Champions League Final | Useful Information

CarlosTevez'sEnglishTutor said:
If you go to eurochange they offer the same buy back rate that you bought at, for up to 30% of the money you take out. I got a rate of just over 24 Lira to the pound.
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We have currency exchange where I work so I get staff rates which are very pure (essentially the rate we buy in at from Travelex)

Could probs sell any unused back for about the same rate but don't wanna take too much out with me either way.
Happy to tap away accordingly and a bit of pocket money if needed.
 
Has anybody with disabilities or attending with someone who is disabled got their logistics sorted? I'm attending with my grandma who can't walk for more than a minute at a time, so I'm concerned about the 10 minute walk from the taxi/shuttle drop off to the stadium. Does anyone know if there will be services to to drive us up to our entrance, or do I need to get a wheelchair? I'm hoping my hotel concierge can answer these questions but figured I may find something helpful here.
 
LucahArchie10 said:
Been going last 12 years, Euros & English

I also carry a Chase card & top it up.

Monza or Post Office card also good

You do not require Lira

You will be charged a big % from ATM'S if getting money out all the time so come prepared
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A cording to trip advisor there are about 5 banks and PO that don't charge. At least 2 at each airport.
 
5 Hit Gibbon said:
We get in at the same time.

I managed to get accommodation not too far from the ground (3miles away). Going to taxi it from airport, to drop the bags off, then head straight there.

Might even just fuck taking bags with us and go straight to the ground from the airport on the shuttle bus. We are going home Sunday night so don't need much.
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You on the flight from Edinburgh?
 
WEll, long post..used to date a nurse from Bergamo..her parents constantly played this song, you will know it as Volare..but the actual lyrics are so appropriate..Good luck Blues !!!

Sing Volare



I think that a dream like this
won't come back anymore,
I was painting my hands
and my face blue.
Then, suddenly, I was being
enraptured by the wind
and I was beginning to fly
in the endless sky.

To fly, oh, oh!
To sing, oh, oh, oh, oh!
In the blueness, painted in blue,
happy to be up there.
And I was flying, was flying
happily, higher than the sun
and still higher.
While the world slowly, slowly
was disappearing far away down there
a sweet music was playing
just for me.

To fly, oh, oh!
To sing, oh, oh, oh, oh!
In the blueness, painted in blue,
happy to be up there.

But all the dreams,
at dawn, disappear because,
when the moon sets,
it takes them away.
But I continue to dream
in your beautiful eyes
that are blue like a
star-studded sky.

To fly, oh, oh!
To sing, oh, oh, oh, oh!
In the blueness of your blue eyes
happy to be down here.
And I continue to fly happily,
higher than the sun
and still higher.
While the world
slowly, slowly disappears
in your blue eyes
your voice is a sweet music
playing for me.

To fly, oh, oh!
To sing, oh, oh, oh, oh!
In the blueness of your blue eyes
happy to be down here.
In the blueness of your blue eyes
happy to be down here
with you.
 
M18CTID said:
Will a photocopy of my passport do? I don’t fancy carrying the original around with me on match day
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This is my concern too, though the email specifically states ''original'' copy of passport is required at the stadium.
Can't imagine them checking tens of thousands of passports, but equally don't wanna get caught out by some jobsworth.

Bit of a dilemma.
 
Apologies as this has likely been covered already, but I'm only now looking into the finer logistical details.

This airport metro extension that I'm reading about (as below), does it now serve Gayrettepe station from the airport?
All I can find is articles from earlier this year saying it should be ready in the middle of 2023, can't find anything definitive either way.
Does anyone know if it has been completed?

It's a toss up between metro and taxi for when we arrive, but all depends on the above/below....

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M18CTID said:
Will a photocopy of my passport do? I don’t fancy carrying the original around with me on match day
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Iv done a hell of a lot of travelling alone in my youth and always had a moneybelt around my waist,I
still wear one my mam made me when I go abroad, it'll be coming with me this week for my passport.
 
feedthegoat27 said:
This is my concern too, though the email specifically states ''original'' copy of passport is required at the stadium.
Can't imagine them checking tens of thousands of passports, but equally don't wanna get caught out by some jobsworth.

Bit of a dilemma.
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Very annoying. It does say ID first, but then lower down it says Passport.
 
Original_Bluebaboon said:
Yeah it’s just me. No worries if you’ve got transfers. Arriving on Friday at the time we do, I’m thinking the traffic could be bad with commuters, just not sure I can be arsed with a 90 minute transfer on 3 trains which seems to be the other option. I’m staying in Sisli
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Transfer was 50 euro each way so didn’t seem worth it so we’re not sure what best to do. Like you say traffic could be mental at that time.

We are staying in Beyoglu though…tempted by the Havabus given traffic is rubbish anyway so why pay more to wait in traffic, think the bus stops at Sisli too?
 


this makes it sounds like you just need an ID of some sort and it's more for local police to check if they ask vs a UEFA thing

also some good info if you get arrested

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Also does anyone sort of pick up that these UEFA buses will be faster and have lanes blocked off just for running people to the stadium? They make it sound like they would be faster than a taxi and that seems like the only logical way.
 
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