£20 return for Catalans game : Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:44 am  

Just for anyone who hasn't booked yet, there's a flight from Liverpoool to Carcassonne with ryaniar on Sat 18/04/09 and return Tues 21/04/09 for £20 return with no taxes added. Got to book by midnight today. I'm on it!

The flight will get you in at 09.10 subject to no delays, but its only an hour away from Perpignan in a cab if a delay occurs or a train ticket at £29.50 return which is easy to book with eurorail. Hotels are from around £50.00 a night so all in you pay around £124.50 per couple for 3 nights.

Just thought if any interested parties out there who were considering going would want to know.

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 7:48 am  

why not do it through these it seems alot better less hassle yes its a bit more but its all inclusive all you have to get is your ticket for the game http://www.mayfairworldtravel.co.uk/TOU ... rance.html

why not do it through these it seems alot better less hassle yes its a bit more but its all inclusive all you have to get is your ticket for the game http://www.mayfairworldtravel.co.uk/TOU ... rance.html

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:14 am  

We went on the Saturday flight from Liverpool to Carcassonne last time. There is a bus from outside the Airport to Carcassonne Railway Station that costs 5 or 10 euros. I can't remember the cost of the train to Perpignan but it wasn't very much. The only problem may be train times - but they are quite frequent - and there's a station bar. The journey took just over the hour from memory.

You might have trouble hiring a car at the Airport as I don't remember a Car Hire desk there. Carcassonne Airport is more like Barton than Manchester! When we landed there we were the only plane on the Airport and the luggage carousel was about six feet long!

You'll get to the game with plenty of time to spare though.

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:30 am  

zandor46 wrote: why not do it through these it seems alot better less hassle yes its a bit more but its all inclusive all you have to get is your ticket for the game http://www.mayfairworldtravel.co.uk/TOU ... rance.html its the one that me and 4 others are on. hope they have stocked up that free bar

zandor46 wrote: why not do it through these it seems alot better less hassle yes its a bit more but its all inclusive all you have to get is your ticket for the game http://www.mayfairworldtravel.co.uk/TOU ... rance.html its the one that me and 4 others are on. hope they have stocked up that free bar

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:40 am  

RedDave wrote:

We went on the Saturday flight from Liverpool to Carcassonne last time. There is a bus from outside the Airport to Carcassonne Railway Station that costs 5 or 10 euros. I can't remember the cost of the train to Perpignan but it wasn't very much. The only problem may be train times - but they are quite frequent - and there's a station bar. The journey took just over the hour from memory.

You might have trouble hiring a car at the Airport as I don't remember a Car Hire desk there. Carcassonne Airport is more like Barton than Manchester! When we landed there we were the only plane on the Airport and the luggage carousel was about six feet long!

You'll get to the game with plenty of time to spare though.

You can hire a car there. I did it last year for the play off game. The car hire office is on the right as you come out of the "airport terminal"

I used carhire3000, it was the best deal I could get.

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:19 pm  

Ryanair...
Watch the barstools.
I have had my flight times changed twice now from Liverpool to Girona.

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 2:16 pm  

Prestwich Red wrote:

Ryanair...
Watch the barstools.
I have had my flight times changed twice now from Liverpool to Girona.

I wouldn't mind them changing it to a bit later to be honest 06.10 rarely exists in my day

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:22 pm  

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On the subject of Ryanair: Passengers to Suggest Next Discretionary Charge €1,000 CASH PRIZE FOR BEST SUGGESTION Submit your ideas by email to competition@ryanair.com Ryanair, Europe’s largest low fares airline, today (12th Mar) invited passengers to suggest the airline’s next ancillary revenue idea after Chief Executive, Michael O’Leary, confirmed that the company is examining the possibility of passengers paying to use the on board toilets in a drive to keep costs down and lower Ryanair’s guaranteed lowest fares even further. This Europe wide competition invites passengers to submit their most ingenious, wacky and creative ideas to Ryanair via the www.ryanair.com website to be in with a chance of winning a €1,000 cash prize. Launching the competition, Ryanair’s Stephen McNamara said; “Ryanair is Europe’s largest low fares airline and we plan to continue to reduce costs and fares by stimulating ancillary revenues. We have always provided passengers with choice, if you don’t want to pay for food – don’t buy it, if you don’t want to pay checked in bag charges – don’t bring checked in bags, if you don’t want to pay handling charges – then just use Visa Electron entirely free of charge. Since we confirmed that we are considering a toilet charge we have received a huge number of ancillary revenue suggestions from passengers and we want more. We are asking passengers to submit their ideas with the most creative winning €1,000 cash. Some of the best suggests to date are: · Charging for toilet paper – with O’Leary’s face on it, · Charging €2.50 to read the safety cards, · Charging €1 to use oxygen masks, · Charging €25 to use the emergency exit, · Charging €50 for bikini clad Cabin Crew. Passengers can submit their ideas by email to competition@ryanair.com to enter their idea before the 30th March 2009. The winning idea will be chosen by Ryanair and our decision will be final.”

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:19 pm  

me and 5 left side of the shed members got a £40 return filght to gerona,on the saturday coming back late sunadey night!(i know its only a one night stay but when u got nagging wifes its hard to stay any longer!)only thing is its flying from luton at 8.45 on the sat morning with ryan air,but should only be just over a 2 hour ridw down the m6 and m1 at that time on a sat morning!!!see u in loret!!!come on u reds

: Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:34 pm  

You would have been better flying from Liverpool on the Friday

Those of you on the early Liverpool flight to Carcassonne on the Saturday will be sharing with quite a few leythers on thier way to Toulouse