Dortmund Away

[Mancini’s Pastilles]

Not looking for tickets, more so advice, first German away game travelling solo from Ireland, any advice from experienced travellers. Is dortmund worth staying in? Or any close by towns? Flying into cologne and home from dusseldorf. Any help would be appreciated

 

[bluesmith]

Dusseldorf is the best place in the region but hotels are £200+ a night due to a trade show. Cologne is great too but nearly 2 hours back on a train which gets in pushing half 2am after the game.

We've booked Essen just over 20minutes from Dusseldorf airport and the same to Dortmund.

 

[Goodlove]

Will any blues be in hotels in Dortmund itself or is everyone looking elsewhere?

 

[KPXBLN]

In theory you can get to Essen main station after the game in around 30 minutes after the game, although that would depend on getting the perfect connection times, etc. I had a look on the journey planner for Nord Rhein Westphalia and it's more like 45 minutes to an hour in practice, depending on when you get out of the ground, etc. Obviously a journey to somewhere further away, like Duisburg or Dussledorf, would take longer. If I was going to the game (which I'm sadly not as, ironically, I'll be in the UK that week), I would stay in Dortmund the night of the match - but elsewhere in the days before/after.

 

[Arthur Lager]

We're staying in Dortmund from Monday to Wednesday due to the expensive hotels in Dusseldorf. In Germany on matchdays your match ticket includes free travel on public transport for anything up to 40 miles away so you could spend time in Dusseldorf on the day of the game in old town (as I'm sure there will be blues there) and still get to the game in Dortmund.

 

[DunfermlineBlue]

3 of us staying in Düsseldorf

 

[Gus Fring]

What allocation have we been given?

 

[DunfermlineBlue]

What allocation have we been given?

Not been announced yet but will be around 4200