It looks as though the mad dash for Maribor tickets will be on on Tuesday, as the 642 ticket we have been allocated will go on sale.
All credit to the Club for releasing these so early as there has been plenty of people already booking flights and accommodation and obviously this is driving up the price by the day.
So the ticket opportunity will give some peace of mind if they have already booked travel and hotel, and give motivations for those who get tickets on Tuesday to get their arrangements booked.
Though the Supporters Club are not organising anything, we realise that there are several methods of making this game and here we give a little bit of an insight of what you can organise for yourself.
- The Club will undoubtedly put on another fantastic opportunity for fans to travel, stay and eat with the players or staff of Wigan Athletic, details will be released very soon about what this entails and how much.
It will probably be (but don’t hold me to this) flying out on Wednesday, staying over at one of the two 5* Hotels near Maribor and will have all the trimmings to make it a very special trip with photo opportunities with the team etc…, flying back straight after the game. - For those wanting to do one, two or three nights, there are several options, flying from Manchester or London airports to Zagreb, Ljubljana, Vienna or Graz. Most people are then using an agency called www.thetravelpuzzle.com to then sort out the transfers from the airports and hotels, they are cheaper than doing it via booking.com etc. and they will also advice on best flights for you.
Currently they have one and two night deals with transfers and hotel for £90 based on two sharing (£110 for single) and these are at the better of the hotels in the centre of Maribor, there are other options available – so its possible stay over for less than £260 with flights. - There are various train journeys and other ways you can book if you want to see a bit of Europe and can spend a bit more time over it, you would probably need to talk to a travel agent regarding this though.
- If you want to fly in and out, sports options are flying from Manchester at 6.30a.m. and then back straight after the game, it is £285 (plus £10 for coach from Wigan) see sportoptions.com for details.
On this occasion the Supporters Club is not providing any sort of travel, so these are just for guidance as we understand that some people want to go to the game and it is possible that there may not be many, if any tickets left from the middle of next week.
We understand that there a lot of people who have already booked and this is backed up by the cost of flights going up nearly 75% since 3 weeks ago; this is also the case with the hotels.
Hopefully this will have been a bit of help to you.
