While I acknowledge that Irish bars are expensive the area around Hennessy's near the harbour area seems like a decent spot, large open spaces and a square for those who want to kick footballs into balconies, but more importantly it's near pink street where there are a range of bars and clubs open untill dawn. Booked 262 Boutique Hotel myself.

Looking forward to a bit of Sun, Sea and Superbok now.

What dates are you seeing the €37 flights for?

Everyday from the 25th to the 29th of August or at least it was when I booked anyway

Took train from albuferia to Lisbon after we played Gibraltar in 2015 was grand job and was reasonably priced from what I can mind

Very good to hear. 

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It’s “always”.......a,ways ffs 

Croatia played in Faro in September 2018 and in Porto in September 2020.  

They were both Nations League games though, weren't they? And we all know it's not been taken quite as seriously as a qualifying campaign. Considering how important this game is bound to be, I would be expecting to see this one being put on in Benfica's stadium in Lisbon. 

That shows how great the service was since that was probably the best sleep I got all trip 

Booked the Leaf Boutique Hotel myself which is further up near that big park (Parque Eduardo) . It's probably the same company that owns both hotels. 

Even assuming away fans are allowed in September I doubt that will be their main consideration.  

They do move games around the country.  Denmark went to Braga in the 2016 qualifiers.  If we play in Lisbon then others in our group will play outside the capital.  All I am saying really is allow time to travel elsewhere if booking flights to Lisbon.  It is also best to book free cancellation as always on hotels.   

Thats where all the action was back in 2000 anyway and i dont recall it being dear, in fact there some great local bars down side streets that were very cheap though it is 20 years ago  Have booked a hotel in that area anyway. Dont remember Pink St at all.

It's handy as there's no flights to Lisbon from Cork, I can fly to Faro and get the train up. Happy days.

Considering just booking this week, sh*t happens and there's no away support allowed in are you all going to Lisbon anyway? 

I'm not booking anything myself until we get the all clear - which I doubt we will get.

Yep the same as you and Sham , just sitting on the fence until much closer to the time .

Don't mind paying twice as much as those who have already booked as long as we can be inside the ground .

Funny I have a inbound flight booked as you obviously need to get back to Dublin for the sat game - outbound will depend or whether it will be a 3 nighter or 7 nighter or something in between

Won't be booking anything else until we find out about whether we can go or not. 

Yep hope you are right , best just to sit and wait .

Hopefully starting here, accom provisionally booked. 

Irish government still saying it is working towards having most people vaccinated by September and that becomes more likely which each new vaccine getting approved. I'd be hopeful that this would be the first away game back with fans though obviously nothing is certain in this pandemic. 

Their vaccination roll out is poor enough, ch4 said they way things are going it will take another 2 years to vaccinate 2/3 of the country. 

That's a good point actually - Never considered that Portugal might be behind on this. 

This is my plan also. However we're still no wiser the start of February than we were in December. 

He's a real f**king know it all 

How nice would it be that by next November all we would have to worry about is tickets for Luxembourg and not Covid. 

Fook ya Dinny, you're kiling my false hope 

+1 

I'd be happy just to be at the Portugal game in Lansdowne come November.

Ah here ffs 

I didn't book flights or a hotel in Serbia. Liar!!!   

I did book the annual leave off though  

Apologies muf.  I take it back 

Strange how UEFA haven't announced anything yet on attendances given the qualifiers start next month. 

You'd expect them to put out a statement confirming that there'd be no supporters permitted for the opening rounds in March and it would be subject to review in the next rounds in September.  

Take it that it will be due to individual countries making decisions on how many are let in

Luxembourg will probably have finished vaccinating the entire population, the goats and the sheep before we have vaccinated all of the front line staff! 

Better chance of getting into a match in Luxembourg (or Azerbaijan possibly!) than getting into Lansdowne Road at this rate. 

I am inclined to agree. However it would feel like a big let down/disappointment if the Poles, Swedes, Germans, Britts etc were touring around Europe in the summer, Sept/Oct, when we can't even get into Lansdowne Road.

I said this to someone earlier that there’s as much chance of getting into Portugal away game in September as there is of getting into Azerbaijan or Serbia at home in September.

Portugal is a country listed on the red flag list and I can't see the stance changing anytime soon.

I think it's safe to say any trip to Portugal to a complete write-off unless you're willing to comply with the soon-to-be law. If there's any hope I can give it's that Azerbaijan is not on red flag list.

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What a ***t of a virus 

Yeah nobody knows what's going to happen but I'm not optimistic at the moment. Over 2 years without going to a game if this continues into 2022

Jaysus, it's 7 months away!

And we didn't even have 1 vaccine even approved 3 months ago. A lot can still change in the next few months. Don't be panicking just yet. 

Ah thought I was being realistic rather than negative.

I'd be the first person on the plane if it was in Faro after all the craic last time! I still laugh occasionally how much of a tit I made of myself 

Ah the whole thing will fizzle out in the summer. Get booking them flights lads 

Yeah I'm going to look at going to the final if there's no games this Autumn.

In the event fans can attend games you'd assume it'll be put in the biggest possible stadium to i). to cater for as many people attending as possible; ii). cater for social distancing within the stadium if only a partial attendance is allowed.

Your really hoping for a perfect storm of both countries (and likely the rest of Europe) meeting their vaccine targets in time and restrictions lifting. Bizzare that the FAI CEO thinks fans will be able to attend Euro 2020 games in Dublin in June when attending games in September look far from certain. 

They did but that peak has already passed and numbers are now down to around 1k cases per day.

If these vaccine passports do become a thing as well, we could indeed get to go. 

Don't think there's any hope of large scale international travel for a long time

That’s a ridiculous article

It must have been, because it's no longer available through that link. 

I do agree with VanBosch's post though, I think it's unlikely there'll be any international travel in mass numbers (for something like a match) for the rest of this year, unfortunately. 

Anyway, we live in hope! 

My post was the article is overly negative! I’ve booked for Luxembourg!!

Maybe Ewan is Sidney 

Still wouldn't be far enough away