Edinburgh Rugby Supporters Club

daz · World Cup Star Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Posts: 121

Right people, time for you to start working out all the options for going to watch the Castres game? Any suggestions?

kev · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:06 am Post subject:

Doesn't look all that easy to get to, and it all depends on what day it falls on. The options look like:
1) BA flight to Toulouse via Gatwick, train or hire car across to Castres
2) Ryanair to Girona from Prestwick then a 3hour drive back up
3) Easyjet to Paris CDG then TGV or night train down.
Unless anyone's got any better ideas!

bucky · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 1:54 am Post subject:

Jet2 fly direct from edinburgh to toulouse but dont have timetables available for after september as yet. Think the best idea is to try and organise something through the club for all going to travel together.

Loops · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:57 am Post subject:

Jon · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:55 am Post subject:

I have a feeling that Jet2 have flights twice a week, along the lines of Wednesday and Saturday i.e. ok for a Friday game but not much cop for Saturday or Sunday

An organised trip sounds good... ER will be taking 30+ folk out there anyway..... could we get 100 supporters to fill a flight...

Arlene · World Cup Star Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posts: 579

Toulouse and Carcassonne are roughly the same distance from Castres. BA, Easyjet and FlyBe go to Toulouse from various English airports. Ryanair to Carcassonne from Stansted. The train is 1 1/4hrs from Toulouse and if getting the train from Carcassonne you have to go via Toulouse anyway. Train from Paris is about 7hrs.

kev · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:55 am Post subject:

I'll try and get an indicative price for chartering a jet but I don't expect it to be cheap.
I can't see ER being too keen to take on the responsibility but it's maybe something we can coordinate through this forum - we can deal with that once we see if it's a goer or not.

Baggage · World Cup Star Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Posts: 3489

kev · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 1:21 pm Post subject:

Chartering a jet - I got a response from airpartner.com, who gave me budgetary prices of £47k for a 142 seat Boeing 737 and £55k for a 228 seat Boeing 757, both for a return flight. We would pay that price regardless of how many people we got on the aircraft. Not included is taxes and fees of approx £34 per person.

That works out at nearly £300 per person, even if we fill the larger plane. Pretty sure I can do it a lot cheaper by a scheduled flight so I think that rules chartering out.

If anyone wants to see the quotation give me a shout.

Jen Star · World Cup Star Joined: 04 May 2004 Posts: 276

I know you can charter a Jet2 plane - that's what Scotland did throughout the 6 Nations. Not sure how you do it, or how much it costs, though.....

kev · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:02 pm Post subject:

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Baggage · World Cup Star Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Posts: 3489

Baggage · World Cup Star Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Posts: 3489

pulled off another site

Watty · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:35 am Post subject:

sad to say but those charter prices are about right (I only know this as have been involved in chartering for work events before so know rough prices).

Looks like Montpellier is 170km from Castre.....could fly there (somebody does from Scotland but cant mind who off the top of my head!) and hire a car.......or it would appear that you can SOMEHOW get to a "field" in Castre which is known to be an airport ....but only from Orly.....but ive not done enough digging yet to find out exactly how etc etc.

Im off work at the min (back still Bu@@ered!) so will do some further research (all just to keep me amused/busy/active of course!) inbetween Physio torture next week!!!!