But 2 nights in Dublin before the flight, a 2 - 0 victory in Madrid and a Champions League Final to look forward to and you may never get back home from Dublin before May 28th, by which time you'll be broke, pissed and looking for flights to Milan. Sounds like a plan.
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FFS! Airline rip-off!
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But 2 nights in Dublin before the flight, a 2 - 0 victory in Madrid and a Champions League Final to look forward to and you may never get back home from Dublin before May 28th, by which time you'll be broke, pissed and looking for flights to Milan. Sounds like a plan.
Scaring Europe to Death
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Book a hotel for the night in Madrid? Just to be safe. As long as you have a bed for the night then you'll be fine.
I’ll be okay
I’ve done Madrid a few times, and done both the Bernabeu and the Vicente Calderon. However, like everybody else, I was trying to plot a route, that didn’t jump from £49 to £249 in the space of a couple of minutes, and didn’t involve killing time at tedious expensive airports at daft o'clock,or praying that the game didn’t go to Extra Time, because the last train out of Madrid was at 23:15.
I played a blinder for our games in Gelsenkirchen and Poznan, but made a schoolboy error for Salonika. It’s all part of the fun I suppose.
Funny, because once we set foot in Madrid, none of us will think twice about paying 6 euros for a beer.
East midlands to Valencia for us. Night in Valencia train to Madrid wed am.About £300 all in flights, train, digs , parking and fuel
£299 for a day trip is a piss take
And that's before your beer money, food, match ticket etc etc
It'll be worth every penny !!
I'm not being funny but what do you expect the national airline of a Middle East country to do about this? They have no landing slots, licences, or planes to put flights on for this.
yeah, i know you arent and i wasnt being funny either, you'd just hope they have european division in the future would be an advantage.
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You lucky barsteward...im going to make a major complaint....10 of us paid £58....we want our £4 each back!!
How did you lot all find this deal from Birmingham?
I ended up paying £180 in the end, and it's not even direct. How long was that price knocking around for? Were you just trying your luck with random major airports?
Dubai Blue
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The hotel situation in Milan is mad at the moment, but it's only to be expected at this stage as there are lots of speculators bumping the prices up. The prices for the lower-end hotels are currently outrageous, but there's tons of capacity in the city and I guarantee they'll come down once it gets narrowed down to just 2 teams. That said, we're getting slightly ahead of ourselves here ;)True.
But if you think back to when AC played Inter in the CL final at OT, most of the planes that brought the fans were chartered just for the final. Manchester Airport managed to find them all landing slots. They even managed to keep the fans apart by using 2 different Terminals.
I'm sure City could arrange their own flights from Manchester, just like Spike does. It's whether the club want's to go down this road or not. ATM it doesn't.
Let's see what happens if we get to Milan. I can tell you now, flights are already filling up, and Hotels are pretty much sold out. The going rate is roughly £200 a night for average Hotel. 1 Hotel wants nearly £6000 for 3 nights.
How do I know? I've jumped the gun on Milan. Booked my flights with Ryan Air via Dublin. Booked my Hotel as well. Sorry, but I'm not getting caught up in an impossible mad scramble for flights and a Hotel room. 20,000 to 30,000 City fans heading to Milan. If City don't make it I will just go for a CL Weekend in Milan. That's the risk I've decided to take.
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True.
But if you think back to when AC played Inter in the CL final at OT, most of the planes that brought the fans were chartered just for the final. Manchester Airport managed to find them all landing slots. They even managed to keep the fans apart by using 2 different Terminals.
I'm sure City could arrange their own flights from Manchester, just like Spike does. It's whether the club want's to go down this road or not. ATM it doesn't.
Let's see what happens if we get to Milan. I can tell you now, flights are already filling up, and Hotels are pretty much sold out. The going rate is roughly £200 a night for average Hotel. 1 Hotel wants nearly £6000 for 3 nights.
How do I know? I've jumped the gun on Milan. Booked my flights with Ryan Air via Dublin. Booked my Hotel as well. Sorry, but I'm not getting caught up in an impossible mad scramble for flights and a Hotel room. 20,000 to 30,000 City fans heading to Milan. If City don't make it I will just go for a CL Weekend in Milan. That's the risk I've decided to take.
I think there will be more than a few of us in that boat already. I managed to snag some absurdly cheap flights to Verona a while back, that covered the weekend of the CL final. If City make it then Milan is an hour/90 mins on train, if not then I have a relaxing weekend in Verona to look forward to :)
I cannot begin to imagine how much its gonna cost if we get past Madrid and then people start booking. Worth every penny of course!
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I'd like to know how they found it too as I didn't see that oneHow did you lot all find this deal from Birmingham?
I ended up paying £180 in the end, and it's not even direct. How long was that price knocking around for? Were you just trying your luck with random major airports?