Champions League Final | Istanbul or could it be moved?

I’ve had my hotel booking cancelled by the hotel. Obviously going to resell at 4 times the price, wankers.
 
Blackley_Blue said:
A woman I work with has had property in Turkey for the last 20 years, she's just got back from a two week trip and says the prices for have absolutely rocketed to levels she's never seen before. She was showing me her receipts for some of the prices she paid.

£20 for burger and chips
£15 for 2 ice creams and a can of coke
£7 for a single spirit and mixer
£12 for 2 beers.

She seems to think it's part of some political plan to ruin tourism and de-westernise the tourist areas.
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Fack sake let's hope it's moved to Cardiff.
 
I want to book a flight but the whole moving fiasco is putting me off more than not getting there as worst case scenario I’ll have a 3 day holiday in Istanbul haha
 
cptaidan88 said:
Nowhere is ideal for the metro to the stadium. Will require 3 or 4 changes to get back to Taksim and take at least an hour.

Under normal circumstances, it would cost about £15 in a taxi (the currency exchange is massively in our favour) but I suspect there won't be enough taxis around, and they'll up the rates.

Most likely to get an alcoholic drink in and around Taksim and Galata though (it's hit and miss).
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Cheers. Yeah, I knew it was a few changes to get to and from the stadium but should be able to get there and back nonetheless. I take it with it being a 10pm kick-off that it will run into the early hours to allow fans to get back to the city?

Done a little bit of a recce around Taksim on Google Maps today and it seems there’s a fair few bar/restaurant type places and as you say with the exchange rate being in our favour - 20-odd lira to the pound vs about 2.5 lira to the pound when I was over there 20 years ago! - the beer should be cheap enough if I find somewhere.
 
Just had another check again searching about it. Seems it was and still is Miggy that reported this and he hasn’t reported on it since April 17th. He’s known to be wrong from time to time is Señor Delaney. Surely there would be more snippets being leaked from UEFA or more reporting on it if they thought it was a possibility. Obviously if it kicks off after the election result it’s a different matter but I don’t think they envisage trouble at this stage, or am I wrong?
 
JGL07 said:
Normally we would have booked a weekend break in Istanbul as we did in Milan, Kiev, Madrid, and Paris.

I remain convinced that this match could be relocated at short notice. The Turkish General Election could turn nasty.

If Erdogan loses the election, he will probably refuse to accept the outcome and it will all kick off. If he wins under questionable circumstances, the opposition will probably riot.

The first round is on 14 May and, if necessary, the runoff is on 28 May. The first round results will give an indication if the results are likely to be accepted.

I will think about booking next week.
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This is worrying - I have already booked flights
 
Wandshogun said:
I want to book a flight but the whole moving fiasco is putting me off more than not getting there as worst case scenario I’ll have a 3 day holiday in Istanbul haha
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Seems like you might have quite a bit of company ;-)
 
If it is gonna kick off it’s far less risky to book a cheap getaway anywhere in Turkey (and cost effective) there are dozens of cheap internal flights, I had a holiday booked there when the last military coup kicked off, it only lasted a couple of days, TUI where great, they gave us the option to change etc free of charge, if there is political unrest/an uprising and it gets moved, no doubt it will be in a big city & a distinct possibility of it being very touristy, you could then change your plans for free
 
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