Direct Flight from Cork to Zurich on Monday and then back on Wednesday (decent flight times also for both legs). will get train from Zurich to Basel which takes about a hour on matchday. train station next to stadium. Train back from Basel to Zurich at 23.13 or 00.13 

expensive spot but looking forward to a different city on tour  

That's the good thing about this trip - plenty of options for getting there and back.

 

Is the match confirmed to be played in Basel?

Flights booked as well. Never been to Switzerland. 

nope but with transport being so easy in Switz basing yourself in Zurich will give you the option to travel anywhere. i think the game will be in Basel though as it holds the most 

If they have seen any of our matches for the past decade they could play it in Heidi's village!

That flight was €105 one way last night.

All depends really but you could be tight enough there. Hopefully being a Tuesday helps ticket wise 

Second one was great trip I thought. Not bad town at all, nice bridge/frontage on the Rhine IIRC.

Should be tomorrow by all accounts 

 

https://www.lematin.ch/ss/football/suisseeire-stade-geneve/story/28632077 - https://www.lematin.ch/sports/football/suisseeire-stade-geneve/story/28632077

 

some messing around with a train journey back to Zurich after the game or 5am the next morning 

Wouldn't say it was confirmed, it's just one source, FAI hadn't heard anything as of last night.

Personally wouldn't book anything based on that just yet.

Just had a look at hotels in Geneva, they have notions about themselves, average about €400 for two midweek nights in October!!! 

 

As has been pointed out, there is only one source. I would hold fire until its officially confirmed. The Swiss FA website says in an article announcing Basel as the venue for the Denmark match in March that the other venues will be announced approx. 4 months in advance.

 

They've confirmed their home game v Denmark for Basel anyway. Would indicate our game won't be there if they are sharing the games around..

Yeah that's mentioned above but they also say no venue confirmed for the other games and they've played in Basel multiple times in a campaign. If it was confirmed I think you'd have more than 1 source which seems to be a small time outlet reporting it. Also seems to have a gripe with the Swiss FA.

Could see them playing Georgia and Gibraltar in different grounds but 2 games us and Denmark in Basel makes sense 

I'm bolloxed if this is in Geneva. Booked home through Zurich leaving at 9am. Not sure how I'll make that. 

yeah I was on the 4:10am train out of Aarhus. I don't see a train leaving early enough to give sufficient time to get to the airport for a 9am flight though. Really hope the game is held somewhere else!

Skip the beer and hire a car!!

The only way of getting to Zurich at that time is getting the first flight from Geneva to Zurich, currently 96 Euro with SwissAir. 

You can get a train, but it involves a three hour stopover in Biel in the middle of the night.

Yeah it could be easier to just book a new flight or plead with Swiss Air to allow me change the time and pay a few bob for the pleasure. 

Or as Ringerbell says, maybe car hire might be the shout. Hopefully the quality of football is better than we've been getting and the beer anesthetic is not required.

There are afternoon flights to Dublin with Swiss air 

And then if it's not in Geneva 

Sure he would have nearly everywhere covered with those two! Maybe throw in a flight from Milan too.

wait till confirmation and book then. it's not rocket science

 If those people that are doing the double header get a flight from Georgia to Switzerland or surrounding areas on the Sunday/Monday they be able to get to other possible venues for match day and then book a flight home once venue is confirmed

Maybe, just maybe lads book flights because they are cheap. Switzerland is small, there should be no panic no matter where you booked if you gave yourself enough time. 

Exactly it has one of the best train networks in Europe, doesn't really matter where you fly to.

Could well still be in Basel. They have 2 other games they can move around the country with. Nowhere else has carried this story bar some Swiss site. No Irish media running it

On that flight too, not too much craic if it is Geneva 

Seem to recall a flight to Copenhagen that was booked before the announcement of aarhus, was that rocket science 

Haha I was wondering when u would pop up. That was a one off I don't think anyone was expecting that. I was talking about countries that have 3 or 4 possible venues and just taking a chance.

deise316 wrote: Making those mistakes, taking a few gambles, and then trying to find yer way out of them at the lowest possible cost, is all part of being an away fan. If tis organised stuff with everything confirmed you are looking for, then give Abbey a shout.

Exactly. It makes sense to book a flight now for €50 if there's a 50/50 chance of the game being there, as opposed to waiting for final confirmation and having to pay €150 for the same flight. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but in the long run you usually end up saving money.

I'd have saved money on my Malaga flights if I'd booked them quicker.

Search Tribune de Geneve on Facebook. 

They posted on Friday that our match is there.

It's a copy and paste of the original article though and nobody else has picked up on it. You would have expected Irish media to report it if the case. Wait and see

Makes the travel back from Georgia a little easier as well. There's a direct flight to Paris on Sunday evening and then get the TGV down to Geneva. 

If it is Geneva looking at places nearby and then train.

Lyon? Turin? Basel?

Super Dave where are you?

There is a direct train from Lyon to Geneva - Takes about 2 hours. Flew back from Geneva after Euro 2016 and took it 

Was looking there looks like that could be the best option. Train also appears to go from Milan to Geneva going via the the Alps and around the lake seems delightful does take 4 hours would be some great views unless majority of it is via an under mountain tunnel

pre Madonna wrote: You can fly from Dublin to Geneva

That you can but of course that is bound to go from a nice reasonable price to overblown as soon as an official announcement is made.

True. London prices don't get as affected though. I won't be booking for a few months anyway! Switzerland isn't a bad spot to travel to due to being so central, I wouldn't panic.

pre Madonna wrote: There's a town on the French side of Lake Geneva called Yvoire, it's a stop on the ferry. One of the most beautiful places I have been. Well worth it and shouldn't be too busy at that time of the year.

Or Lac Léman as the French would say

Only the 12 mile long Simplon tunnel which takes 8 minutes of the (roughly) 4 hour journey (I just checked this out because I'm going to go the same way). Aside from a few other short tunnels, it should be a scenic enough ride. The train itself is a decent, new enough Italian high speed train.

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It looks plenty scenic. If you arrive in Milan on Sunday (as opposed to Monday on the Kutaisi - Milan flight) and you want extra scenery, follow ColemanY2K's lead and look at the Bernina pass route. I've done that before and it is spectacular. However, you can't go that way and make Geneva in time for kick off if you only leave Milan on Tuesday morning, unless you fancy a very early start (06:20), a few tight connections (8 minutes in Tirano, 51 minutes in St Moritz, 6 minutes in Chur and 9 minutes in Zurich which is a massive station) and arriving in Geneva at 18:18 on matchday at the earliest, assuming you make all those connections.

The direct 12:23 train from Milan arrives at 16:21 which is, no doubt, the option I'll be taking.

Unless they changed it, it does go along the lake and is some view. 

It is known as the Golden Pass line 

Presuming it's a toss-up between Basel and Geneva, I've already made a start and hedged my bets by booking a £30 flight from Dublin to Paris Orly the day before the match.  Trains from Paris to either of those cities take about 3 hours and go on sale 4 months in advance, at which stage the Swiss should have confirmed the venue.

 

I'll probably leave it until the venue is confirmed before I start booking a route home. 

Sure the direct flight to Geneva on the Monday is only €50

I considered that and knew that would be great - if we could be absolutely sure the game will be played there. But if it turns out to be in Basel (which actually wouldn't surprise me considering the matches they've played elsewhere have usually been against smaller teams which would attract less demand whereas this game could be a key match at the business end of the campaign), then I'd have to get a train anyway.  That's why I hedged my bets for this trip.

Conor, why not just book the flight to Geneva? If it's Basel, train it up.  Don't understand your logic...

These threads...

No one else noted the difference between kearney304's comments on this thread and the Gibraltar thread?

Seems a bit incongruous to be cool with driving 400km from Faro to Gibraltar on a minibus, but unwilling to book flights for the Swiss game, especially when there are multiple locations you can fly to from Cork and Dublin that connect easily with any of the venues in Switzerland.

Just me? No?

Took your hint and booked that Swiss Airlines flight to Geneva.  At least if the game is in Basel, it would be a much shorter train journey from Geneva instead of a 3-hour journey from Paris regardless of which host city is chosen. 

 

So at least the unused Paris flight was relatively cheap @ £30 (unless someone who leaves it till the last minute and finds that fares have ballooned and wants to buy it off me) so I haven't wasted that much money.  But with this being my 9th away trip in total, you'd think I'd be getting better and cleverer at planning ways to travel on away trips...