No trip to Amsterdam but a visit to Prague if you're interested?

Hmm this might be my chance to visit Prague...

NO HOLIDAYS LEFT!!!! ARRRGHHH!!!!

Nov 6th is a thursday ... call in sick

Dec -17th is a wed. I thought all uefa cup games were on Thurs?? Do you reckon thats a mistake on the offical site or is the game on that night? Looking at booking flights out there.

i got engaged in prague earlier this year. beautiful city. well worth a visit. really sad i can't go cos i'll be in italy that week. should be going to the hamburg match though. bring on the bratwursts!!!

If anyone wants a decent 4-Star hotel in Prague, try this place:

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I spent four nights there in July 2007. Don't be put off by the fact that it's not that near the centre, the tram system in Prague goes all around the city.

Chrimbo markets in Hamburg anyone???!!

dose hitz play for hamburg?
it will be great to see him,dont think he would score against us....
WOULD HE???
lets buy henry and we could win this cup

Hitz plays for Stuttgart. I'm tempted by the Christmas markets now... hmmmm, i'm always ill so I don't need any time off work!

odysseynumberfive - did you get the message about the spurs song?

Prague is a great been there twice. Will be more interested in drinking german beer in November I think. Damien, I can feel a cold coming on about that time

already got the fights booked

!!!!!!!!WE'RE ALL GOING ON A EUROPEAN TOUR !!!!!!!!!!!

Cheapest flights I can find return are roughly...

£150 to Prague
£180 to Hamburg

Can anybody beat those??

Yes, Amsterdam for the... museums...

to viva villa.... easy jet are doing the prague flights for £82 return... that flying out on the thursday morning and flying back on the friday....

fellas, if you go to european games you have to book all your travel arrangements through the club i think...

I wouldn't go through Ian Donegans company, they might go bust just before the game....

If the trips are half as good as Odense was then it'll be amazing! up the villa roll on prague!

Just looked at the whole group's fixtures- Hamburg can count themselves lucky, they got both Villa and Ajax at home.
So they'll go through. And I can see us squeezing in 3rd place. That'll do though. A bit of luck in the last 32 and then it's anyone's!

Depart Wednesday 5th from Leeds
Depart Friday 7th from Prague

£76

Bargain my friends (I live in Leeds!)

I think the fact that Hamburg are likely going to still be near the top in Germany could help us. They might be more focused on that, than the UEFA Cup.

As long as you secure your tickets it doesnt matter how you travel

welsh villan... which airport is that from?

Just spoke to Villa they wont know how many tickets we have for another 2 weeks!!!! I found 4 flight tickets for £215 but an hour later they had risen to £335. They must have heard the villa are coming (to sh@g there women and drink there beer!).. Im going regardless of the cost, Hamburg is to close to xmas and Im not waiting for the next stage as we'll probably be out!

A couple of tough ties away to Slavia Prague and Hamburg but all in all an exciting group.

Martin Jol has singled us out as the group favourites already.

i hope we are qualified by the hamburg game

I'm in 2 minds now .. Prague or Germany

Prague is where I'd like to go .. but I've also got this thing for going to Hamburg .. decisions decisions

Looking forward to all these games. Will be going to Prague hopefully if not Hamburg. Just got to make sure I can get time off!

Hope to see everyone over there!! Not long!!

im student at bournemouth uni....ive never been to a european away game before.....whats the cheapest way to go to the prague game?...help fellas...i really wanna go!!!!

thats from bristol with easy jet viva villa... does anyone know what part of the city the villa fans will be staying in

Prague flights booked but had to go from stanstead as bham prices rocketed, £108 return direct flight. I better get a match ticket now.

Prague has some pretty decent 'museums', and the best lager in the world for 50p a pint.

It's great draw.

Villa fans in Prague and Hamburg, I can see huge queues outside these 'museums'. Good job Ajax aint away.

how do i get a ticket to the prague game? if you go via the club dont you have to go to so many home games? ive only been to 3 or 4 in the past few years but have been away to most north west teams cos ya can buy a ticket on the day usually at the ground. leeds bradford - prague is £60 if you just take a small sholder bag

Well i was really pleased with the draw, I was working in prague two years ago and have kept in touch with old work friends, so i will be saving money on a hotel..!! As for Hamburg my brother is studying there, so it has worked out really well..!! Tickets for the Hamburg game could be expensive, last time i was there it was around £45..! A night out in Hamburg, is about the same price as going out in Brum. Prague on the other hand is great value for money, try and go on one of the brewery tours... they feed you aswell..!!!

whats the difference between spurs and a triangle.....a triangle has 3 points

Wow, today feels like we are back in business. I know it's not the CL but it's a step in the right direction. Booked days off work for the Prague game, just in time as most the place was waiting see the boss when heard the dates and venues.

I have been to both Amsterdam and Prague and reckon we will have a better time in Prague as more relaxed and less agro.

Bring on the Champions...Champions of Europe!!

No Amsterdam hey?

oh well itl still be nice to get stoned in Prague

Just got back from Hamburg tonight, check out the A&O hostel hauptbahnhof, only 7 min walk from the main train/underground station and costs €15 a night, also if anyone struggles getting a flight to Hamburg, I missed my flight home (damn Reeperbahn - a mini Amsterdamn for those of you that don't know and flew back from Bremen, it's a €20 - 75 minute train ride away and there are 30 trains a day to Hamburg...UTV

Hamburg wins all the time. Leon D has it spot on

There is a SALE on at ryanair.com!!! very cheap, got a flight on Dec 15th from Birmingham, to Dusseldorff, return on 19th, total cost £20!!! its a fair way from Hamburg but look at it as a long pub crawl, and no matter what the result hopefullw we've qualified by then?? Offers at ryanair.com end midnight Thurs night-fri morn

Nigel Reo-Coker wants to stay and wants a new deal.

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billyavfc has the idea

Sorry guys, I'm a reader not a poster.

Five of us are flying to Bratislava via ryanair for like £45 return, land thurs morn 9am, 200m journey up via €20 euro train or £75 car hire. Stop in Prague thurs (to celebrate) drive back to bratislava fri morning, dick about there for a day (and you lot can do your museums) and fly back to brum sat morning at 7am.

A proper European adventure!

Failing that boys, try skyscanner website you can fly out thurs and bck fri to Luton for less than £70.

(sound like a sales person or what?!)

leevilla23 i did that trip last year to follow the Rep of Ireland in the Euro qualifers. Just make sure you book a seat( its only a couple euro more)on the train and not just buy a train ticket like we did last year. We had to stand (along with 100's of others) all the way to Prague which takes around 5 hrs with one of the worst hangovers ever.

I'd really love to go to one of the european away games... but i'm skint...

Will have to stick with going to the Ajax game! I hope i can get tickets!

my flights are 118 pound on skyeurope flying from luton. come on the villa time for barry to show us what he's about in europe

dammit, why am i stuck in asia
plus ive still got school on the 17th dec
ooh, but it would be a bloody fantastic birthday present for me to find out in the morning (18th here, 17th there) if we beat hamburg!!!

All booked up mate! Flights £101, 3 star hotel for 2 nights £50ea. Can't go wrong. Just hope UEFA don't make this an official travel saga in order to get tickets! After the Zagreb fans battered the city last Thursday it could happen!

We're going to drive over to Hamburg on the Thursday morning and come back straight after the match. Bit of a road trip but can probably squeeze some Christmas Cheer behind the backseats.

any one know when the tickets go on sale really peeved off cant go to the prague game got exams the day after but will go to the ajax game and try the hamburg? no news on the OS about tickets but then again they are kinda crap lol

leevilla23... where have you seen those train prices? The ones I'm looking at from Bratislava to Prague are like £70+!!!

vivavilla. try this site for cheaper rail fares. You should be able to one a lot cheaper than that.

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Slightly off topic, but have you seen that we are favourites to finish top of our group snd fourth favourites behind Milan, Sevilla and Valencia to win the tournament.

I am ever the optimist but I doubt either of those will realistically happen.

We are likely to prob come second in group and then IMO go out semi-finals, which would still be a solid effort.

I'm saving the long distance travel money for a trip to Milan in the next round!

vivavilla86 i bought mine there last year at the station in Bratislava for around €15.

viva villa

It was a travel forum, some guy was ripping another for booking a ticket online for £100, he paid £20 at the station. Bit of a risk though since we land at 9:40. We've got a 5 door astra in bratislava airport for £75. Which split between 5 is nothing and we can bomb it up.

Saying that... Our "astra" will probably turn out to be a borat style ice cream van or a cattle truck!

Changing the subject slighty...

Where are these Loan players MON said he was looking into when the loan window opened?

My flights are booked to Prague !!! got them for £45 on Ryanair as I was probably the first Villa fan to book them !!!

Got a hotel 200 metres from the main square in Prague for £30 for 2 nights !!! so for £75 i am flying straight to Prague and staying there for 2 nights then back ...................good times !!!

Top_Six,

I think MON meant if there isn't good enough players available on perm deals in jan then he would look towards the loan market!!

I have moved to OZ and too expensive to make the trip back, but would love to. Can you all stop making me jealous please

Just booked my flights.
Decided to make a whole weekend of it and come back on the Sunday.
£189 from Bham, not bad at all!

Really excited now!
Hopefully will be able to get the time off to go to hamburg aswell, any idea when tickets for Slavia go on sale?

Just booked up with expedia 2 nights + flights to Prague for £180 flying from Stanstead

Booked my ticket on Bmibaby on tuesday night, got them for 92 quid but i go on the 3rd and come back on 11th, thought i would make a holiday of it as couldn't get away this summer.

For anyone thats on Facebook iv created a group for the away trips to Prague & Hamburg!

As im going to the games, be good to get everyone together see what people's plans are for travel and the rest of it!

Thanks in advance

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Flight and 2 nights in Prague £148 well chuffed with that
easy jet back for beers friday evening woohoo

Official club trip to Prague flying out day of game and straight back after is £320. What a rip-off, disgrace Villa. Four of us are going for 3 nights flights & hotel for less than that. Easy buy tickets there.

I lived in Hamburg for two years - anyone who prefers a trip to Prague is potty. Hamburg is a fantastic city, with great people, loads of water and the best pubs and clubs in Europe. Also in December the "Dom" is on in the Reeperbahn area, basically a massive funfair with incredible rides open usually until 3am. The beer is great - Holsten comes from Hamburg if you can stand the Spurs link. The city also has the funkiest football team in the world - FC St Pauli, which is owned by a transvestite, plays in the docks area, has a skull and crossbones as its emblem, plays in brown, has a 20,000 crowd full of punks and hookers and enters the pitch to the tune of ACDC's "Hells Bells". Prague is absolutely not in the same league as Hamburg, unless you like drinking half a pint of watery beer with your English-style breakfast with a bunch of accountants from Luton.
Not even an argument where to go

John Buxton, aren't the St.Pauli fans like anarchists and stuff! Riots and stuff every game!!

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hi all
im running a coach to prague and hamburg if anyone is up for it £89 Prague and £79 hamburg email me for details

pb012e5091@blueyonder.co.uk

hey peter... that sounds like a plan mate.... where is this coach running from.... im from south wales.... what about tickets for the game... have you got a phone number mate

hi peter just tried to email you twice mate and i keep getting the failure notice both times..... i think there maybe a mistake in your email addy..... please leave a contact number or a working email addy..... my email is scottyin0z@hotmail.com

prague rules, great city

email pb012e6091@blueyonder.co.uk sorry my mistake this is just for travel only pick up points are in bham, villa park, erdington and motorway services down to dover.The coaches are top of the range double deck vehicles.bookings can be made at top balcony on 01562743138 or feel free to call me direct on 07791907085 for more info

Hello everyone , first time I have wrote on here! I am about to book my flights and accom to prague leaving on the wed 5th and returning fri 07th with expedia from bham, just wondering if anyone knows how to go about getting match tickets? or if any other fans want to meet up at the airport to share a taxi to the city as its quite far away if I remember rightly, but as it was my 21st who knows

Hi all,
As the flights to Prague are a blatent rip-off, me and my bro are going via Berlin. Got a return flight there for £31.00 from East Midlands!! Spending one night in Berlin (on the 4th)before getting the train down to Prague, which takes approx 4hrs. Stay two nights in hotel before returning to home via Berlin on the 7th.

Ive booked flights and rooms for 2 nights..
Dont qualify for the early tickert sales
is 1514 tickets going to go round and satisfy everyone

I have booked mt trip to prague going to fly from stansted to a place called brno in the czech and get a train to prague! the flights were £71 return and hotel 3star with b&b in the main wencelas sq is £22 a night what a bargin. just hope I can get tickets for the game or might have to buy into the home end!

just a new avatar test guys?!

anyone know the nearest underground station to slavia prague fc?