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Vercetti
2015-02-12, 22:46
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Hi all, hereby the long awaited Gamescom 2015 topic.
It seems like hotel prices have increased, so we decided to pick a hotel just outside the city center (trust me, the Taxi far will be much cheaper that a city-center hotel). We would like to attend the press day on Wednesday 5 August, and stay until Friday. On Thursday we will attend Gamescom, and on Friday we try to plan another event (Paintball, go-cart, shopping), or the other way around. So if you're up for it, sign up below. Of course you can choose to only attend 1, 2 or 3 days.
The reason we chose for 2 nights, is because hotels for one night are either fully booked (don't accept single nights anymore), or it only costs EUR 20 more in total for 2 nights for 2 people.

When: 5-7 August 2015
Where: Cologne, Germany
What: Gamescom, Event, party at night and sleep in Cologne!
How: By car **, plane, train
How much: EUR 95 for the hotel for 2 nights *, about EUR 10 entrance
Who: Check it out below!

Planning:
We will visit Gamescom on Wednesday 5 August for those who can obtain a press card or wildcard. If not many people are able to get one of those, we will organise a small event on Wednesday and attend Gamescom on Thursday/Friday. At Gamescom... wander around, check out games, booth babes, laugh etc... you know the drill.
We will be more well-rested, since driving to Cologne and back on 1 day is quite exhausting.

Who will be attending Gamescom (confirmed / paid for hotel):
Vercetti (confirmed/paid for hotel) ROOM 1
MI-six (confirmed/paid for hotel) ROOM 1
AlienSmith (confirmed/paid for hotel) ROOM 2
SkinnyG (confirmed/paid for hotel) ROOM 3


Hotel Details:
The hotel is a couple km from the city center

Motel One Köln West
Max-Planck-Strasse 46,
Marsdorf, 50858 Cologne
http://www.motel-one.com/en/hotels/cologne/hotel-koeln-west/?rooms=3&adults_per_room=2&in_date=2015-08-05&out_date=2015-08-07

### FIRST HOTEL FULL, NEXT SUGGESTION:
http://www.booking.com/hotel/de/ramadakoln.nl.html?aid=304142;sid=74bb386f65236af7 6851c1eb7467a277;dcid=1;checkin=2015-08-05;checkout=2015-08-07

Hehe, Hotel Fuck :cool: >> http://www.booking.com/hotel/de/restaurant-fuck.nl.html?aid=304142;sid=74bb386f65236af76851c1 eb7467a277;dcid=1;checkin=2015-08-05;checkout=2015-08-07


Taxi costs near Cologne, to see how much you save by sleeping further from the center:
http://www.taxiruf.de/en/price_list.php
Roughly: 10 km, EUR 20, 15km, EUR 27,50>> basis EUR 3 + 1,70 per KM
Keep in mind, this will be shared by 2-4 people!


The topic will evolve over time with new details. Please reply below if you will attend and if you require a hotelroom. The hotel is based on 2 people, total costs for the room for the night


### I've Found something interesting, a house for just EUR 123 per night, where a max of 5 and a home for EUR 112 per night for 6 people, excluding the cleaning costs of EUR 65 at the end. people can stay. This is only 2 km further away, but saves a lot for those who are interested.

MI-six
2015-02-12, 23:01
I'm in
on 5-08-2015 :cool:

SkinnyG
2015-02-13, 08:03
You already know im in!

And im looking forward to that double room just for me[emoji3]

No risk of someone else vomiting all over that room[emoji40] [emoji48]

Omulet
2015-02-14, 10:09
i want to know, the prices for each thing, so i can make a calculation on how much is it and if i can afford

Vercetti
2015-02-14, 14:25
Hi Omulet,

The hotel for 2 nights will be around EUR 180
The entrance to Gamescom per day is around EUR 12
The dinner/drinks, how crazy do you want to go
Planeticket Bucharest - Cologne: EUR 165 (arrival Cologne wednesday @ 14.45, leave on Friday at 15.10) So those times aren't the best, but there are more flights going.

You can also book the single flight to Cologne with 'Hahn Air Systems', then you arrive at 9:15 (direct flight) for EUR 155, and fly back with AirBerlin at 18.55 for EUR 142 (one stop). Obviously, it might be interesting to arrive on tuesday or leave at Saturday, book 3 days a hotel, so then you can stay the whole time if you like. But keep in mind that a hotel on Friday-Saturday is almost impossible or really expensive.

Then thinking out of the box, you can also fly on Dusseldorf/Dortmund on Tuesday, stay in a hotel there, then we pick you up on Wednesday morning, and friday night you stay one more night in Dusseldorf (where we will drop you off again), and fly back on Saturday.
I Found hotels for only EUR 50 per night next to the airport, way cheaper that organising the flights another way.
Here we go with the Dortmund option

Flight (direct with W!ZZ): Arrive Tuesday at Dortmund 14:45, return at Saturday 15:10 >> EUR 185
Hotelroom Dortmund near airport Tuesday-Wednesday: http://www.booking.com/hotel/de/lohenstein.nl.html?aid=304142;sid=56585141f9a33a09 840340a60117b6eb;dcid=1;checkin=2015-08-04;checkout=2015-08-05
Costs, EUR 33 (shared bathroom)
Then hotelroom in Cologne, EUR 95 for 2 nights, shared with another OG.
Hotelroom Dortmund near airport Friday-Saturday: http://www.booking.com/hotel/de/lohenstein.nl.html?aid=304142;sid=56585141f9a33a09 840340a60117b6eb;dcid=1;checkin_monthday=7&checkin_year_month=2015-8&checkout_monthday=8&checkout_year_month=2015-8&dist=0&do_availability_check=1&group_adults=1&group_children=0&hp_group_set=0&no_rooms=1&origin=hp&type=total&#availability_target EUR 33 (shared bathroom)

Total costs, including entrance Gamescom, excluding Drinks, Dinner: EUR 370 for your trip from Tuesday-Saturday.

From here, you can only go more expensive (flights to Dusseldorf are more expensive)



I also see that you can fly with Ryanair from Bucharest to Brussels Charleroi (For EUR 70, return flight), and see if there is a Belgian dude also going who can pick you up. >> Googled it, I might be even crazy enough to pick you up ;). But then again, the hotel is per night EUR 40 more expensive than in Dortmund, so it won't save that much.

The possibilities are endless.

Henry_Setaga
2015-02-15, 00:01
I hope you guys will get and upload some videos from there :)

Caveman
2015-02-15, 11:28
Hehe, still waiting for a 2014 video;)

C4b4nossi
2015-02-17, 19:53
I'm in! Free from Wednesday to weekend. If you need any assistance in booking, information etc, let me know.

macgyver1969
2015-02-24, 19:35
I'll be in Italy those days.

Safa246
2015-02-27, 12:24
Mmm.... Frank, I can get to Cologne only by about 13, and that's only to the airport. Do you have any thoughts about what time you would go to the press day on the Wednesday?

Also do you have any insight or expectations about specific things to see? Personally I'm mainly interested, as you know, in Battlefield but don't know if they will be announcing anything relevant / spinning up the hype train this year.

My wife is probably away over this period so I might just get a pass!

(How is the house going?)


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pyran
2015-06-15, 02:18
I'll be there all days, plan me in. Will bring my car: 3 seats+driver.

SkinnyG
2015-06-15, 18:06
Hey nice!! Long time no speak, and i will finally be able to meet you in person :D

Verstuurd vanaf mijn GT-I9300 met Tapatalk

Vercetti
2015-06-16, 21:48
Nice :) already got tickets?

Vercetti
2015-06-16, 21:49
By the way, Ken, Saro, did you get tickets?

pyran
2015-06-20, 13:48
Yeah. Got no tickets by now, but i will have a look if i can purchase them on regular way. You will be there on Thursday and Friday, right?
@Gert: Yeah, after a long time we finally meet ;-) I will try to bring Lisa along since she's back in germany and she would only need to care for a 2h drive from her to my Mom.

Vercetti
2015-06-24, 11:03
Hi Pyran,

I got some tickets left, let me know how many you need (Thursday and Friday).

pyran
2015-07-02, 20:26
Hello Frank,

i'm broke right now, and i don't know if my budget is enough. I would like to attend on Thursday and Friday, if there is any free bed in a room, i would share and bring in my part. Could we talk on Teamspeak in the next days?

Greetings

pyran
2015-07-11, 17:54
Hello Frank,

can you give me tickets for thursday, friday and a free bed in hotel? I took holidays and will be able to fully take part.
Please tell me where to put my money ;-)

Vercetti
2015-07-13, 23:46
Hi flo, as discussed on TS, the tickets and room are reserved for you!

pyran
2015-07-15, 12:53
Hey Frank, payment done. Hurray!

Vercetti
2015-07-28, 11:40
So.... Restaurants arranged (Biergarten and Das Kleine Steakhouse), updated OG wear arranged, fastpasses and community lounge access arranged.....
I think we are ready for next week! Really looking forward to it :)

TheIncredible
2015-08-01, 13:22
so when i want to show up as a surprise guest in the evening...where would i have to appear and when? :D

SkinnyG
2015-08-01, 17:24
If you want to join for dinner on wednesday or thursday better let us know so we can try to reserve another seat.

Caveman
2015-08-04, 18:48
Please let me know if you are coming! Might have some laptop memory for you!

TheIncredible
2015-08-08, 09:17
i will buy a new laptop after christmas ^^ (in hope that is the time of the year when everything is the cheapest)

Vercetti
2015-08-08, 09:19
Ok.... and we came back yesterday :)