Pre-season

[ISZA ⚔️]

Flights to Cologne, train to Dusseldorf, Thursday, Friday, Saturday hotel in Dusseldorf. Train to Bochum on Saturday for game, home Sunday. £288.

Flying from where mate?

 

[Cheesebored]

Flying from where mate?

Manchester. Price went up £60 from when we first looked an hour before we eventually bought them.

 

[jt64]

If it helps..

Dusseldorf has a lovely old centre by the Rhine ('Altstadt'). Proper beer kelkers where the waiters bring more glasses and mark your beer mat.

It is also one of the best connected airports in Germany, so you can fly from anywhere. There is an excellent local S-bahn (tram) system, plus good overland train connections. The only problem is that it has a massive exhibition centre (think NEC with bells on), so flight and hotel prices tend to rise when there's a big event on.

You not confusing that with Köln? It's not occasionally referred to as Messestadt for no reason, although to be fair most big cities will have something that can hold big events like you describe

 

[loveWalrusDaveTheBlade]

Manchester. Price went up £60 from when we first looked an hour before we eventually bought them.

Folks - as others have said, either don’t look before you intend to book, or use a VPN / Incognito. The market isn’t responding to the announcement of a Blades friendly fixture, or to supply and demand, the websites are simply reacting to your ongoing interest in booking.

 

[ISZA ⚔️]

Folks - as others have said, either don’t look before you intend to book, or use a VPN / Incognito. The market isn’t responding to the announcement of a Blades friendly fixture, or to supply and demand, the websites are simply reacting to your ongoing interest in booking.

Salute Private browser brother

 

[Davalon]

If you're looking at that, then you might also want to consider what I've done for games in NRW before and take the overnight Harwich-Hook boat. Can get a combined ticket that rolls up train to the boat from anywhere that Greater Anglia serves (closest to Sheffield I guess would be Peterborough) and the crossing, it's not quite the bargain it used to be after NS pulled out of chucking on onward travel to any Dutch station but compared to how much Eurostar can be these days it's still not bad, especially if there's more than one of you to chop the cabin. Saves one hotel night and you can be anywhere in the Netherlands by about 11am.

Cheers for that

 

[I should coco]

You not confusing that with Köln? It's not occasionally referred to as Messestadt for no reason, although to be fair most big cities will have something that can hold big events like you describe

No I'm not confusing it, There are several large exhibition centres in German ('Messe') and Dusseldorf is one of the largest.

 

[KMC-1889]

Where has everyone looked for flights? Tried looking this morning and all direct flights from local airports are showing fully booked?

 

[GeorgeDonis1889]

Fair play to Wilder for personally organising all this

 

[Ball_Sup (Phil)]

Where has everyone looked for flights? Tried looking this morning and all direct flights from local airports are showing fully booked?

Manchester to Cologne, Ryanair, out Friday, back Sunday is available.
But, as mentioned, prices are high as seats get booked.

 

[Ball_Sup (Phil)]

Where has everyone looked for flights? Tried looking this morning and all direct flights from local airports are showing fully booked?

Manchester to Dusseldorf, Eurowings, out Friday, back Sunday is available.

 

[Ball_Sup (Phil)]

Where has everyone looked for flights? Tried looking this morning and all direct flights from local airports are showing fully booked?

There is a Ryanair Cologne to Manchester late on the evening of the game which people might be able to make work.

 

[KMC-1889]

Manchester to Cologne, Ryanair, out Friday, back Sunday is available.
But, as mentioned, prices are high as seats get booked.

Been looking at Sat AM, coming back Sun. Cheers for that

 

[Ball_Sup (Phil)]

Been looking at Sat AM, coming back Sun. Cheers for that

There's an 0800 Eurowings Manchester to Dusseldorf on the Saturday.

 

[Paisley Blade]

No I'm not confusing it, There are several large exhibition centres in German ('Messe') and Dusseldorf is one of the largest.

Indeed. And I’m on the wrong end of ‘dynamic’ hotel pricing every November when I attend Medica.
Bolkerstrasse in the Altstadt is best for bars.

 

[HeCanDoMagic]

Where has everyone looked for flights? Tried looking this morning and all direct flights from local airports are showing fully booked?

Ferry to Holland and then a drive is also an option.

 

[Keen Blade]

Sorry to ask - is Bochum it now ?
No Spanish away trip as previously mentioned ?

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Are tickets available now?

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Sorry to ask - is Bochum it now ?
No Spanish away trip as previously mentioned ?

Spain?…Meh.
Germany is fine…Beer drinkers of the world unite.

 

[Keen Blade]

Spain?…Meh.
Germany is fine…Beer drinkers of the world unite.

Quite right , I'm perfectly happy with Stein-land
But mates might prefer Spain if there's 2 trips from which to choose

 

[prince albert]

Just booked on , Fri to Sunday staying in Dusseldorf

 

[Blackheath Blade]

If any of you have been to both Bochum and Dusseldorf, which city would you recommend to stay in please?

 

[jt64]

If any of you have been to both Bochum and Dusseldorf, which city would you recommend to stay in please?

Düsseldorf and it's not even close. As I mentioned up thread your ticket SHOULD get you back and forth from there free gratis and for nowt, so while Bochum isn't really a town I've explored beyond watching a game there (it was absolutely chucking it down lol), Düsseldorf has enough about it that it seems the obvious choice. Travel between the two is a piece of piss and you'll have a much larger choice of hotels etc