Going to the game in May and was hoping to find a hotel near the Millenium Stadium. All I can find so far are big chain hotels that are way to expensive. Looking for something more like 50-60 pounds a night. Nothing fancy just somthing fellow football fans would stay in before a big game.<BR><BR>thanks

How did you get tickets? How much?

I don't have tickets!!!!! <BR>Actually I don't think tickets are on sale yet.<BR><BR>My trip sort of mushroomed into a major football fantasy trip.<BR><BR>I'm a ManUtd fan so the trip was to include seeing Ferguson's last game on May 11. But since everything is so close together it snowballed into this<BR><BR>Leave Vancouver Canada on May 2<BR><BR>May 4 FA Cup Final Cardiff<BR>May 5 UEFA Cup Final Rotterdam<BR>May 11 Man Utd final game (I have tickets to this game)Manchester<BR>May 15 Champions League Final Glasgow<BR><BR>Go home May 19<BR><BR>IF ManUtd are in the finals for any of them I have a better chance of getting tickets. Also in February (don't know when) I'll try my luck through the UEFA website lottery to get tickets.

Good lord, that is quite a trip. Well, unless we get stuffed by Arsenal, I'm planning on Liverpool being in the final, but I won't hold that against you.<BR><BR>Good luck with the tickets. Wish I hadn't been so stupid and had gone to the UEFA Cup final last year.<BR><BR>And don't worry--if Man U doesn't win anything, Ferguson will be back again next year. Mark my words.<BR><BR>BTW--I went to a Celtic match a few weeks ago, and booked a hotel thorugh priceline.co.uk. It was 55 pounds for the night, at the Marriott. Nice hotel, although the rooms were small. Maybe try that for Cardiff.

IS the FA final in Cardiff different than the Heineken cup (according to Ticketmaster this is held May 25th in Cardiff and tickets are on sale now) I am asking because we will be in England until May 7th and I would love to get tickets to any professional football game for my son and husband. I haven't had any luck finding anything available while we were there.

Lidija, Have you tried the Big Sleep Hotel,( http://www.thebigsleephotel.com/thebigsleephotel.htm)? It's central and its normal weekend prices are in your range. If you can't find anything central in Cardiff, you may want to try someplace like Newport and commute in by train to Cardiff.

Kama <BR><BR>I think the Heineken Cup is Rugby. Where will you be? Maybe we can find something for you.<BR><BR><BR>Ann<BR><BR>Well we had the chance to end it for Liverpool on Tuesday but couldn't do it.<BR><BR>I agree about Ferguson not really convinced its it for him.<BR><BR>I actually went to Manchester in Dec and saw the Chelsea, Boavista, and West Ham games and at that time things weren't looking all that great. I guess all they needed was me to fly half way across the world to start winning because after I left they didn't lose a game till Liverpool. Typical!<BR><BR>Thanks Ron will check out that site.

Just noticed I made a typing mistake the UEFA final is on the 8th not 5th.

Kama,<BR><BR>The Heineken Cup is Rugby, but you'll be in the UK for the end of the footvall season.

well you won't be seeing Man Utd! Incidentally it is a running joke in English football that no Man Utd fans actually live in Manchester, so thanks for reinforcing the stereotype.<BR><BR><BR>If however you want to see the glorious Spurs lift the FA cup (the year ends in a two and all that), then you will be very welcome.<BR><BR>However FA Cup final tickets are like goldust. The only way to be guarenteed a seat is to be a season ticket holder of the Finalists. Failing that a Membership is essential.<BR><BR>For Illustration: Spurs are going to Cardiff for the league cup final and have been allocated 30,000 tickets we have 19,000 season ticket holders and over 100,000 members. This 30,000 also includes a corporate allocation of around 5,000. THus only around 6,000 tickets will be available for members. So you can imagine the demand. These figures are fairly typical for most bigger clubs.The FA cup is a much bigger prize. <BR><BR>Ticket agencies can get tickets but they are VERY expensive (&pound;150+). If you can afford this then stay in the St David's Hotel just by the stadium.<BR>

For Kama, who wants to see a game...<BR><BR>I'd forget the FA Cup final, David is right about the impossibility of getting tickets. You will generally have to be a season ticket holder or club member to even qualify for application.<BR><BR>For other club games, look at the Football Association's website for a fixture list<BR><BR>http://www.the-fa.org.uk/<BR><BR>You will then need to contact the home team, where the game is being held, to purchase tickets. <BR><BR>Unless, of course, you support the visiting team, in which case contact them for tickets, so you can sit with the away fans.<BR><BR>Lidija - how are you planning on getting tickets for all these finals??

It is almost impossible to get away tickets for games as well. The home club usually only allocates 10% of seats to the opposition, and most clubs (certainly all the big ones) have more than that number of die hards who will snap them up (Again you usually need to be a season ticket holder or at least a member)

I went to Cardiff for the FA Cup last year (and cheered until I lost my voice as Liverpool won) but returned to London the same day.<BR><BR>However, I'd also been to Cardiff for a game from the rugby league world cup in 2000, and stayed at the Cardiff Ibis Hotel. This cost about 40 pounds for a "ceap and cheerful" double room. The hotel is nothing flash but is fairly new (I'd guess 1999) and about 10 minutes walk from the stadium

Re: How I will get all these tickets<BR><BR>I am a member of the ManUtd supporters club. Thats why I was hoping they would be in the FA or Champions Leauge Final. But I will also try the UEFA lottery for tickets and after that I know someone who can probably get me tickets just depending how much I want to spend on them. Really I'm not some stupid tourist that things I can pick up tickets just before the game for such major football events..Its just a once in a liftetime trip for me.<BR><BR><BR>David <BR><BR>I know the sterotype, The reaction I kept getting in Dec was you came all the way from Canada to see the match and I live down the street from Old Trafford and can't get tickets.

Oh well. Not repeats this year. I just wish Houllier would get back. Unless he's the one who's picking Heskey to play in midfield, or at all. If so, it's his head that's in trouble, not his heart.<BR><BR>Lidija, you CAN get tickets for any of those matches, if you are willing to pay. Last year, I was looking into FA Cup and UEFA Cup final tickets. Through ticket agencies on the web, I could have bought tickets. Yes, they were outrageously expensive, but you only live once. I think prices ranged from about 250-1,000 pounds per ticket.<BR><BR>I've heard good things about the overseas Man U supporters clubs, and that they're just about the only way to get tickets if you aren't a Man U season ticket holder.<BR><BR>Also, if you work for a large company with offices in the UK, try taking advantage of any connections you have that way. I've been able to secure free Celtic, Liverpool and Man United tickets through my firm's UK offices.<BR><BR>Good luck!

Ann I guess thats it for both of us this year.<BR><BR>Being an overseas supporter I can get tickets to any ManUtd game. In December the four of us that went to Manchester even got to go to Carrington training grounds and watch their practice the day before their game against Boavista. It was just us 4 and a guard standing to the side watching them practice (it was actually kind of boring and really exciting at the same time. We even knew that Becks wasn't going to play because he wasn't at practice)