be safe,
Wednesday??? :eek: You really are being safe!!! :D

[Loadedscream]

Should book your tickets now if anybody plans on getting the train to stuttgart. Just booked Frankfurt Airport to Stuttgart theyre...its €98 return if you turn up on the day and I just booked 2 of us for €73.50 total!!! Handy spare beer money!!

www.bahn.de

[Forever Dreamin]

[QUOTE=No worries. ;)


Wednesday??? You really are being safe!!! :[/QUOTE]


In fairness the kids are back to school the next week and the wife loves Germany. We normally do Thursday to Sunday which is what we have booked for Cyprus. Dont think im booking a hotel for Cyprus after last year, very expensive, worked out about €100 per hour for the amount of time sppent in it!! :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[soccerc]

Should book your tickets now if anybody plans on getting the train to stuttgart. Just booked Frankfurt Airport to Stuttgart theyre...its €98 return if you turn up on the day and I just booked 2 of us for €73.50 total!!! Handy spare beer money!!

www.bahn.de (http://www.bahn.de)


More importantly did you reserve seats on the train along with booking the tickets?

[Jens1893]

www.hrs.de for hotels ... there were some half decent places available 2-3 weeks ago, might have to settle for something on the outskirts tho. im the stuttgart fan that tipped off junior re: the tickets, btw ... so if anyone is looking for help, gimme a shout.

as far as kickoff time goes ... germany home matches rarely kick off before 5pm ... i guess its gonna be something between 6 and 8pm

[Loadedscream]

More importantly did you reserve seats on the train along with booking the tickets?

Could have...opted not too it was a bit more expensive and the journey is only 1 hr 13 mins!!! I'm going on Thursday so i'm not worried...i've been standing on these ICE babies before and the bar is quite roomy!!!!:D

[oconghc2]

www.hrs.de im the stuttgart fan that tipped off junior re: the tickets, btw ... so if anyone is looking for help, gimme a shout.


Good man Jens - hope you got tickets yourself though!! I wouldnt say the German FA are too pleased with you!! :)

What is stuttgart like as a city - is there a main square type set-up with a few bars where all fans meet up?

[Frank Blue]

Good man Jens - hope you got tickets yourself though!! I wouldnt say the German FA are too pleased with you!! :)

What is stuttgart like as a city - is there a main square type set-up with a few bars where all fans meet up?

I haven't lived there for a few years, but what I can tell you is that Stuttgart is a very pleasant, but small city. The main area is Königstrasse which is directly from the Hauptbahnhof (central station). There are plenty of bars around and I am sure Irish fans will be made more than welcome.

This is where I used to go drinking :o
http://www.biddyearlys.com/frames.html

[Jens1893]

Good man Jens - hope you got tickets yourself though!! I wouldnt say the German FA are too pleased with you!! :)

What is stuttgart like as a city - is there a main square type set-up with a few bars where all fans meet up?

It´s their own fault really if they put the ticketing into the hands of an agency and don´t get suspicious when they get orders from UK addresses ...

There is one pretty big main square, the Schlossplatz. Celtic gathered there when we played them and they also put up some big screens for people to watch the WC matches. They´ll pull the fences and the big screens down after the WC tho.

Stuttgart as a city, well ... you have to live here to enjoy it and find the nice sides, but if you´re only here for a few days you´ll most likely enjoy it. They actually even stained the running track green ... :rolleyes:

This is it on the afternoon of the Netherlands/Ivory Coast game ...

http://www.lostboys99.de/fotos/2005-2006/holland-elfenbeinkueste/Kif_51410.jpg

@ Frank

I´d expect Biddy Early´s to be way, way, way overcrowded ... better have a plan b ready as getting in there on that weekend is gonna be a nightmare. Sophie´s Brauhaus next door has been VERY popular with travelling football fans. There´s another bar called O´Reilly´s, but it´s way smaller than Biddy Early´s ... on the other hand, why gather at Irish bars? It´s not like you don´t have that back at home, so try some of the local brews and bars.

[Forever Dreamin]

www.hrs.de for hotels ... there were some half decent places available 2-3 weeks ago, might have to settle for something on the outskirts tho. im the stuttgart fan that tipped off junior re: the tickets, btw ... so if anyone is looking for help, gimme a shout.

as far as kickoff time goes ... germany home matches rarely kick off before 5pm ... i guess its gonna be something between 6 and 8pm


I propose that you are made a freeman of Stuttgart for the weekend!!!:D :D

[wooman]

what areas in Stuttgart would you recommend to look for a hotel?

obviously somewhere handy 2 get to the game and also to go out on the razz?

any help would be appreciated

[wooman]

Does everyone know that theres 2 airports in Frankfurt?

Im flying to frankfurt Hahn airport then getting a bus into the city to get the train to stuttgart.

anyone else travelling this way?

flying from stanstead on the friday morning

[risteard55]

this might be of some help to some. cheers


http://cgi.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330003546814

[Jens1893]

Does everyone know that theres 2 airports in Frankfurt?

Im flying to frankfurt Hahn airport then getting a bus into the city to get the train to stuttgart.

anyone else travelling this way?

flying from stanstead on the friday morning

Hahn is in the middle of nowhere! Typical for Ryanair to call it Frankfurt as it takes you a bit to get to Frankfurt.

[Jens1893]

what areas in Stuttgart would you recommend to look for a hotel?

obviously somewhere handy 2 get to the game and also to go out on the razz?

any help would be appreciated

Try www.hrs.de ... I always use them myself. Most half decent hotels are obviously gone by now, but the Stadthotel am Wasen (85 € for a double) looks good. It´s about a 10 minute walk to the stadium and a taxi to town won´t be more than 10-15 € ... there´s a tube station right at the hotel, as well.

If you´re still looking for tickets, try ebay. The prices are still face value + a tenner and I expect them shoot up any minute once people here realize there´s life after the WC.

http://search.ebay.de/search/search.dll?query=deutschland+irland&MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&ht=1&ebaytag1=ebayreg&srchdesc=n&maxRecordsReturned=300&maxRecordsPerPage=50&SortProperty=MetaEndSort

[wooman]

Hahn is in the middle of nowhere! Typical for Ryanair to call it Frankfurt as it takes you a bit to get to Frankfurt.


Yeah Jens, its about 1 1/2 hrs on a us to frankfurt city. got the flite for £60 return though from stansted, few trs xtra aint that bad

[wooman]

jens, booked that hotel

think i have 2 tkts sorted but gonna get a bid into ebay as a few mates are looking to take the trip aswell

hope tehres more irish fans hittin Hahn airport, need a crowd to booze with when we arrive

[Bluetonic]

Sky News report as found linked on http://southterraceview.blogspot.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UtYiUPxwwk&search=briandublin

[casso36]

Booked flights on ebookers, flying from Dublin - Copenhagen - Stuttgart
Flying out Friday 11am and arrive stuggart 16.45. Leave sunday 10.30am arrive back to dublin 17.45. Cost €326.82

Hotel Brita Augsburger Str. 671 - 673 70329 Stuttgart -Oberturkheim
4 1/2 kilometers from stadium cost €70.00 for the 2 nights. Can be booked on www.hrs.com.

[0325422]

thats very expensive for flights, i got goin from shannon to stanstead cost me 15 return and flyin from stanstead to stuttgart cost me €125 so dats €150 altogether. i think maybe the 125 could a been sterling but that still aint that bad, still well under 200 euro

[casso36]

thats very expensive for flights, i got goin from shannon to stanstead cost me 15 return and flyin from stanstead to stuttgart cost me €125 so dats €150 altogether. i think maybe the 125 could a been sterling but that still aint that bad, still well under 200 euro

Total for 2 days including match tickets purchased via enventim.de (:D )€437.00
thats not have bad considering cheapest package for 2 days €599.00.

And flight times are not bad considering!!!! plenty of time for beers!!!! :D

[Forever Dreamin]

Total for 2 days including match tickets purchased via enventim.de (:D )€437.00
thats not have bad considering cheapest package for 2 days €599.00.

And flight times are not bad considering!!!! plenty of time for beers!!!! :D

ryanair dublin stuttgart €150 hotel €30 x 4 night ticket €30 inc courier tl €300 4 nights, the early bird catches the worm....book now for san marino last check €156 with BA Dublin / Bologna return

[deego11]

ryanair dublin stuttgart €150 hotel €30 x 4 night ticket €30 inc courier tl €300 4 nights, the early bird catches the worm....book now for san marino last check €156 with BA Dublin / Bologna return

Yeah it deffo is the early worm alright. I think I have missed the boat all i can get flights for is 386 is the cheapest fri-sun thats really expensive! :mad:

[Jon'o]

Yeah it deffo is the early worm alright. I think I have missed the boat all i can get flights for is 386 is the cheapest fri-sun thats really expensive! :mad:

Stanstead to baden-baden is £125stg return saturday to sunday, just another option, depends how long you want to go over there for and how much flights to stanstead are... and hotels can still be had for between 35 - 50 yoyo's per night

[Forever Dreamin]

Yeah it deffo is the early worm alright. I think I have missed the boat all i can get flights for is 386 is the cheapest fri-sun thats really expensive! :mad:

try dublin stanstead / friedrich??? its about 2 hours from Stuttgart. Last week it was about €150 return thurs - sun

[Soko]

Half decent prices can still be had, just booked hotel for €60 each 2 nights and flights through Berlin - it is preferable for us - €160. Match tickets bring it to only €250+ and not done the early bird way.

[PaulB]

Should book your tickets now if anybody plans on getting the train to stuttgart. Just booked Frankfurt Airport to Stuttgart theyre...its €98 return if you turn up on the day and I just booked 2 of us for €73.50 total!!! Handy spare beer money!!

www.bahn.de

Did you have to book exact times ? How did you get it for that price, I'm trying to book for 6 and it's coming back with 510 Euro...

[Loadedscream]

Did you have to book exact times ? How did you get it for that price, I'm trying to book for 6 and it's coming back with 510 Euro...

Yeah you have to select a specific train and at the cheapest price avaliability is limited...but they are there.."sparpreis 50" is the cheap one..if its sold out try a later/earlier train

[galwayhoop]

does anyone know how much taxi's cost in germany.

we're arriving into baden-baden at about 8pm on friday - don't want to waste time gettin to train station and then paying for train. theres 4 of us so i reckon a taxi cant be mor than €60 each (250 for the trip.). i think it's about 60 miles to stuttgart from baden baden.

for paris we flew into chareoli (aka brusselles) and got train to paris but it ended up costing us about €100 ea and taxi quoted us €300 for 6 but we had already paid for train!!

[green army]

Yeah it deffo is the early worm alright. I think I have missed the boat all i can get flights for is 386 is the cheapest fri-sun thats really expensive! :mad:


i've booked flights into munich on the thursday and returning on monday for under €250. aer lingus are having a sale at the moment. reckon it will cost another €80 for return train to stuttgart.depending on time of game we might stay in munich and get the train early to stuttgart and then return to munich later that night.

[Forever Dreamin]

does anyone know how much taxi's cost in germany.

we're arriving into baden-baden at about 8pm on friday - don't want to waste time gettin to train station and then paying for train. theres 4 of us so i reckon a taxi cant be mor than €60 each (250 for the trip.). i think it's about 60 miles to stuttgart from baden baden.

for paris we flew into chareoli (aka brusselles) and got train to paris but it ended up costing us about €100 ea and taxi quoted us €300 for 6 but we had already paid for train!!

was in munich last year and a 30 minute taxi journey from Munich airport , mostly on motorway was €50, did it 4 times price never varied by more than a €

[Golfer]

Check out the Hertz web site 3 of us are flying into Frankfurt and got a Mondeo size car for €66 per day incl taxes.
It may work out cheaper than taxis.
Most hotels will have a car park.

[wooman]

anyone flying 2 frankfurt Hahn?

[Junior]

www.hrs.de for hotels ... there were some half decent places available 2-3 weeks ago, might have to settle for something on the outskirts tho. im the stuttgart fan that tipped off junior re: the tickets, btw ... so if anyone is looking for help, gimme a shout.

as far as kickoff time goes ... germany home matches rarely kick off before 5pm ... i guess its gonna be something between 6 and 8pm

Welcome aboad Jens and thanks once again for the tip off - you can see here, plenty of pints should be heading your way from posters on here!!!!

You're looking good for a place in the WC final? - Im looking forward to the WC hangover in September so we can take at least a point of you, preferably 3 with a decent away win for the first time in decades!!

[elroy]

Anyone recommend areas to stay in stuttgart, we've been looking at renting out apartments for the few days, works out quite cheap, most of them in the city centre and Stuttgart west. Other areas we were given were Zuffenhaussen and Wangen. Anyone any clue where they may be??

[casso36]

Anyone recommend areas to stay in stuttgart, we've been looking at renting out apartments for the few days, works out quite cheap, most of them in the city centre and Stuttgart west. Other areas we were given were Zuffenhaussen and Wangen. Anyone any clue where they may be??

Try www.hrs.de few hotels close to stadium 4 1/2 kilometeres
Bria Hotel you'll find it on site, €70 per room per night. Thats the
hotel we've booked looks grand!!!!

[zinedineontour]

anyone flying 2 frankfurt Hahn?

yeah flying in on thurs morn out monday night. .Hired a car and with accom flights and car works around €300 a head for 4 nights ... Should take around 2 and a half hours to get to stuttgart by car ..

[SeanieBoy]

I'm flying to London with Ryanair on Tuesday 29th for only €50 return & then flying with BA from Heathrow to Stuttgart on Thursday morning returning on Monday afternoon for only £100 Sterling. I was quite surprised it worked out so well....

[Paulie]

anyone flying 2 frankfurt Hahn?

Myself and 2 mates fly into Frankfurt Hahn on Friday evening. We're going to hire a car and drive straight to Stuttgart that night. We should get to our hotel at around midnight.

[Dr. Ogba]

Apologies if this has already been mentioned (couldn't be arsed trawling through the 25+ pages in this thread!) but if you're looking for cheap accommodation and don't mind a bit of roughing it go to the following for camping just 10 mins train outside Stuttgart:


http://www.campingplatz-stuttgart.de/Englisch/Index.html

Sent them a mail last week and booked for under 10 Euro a night!!!

Now all I have to do is find some tickets! :confused:

[wooman]

good work paulie, might look into the car thing

how much was the car rental per day?

i land in hahn airport for around 4 o clock

[Paulie]

good work paulie, might look into the car thing

how much was the car rental per day?

i land in hahn airport for around 4 o clock

That would be my advice anyway. It just seems a little messy if you're getting the train considering that it's an hour and a half drive just to get to the train station. We haven't checked the price of the car hire yet but it normally works out ok if it's between 3 or 4 people. What I would say though is that if you're hiring a car I'd organise it a bit before flying as God only knows how many Irish fans are flying Ryanair into Frankfurt Hahn that weekend and they will only have so many cars available.

[Forever Dreamin]

That would be my advice anyway. It just seems a little messy if you're getting the train considering that it's an hour and a half drive just to get to the train station. We haven't checked the price of the car hire yet but it normally works out ok if it's between 3 or 4 people. What I would say though is that if you're hiring a car I'd organise it a bit before flying as God only knows how many Irish fans are flying Ryanair into Frankfurt Hahn that weekend and they will only have so many cars available.


while Im flying into Stuttgart, it would appear that loads are flying into Hahn, why dont 1 of you set up a thread to collect numbers from the flights and look into hiring a coach. Its 163 miles and according to autoroute a 2 1/2 hr drive. Even with 30 on a coach it would probably be far cheaper than hiring cars and more crack!!:ball: :ball: :ball:

[gufct]

but far and away the cheapest airline was germanwings flying out of stansted direct to Stuttgart every day we booked ages ago flying from shannon to stansted overnighting in the holiday inn express for less than €150 inclusive of acc..

[Junior]

flying out to Stuttgart from Manchester on the Friday night is still very cheap, probably have to come back on the Monday though. www.hlx.com

[Sligo Hornet]

There are seven of us booked into the Hotel Garni Hafner ( about 6km outside centre ) staying Friday and Saturday night..........will we have the only Flag hanging out the window....or are there any others booked into this hotel..?:(

[Bluetonic]

but far and away the cheapest airline was germanwings flying out of stansted direct to Stuttgart every day we booked ages ago flying from shannon to stansted overnighting in the holiday inn express for less than €150 inclusive of acc..

Snap Dublin -> Stansted -> Stuttgart, Thursday to Sunday. Worked out less than 190 euro at the time. 2 hours in Stansted each way. Will be grand landing in Stutgart.

[co. down green]

Snap Dublin -> Stansted -> Stuttgart, Thursday to Sunday. Worked out less than 190 euro at the time. 2 hours in Stansted each way. Will be grand landing in Stutgart.

Belfast - Stanstead - Stuttgart. Friday to Sunday.

Booked early and got a great deal.

[joe_barry80]

Keep checking this link over the next couple of weeks http://www.uefa.com/competitions/euro/FixturesResults/index.html