I woke up Tuesday morning with nothing to do until 5 pm when I was supposed to meet Timmie Hampton at Pinchito Tapas in Islington. Thus, I decided it was time to book some hotels or hostels for my trip to Northern England. First up was Newcastle. I mainly used three sites to research where I would stay.<\/p>\n
1) hostelworld.com
2) hotels.com
3) venere.com<\/p>\n
At first I could not decide where to stay in Newcastle. My Let\u2019s Go Europe book said Albatross was the best hostel in Newcastle. However, they only had 6 bed dorms available and I was not keen on sharing a room with five other people. I looked at hotels but they were all priced around \u00a360 or \u00a370 \u2013 too much to spend on myself (at least on my first nights on my own). So I decided to book the 6 bed dorm for \u00a318.95 through hostelworld.com.<\/p>\n
Next up was Manchester since I was planning to stay there for three nights after Newcastle. The matches I want to attend over the weekend and into Monday are:<\/p>\n
1) Saturday, September 26: Liverpool versus Hull City at Anfield
2) Sunday, September 27: Sunderland versus Wolverhampton Wanderers at the Stadium of Light
3) Monday, September 28: Manchester City versus West Ham United at City of Manchester Stadium<\/p>\n
Since the match at Sunderland kicked off at 4 pm on Sunday I was planning to take the train from Manchester to Sunderland Sunday morning and return back to Manchester Sunday night. I have a BritRail England pass \u2013 meaning I can travel as far as I want in England on any given day.<\/p>\n
Through hotels.com I found the Britannia Manchester with an economy single room for \u00a339 per night. None of the hostels on hostelworld.com had a single room and the dorms were in the \u00a325 range. Since I could cancel my room on the day of arrival, I booked the single room at the Britannia.<\/p>\n
Next I booked a hostel for Wednesday, September 30. I was planning to attend the Champions League match between Manchester United and VfL Wolfsburg that night. The Britannia Manchester had singles available but for \u00a379 now. I found Hatters Hostel on hostelworld.com that had a single for \u00a330 for the night. Now that I had most of my rooms booked for the next week I was ready to head off around London.<\/p>\n
The only room I still needed to book for the next week was Tuesday, September 29 in Glasgow, Scotland. However, I was still debating whether to attend the Champions League match between the Rangers and Sevilla in Glasgow or the Arsenal and Olympiacos match in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I woke up Tuesday morning with nothing to do until 5 pm when I was supposed to meet Timmie Hampton at Pinchito Tapas in Islington. Thus, I decided it was time to book some hotels or hostels for my trip to Northern England. First up was Newcastle. I mainly used three sites to research where I would stay.
\n1) hostelworld.com2) hotels.com3) venere.com
\nAt first I could not decide where to stay in Newcastle. My Let\u2019s Go Europe book said Albatross was the best hostel in Newcastle. However, they only had 6 bed …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[140,139],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}