Eurotrip Nov-Feb

[herrbert]

Ajax is playing Willem II (that is playing really bad, so far), but it must be possible to get tickets, and the cheapest ones, should cost you 13.50-18.50 euro for a game like this. The 100 euro deal you mentioned are packages for businessmen. The best thing you can do is to go to place that sells tickets for footballmatches a day before. take a look at this page: www.ticketbox.nl/verkooppunten/resultaten.php?city=amsterdam&zipcode= (these are the places selling tickets for games in the Eredivisie in Amsterdam South-East, not just Ajax-games). If you go here on the day you arrive, they can tell you were you can go, and if there are restrictions.

I don't know how easy it is to get tickets for Feyenoord. In the weekend that you are in the Netherlands they are playing Heerenveen, and it could be that this is game with some restrictions for getting tickets. (For some games they only allow people in that have a clubcard or a card for the entire season, in this way they try to prevent hooligans to enter the stadium). The emailaddress voor questions on this matter should be [e-mail]

They start selling tickets 3 weeks in advance, and on the day of the match they start selling tickets 3 and a half hours in advance at the klantenservice (clients-service), and 2 hours in advance at the other places. I honestly don't know if they sell out a lot of games at the moment, they have a very loyal crowd, but the results so far this season are bad. (tickets should cost you 15 - 35 euros, depending on the place you want to sit, behind the goals is the cheapest). If you buy some merchandise of Feyenoord and you return to Amsterdam, leave it in your bag!

AZ has moved to a new stadium, and in the weekend that you are here, they will be playing one of the weakest teams, so there should be some places left there. I think you should be able to get tickets.

The best match that weekend should be Vitesse - PSV. Vitesse has a good team at the moment (not showing in the results, thou), and PSV is the reigning champion. Tickets are always available because it's a big stadium (a little bit too big for Vitesse). It only sold-out during one game (against Inter Milan, some years ago). Cheapest tickets are 13 euro.

I hope this helps you for your plans to go and see a football game in the Netherlands.

As far as flying in Europe is concerned: flying is often a cheaper (and faster) way to get around then taking the train, for sure this is the case if you are buying normal (p2p) traintickets, but getting some cheap flights, can also make it possible to buy a different (=cheaper) railpass. Taking a good look at this matter, can save you some money (and precious time)

For Caceres: take a look at it, you are most likely to pass it anyway, so why don't make a stop?

[antoine]

Thanks a million Herberrt

Yeah i really want to see one of the big 3 dutch clubs play. PSV and Feyernood have sections on their sites for fans from other countries.... www.feyenoord.com/domains/default/pages/content.asp?content=12770000000057_2_10000000001651&contentcode=Klantenservice%20Kaartverkoop&navid=12770000000010_12770000000006

Cheers for the advice on Vitisse And not walking around Amsterdam in Feyernood Merchanside. I've heard "ajax the artistic north versus Feyernood Rotterdam the hard working south ". To be honest i couldn't name a dutch player actually in Holland, but the style of play is very very good and Australians love Guss Hiddink "in Guss(God) we trust", "no Guss(Guts) no glory"

Modified my iten AGAIN lol, these dates put me in Holland for the Endervise, Germany to see Stuttgart & Berlin.

Also worked out buying a ticket from Dresden - Prague and Prague - Vienna is cheaper than buying a Czech pass and saves me two days on my Eurail pass

City Nights Cumalative.Nights Dates
Brugges 2 10 28/11/2006 29/11/2006
Brussels Luven 2 12 30/11/2006 1/12/2006
Amsterdam 3 15 2/12/2006 4/12/2006
Cologne 2 17 5/12/2006 6/12/2006
Stuttgart 2 19 7/12/2006 8/12/2006
Munich 4 23 9/12/2006 12/12/2006
Berlin 4 27 13/12/2006 16/12/2006
Dresden/Leipzeg 2 29 17/12/2006 18/12/2006
Prague 4 33 19/12/2006 22/12/2006
Vienna 4 37 23/12/2006 26/12/2006

then on 27th afternoon fly to Zurich (saving 10 hours) (Air Berlin, 63Euro still gotta buy it)
Zurich to Geneva (2.5 hrs on train, guess it will be nice scenery out the window) on the 28th
Geneva to Rome flying on the 29th afternoon, spend the night in Rome

May of said this before but THANKS A BUNCH everyone

[antoine]

Sooo.... spent the weekend thinking, and just baught a few flights since my last post

City Nights Dates
Paris 8 20/11/2006 27/11/2006
Brugges 2 28/11/2006 29/11/2006
Brussels & Luven 2 30/11/2006 1/12/2006
Amsterdam 3 2/12/2006 4/12/2006
Cologne 2 5/12/2006 6/12/2006
Stuttgart 2 7/12/2006 8/12/2006
Munich 4 9/12/2006 12/12/2006
Berlin 4 13/12/2006 16/12/2006
Dresden 2 17/12/2006 18/12/2006
Prague 4 19/12/2006 22/12/2006
Vienna 4 23/12/2006 26/12/2006 fly in arvo Vienna - Zurich
Zurich 1 27/12/2006 27/12/2006
Geneva 1 28/12/2006 28/12/2006 Fly on 29th arvo Geneva - Rome
Rome 5 29/12/2006 2/01/2007
Naples 1 3/01/2007 3/01/2007
Florence 3 4/01/2007 6/01/2007
Venice 2 7/01/2007 8/01/2007 Fly on 9th Arvo Venice - Barca
Barca 5 9/01/2007 13/01/2007
Valencia 2 14/01/2007 15/01/2007
Granada 2 16/01/2007 17/01/2007
Seville 2 18/01/2007 19/01/2007
Cordoba 1 20/01/2007 20/01/2007
Madrid 6 21/01/2007 26/01/2007
Lisbon 6 27/01/2007 1/02/2007 Fly on 2nd morn Lisbon - Portugal
Dublin 5 2/02/2007 6/02/2007 Fly on 7th morn Dublin - London
London 4 7/02/2007 10/02/2007 Fly on the 11th back to OZ

Arvo = Afternoon, sorry for the slang

So yeah, Itenary while in Italy, Germany and Spain are flexible, But rest is pretty solid i recon. Thanks for all your feeback and help. 37 days more (not like im counting)

[antoine]

In order to help me study for exams i have just planned everything and booked everything possible. HOPEFULLY now i can study....

FRA Paris 6 20/11/2006 25/11/2006 inc versaille
BEL Brugges 1 26/11/2006 26/11/2006
Antwerp 1 27/11/2006 27/11/2006
Brussels 1 28/11/2006 28/11/2006
NED Amsterdam 3 29/11/2006 1/12/2006
GER Stuttgart 2 2/12/2006 3/12/2006
Munich 5 4/12/2006 8/12/2006 inc castle
AUS Innsbruk 2 9/12/2006 10/12/2006
Salzburg 2 11/12/2006 12/12/2006 FLY
GER Berlin 5 13/12/2006 17/12/2006
Dresden 1 18/12/2006 18/12/2006
CZH Prague 4 19/12/2006 22/12/2006
AUS Vienna 4 23/12/2006 26/12/2006 FLY
SWI Zurich 1 27/12/2006 27/12/2006
Geneva 1 28/12/2006 28/12/2006 FLY
ITL Rome 6 29/12/2006 3/01/2007 inc volcano lol
Florence 3 4/01/2007 6/01/2007 inc pisa sienna
Venice 2 7/01/2007 8/01/2007 FLY
ESP Barca 5 9/01/2007 13/01/2007
Valencia 2 14/01/2007 15/01/2007 FLY
Seville 3 16/01/2007 18/01/2007
Granada 2 19/01/2007 20/01/2007 FLY
Madrid 6 21/01/2007 26/01/2007 FLY inc. toledo
POR Lisbon 6 27/01/2007 1/02/2007 FLY inc. sintra & fatima
IRE Dublin 5 2/02/2007 6/02/2007 FLY
UK London 4 7/02/2007 10/02/2007 FLY

I thought a little bit about how much ive spent all up and going to spend, DONT , especailly when you take a loan from your parents

big thanks to pointofnoreturn and herrbet, great helps, and just searching and reading the forums helps heaps as well. 25 days and counting.... will def write up a massive post when i return.

Back to the books i go .....hopefully hehe

[herrbert]

Keep us posted, good luck with your exams.

[antoine]

Quick update, MAY have to cut my trip short and skip Ireland and England because of a potential job starting on the 5th of Febuary in another state (requiring me to move). Will find out if im successful next friday, and that also depends if i pass my exams which i find out on teh 30th of November. Which leaves a lot of maybes, ummmm's and ahhhh's but at the moment everything remains as is, as it probably will till Nov 30th where i got a massive decision to make.