FFS! Airline rip-off!

If you can get a cheap deal to Milan then pay it now and enjoy the holiday regardless or fuck it off if you end up not wanting to go!
It's a bit of a disaster with it being a bank holiday weekend if we get to the final , normal idea is to fly from another uk city to keep price down but no good because of bank holiday , flights to madrid always expensive and already well over £200, might be one of those occasions when club trip is best bet .
 
Just in case anyone else fancies jumping the gun on the final in Milan with the consolation of a trip to the CL weekend if City don't get there, Hotels in Bergamo are only £50 to £100. Bergamo is only 1 hour by bus and/or Train to and from Milan, with both running every half an hour. Bergamo Airport is on 15 minutes away from the city centre. Bergamo looks wonderful. Click on the link below for more pictures.

Do yourself a favour. Give Milan and the rip off Hotel prices a miss leading up to the final on Saturday and stay in Bergamo. If we get there of course. :-)

Click on the link for more pictures.

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https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bergamo&biw=1920&bih=1028&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwii2sqw25XMAhUFmBoKHXhLCHAQ_AUIBygC#tbm=isch&tbs=rimg:CfB53N31cnv1IjhVZ-pU3MP8hnIlW9rNixqgn9Orovqo3L5Npqucx_1ey98ivNFWyqa7Y2QST-UW5Y6VW6PesGJ7LbSoSCVVn6lTcw_1yGEezWd7iKuLp3KhIJciVb2s2LGqARrZGK9zkRsKsqEgmf06ui-qjcvhHnWUiT5veTPCoSCU2mq5zH97L3EZYOr8PUlI1QKhIJyK80VbKprtgRDn9dtWE1aaIqEgnZBJP5RbljpRFr-FTo6qbF_1SoSCVbo96wYnsttERiSGpsuMnm6&q=bergamo&imgrc=Vuj3rBiey21ztM:

Bergamo (Italian: [ˈbɛrɡamo] listen (help·info); Lombard: Bèrghem, listen (help·info)) is a city in Lombardy, Italy. It is situated about 40 km (25 mi) northeast of Milan and 30 km (19 mi) from the lakes Como and Iseo. The foothills of the Bergamo Alps begin immediately north of the town.

Bergamo is the seat of the Province of Bergamo. With a population of around 120,000, Bergamo is the fourth-largest city in Lombardy. The metropolitan area of Bergamo extends beyond the administrative city limits, spanning over a densely urbanized area with slightly less than 500,000 inhabitants.[1]

The Bergamo metropolitan area is itself part of the broader Milan metropolitan area, home to over 8 million people.[2][3][4] As of 2015[update], Bergamo is the second most visited city in Lombardy after Milan.[5]

Bergamo is well connected to several cities in Europe and the Mediterranean through Il Caravaggio International Airport, the third-busiest airport in Italy with 10.5 million passengers in 2015, and the motorway A4 stretching on the axis between Milan, Verona, and Venice.
 
You can get a 2 night stay in Barcelona and flights for £99 pp sharing room. https://www.gogroopie.com/deal/1e8k72ndqm/2_4_Nights_4__Spa_Hotel_Stay_With_Flights
Book into hotel, then get the train from Barcelona to Madrid. http://www.eurail.com/europe-by-train/routes/madrid-to-barcelona-train. Euro high speed train 2hr 45. €30.
Stay in cheapish hotel near Madrid on match night and return to Barcelana next day, spend the remaining day and night in Barcelona and fly home next day. Catch? You have to book in next 3 days
 
It's a bit of a disaster with it being a bank holiday weekend if we get to the final , normal idea is to fly from another uk city to keep price down but no good because of bank holiday , flights to madrid always expensive and already well over £200, might be one of those occasions when club trip is best bet .

I think I paid more than £200 for Seville and am looking at perhaps £180 for Malaga next month. It's a fare I'm used to.
 
I'm flying in and out of Alicante, I'm wondering if the Costa del sol branch are running a coach to the match and back? If anyone knows anything can they pm me please. Thanks


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You can get a 2 night stay in Barcelona and flights for £99 pp sharing room. https://www.gogroopie.com/deal/1e8k72ndqm/2_4_Nights_4__Spa_Hotel_Stay_With_Flights
Book into hotel, then get the train from Barcelona to Madrid. http://www.eurail.com/europe-by-train/routes/madrid-to-barcelona-train. Euro high speed train 2hr 45. €30.
Stay in cheapish hotel near Madrid on match night and return to Barcelana next day, spend the remaining day and night in Barcelona and fly home next day. Catch? You have to book in next 3 days
Be careful you have misread the train price
The cheapest price on the high speed train return is 134 pounds
That 32 euro is on a train that takes 9 hours and is only one way
Cheaper to fly from barca to madrid
 
Just booked the flights to Madrid.

Got on it straightaway. While checking out the price jumped by £100.

This s*** really should be stopped by the EU.

Once the Airlines give you a price before checkout, it should remain at that price.

Happy I got the flights, but the Airlines are talking the piss out of their customers.
I have never had that experience on airlines. Was it Ryanair by any chance?

Certainly on the railways, once you have clicked the buy tickets button you have a set amount of time to complete the transaction and retain the seats booked. They usually warn you saying 'only three tickets left at this price.'
But 'dynamic' pricing is always going happen with airlines, trains and hotels.

I often stayed at the Ibis Budget at New Islington for City evening matches. It was usually £25-£30 but now they have obviously cottoned that they can fill it at much higher prices if City are at home. I tried for a midweek game and was quoted around £75! However I booked for the PSG match within minutes of the date was confirmed and got a room for £26! They were obviously too slow to update their prices. They were quick off the mark for the Real Madrid match unfortunately. It cost me £100 for a (better) room in the City centre.

Wishing to avoid this for the final, if it happens, we booked flights and a hotel from Thursday to Monday in Milan. If City do not make it, we will have a long weekend in Milan. Just the problem of getting tickets now.
 
Just in case anyone else fancies jumping the gun on the final in Milan with the consolation of a trip to the CL weekend if City don't get there, Hotels in Bergamo are only £50 to £100. Bergamo is only 1 hour by bus and/or Train to and from Milan, with both running every half an hour. Bergamo Airport is on 15 minutes away from the city centre. Bergamo looks wonderful. Click on the link below for more pictures.

Do yourself a favour. Give Milan and the rip off Hotel prices a miss leading up to the final on Saturday and stay in Bergamo. If we get there of course. :-)

Click on the link for more pictures.

bergamo_z_lotu_ptaka.jpeg


19_Bergamo.jpg



funicolare-bergamo-02.jpg


https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bergamo&biw=1920&bih=1028&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwii2sqw25XMAhUFmBoKHXhLCHAQ_AUIBygC#tbm=isch&tbs=rimg:CfB53N31cnv1IjhVZ-pU3MP8hnIlW9rNixqgn9Orovqo3L5Npqucx_1ey98ivNFWyqa7Y2QST-UW5Y6VW6PesGJ7LbSoSCVVn6lTcw_1yGEezWd7iKuLp3KhIJciVb2s2LGqARrZGK9zkRsKsqEgmf06ui-qjcvhHnWUiT5veTPCoSCU2mq5zH97L3EZYOr8PUlI1QKhIJyK80VbKprtgRDn9dtWE1aaIqEgnZBJP5RbljpRFr-FTo6qbF_1SoSCVbo96wYnsttERiSGpsuMnm6&q=bergamo&imgrc=Vuj3rBiey21ztM:

Bergamo (Italian: [ˈbɛrɡamo] listen (help·info); Lombard: Bèrghem, listen (help·info)) is a city in Lombardy, Italy. It is situated about 40 km (25 mi) northeast of Milan and 30 km (19 mi) from the lakes Como and Iseo. The foothills of the Bergamo Alps begin immediately north of the town.

Bergamo is the seat of the Province of Bergamo. With a population of around 120,000, Bergamo is the fourth-largest city in Lombardy. The metropolitan area of Bergamo extends beyond the administrative city limits, spanning over a densely urbanized area with slightly less than 500,000 inhabitants.[1]

The Bergamo metropolitan area is itself part of the broader Milan metropolitan area, home to over 8 million people.[2][3][4] As of 2015[update], Bergamo is the second most visited city in Lombardy after Milan.[5]

Bergamo is well connected to several cities in Europe and the Mediterranean through Il Caravaggio International Airport, the third-busiest airport in Italy with 10.5 million passengers in 2015, and the motorway A4 stretching on the axis between Milan, Verona, and Venice.
Bergamo looks nice but how would you get back after the match? Going to be getting on for 12 by time we get back from San siro into milan with it being an 8.45 kick off .
 

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