goaliemanpat
14 May 2005, 12:58 PM
Hello all. I am really looking forward to going to my first World Cup next year in Germany. Staying up till 3 am with about 10 friends and watchin the 2002 Cup was fun and all but I suppose nothing is going to compare to going to next years Anyways I was planning on using soccertravel.com to setup a package for two weeks in Germany. Has anyone used this company before? If so are they good and would you recommend them? Thanks in advance. I look forward to posting more on this board :)
Pat
RichardL
14 May 2005, 01:59 PM
Unless you can get an exceptionally good deal you'll probably be ripped-off. As you are unlikely to be able to stay in the kind of block-booked package holiday hotels that made many package deals cheap, it's unlikely to be worth it.
You'd be better off using them for flights to europe and doing the rest yourself.
Remember, there are plently of budget airlines here ( www.whichbudget.com )
so you don't need to book flights to the actual cities the games are in, or even Germany itself for that matter.
Train travel is best arranged using www.bahn.de (it's a German site, but there's a button on the page on the left to convert to English) regardless of what country you are in.
There are loads of hotel sites. Normally just typing "budget hotel Berlin" (or wherever) into a search engine will be enough to find a whole host of cheap places. (Or you can look for luxury ones if you aren't a cheapskate). Once I've found somewhere I often then type that hotel's name in again into the search anything and see if anything cheaper comes up.