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Anybody else stayin in Bari Backpackers Hostel? I've a feelin it's a right dump but once there's a bed and a shower I suppose!! they were offering to collect us at the airport but wanted Credit Card details off at least 3 of us, bit much I thought!!!
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Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah
I booked directly with the accor.com website. I'll probably take the room in the Victor (its better than nothing) but I'll put them through the wringer first :mad:
We'll probably only be in the room for 3 or 4 hours anyway if our usual trips are anything to go by.
stayed in hostels on many a football trip and generally most are cleaner and better equiped than a lot of 3 star hotels.Quote:
Originally Posted by BarelyLegal
for anyone still looking try bbplanet.it for bed and breakfast accommodation
:eek:the Mercure are refusing to honour our bookings as well made on bookings.com They emailed me today with alternate accomodation which I have politely refused. As they say watch this space:eek:
Seperately I will probably have a triple room that we wont be using in Best western in Bari, anyone interested please pm me.
anyone flying via Brindisi?
Having a nightmare getting accomodation. 6 of us travelling. Anyone know of anywhere in Bari on the tuesday and wednesday?
Same a sthat Chris, absolute nightmare. I always source the flights and accom myself but i have never seen this before. Will probably leave it a while or just end up booking out of town some place. I can see a good crowd travelling but nothing like what the travel agents must be suspecting.
There is a lack of hotels in Bari. The scots found it hard to get rooms too. I was told by my Scottish mates to get in early with the hotels. Go on to ybig.ie and Tuff Paddy has a good link to a few BnB's
Going to email a friend living in Bari to see if she has any bright ideas re:accomodation
Try bed and breakfasts, there is no chance of hotels at this stage.
Has anyone flown through heathrow recently? Have a choice of flyin into Heathrow for half 9 or 11, my flight to Italy from Heathrow is at 12:20, so is just under an hour and a half enough time to catch the connecting flight or would i need more time??
Would be ok in most airports but ive heard heathrow is mental most of the time.
I was going to but dont think I can go at all now.Quote:
Originally Posted by wooman
Lands at 21.00 and there are three trains to Bari between 22.00 and 23.00. Only takes an hour - 60 miles.
All Irish flights arrive in Terminal 1 Domestic, from here to Terminal 1 is 15 minutes, Terminals 2 and 3 are another 10 minutes and Terminals 4 and 5 are probably 20 mins further away.Quote:
Originally Posted by elroy
You will need at least an hour just to go back thru the search areas and down to boarding gates.
Definitely recommend the earlier flight, and sure if you have time to kill you can have a few beers:cool::cool:
Yeah ....trouble is they're in Rome!!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by NeilMcD
http://www.bed-and-breakfast-in-ital...2&IDregione=13
Try this website, got a nice B&B in the city centre for 80 per night for a double room. Looks decent anyways.
http://www.residenzasveva.it/
I booked this B&B and there is more rooms available but seems to be plenty more B&Bs available.
Finding somewhere to stay is a nightmare, def left it too late, any1 thinking of camping or know what the scots did, i reckon they brought similar numbers
not the Mercure however we booked 3 twin rooms, I confirmed by e-mail and by phone. hotel tried to up the price, then hotel moved us to 2 triple rooms and upped the price a bit more. The original price was their max on thwe website.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greenforever
I threatened to write to the Italian tourist board.
Suddenly it is all a big misunderstanding and my emails were confused with another. :confused: Our original booking of 3 twin rooms at the original price is confirmed again.
Fukn chancersQuote:
Originally Posted by gspain
i received the same email from the hotel today. They put out some sh1te about the sysytem being down over the new year. complete bull. i had booked on booking.comQuote:
Originally Posted by Greenforever
they are offering me a room in the Ronḍ Residence Hotel, which is a bit out i expect. the hotel are wanting me to cancel my booking on the booking.com website. F4ck that, what happens if i ignore their emails and turn up with my reservation??
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Originally Posted by aidz1
http://i41.tinypic.com/2iaajch.jpg
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Originally Posted by aidz1
Don't cancel.
Start complaining. Complain to booking.com - not good for them that the Hotel is trying to renege. Try the Italian tourist board.
This is rubbish. They just see an opportunity here to cash in on the game.
It is not good for the reputation of a major hotel chain such as the Mercure that customers would be treated so shabbily. they were happy to sell their rooms at that price and should honour those sold before they realsied there was a match on.
We booked the Meridien in Stuttgart at a cheap rate for our game in Sept 06. The hotel still honoured all the bookings and it turned out to be the German team hotel.
Do you ever let up with your pictures of the more affluent parts of Watford? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Sligo Hornet
chris red etc - B+B emailed me with spare rooms...... Villa Grimaldi, email them below
GT
we have a triple and single room with the bathroom in common.the price is 100 euro a day for the triple and 40 euro a day for the single.the prices include breakfast and inner parking.if you need more rooms you can see on internet top class bari. best regards,
mariaelena grimaldi
----Messaggio originale----
Email: <villagrimaldi@libero.it>
Sounds scary!:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Green Tribe
Same thing happened to us and other groups. Booking.com is chasing it up with Accor, I'd ring them as the more complaints they receive the more it becomes apparent that this guy is trying a scam. PM me if you would like the name of the person in booking.com thats dealing with this. Its interesting that he is asking everyone to canel the booking.com reservation as why would there be a need to do this?
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Originally Posted by aidz1
From wikipedia "Villa Grimaldi was a complex of buildings used for the interrogation and torture of political prisoners by DINA, the Chilean secret police, ...":)
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Originally Posted by Green Tribe
Finally got a bed. Myself and my mate have booked a single room each at the Hotel Moderno at 55 Euros each a night for the room which is grand. It seems pretty basic but all I want is somewhere clean with it's own toilet and shower. As far as I know it's pretty central and the reviews I've read say it's fine. Happy days.
i have my flights and accomadation booked (although the hotel is 15k north of bari)and iam an on the fai block booking list for the home games. This is my first away trip so i have emailed the ticket office to be put on the list for tickets for this match. what are the chances of sucessfully getting the tickets from the FAI?
as the fai give preference to people on the block booking list.
Anyway we probably will be able to get tickets in bari as we fly in on the monday.
Yeah , happened to me too. Booking.com seem pretty sound about it though, calling us & all that. I took the other room off miles out of town just to be safe. Hopefully we'll get something like free taxis or a free bar out of it, the latter being the preferred option.
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Originally Posted by Cowboy
If you cancel the booking they're off the hook with bookings.com, bookings.com will be dealing with the Acor group rather than the hotel and should have a lot of clout.
Keep refusing to cancel and threaten legal action / contacting tourist board / putiing reviews on all websites like lonely planet etc
The FAI will probably get an allocation of about 5k. Id imagine there will be more than that travelling. But seeing as the capacity of the stadium is 58k, there should be no problem with tickets. I think someone pointed out that when Italy played Scotland there in the last campaign it wasnt sold out so should be able to pick up tickets over there.Quote:
Originally Posted by wexfordman
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Originally Posted by Cowboy
:D Think i stayed in worse in slovakia:eek: By the way the woman in Villan Grimaldi said if anyone needs more rooms, try http://www.topclassbari.com/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx
Top Class Bari B+B. Looks Top Class actually:p
Oh and we got arsed about with the Mercure also through bookings.com, saying it was overbooked, but it's been sorted now. God help the Mercure!
Exactly, thats why he asked me and others to do this, no way this guy is getting off lightlyQuote:
Originally Posted by Greenforever
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Originally Posted by Green Tribe
Yeah his (the hotels) explanation for that was a "simultaneous cancellation"
Have moved the ticket discussion to a new thread to keep this one on topic.
Got 'topclassbari B&B' booked (bout 1 mile from stadium & 2.5 mile from bari centre). Very reasonable 520euro for 2 nights B&B for 8 of us all in (65 euro each). Thank god we got that sorted. It is very very hard to get accommodation folks. Good luck. Slan
iirc dublin - stansted - brindisi out (tuesday) then bari - pisa - dublin back (thursday) was only about e220 return last week. cheapest of all the two flight ryanair options, and it included a layover of about four or five hours in pisa on the way back.
brindisi is about one hour train ride from bari, and accommodation there on the tuesday night should be no problem. bari on wednesday, of course, remains the issue...
A mate of mine has just got bumped from the Victor Hotel , so many stories so far from the hotels and no doubt more to come .
I think it was staint07 has the right idea about staying up all night and getting the early train back to Rome at 5:30am .
Also just got told that Air Lingus have changed their flight times out from Dublin to heathrow so we are stuffed and had to book new flights but this time from Shannon , well we did manage to get half of the price of the flights back but still lost money :mad:
That's a great deal on the flights home compared to some of the other options that are available. Another option on the way over is to fly with Aer Lingus to Milan on the Tuesday, overnight in airport hotel, and get the early easyJet flight to Bari on Wed morning whiich is still available for about €70 all in.Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperDave
Unfortunately can't make this one so going to have to make do with Sofia for now and keep my cash and holidays for probable/hopeful play off later in the year!
Not very direct but it is still possible to do Dublin - Heathrow - Rome - Bari and return for about €230. Out tues back thurs evening. Arrive in Bari about 6 on the Tuesday so in plenty of time for a session.Quote:
Originally Posted by eaststand85
just got accommodation sorted out with a B&B halfway between city centre and the stadium. €35 per head per nite, happy days. For anyone still looking i'd recommend bbplanet.it cos it seems like every hotel in the place is booked up solid..Anyone still looking for cheap ways to get there, easyjet do london - naples €70 return & i think its not a bad train journey to bari from there. (not as bad as 7 hours on the train from bologna that 6 of us are facing!)By the way am i right in thinking match tickets will be no bother at all?..