Slovakia Away (8th September 2007) - Match Thread

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

So what you're saying is that you're relying on the FAI to remember to send the form out to you?

It seems to be a system that they have in place and in my experience it works

I Wonder would she let me over for this game??

I can use the excuse that my Birthday is the 9th!!
Think i may just get away with it!!!

Has anyone sorted their accomadation out in Bratislavia yet.

Yeah I booked apartments.

Originally Posted by NeilMcD

Yeah I booked apartments.

Still haven't booked ours yet.....where have you booked?.....and Prague?

Whether you are booking in Bratislava or Prague go for apartments as they are much cheaper.

Originally Posted by Paulie

Whether you are booking in Bratislava or Prague go for apartments as they are much cheaper.

Thanks Paulie.........any useful links/suggestions?

Originally Posted by Sligo Hornet

Thanks Paulie.........any useful links/suggestions?

I don't have a link as it was one of the other lads in my group that booked but as far as I remember we just went on to google, typed in apartments bratislava (or Prague as the case my be) and a number of different websites came up. We have a 3 bedroom apartment booked for 4 nights in Bratislava and a 4 bedroom apartment booked for 3 nights in Prague. They are both city centre, 4 star apartments and accommodation for the full 7 nights came to about €350 each in total. If you're prepared to share rooms and go for a 2 or 3 star place you'd obviously get it for cheaper but considering the standard and the location of the apartments we got I was very pleased with the price. Just one thing, when paying the deposit for one of the two apartments (I can't remember which one) they didn't accept credit cards so we had to orgainse a transfer of funds to a particular account. It was only about a hundred euros in total for the deposit, it was just a bit of a pain at the time. Having said that we're well pleased to have it done now.

Originally Posted by Bear Eleven

Has anyone sorted their accomadation out in Bratislavia yet.

Looking for one close to an office supplies (particularly sellotape ) shop Bear???

Originally Posted by casso36

I Wonder would she let me over for this game??

I can use the excuse that my Birthday is the 9th!!
Think i may just get away with it!!!

Better check she doesn't book another week away first

Originally Posted by Sligo Hornet

Thanks Paulie.........any useful links/suggestions?

We've booked here:

http://www.bratislava-apartments.sk

Managed to get 2 apartments for about 7 of us working out at about €27 a night...looks to be pretty much in the centre of town aswell.

Send them an email cause they were very helpful to me....

Edit: We could pay the deposit with Paypal aswell which was particularly handy...

Originally Posted by AidoM

Better check she doesn't book another week away first

WILL dO!!!!

anyone going out on the 5:55 flight on the 8th with Ryanair, direct to bratislava??

Originally Posted by citizenerased

anyone going out on the 5:55 flight on the 8th with Ryanair, direct to bratislava??

was thinking about it, but had a look on expedia to see if i could get better. turns out i can, flying into vienna.

i'm not going to book anything til after the home games though. plus i don't know if i'll be able to get the week off.

Originally Posted by citizenerased

anyone going out on the 5:55 flight on the 8th with Ryanair, direct to bratislava??

Yep.

Home to Cork the previous night, so I'll probably leave the pub at about 3am to go straight to the airport.

Flying Dublin - East Midlands - Bratislava with Ryanair on the Friday. Cheap enough

Yer we booked apartments last month two nights in Bratislava was 320 for 5 of us and in Prague 557 for 4 nights again for the 5 of us . Now it was easy with the Prague side of things as there were lots of apartments to choose from but Bratislava was a bit sticky as the game is played on Saturday and most places I tried wanted to tie me down for at least 3 nights . We have done something different than most people as we are staying in Budapest for the first night as the train is only takes two and a half hours to Bratislava , other than that all we need is tickets .

we are flying Shannon-East Midlands-Bratislava with Ryanair on the Friday. Happy days

Any info on hotels in Bratislava, and are most movin on to prague on the day after the game?

Originally Posted by Dallasirish

and are most movin on to prague on the day after the game?

This won't be an issue for everyone but on the day after the match the Irish rugby team have a World Cup match so those of you with an interest may want to take this in to account when organising your travel plans to get to Prague from Bratislava. We're not going to leave Bratislava for Prague until Monday.