Switzerland (Away) Wed 8th Sep 04

**Junior** · 04/02/2004, 10:26 AM

Please use this thread to post any useful links, websites that can assist travel, accomodation, tickets etc...

Footie Related

Swiss FA Site http://www.football.ch/ (Remember the last game notification was on here as to when tickets were going on sale and how)

Flights

Swiss Air http://www.swiss.com/web/IE6/

Tickets

www.ticketcorner.ch Official ticket distributor for the last game

Accomodation

Basel Youth Hostel http://www.youthhostel.ch/e/frames/home.cfm?ID=4

only1kilbane · 04/02/2004, 11:14 AM

game most likely to be in basel again. Flights are available direct to geneva or zurich with aer lingus . If you go though heathrow you can fly from there direct to basel which is handy !

**Junior** · 04/02/2004, 11:25 AM

FAI, suggest that game will be in Berne, However should it be Basel direct flights from Mcr for around 100stg, worth considering if you're gonna have to change in London anyway.

**Beavis** · 04/02/2004, 12:01 PM

Try to get directly to the host city becuase trains are an absolute rip off.I paid the eqivilant of E120 for a return trip from Zurich Airport to Basel,that's about from Dublin to Kildare Town!

Pogsly · 04/02/2004, 9:49 PM

I flew through Frankfurt and then onto Basle by train and although it was nice and handy (*there was zero waiting around ) it was also fairly expensive . And we had no stopover .

**Junior** · 05/02/2004, 8:23 AM

Originally posted by Pogsly
I flew through Frankfurt and then onto Basle by train and although it was nice and handy (*there was zero waiting around ) it was also fairly expensive . And we had no stopover .

we did exactly the same, but found it to be very reasonable, managed to get a group ticket for the train which got you about 60% of the normal price per person. always worth looking for these on the national train webistes/booking agent

**gspain** · 05/02/2004, 8:55 AM

Flew to Frankfurt too and flights and trains were reasonable.

Anyone know if any of the ripoff agents are doing a day trip. 3 days off midweek is not easy for me at the moment.

**pineapple stu** · 05/02/2004, 12:45 PM

Don't a link for it, but try the Basel Gastpack on Dornacherstraße for accommodation - around E20 per person per night, to include free bus and tram travel for your stay. Only a mile or two from the City Centre, but with the trams, that's nothing.

**Paulie** · 05/02/2004, 1:04 PM

[QUOTE]Originally posted by gspain
[B]Flew to Frankfurt too and flights and trains were reasonable.

Went through Frankfurt as well. I think the combined price of flight and train was about €270 or so. With the accomodation thrown in it came to about €400 all in. it could have been better but it could have been a lot worse.

**KCFC Bohs** · 05/02/2004, 2:26 PM

Originally posted by Beavis
Try to get directly to the host city becuase trains are an absolute rip off.I paid the eqivilant of E120 for a return trip from Zurich Airport to Basel,that's about from Dublin to Kildare Town!

We paid €120 for a taxi back from Basle to Mulhouse in France.
The taxi driver was a Turkish emigrant who seemed more interested in the exploits of Hakan and Murat Yakin than the rest of the team put together!

**gspain** · 05/02/2004, 2:26 PM

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Paulie
[B]

Originally posted by gspain
Flew to Frankfurt too and flights and trains were reasonable.

Went through Frankfurt as well. I think the combined price of flight and train was about €270 or so. With the accomodation thrown in it came to about €400 all in. it could have been better but it could have been a lot worse.

Got the flight for €160 incl all taxes and charges. Booked in June.

Train was ~€70 by ringing Deutsche Bahn in the UK and getting a fixed ticket - specific trains - could have paid double that for flexible ticket.

Paid to much for accomodation as all the cheap hotels were gone but it was a nice hotel - St. Gotthard across from railway station.

Basle was lovely but hope it's a new city and new stadium - Berne would be fine.

My mates flew to Frankfurt Hahn and hired a car but the driving is not worth the hassle - especially when the navigator finds a new route from Neuchatel to Basle that invovles crisscrossing the Swiss countryside in the dark.

**Junior** · 05/02/2004, 2:44 PM

Originally posted by pineapple stu
Don't a link for it, but try the Basel Gastpack on Dornacherstraße for accommodation - around E20 per person per night, to include free bus and tram travel for your stay. Only a mile or two from the City Centre, but with the trams, that's nothing.

http://www.youthhostel.ch/e/frames/home.cfm?ID=4

This was the Hostel in Basel, perfect location and cheap. Ideal for a group, we had a room for 8.

As for the train, we rang a Deutsche Bahn booking office in the UK and got a 60% discount for a group of 6 or more (from Frankfurt to Basel).

**SuperDub** · 05/02/2004, 9:18 PM

Aer lingus are currently charging €566 to travel from dublin to zurich 6th-9th Sept

Booked with ryan air and easyjet travelling from dublin through luton to zurich same dates €150.00

**PaulB** · 06/02/2004, 11:56 AM

Originally posted by SuperDub
Aer lingus are currently charging €566 to travel from dublin to zurich 6th-9th Sept

Booked with ryan air and easyjet travelling from dublin through luton to zurich same dates €150.00

British Midland will get you to Zurich for 215 via Heathrow

**lopez** · 13/02/2004, 11:46 AM

Asked to post this here as well.

Email from Davros this morning claims Easyjet are starting to fly to seven new destinations. Included is Basel (as well as Budapest and Ljubljana and four more airports).

only1kilbane · 17/02/2004, 9:20 AM

I was another one who had already booked flights this time with easyjet to geneva but got them changed them over at a cost ! Depending on what days you are looking to travel you can still find seats for 3.99 each way at the moment. The monday to thursday is the dearest but still only works out about 45 euro including taxes. Hopefully ryanair might have cheap flights to stansted soon so i can meet them flights bit dear at the moment ...

**4tothefloor** · 12/03/2004, 3:20 PM

Out of interest, has everybody here already applied to the FAI for their tickets to the Swiss and French away games?

only1kilbane · 13/03/2004, 11:49 AM

they will only start taking applications about 8-10 weeks before the game and release them about 6 weeks prior to game no so rush yet !

Game is deffo confirmed in basel now !

**Paulie** · 15/03/2004, 9:27 AM

Game is deffo confirmed in basel now ! [/B][/QUOTE]

Where did you hear it was confirmed? I rang the FAI last week to ask if the venue had been confirmed and they said that it hadn't. I booked my flight to Basel anyway though!