Calling all Americans, where are you staying in Germany 2006?

The venues have already been selected. Cologne (Koln) is one site, I remember, and Leverkusen withdrew from competition. I will stay in Cologne if I go. One thing to note- for some reason, train tickets in and out of Frankfurt are 50% more expensive than to/from other cities for the same distance.

 

5 of us going. We plan on staying at least part of the time in Munich. Also have a friend that owns a resort in the Swiss Alps that I might visit for a couple days.

 

I don't think it will be a problem actually.
Due to some misguided tax breaks Germany way overbuilt hotels all over the country though mostly in the east.
Plus with those great autobahns you can get around the country pretty easily or there are tons of train options.
Stay in the center somewhere (Hanover, Madgeburg) etc any you can get anywhere.

 

Yeah, those accents are eine schlampe

and if you don't know where you want to stay, perhaps stick to the western part, there are more venues there than in the east.

I hopefully will be studying abroad in the summer of 2006, that would be so great...only paying for one flight, not worrying about hotels and whatnot. I'd just have to devise great ways to tell my professors that I can't come to class cause I'm really only in Germany for the WC.

 

Kaiserslautern is one of the 10 venues, so you are in luck!

Friend of mine is an ex-pat from Niedernhausen (near Wiesbaden) so that's where we're staying.

One thing to consider, if you haven't been over there is the size. The two venues farthest away from each other (Hamburg and Munchen) are 500 miles apart. Or a day's drive. (think "autobahn"!)

If you didn't have family or friends to stay with, I'd say shoot for the Koln area. Mainly because 5 of the venues are within a 100 mile radius (Gelsenkirchen, Dortmund, Koln, Frankfurt, and Kaiserslautern.)

As far as ticketing, FIFA announced a while back that they were going to sell, I guess what I would consider the equivalent of a season ticket for a country. A ticket that guarantees you a seat in every game that that country plays in. All the way up to the Final game! Sounds neat, if it works. (I hope that's the case because I would naturally assume that we'd all be sitting together!!!) Tickets were reported to start going on sale in Feb 2005.

It's going to be awesome. I CANNOT wait! Never been to a WC out the US. My friend says that, when Germany is playing, you could lay down in the middle of Main Strasse in any town . . . literally everyone will be busy watching the game.

 

Not sure if this isn't timely enough (given you asked this in May), but this is the site that I like the best for the venues.

http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/


I'm looking to being adopted by someone who has friends/relatives in Germany. Able to pay my own way.

 

From my time in Germany I can tell you this.

Best Western right outside of Munich, perfect. Cheap as hell and all you can eat breakfast buffet that is out of this world good!

 

K-Town is actually one of the sites for games. From K-Town you are also easy driving or train distance from Cologne, Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Frankfurt and Stuttgart. Plus with Stuttgart you can get TLF.

http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/d/

Antikreis, unfortunately just about to leave Germany

 

i have friends in bochum and dresden so hopefully there will be close host cities that will hold US games(that is if we do qualify) dortmund is the closest host city to bochum i believe, not sure which host city is closest to dresden.