Discount travel blog

Yes, its cheap to sleep in a 18 bed dorm, but if you are unlucky to have snorring pigs in your room and I had one fat indian guys sleeping and snorring three nights in a row just above me.

I arrived by train and had only 5 minutes walk from the Centraal Stations to my hostel.

To plan our trip to Cologne was an easy task, although we didnt know until the last minute weather we actually would travel there or not. The plan was to see the finals of the European Football Cup in Germany, in case Germany would make it there. And surprisingly they did so 2 days before the finals we had to organize everything very quickly. The hostlel, transport and all without crossing our budget of just 200 Euros. So that means 100 Euro each person, for a weekend in Cologne inculding the car rental fee.

Despite the fact I felt a bit weird wearing that German hair, in the end it made the experience much more like I am part of this huge German fan club. Bearing in mind that I am originally from the US, that means a lot! And hey, Cologne is my number one German city, it simple turns you into that party mode.

Yeah, well after thinking the whole day where it would be best to watch the finals in Cologne, we considered one of the many sports bars or cafes down the road from Rudolfplatz, we finally decided to go the the huge “Koeln Arena” which has room for about 20.000 people, but there where at least another 10.000 outside in front of the Arena enjoying the view of the big screen and craziness that was happening amongst the mostly German fans.