Cardiff World Cup Q/F

Leon11

Taking a long shot here but does anyone have any recommendations on where to stay in or around cardiff? taking a chance and guessing we may be playing there.

any help appreciated

jameshayes

I've heard that the accomodation is extreamly short, and that you'd be better getting a jumping train for an hour and staying there...


and (please dont boo) but i dont think we are gonna qualify... i think you're gonna be watching NZ -v- Arg

Ponster

At least an hour I'd say. I've tried looking for a hotel within an hour from there with little luck. Do you know anyone who lives in Wales?

jameshayes

Ok... Here you go;

You could stay in the Premier travel in ---- Baglan, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, SA12 8ES, UK
This will cost 144 pound. 3 nights, from the 5th to the 8th..

This is about 35 mins on the train from cardiff city centre - i'd say the train would probably be 5pound / each / each way

marco_polo

jameshayes wrote:

I've heard that the accomodation is extreamly short, and that you'd be better getting a jumping train for an hour and staying there...


and (please dont boo) but i dont think we are gonna qualify... i think you're gonna be watching NZ -v- Arg

BOO!! If Argentina are playing in Cardiff it will be only because we are playing in Paris instead

jameshayes

marco_polo wrote:

BOO!! If Argentina are playing in Cardiff it will be only because we are playing in Paris instead

Good come back... and i'd love if you were right!

On a related note, how are people travelling over? The best I can see is the ferry overy to holyhead, then a 5:30 hour train journey to cardiff. Unfortunately the train the next day doesnt make it back in time to the ferry. Any suggestions?

jameshayes

fly to east midlands on the 5th, return on the 7th, €50 return inc taxes, 3.5 hours on a train...



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jameshayes

I should be chargin for this info!!!! could make a fortune!

marco_polo

Leon11 wrote:

Taking a long shot here but does anyone have any recommendations on where to stay in or around cardiff? taking a chance and guessing we may be playing there.

any help appreciated

Going over with a big group myself we booked a house in Cardiff for the weekend (we are talking overcrowing on a student summer in Boston scale), if you are only going over with one or two people it might not be a runner but if there is a good crowd it should be fairly affordable.

We booked a good few weeks ago mind so I don't know what availability might be like now, could be scarce enough as well.

Leon11

there's a massive group of us heading from all over the place. kiwi's, scots, canadians, english, saffies. they planned well in advance reckon i'll just kip on their floors or something for the night,

james excellent shout for the east midlands way! all others much appreciated

Irish Wolf

Leon11 wrote:

there's a massive group of us heading from all over the place. kiwi's, scots, canadians, english, saffies. they planned well in advance reckon i'll just kip on their floors or something for the night,

james excellent shout for the east midlands way! all others much appreciated

You could try flying into Bristol.. though I'm not sure what the DUB-BRS flight prices are like - but I managed to book a Shannon - Bristol one today for about €70... It's only about 45-60 minutes on the train from Temple Meads into Cardiff Central Station.. £7 return on the bus from the airport to Temple Meads and about £10-15 return from there to Cardiff Central..

Munster Magic

Group of us getting the ferry over on Saturday morning, rossare-fishguard and train on to Cardiff, due in Cardiff at around 4 o clock, staying at a b&b in Newport for the night, coming back Sunday, 200euro each including match ticket, not bad

finbarrk

Ye should be going to Paris for Irelands Q.F. v Scotland.

Snickers Man

1. Cardiff is too small a city for a stadium the size of the Millennium. Unless you have the contacts and the constitution to endure the "kipping on the floor with the empty beer cans like students in summer in Boston" scenario, then accept that you're going to have to travel on the day.

2 The good news is that the stadium is bang in the middle of the city, a few minutes walk from the main train station which in turn is accessible from many towns and cities in England and Wales

3 If Ireland qualify at all for the q finals, it will be for this one. Enjoy.

Valde

Ireland will qualify

Irish Wolf

Irish Wolf wrote:

You could try flying into Bristol.. though I'm not sure what the DUB-BRS flight prices are like - but I managed to book a Shannon - Bristol one today for about €70... It's only about 45-60 minutes on the train from Temple Meads into Cardiff Central Station.. £7 return on the bus from the airport to Temple Meads and about £10-15 return from there to Cardiff Central..

thanks for the heads up. I was looking to fly into Stansted but apparently there are works going on and the trains wont be running from that direction.

Snickers Man

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thanks for the heads up. I was looking to fly into Stansted but apparently there are works going on and the trains wont be running from that direction.

Stansted!!!! You must be f*@!ing joking. You might as well fly to Aberdeen.

Go to Heathrow if you must and catch the express rail link to Paddington, whence you can get a train to Cardiff easily. Stansted's practically in Holland, FFS. Totally the wrong side of london.

daveirl

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Diamondmaker

http://www.aboutbritain.com/campsites/cardiff-caravan-park-at-pontcanna-fields.asp

Stayed here for the ERC final. Great option 10 mins walk to the ground along the river, thro the park. Full shower fcaiulities and acres of park land. About 20 quid a pitch if I remeber correctly.

Scobius90

folks .... there is absolutely no hotel acomm left in Cardiff
and trains are outta the question.
You could still bus it to Birmingham - flights were still cheapish last week and hotels are not full ..... yet

from other threads and forums I get the impression that half of Ireland has tickets to this QF - wonder whom will we support should we not make it to Cardiff for many different reasons?

Snickers Man

Scobius90 wrote:

folks .... there is absolutely no hotel acomm left in Cardiff
and trains are outta the question.

Why? What's wrong with the choo choo?

The train from Bristol to Cardiff return is £14. Still plenty of seats.

Scobius90

The match has a late KO (8pm)and the last trains from Cardiff all depart before 10pm .... tight! the last train to Bristol for example leaves at 21.58, too tight for my liking.
There are works on the London line so no specials are being put on. :mad:

you can check all the train times on http://nationalrail.co.uk/index.html

of course the other options are the Bus - http://www.nationalexpress.com/

they have put specials on that depart around 22.30, but am not sure if there are seats available

good luck

Im just staying up all night in Cardiff, no doubt there will be a party going on. Im getting the first train on Sunday back to Bristol. Its gonna be mingin

Scobius90

and I'll doubt if you'll be alone

jameshayes

if ireland dont make it past the pool stages are you guys still gonna go?

Scobius90

at the price i paid for the tickets :mad: :eek: I most deffo will be

also have flights booked and its on my roundabout way home from france (work not RWC) :cool:

shrapnel222

is there a boards beer planned in cardiff???:D

Snickers Man

Scobius90 wrote:

The match has a late KO (8pm)and the last trains from Cardiff all depart before 10pm .... tight! the last train to Bristol for example leaves at 21.58, too tight for my liking.
There are works on the London line so no specials are being put on. :mad:

Phew!! All good useful information to know. What a total f*** up!!!

I used to think that only Ireland would tolerate a situation where, for example, if you wanted to make a day trip to the Galway races by taking the train from Dublin you would have to leave before the last race of the day in order to get the last train back at about 6:30.

I figured, even back then, that CIE putting on another train would have B&B and bar owners out wesht complaining about a Dublin 4 plot to deprive the honest hospitality business sector of revenue that was rightly theirs.

I take it all back. The Brits are just as cack handed as us when it comes to organising sporting events.

Scobius90

Yeah you would swear twas CIE .... well at least we know that Ireland could easily make a f88k up of transport for a RWC QF as well as the UK:D

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/6946758.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/6948462.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/6950256.stm

jackbhoy

jameshayes wrote:

if ireland dont make it past the pool stages are you guys still gonna go?

Certainly, be supporting Dr. Phil and the lads against the Half-Samoans......

Snickers Man

Scobius90 wrote:

Yeah you would swear twas CIE .... well at least we know that Ireland could easily make a f88k up of transport for a RWC QF as well as the UK:D

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/6946758.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/6948462.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/6950256.stm

And for this they took a match away from the French!!! What a bunch of wallies.

What Cardiff really needs is MORE HOTEL SPACE!!!! Like they didn't know they would be hosting world cup games four years ago.

shrapnel222

i don't think it's about hotel space to be fair. this is a town of 180 000 people who have a stadium that fits 90 000. the amount of hotel beds and B&B for a town that small is pretty impressive. it's as usual, british rail and their ****ty infrastructure who can't transport people out of this town into neighboring ones once it gets dark!!!