World Cup Fan Costs

[bravo340]

I made this thread to see how much everyone is planning on spending this summer. I'm going with my two bros and parents from June 17-July 10. We haven't made any reservations just yet, but we plan on spending a total of about $18,000-$19,000 for the whole trip (airplane tickets, hotels, travel, food, souvenirs, etc.).

What about the rest of you? How long is your stay and how much do you think you'll spend?

[marianelah]

I'm planning on $12,000 - 14K I'm back in the US after the first round. Flying out of Los Angeles. Family of 4.

[HSV Hooligan]

I'm already at almost $10,000 for an apartment for a month (June 8-July 11), airfare (first class baby!), tickets to many games, and rental car...and that's only my half because I'm travelling with my brother. I'm also planning on saving another $5k-$10k to take with me for incidentals. I figured that this will be my once-in-a-lifetime soccer experience, I might as well go all-out. See ya in Deutschland!

[96Squig]

The only cost I will have to worry about will be the beer at the Fanfest.

[balla]

Flight - $2000 AU
Europass - 500 EU
Food/Drink - 500 EU
Tickets - 200 EU

Adds up to around $4000 Australian dollars or around $3000 US if you like. I have free accomodation :)

[paul51]

Around $5500 for 2 weeks, its 6 of us so thats $33000, that includes rental car, hotels 3 cities, tickets 3 games including opening match, etc

[nowherenova]

$5000- 2-week group stage visit- just me

[lawndart]

Flight $50 + miles
Tickets one Cat IV for CZ and one for Italy $120
Staying with a friend who is stationed there free.
Maybe $1000 in beer.
Total about $2000 for the trip. But only going to the two games and staying about 10 days.

[RichardL]

flights.
London(Stansted) - Frankfurt(Hahn) £16
Berlin - London(Gatwick) £55

4 tickets £190 (South Korea v Togo, Portugal v Iran, Angola v Iran, Ukraine v Tunisia)

6 nights in Frankfurt £419 (really hoping to find something cheaper)
2 nights in Cologne £87
2 nights in Berlin £116

Still to book somewhere near Leipzig, possibly Halle, approx £90

That's almost £1000.
Add on food, beer, train tickets, day trips, etc and I'll probably add £500 - £1000 more.

Still, if I didn't spend it on beer and football I'd only squander it.

[Zamora25]

Train in sweden: 30 euro

Arlanda (Sweden) - HAnover 30 euro
Hanover - Arlanda 30 euro

3 tickets, Swe - Paraguay, Swe - Trinidad, SWE-England, 150 euro

1 night in hanover 30 euro
2 nights in Dortmund 46 euro
8 nights in Berlin 500 euro (it´s on the Alexanderplatz with own kitchen, so its central and will save money cooking)
2 nights in Köln 120 euro

Train: 180 euro

food, beer, day trips, taxi, subway, = 500 euro
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I guess around 1600 euro for 2 weeks.

[LilAke]

4 guys, total trip for flights, rooms, rail pass and tickets is roughly $12,000 USD. Add another $4,000 USD for beer, food and other "essentials" while we're there.

1 night in Munich
1 night in Kaiserslautern
2 nights in Stuttgart
2 nights in Amsterdam (That's in Germany, right? ;) )
1 night in Nuremberg

Lots of sleep on the plane ride home.

[donofrioms]

2 guys, Fly into Frankfurt

2 nights Frankfurt
3 nights Amsterdam
5 nights Frankfurt
Train ride to Italy
5 nights on the beach
5 nights in rome

Fly home, bought and paid for $4500

Spending money $3500 each

[AlexH]

Why do you all add 1000$ and more on beer and so on?? Its not THAT expensive... A Beer about 2EUR-2,50, i mean you would drink 500-400 Beers?:eek:

Till now i have only 2 Tickets for the Round of Sixteen in Stuttgart...But Cat 1... Im looking forward to get Cat 3 in Frankfurt Quarterfinals and maybe for the semifinals/Final... thath would be ca. 600EUR on tickets...

For the car...nothing, my dad drives :cool: but were living near stuttgart

[dfb547490]

Why do you all add 1000$ and more on beer and so on?? Its not THAT expensive... A Beer about 2EUR-2,50, i mean you would drink 500-400 Beers?:eek:

I'm planning on more like 4E, or about $5...seeing as how I'll be there for 2 weeks and a typical night of heavy drinking for me involves 15-20 beers, $1000 isn't out of the realm of possibility

I'm looking at about $2500, but I got the plane tickets as a Christmas gift so really about $32-3300.

[prymetyme]

Flight from Boston- 900
Free Accomidations
800 euro totaly- for every day (be there for 3 weeks)
(that includes food,drink,tickets,souvenirs ect...)
200-train pass

Frankfurt
Cologne
Dortmund
Amsterdam
Berlin

[berni23]

For everybody wantig to cut their costs for travel and accommodation(or having more for beer) have a look at this site:

www.worldcupcamping.com

[supersport]

This thread scares me! I didn't get a great deal on Airfare and I bought 6 tickets for the Group Stage from Razorgator. So I'm already into it about 6 grand. Luckily, I got free places to stay in Frankfurt and in Prague. But, then again I expect the wife to break the bank buying Italian shoes, etc. I'm hoping to keep the whole thing under 10 grand, but only time will tell.

[Blackbaron]

Still, if I didn't spend it on beer and football I'd only squander it.

A most rightous and excellent sentiment from our fine furry friend.

I'll get in my 3 weeks for under $6k all together. All depends on how many tix i can find. 18 days of a campervan is my highest cost. Kind of like a turtle with a home on my back but it gives me a lot of versatility and mobility. The only two cities that i don't plan on being in are Hamburg and Hanover.:cool:

[RichardL]

A most rightous and excellent sentiment from our fine furry friend.

I'll get in my 3 weeks for under $6k all together. All depends on how many tix i can find. 18 days of a campervan is my highest cost. Kind of like a turtle with a home on my back but it gives me a lot of versatility and mobility. The only two cities that i don't plan on being in are Hamburg and Hanover.:cool:
I managed to almost halve my Frankfurt hotel costs after switching hotel, twice as it happens.

I really can't urge enough that if you haven't booked anywhere to stay then book up as soon as you can - everywhere is booking up really fast. Of course if you are happy paying 150 euros a night you still have plenty of choice, but even those places are going to go.

Even if you don't know where you'll be because you are hoping to get extra tickets, pick somewhere to stay as a fallback option just in case you don't get any extra tickets at all. You can, after all, cancel the room if you do get lucky with the tickets.

[RichardL]

But, then again I expect the wife to break the bank buying Italian shoes, etc. I'm hoping to keep the whole thing under 10 grand, but only time will tell.
tell her not to go shopping until saturday afternoon.

"what honey? The shops were shut Saturday afternoon? Who'd have thought it? You can go tomorrow instead. What? They're shut tomorrow too? Man, that's a real shame".