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Post by manulike on Jan 31, 2017 14:53:52 GMT
flying via Amsterdam , you can fly from pretty much anywhere in the UK to Belgrade for between £150-£200 return. Use Transavia Amsterdam to Belgrade out Thursday back Monday is still only £90. Out Sunday (match-day) arriving Belgrade 2pm, is actually £10 cheaper... www.transavia.com/en-UK/book-a-flight/flights/search/ |
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Post by CrackityJones on Jan 31, 2017 15:00:16 GMT
According to the latest FSF minutes, the game is virtually guaranteed to be in Belgrade:
apostlewelshfootie.proboards.com/thread/7661/minutes-latest-fsf-faw?page=1&scrollTo=128393
Serbia v Wales 11.06.17 – venue, allocation etc.
More will be known about this at the next meeting following the FAW site visit to Belgrade, the Serbians have only registered two venues for their fixtures both of which are in Belgrade, The Red Star Stadium which holds over 50,000 and the Partizan stadium which has a capacity of almost 33,000. A survey will be sent out to gauge the interest for this game and if necessary the loyalty scheme will be used but we expect to have enough tickets to satisfy the demand.
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Post by manulike on Jan 31, 2017 15:19:04 GMT
According to the latest FSF minutes, the game is virtually guaranteed to be in Belgrade:
apostlewelshfootie.proboards.com/thread/7661/minutes-latest-fsf-faw?page=1&scrollTo=128393
Serbia v Wales 11.06.17 – venue, allocation etc.
More will be known about this at the next meeting following the FAW site visit to Belgrade, the Serbians have only registered two venues for their fixtures both of which are in Belgrade, The Red Star Stadium which holds over 50,000 and the Partizan stadium which has a capacity of almost 33,000. A survey will be sent out to gauge the interest for this game and if necessary the loyalty scheme will be used but we expect to have enough tickets to satisfy the demand.
Even if the match will be played at the Partizan stadium (32k) we are sure to get as many tickets as we want, as the Serbian fans are boycotting their team. The Attendance v ROI was only 7,896. Attendance v Austria was only 14,200. |
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Post by benrhosgad on Jan 31, 2017 15:51:58 GMT
have any of you looked at the appartments in Belgrade?
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Post by phillywelsh83 on Jan 31, 2017 16:01:02 GMT
have any of you looked at the appartments in Belgrade? I usually go the apartment route, so much cheaper for what you get! |
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Post by benrhosgad on Jan 31, 2017 16:20:39 GMT
they look decent to be fair
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Post by grifftinfoilhat on Jan 31, 2017 16:51:19 GMT
have any of you looked at the appartments in Belgrade? AirBnb has some stunning looking options some as low as £25 per night. Last time we stayed on a boat hostel and there were SNAKES. |
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Post by sparky85 on Jan 31, 2017 20:08:21 GMT
Does anyone know where we can buy Serbian Diners From? Or do we take Euros or am I being a bit thick?
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Post by manulike on Jan 31, 2017 20:44:51 GMT
Does anyone know where we can buy Serbian Diners From? Or do we take Euros or am I being a bit thick? Serbian Dinar is a closed currency (like the Ukrainian grivny) so you can't buy it outside the country. They wont accept Irish euro notes, but French euro notes are grand ;-) |
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Post by sparky85 on Jan 31, 2017 20:48:43 GMT
Many thanks for that. We are arriving late so hopefully we will be able to get our hands on some. I am assuming the French euros was a piss take?
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Post by sleepy on Feb 6, 2017 12:12:43 GMT
As i posted in the "Welsh Footie" category....
If anyone has missed out on match tickets for Dublin, there are still great prices on flights to Belgrade for our game in June. It's a weekend in Belgrade in the summer, so should be a good one.
e.g. from Birmingham Turkish Airlines out Sat 10/06 10:35 back Mon 12/06 09:15 - currently £192 per person (and I believe they'll even feed you and give you a couple of beers for that price).
Your travelling time will be longer, and the flight cost higher, but everything else will be far cheaper. In fact, I think 2 nights in Belgrade could be £50 cheaper overall (see estimated costs table below).
Prices per person based on 2 sharing
Dublin Belgrade
Flight/Ferry £100 £200
Travel to airport & parking £50 £50
Taxi to/from airport £30 £15
2 nights hotel £80 £50
Match ticket £50 £10
10 beers £50 £20
4 meals £80 £40
TOTAL £440 £385
i.e. Dublin costs £440 total, Belgrade costs £385 total
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Post by wonkysheep on Feb 6, 2017 13:14:50 GMT
If it helps, our price for Serbia 4 days 3 nights (Out Sat, back Tues)
Current price is £360 with our Saver Deal but is almost sold out. Price will then be £375 for the final spaces.
Dublin is £275 for 3 days, 2 nights and there are a handful of spaces left
Details for both, along with Moldova and (in the next 48 hours) Georgia.
wonkysheep.co.uk/walesfootball
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Post by claretcymro on Feb 7, 2017 22:46:29 GMT
Booked flights last night from Manchester. Going out on Thursday at 5.25pm with KLM to Amsterdam and then Air Serbia to Belgrade and returning on Tuesday on Air Serbia / British Airways via Heathrow, arriving in Manchester at 5pm.Cost was £198.Same flight on Friday nearly £270.
Had originally intended booking with Easy Jet from Manchester to Amsterdam and then Transavia from Amsterdam to Belgrade which would have involved leaving Manchester at 7am on Tuesday and returning at almost 11pm on Tuesday before a 2 hour drive home and having to go to work on Wednesday.
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Post by leggybach on Feb 8, 2017 1:08:23 GMT
Serbia is typical of a pretty poor country that has a lot of immigrants abroad with exchange offices pretty much everywhere.
Having needed to convert money out there, I've shopped around a lot for conversion rates. Don't do more than £10-20 at the airport (or train/bus station, I seem to remember) as they'll screw you. There are some good ones in the centre, I always use the one in Balkan Bet on Terazije - on the right as you walk from the main shopping street to Hotel Moscow. Always a fair price. If you spot one, usually shouldn't exchange for more than 4/5din less than the daily actual rate. I'm off out there again tomorrow and expecting around 140:1, way down on the 167:1 I got when I moved there.
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Post by leggybach on Feb 8, 2017 1:13:33 GMT
According to the latest FSF minutes, the game is virtually guaranteed to be in Belgrade:
apostlewelshfootie.proboards.com/thread/7661/minutes-latest-fsf-faw?page=1&scrollTo=128393
Serbia v Wales 11.06.17 – venue, allocation etc.
More will be known about this at the next meeting following the FAW site visit to Belgrade, the Serbians have only registered two venues for their fixtures both of which are in Belgrade, The Red Star Stadium which holds over 50,000 and the Partizan stadium which has a capacity of almost 33,000. A survey will be sent out to gauge the interest for this game and if necessary the loyalty scheme will be used but we expect to have enough tickets to satisfy the demand.
Even if the match will be played at the Partizan stadium (32k) we are sure to get as many tickets as we want, as the Serbian fans are boycotting their team. The Attendance v ROI was only 7,896. Attendance v Austria was only 14,200. Serbian fans will stop boycotting as soon as they're in with a sniff, don't worry! Journalist mate of mine in Belgrade said that they've agreed a deal with Red Star to use their ground for them all. Better ground for atmosphere but a much worse view. Also, (I guess FSF will waste public money on a trip out there and tell you all this) if you're disabled/have trouble walking on uneven surfaces, get to the ground early and walk the whole way around from the main entrance. To get to the away end - I assume it's the same as with Partizan and with Wales in 2003 - you have to cross a bit of dodgy grass and scrubland from the main road. They'd cut it back last time I passed by. Will have a look again next week as it's round the corner from my girlfriend's place. |
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Post by manulike on Feb 8, 2017 11:17:27 GMT
Serbia is typical of a pretty poor country that has a lot of immigrants abroad with exchange offices pretty much everywhere. Having needed to convert money out there, I've shopped around a lot for conversion rates. Don't do more than £10-20 at the airport (or train/bus station, I seem to remember) as they'll screw you. There are some good ones in the centre, I always use the one in Balkan Bet on Terazije - on the right as you walk from the main shopping street to Hotel Moscow. Always a fair price. If you spot one, usually shouldn't exchange for more than 4/5din less than the daily actual rate. I'm off out there again tomorrow and expecting around 140:1, way down on the 167:1 I got when I moved there. Thanks for your help. It seems (from these random exchange websites) that its: 140 up to 142 at Paris and Aalta - to the Pound 123 to the Euro Thus, it makes no sense at all coming over with euros (as some suggested), as you'd lose out twice in fees. So stick with pounds and get a Travel Friendly credit card (eg Halifax Clarity). If you have PLENTY of dinars left over and you need to change back - it has been suggested on Trip Advisor that when changing back into EUROS, you lose less (about 1% as the rate is very solid) whereby changing back into pounds you tend to lose about 3% to 4% For those arriving on MATCH DAY, then being a Sunday I assume all banks and many exchange offices will be shut? www.menjacnica-panter.co.rs/index-en.php www.vipsistem.rs/kursna-lista.php www.paris.rs/www.menjacnicaalta.rs/ |
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Post by Jamie-Bins on Feb 10, 2017 11:18:21 GMT
Faw have confirmed game will be played at Red Star Belgrade's ground. Capacity approx 55k.
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Post by CrackityJones on Feb 10, 2017 11:19:50 GMT
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Post by mattyd on Feb 10, 2017 12:09:20 GMT
Really excited for this but I sense the atmosphere may be lacking due to Serbia's poor attendance figures. I foresee large blocks of the stadium empty.
On a positive note, we should get all the seats we want for this one though!
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Post by manulike on Feb 10, 2017 12:55:03 GMT
The Irish only sold 642 tickets for this and probably had less than 500 in the ground. Shall we show our Serbian friends what THE WELSH WALL is all about ;-) I expect a personal welcome from belgradeboy - I hope he isn't boycotting the match ... |
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Post by sleepy on Feb 10, 2017 13:23:30 GMT
The Irish only sold 642 tickets for this and probably had less than 500 in the ground. Shall we show our Serbian friends what THE WELSH WALL is all about ;-) I expect a personal welcome from belgradeboy - I hope he isn't boycotting the match ... I don't think we'll take any more than 1500. We might sell 3000 though. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 13:30:39 GMT
I like to pick up a shirt when I'm visiting a new place. There's Hammarby of Stockholm in my wardrobe at the moment along with various others. Who are the locals club in Belgrade? I mean Torino as opposed to Juventus or Betis as opposed to Sevilla. I'm assuming Partizan.
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Post by cymroircarn on Feb 10, 2017 13:38:08 GMT
I like to pick up a shirt when I'm visiting a new place. There's Hammarby of Stockholm in my wardrobe at the moment along with various others. Who are the locals club in Belgrade? I mean Torino as opposed to Juventus or Betis as opposed to Sevilla. I'm assuming Partizan. Due to the rivalry between Partizan and Red Star might be better off finding a lesser known team Leggy may be able to point you in the righ direction |
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Post by leggybach on Feb 10, 2017 14:09:57 GMT
I like to pick up a shirt when I'm visiting a new place. There's Hammarby of Stockholm in my wardrobe at the moment along with various others. Who are the locals club in Belgrade? I mean Torino as opposed to Juventus or Betis as opposed to Sevilla. I'm assuming Partizan. Due to the rivalry between Partizan and Red Star might be better off finding a lesser known team Leggy may be able to point you in the righ direction As a Partizan fan, I'd love to say we're the people's team but both teams are supported by a massive range of people, with the city split around 60-40 Red Star and the country a bit more in their favour - but the centre of Belgrade is very much Partizan, as you'll see from the murals - although poor graffiti of both clubs is everywhere. As for small clubs, I really wanted to support one of them when I moved but there was no atmosphere to get me interested. OFK have a rich history but look like they'll be relegated to the 3rd tier this season and their fans are boycotting, Rad are the far-right team, Voždovac play on a shopping centre which is pretty cool, Čukarički are the first privately-owned team and won the cup 2 seasons ago. But all of them have very few fans. I've done a few lower down the pyramid but difficult to get any merch and they're largely locally-focused teams, although some have played in the SuperLiga. |
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Post by leggybach on Feb 10, 2017 14:14:04 GMT
Serbia is typical of a pretty poor country that has a lot of immigrants abroad with exchange offices pretty much everywhere. Having needed to convert money out there, I've shopped around a lot for conversion rates. Don't do more than £10-20 at the airport (or train/bus station, I seem to remember) as they'll screw you. There are some good ones in the centre, I always use the one in Balkan Bet on Terazije - on the right as you walk from the main shopping street to Hotel Moscow. Always a fair price. If you spot one, usually shouldn't exchange for more than 4/5din less than the daily actual rate. I'm off out there again tomorrow and expecting around 140:1, way down on the 167:1 I got when I moved there. Thanks for your help. It seems (from these random exchange websites) that its: 140 up to 142 at Paris and Aalta - to the Pound 123 to the Euro Thus, it makes no sense at all coming over with euros (as some suggested), as you'd lose out twice in fees. So stick with pounds and get a Travel Friendly credit card (eg Halifax Clarity). If you have PLENTY of dinars left over and you need to change back - it has been suggested on Trip Advisor that when changing back into EUROS, you lose less (about 1% as the rate is very solid) whereby changing back into pounds you tend to lose about 3% to 4% For those arriving on MATCH DAY, then being a Sunday I assume all banks and many exchange offices will be shut? www.menjacnica-panter.co.rs/index-en.php www.vipsistem.rs/kursna-lista.php www.paris.rs/www.menjacnicaalta.rs/ Yep. 145:1 is the rate so don't go for less than 140:1. Change it to Euros or change it with me, I'll be happy to take them off your hands haha! Exchange offices vary with regards to opening hours, I know the one I use closes early (5/6pm, I think) while another one I've been to is closed as it's in a small shop. Belgrade is one of the closest cities to a 7/7 culture that I've been to, so shops and things are open late during the week and work on Sundays - far better than London or New York imho. Kyiv, however, stands out! |
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Post by mx47 on Feb 14, 2017 5:54:11 GMT
Anyone flying Bristol - Munich - Belgrade?
I fly out 9 June 6.30 get to Belgrade 12.30. Back 13 June 13.15 get to Bristol 16.50.
1hr 40 in Munich on way out 1hr coming back....BMI regional/Lufthansa!!!
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Post by manulike on Feb 14, 2017 16:50:03 GMT
Anyone flying Bristol - Munich - Belgrade? I fly out 9 June 6.30 get to Belgrade 12.30. Back 13 June 13.15 get to Bristol 16.50. 1hr 40 in Munich on way out 1hr coming back....BMI regional/Lufthansa!!! There fare for that coming up on skyscanner as £324, return. For people that don't fancy the KLM+Trans Avia (out Thursday 8th and back Tues 13th for about £150 in total) there is another shorter stay duration option completely WITH KLM for £254: Dept with KLM at 6.20am from either Cardiff or Bristol on either Friday or Saturday, arriving Belgrade at 12 noon. Back from Belgrade to either CF or BRS on either Monday or Tuesday Dept Belgrade 0640 arrive BRS (1pm) or arrive Cardiff (4.45pm) The 90 mins stop-over in AMS is guaranteed as you are using the same carrier |
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Post by mx47 on Feb 14, 2017 17:21:49 GMT
Anyone flying Bristol - Munich - Belgrade? I fly out 9 June 6.30 get to Belgrade 12.30. Back 13 June 13.15 get to Bristol 16.50. 1hr 40 in Munich on way out 1hr coming back....BMI regional/Lufthansa!!! There fare for that coming up on skyscanner as £324, return. For people that don't fancy the KLM+Trans Avia (out Thursday 8th and back Tues 13th for about £150 in total) there is another shorter stay duration option completely WITH KLM for £254: Dept with KLM at 6.20am from either Cardiff or Bristol on either Friday or Saturday, arriving Belgrade at 12 noon. Back from Belgrade to either CF or BRS on either Monday or Tuesday Dept Belgrade 0640 arrive BRS (1pm) or arrive Cardiff (4.45pm) The 90 mins stop-over in AMS is guaranteed as you are using the same carrier I booked ages ago (£240ish) with Lufthansa, but I take your point same carrier issues. Hopefully going out 1.40hr layover is enough!! Keep my fingers crossed for 1hr stop over on the way back. Even so no great rush to get back lol!!! |
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Post by manulike on Feb 14, 2017 23:14:49 GMT
THE WHOLE THING FROM BRISTOL AND BACK FOR UNDER £100 If people have a day to spare and fancy seeing SOFIA, there is a direct Sofia to Bristol flight BACK on Tuesday with Wizz Air for only £50!Tue, 13 June 2017 Dept 18:50 Arrive 20:20 Train Belgrade to Nis is about 4 hours / £5 BEOGRAD to NIS dept 09:25 Arrive 13:42 (or dept 06:20 arrive 10:38) Bus from Nis to Sofia is about 3 hours / £8 (Ryan Air do a direct THURSDAY Birmingham to Dept 19:05 ARRIVE 00:20 Sofia for £20) If you are pushed for time going out use RYAN AIR:SATURDAY 1pm Bristol to MILAN BERGAMO arrive 4pm - £20SATURDAY Dept MILAN 5.25pm arrive NIS 7.10pm - £8Buses from Nis to Belgrade depart hourly throughout the night and twice hourly in the day - about 3 hours. See - busticket4.me/EN/1243-1213-132-0-0/0-1/Nis-Belgrade/10-06-2017/ From what I understand, there are only two trains a day dept Nis at 2pm and 5pm - i might be wrong! UPDATE ON SOFIA TO BELGRADE DIRECT BUSESDaily bus depart Sofia at 9AM and arrive to Belgrade at 2PM for 45 lev (£20 - 5 hours)www.balkanviator.com/en/bus-timetables/sofia-bul/belgrade-srb/21.02.2017 www.racicbg.com/en/bus-tickets/search-route/europe/sofia/beograd#asph-128
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Post by manulike on Feb 15, 2017 12:34:05 GMT
For our Northern friends,
Liverpool to Sofia direct on Ryan air.
Out on Friday 7pm
Back on Monday evening
ALL FOR ONLY £50...
Or Doncaster to Sofia on Wizz Air
Out on Friday 7pm
Back on Monday evening
ALL FOR ONLY £50...
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