Where are you based in Germany?

[Rich NATA]

2 hours ago, YesTA said:

Anyone waiting untill the draw to firm up plans? So many variables at this stage.

Aye, I'll be waiting until the draw provides some clarity.

[biffer]

I’ve got eight days in Bochum, between Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen and Düsseldorf. Then I’ve got three nights in Düsseldorf somewhere nicer as I might need to curl up in a ball by that time. Will use the first booking as a base and if I need to go elsewhere for a night I can. The Düsseldorf one is cancellable though so if I need to look at heading elsewhere for those three days I can.

[oneforcolin]

Half of Kilmarnock staying In Kaiserslautern! Handy, cheap as chips and a fair number of the Germans have spent more time in the pubs in Killie than me!

[Rich NATA]

4 hours ago, biffer said:

I’ve got eight days in Bochum

I presume you know about the Bermuda Triangle in Bochum, aye?

https://www.bermuda3eck.de/locations/

[biffer]

2 hours ago, Rich NATA said:

I presume you know about the Bermuda Triangle in Bochum, aye?

https://www.bermuda3eck.de/locations/

I did not. Thanks for letting me know - just a ten minute walk from my hotel!

Thats going to be great during the tournament - I’m presuming they’ll have big screens up and suchlike.

Edited October 27, 2023 by biffer

[Rich NATA]

6 minutes ago, biffer said:

I did not. Thanks for letting me know - just a ten minute walk from my hotel!

Thats going to be great during the tournament - I’m presuming they’ll have big screens up and suchlike.

I've seen it from the train (it's very close to Bochum train station) but I've never actually been there.

 

However, I know people who have been and they said it was fantastic.

 

Just bar after bar after bar after bar.

 

[Stranboogie75]

Booked For Dusseldorf -via Edinburgh for me and the boy for a week Sat-Sat Paid 240 per flight 2 days b4 we qualified now at £500 😬 

Have 7 nights digs in the city in three blocks, all refundable. Will be mental dash for rooms after the draw, like mentioned above there is a group of 5 cities within an hours train Dusseldorf Dortmund Cologne Gelsenkirchen and Frankfurt so its a no brainer when wingin' it for now! 

[Bzzzz]

No bookin anything till I see where WE are playing and also where the guffies are, not a fkin chance I want to risk being anywhere near any of they cnts. 

[Squirrelhumper]

On 10/27/2023 at 7:50 PM, oneforcolin said:

Half of Kilmarnock staying In Kaiserslautern! Handy, cheap as chips and a fair number of the Germans have spent more time in the pubs in Killie than me!

I'm gonna pop down to K-Town one day in between games. 

As for the last bit, i doubt it! 

[LoganRoy]

14 hours ago, Bzzzz said:

No bookin anything till I see where WE are playing and also where the guffies are, not a fkin chance I want to risk being anywhere near any of they cnts. 

Prepare to pay through the nose.  3 weeks there's a whole host of other nations qualified who will book up.

Edited October 30, 2023 by LoganRoy

[Craig Fae Hamilton]

I booked up in June!...And Thank FU*K!

Me and the Boy (18 and going to his 1st Finals - living the F'ing Dream!) heading to Frankfurt as we have German Friends in and around Frankfurt so can hook up with them there. Heading out 19th June and there until 27th (Last 2 Group Games).

Original Flight Cost: £220

Cost Now: £420

Got a Zillion Hotels booked though so that we can hit the road from there (all refundable):

Date	Game	City	Digs	Notes
Wednesday 19th June	A2vA4	Cologne		1 Hour by Train from Frank
Arrives 9.10 AM	A1vA3	Stuttgart		A1=GERMANY 1.5 Hours by Train from Frank
	B2vB4	Hamburg	HOTEL	4.5 Hours by Train from Frank
Thursday 20th June	B1vB3	Gelsenkirchen	HOTEL	3 Hours by Train from Frank
	C2vC4	Frankfurt
	C1vC3	Munich	HOTEL	3 Hours by Train from Frank
Friday 21st June	D1vD3	Berlin	HOTEL	4 Hours by Train from Frank
	D2vD4	Leipzig	HOTEL	3 Hours by Train from Frank
	E2vE4	Dusseldorf		1.5 Hours by Train from Frank
Saturday 22nd June	E1vE3	Cologne		1 Hour by Train from Frank
	F1vF3	Dortmund		3.5 Hour by Train from Frank
	F2vF4	Hamburg	HOTEL	4.5 Hours by Train from Frank
Sunday 23rd June	A4vA1	Frankfurt		A1=GERMANY
	A2vA3	Stuttgart		1.5 Hours by Train from Frank
Monday 24th June	B4vB1	Dusseldorf		1.5 Hours by Train from Frank
	B2vB3	Leipzig	HOTEL	3 Hours by Train from Frank
Tuesday 25th June	C4vC1	Cologne		1 Hour by Train from Frank
	C2vC3	Munich	HOTEL	3 Hours by Train from Frank
	D2vD3	Berlin	HOTEL	4 Hours by Train from Frank
	D4vD1	Dortmund	HOTEL	3.5 Hours by Train from Frank
Wenesday 26th June	E2vE3	Frankfurt
	E4vE1	Stuttgart		1.5 Hours by Train from Frank
	F4vF1	Hamburg	HOTEL	4.5 Hours by Train from Frank
	F2vF3	Gelsenkirchen	HOTEL	3 Hours by Train from Frank
Thursday 27th June
Departs 9.40 PM

 

Purely for getting around Germany, Essen would be a good base. It's very close to loads of Host Stadia although it is not a Host City itself so possibly you will get better value digs. Plus it is a major Train Hub, it'll be much simpler to get pretty much anywhere in Germany from there. Plus, loads of TA stayed there when Scotland player Germany in Dortmund years ago.

Just to add, I was in Germany for the World Cup in 2006 and everywhere I went absolutely ROCKED. So it doe not matter where you go, you will have an AMAZING time!

 

One last Tip, if you see any Markets dotted about. Go into them, even the regular Markets have Beer and Wine Tents right in the middle of them! They ROCK!

[Squirrelhumper]

42 minutes ago, Craig Fae Hamilton said:

 

 

Purely for getting around Germany, Essen would be a good base. It's very close to loads of Host Stadia although it is not a Host City itself so possibly you will get better value digs. Plus it is a major Train Hub, it'll be much simpler to get pretty much anywhere in Germany from there. Plus, loads of TA stayed there when Scotland player Germany in Dortmund years ago.

 

That's why we booked there. 

[Broath Boy]

4 minutes ago, Squirrelhumper said:

That's why we booked there. 

So, is your plan to travel by train to a near host city on match day then last train home at night?

[Squirrelhumper]

22 minutes ago, Broath Boy said:

So, is your plan to travel by train to a near host city on match day then last train home at night?

See what time kick off is. 

Basing myself in Essen and if i need a night or two elsewhere then i'll just take an overnight bag. 

Trains run right through the night.

[ghorne67]

We're flying into Frankfurt and then we've booked free cancellation digs for every possible fixture. Took a wee bit of time to set up a spreadsheet and find digs for every outcome but glad I've got that sorted before the dirty rush once the draw is out.

Hopefully the bookings that we actually need don't get cancelled by the owners once all the prices start going through the roof.

I would say it was a bit of a nightmare trying to find accommodation in Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen. Might just be they weren't on sale yet but worth doing a bit of research into smaller surrounding cities, Bochum, Essen, Duisburg, Leverkusen and even Eindhoven are fairly close by. 

[GroundsKeeper]

2 hours ago, ghorne67 said:

We're flying into Frankfurt and then we've booked free cancellation digs for every possible fixture. Took a wee bit of time to set up a spreadsheet and find digs for every outcome but glad I've got that sorted before the dirty rush once the draw is out.

Hopefully the bookings that we actually need don't get cancelled by the owners once all the prices start going through the roof.

I would say it was a bit of a nightmare trying to find accommodation in Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen. Might just be they weren't on sale yet but worth doing a bit of research into smaller surrounding cities, Bochum, Essen, Duisburg, Leverkusen and even Eindhoven are fairly close by. 

This is getting more common now, guys turn up to their digs and the booking has been cancelled.

Bookng .com really need to get a hold of this and back up the original booker or whats the point using their App. 

[ghorne67]

I believe if you get no notification your booking has been cancelled, booking.com are liable to find you alternate accommodation. 

Most of ours are with 'reputable' hotels so hopefully shouldn't have an issue with them, its the independent hotels/homestays/hostels that I'm more worried about.

[biffer]

That's one of the reasons both my bookings are direct with large chains. Ibis and Crowne Plaza.

[N4Footsoldier]

On 10/31/2023 at 11:03 AM, ghorne67 said:

 

Hopefully the bookings that we actually need don't get cancelled by the owners once all the prices start going through the roof.

 

Stuck to hotel chains specifically for this reason

[GroundsKeeper]

On 10/31/2023 at 3:42 PM, ghorne67 said:

I believe if you get no notification your booking has been cancelled, booking.com are liable to find you alternate accommodation. 

Most of ours are with 'reputable' hotels so hopefully shouldn't have an issue with them, its the independent hotels/homestays/hostels that I'm more worried about.

That was my understanding aswell but when my mates contacted book ing. com to obviously complain they weren't interested. 

[davierobbsagod]

7 hours ago, GroundsKeeper said:

That was my understanding aswell but when my mates contacted book ing. com to obviously complain they weren't interested. 

Re the above, my retirement job as a handyman for the hotel/serviced apartments industry has really opened my eyes to the practices of booking.com,expedia etc etc.

you may think you are getting a cheaper deal through the sites and possibly very minimally you are but trust me you are at the bottom of the food chain when overbooking /room sizes etc comes into it.when you stand in front of a receptionist of a hotel you think you are booked into and they have no details of you but you booked through  a 3rd party site you are wasting your breath,your booking contract is with whoever you booked with,expedia,trivago....and you need to speak to them.

First break I booked since I realised this was april last year in Belgium,I booked directly with my hotel,we turned up 4hrs earlier than the normal check in time but hoped we could drop our bags and come back later.Receptionist said everything was fine and in her own words because we had booked direct with the hotel we had been upgraded and our room was ready.

So, if you can afford it always,always,always book directly with the hotel/accommodation,trust me..especially the older demographic of our support who cant be arsed with hostels anymore...

[stirlish]

On 10/31/2023 at 11:03 AM, ghorne67 said:

We're flying into Frankfurt and then we've booked free cancellation digs for every possible fixture. Took a wee bit of time to set up a spreadsheet and find digs for every outcome but glad I've got that sorted before the dirty rush once the draw is out.

Hopefully the bookings that we actually need don't get cancelled by the owners once all the prices start going through the roof.

I would say it was a bit of a nightmare trying to find accommodation in Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen. Might just be they weren't on sale yet but worth doing a bit of research into smaller surrounding cities, Bochum, Essen, Duisburg, Leverkusen and even Eindhoven are fairly close by. 

I plan on using the 'pay now' function as soon as draw is made, rather than waiting to pay on arrival/day before 

[Squirrelhumper]

3 hours ago, stirlish said:

I plan on using the 'pay now' function as soon as draw is made, rather than waiting to pay on arrival/day before 

Snap.

[Craig Fae Hamilton]

9 minutes ago, Squirrelhumper said:

I plan on using the 'pay now' function as soon as draw is made, rather than waiting to pay on arrival/day before 

Noted! (-:

[wanderer]

Large group of us booked an apartment in Remagen, which is effectively a suburb village of Bonn, so handy for Cologne (and the rest of the stadiums in the Rhineland) and Frankfurt and on the main train line from the Rhineland to central and southern Germany.

Owner says bikes that they have are free for us to use, so handy for down time to cycle up and down the Rhine to explore.

Booked British Airways flights (which includes free bag check in) into Frankfurt.

Edited November 8, 2023 by wanderer