Champions League Final | Istanbul Travel - Good to hear routes etc.

[johnnytapia]

Hi Kerem. I’m worried about getting my two sons back to Taxsim square after the match. I get the feeling there could be very long waits. What would you recommend would be the best thing to do?

Leave them at home

 

[i kne albert davy]

Man - Istanbul (SAW)- Pegasus
On the Wednesday 1835

Istanbul (IST) - Nantes-Manchester
Transavia/ Ryan Air
Monday 1215

£330 total.
Just taking underseat bag so no baggage fees

4 of us on that route back

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

I paid £789 last Friday for Fri-sun and not even good flight times.

My heart says pay whatever it takes but my head says fuck that.

I was thinking like that but in the end just thought fuck it. It’s the end of a Journey for me really. From my dad taking me as a little boy to him dying and me taking my lad. We had a few seasons where all three of us went. My lad is going and I wanted to be there with him win or lose. We may not be sat together or even in the same hotel (another thing I still haven’t booked) but we will meet up and spend some time together. My mum went too last year so it’s a bit of a pilgrimage to toast those we have left behind and support our lads to hopefully bring home the trophy! Money is the enabler but the memories it will help create are priceless.

 

[Welchinho]

Thur 8th
11:45 Liverpool —> 14:10 Brussels Charleroi
17:30 Brussels Charleroi —> 21:45 Istanbul (SAW)

Sun 11th
12:35 Istanbul (SAW) —> 14:40 Stansted

 

[M18]

I’m risking it
Manchester to Istanbul direct, arrives 1905 local time. 3 hours to get to stadium via check in hotel on way.

You might just make trophy lift whoever that may be

 

[Mancityfans.net'er]

Route: direct Friday land 6pm, return Sunday to brum.

Staying near taksim. Fuck inter and uefa.

Got ticket

Awaiting 1k refund for the SECOND lot of flights I booked on supposed free cancellation

 

[cptaidan88]

Cagoule weather

AccuWeather has it just showers in the morning. Hopefully ok in the afternoon, evening, and night.

Forecast will no doubt change as we get closer, but hopefully for the better.

 

[Corky]

Well, if we win, we’ll play Sevilla in Piraeus (Athens) on August 15th. We battered them 7-1 over both games in CL

I bet we don't.

 

[kerem gokmen]

Hi Kerem. I’m worried about getting my two sons back to Taxsim square after the match. I get the feeling there could be very long waits. What would you recommend would be the best thing to do?

Good morning Dave, and Manchester,

Gala stadium is also out of the city. and transportation is always a problem for us after the game.

on the final, i am sure it will be too crowded. but our municipality is great, they will be well prepared. they are waiting for you. there will be hunderds of busses, and additional metro's on that day. but anyway, yes, metro entrances may be a little crowded. i dont believe you ll wait too much. 20-30 minutes max maybe.

my best day of my life, 17th may 2000, kopenhagh, Gala-Arsenal UEFA cup final. we won on penalties. that was our first and only (we won the super cup 3 months later, but not counting that one) european cup.

the thing is, before and during the game, you get exchaused too much physically and pscyhologolically. i am an academician, have hunderds of students, some of them gala fans. when they learn that i was in copenhagen they as me, what we have done after the game. asl i told you, since you get too exhausted, your body uses all the horomones during the game, you get in to a very calm, peaceful stage. it is like, the pschological state after a great sex :)))) i am serious. we call it homeostatsis in psychology.

so in kopenghagen, after winning the trophy, we were so calm, go to the center (tivoli the name i think), eat at burger king, than go to our hotels ( i drink with arsenal fans, they were nice after the game:)) not before, many incidents happened before the game), drink a little and went to sleep :)) strange is not it. we did not party. but the best thing is, coming back to your hometown, after the game. the airport and the plane will be so much fun for you.

but you will be istanbul, so i strongly recommend to come to taksim, besiktas or kadıkoy after the game. even if you feel exchausted. i will be there, i dont know which one of the regions i will be, we ll see, i will be exhausted also. before the game i am at nevizade (maybe besiktas later). it is your decision what to do; but the transportation will not be a big problem i believe.

one more thing, just came to my mind
as city fans, you lived a similar sitiuation (psychological) in 2012, aguero goal. i wathed the clips of those game, thousands of times, still watching. my fav video is the one called ''Look what it's done to me''. i am pasting the link below. i know so many grown man cried that day. but the gentelman at 4:50, i love him so much. if anyone knows him, reading this post. send him my greetings and respects. if he is coming to istanbul i wanna meet him and kiss his bald head. i am serious :)))

actually, as i told you, i am the biggest OASIS fan in Turkey. if i am writing here, if i am a manchester fan, thanks to OASIS. i ve seen them many times (2000 wembley, 2009 amsterdam, marseille, 2018 liam istanbul). it is such a fun and honour meeting you guys, i am having so much fan chatting with you. i ve already met a fan - we ll have beer in istanbul - who lives in the street of liams's mom and aunt. So, i know it is a very low possibility maybe, but if anyone knows liam or noel, send my greetings and respects also.

so, come on city...CITY IS OURS (LOUD PROUD AND LOYAL) we are waiting for you. come to taksim, besiktas or kadıkoy after game. whatever you like
cheers.

 

[kerem gokmen]

taksim/nevizade is waiting for you :)))
the lyrics means
''oooo, we are so high(drunk),
asmalı(street close the nevizade), tunnel, pera,
beyoğlu is in love with you,
cim bom bom (gala) understand that....''