Ett stort jävla skämt!!!!

1,500 Swedes already itching to get to Kyiv

Ukrzaliznytsya (Ukrainian Railway Administration) together with its Polish counterparts has already received the first group order for Euro-2012 fans’ transportation to Ukraine. It concerns 1,500 supporters of the Swedish national team: all its matches at the group stage will be hosted by Kyiv. This has been announced by Ukrzaliznytsya Deputy Director-General Leonid Loboyko.
Tre Kronor fans will cover a difficult route Karlskrona – Gdynia – Gdańsk – Chełm – Kiev. “Fans will be transported according to the following scheme: they will be delivered from Sweden to the city of Gdynia (Poland) by ferry, then to the city of Gdańsk (Poland) by land transport, and then by railway to the city of Chełm (Poland) where they will pass customs control and will be placed in Ukrainian trains heading for the Ukrainian capital. There will be three trains formed for Swedish fans altogether, but additional ones will also be organized, should the necessity arise” Leonid Loboyko said.
He has added that the order for transporting fans of the Dutch national team fans according to the same scheme, but from Chełm to Kharkiv, is being worked out. “We shall hold a meeting with pour Polish counterparts and will take the final decision,” the railway official noted.

«Road Books» to appear in Ukraine by May

The Road Book for Euro-2012 will appear in Ukraine in late April. It will contain brief information about road conditions, places where one can stay overnight and have a snack, the same way as about different services in roadside infrastructure. The Road Book will be compiled by representatives of the Doroga.ua self-drive tourists’ portal jointly with the Segodnya newspaper and the Expert Ukraine business journal during Ukrainian road infrastructure monitoring and testing on Euro-2012 motorways. This was announced by the Doroga.UA club chief, Andriy Tychyna, during a press conference at the Information Centre Ukraine-2012.

He has said that an Internet vote for the best objects of the road service infrastructure along Ukrainian Euro-2012 routes will be held during the period of February and March on the Doroga.ua portal. “Hundreds of roadside hotels and restaurants have been included in our database. We shall organize a people’s rating of the best facilities that can be recommended to people travelling by car between the host cities,” Mr Tychyna noted.

Inspection tours, collection of information, along with preparation and publication of Road Books about Euro-2012 routes, will be also held after the vote, in the course of March and April. “Road guides will be published in three languages: Ukrainian, Russian and English. The number of copies to be printed will be at least 10,000. Road Books will be distributed in those roadside infrastructure facilities which will get the highest positions in the rating,” Doroga.UA club chief said.

Akut möte kan ha räddat EM-festen

Akut möte kan ha räddat EM-festen

Sedan EM-lottningen i december har Camp Sweden jobbat hårt för sin EM-bas. Nu är en lösning nära - tack vare hjälp från svenska ambassaden i Kiev. – Vi hoppas ha kunnat bestämma plats om några veckor, säger campingchef Ingo Söderlund.

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Camping på gång?

Då damp det ner ytterligare en "uppdatering" vad som händer gällande Nickes och CampSwedens camping i Ukraina i sommar.

Utan att vara insatt överhuvudtaget i vad som sägs och planeras kan man iallafall säga att det minst sagt verkar segt med förhandlingarna. Nu skall tydligen "Kiev stad" komma till Stockholm för att presentera förslag på olika campingar. Måtte dessa förslag nu vara färdigförhandlade så det inte krävs ytterligare förhandlingar för att kunna spika en svensk camping i sommar?

Som det känns förlitar sig (tyvärr) mängder med svenskar på att denna camping blir verklighet. Men ju längre detta drar ut på tiden desto större är risken/chansen att folk bokar in sig på andra boenden i Kiev, eller att nån idiot får för sig att boka en semester i Grekland i stället.

För att vi ska gå ett så stort följe som möjligt i Ukraina får vi hoppas på att dessa "förhandlingar" nu kan slutföras snabbt!

Lustigt också att "Kiev stad" skall dyka upp i Stockholm! Kan det möjligen vara en "bjudresa" inblandad?
Absolut inget fel med att smöra de styrande i Kiev i detta läge. Dock förstår jag inte varför man bjuder dem till fel sida av landet? Kanske är det tänkt att ta dem på hockeyderby i Stockholm för att visa hur svensk polis arbetar med sina batonger?

Vill ha uppgifter om svenska EM–fans

Vill ha uppgifter om svenska EM–fans

Ukraina är oroligt inför fotbolls–EM. Landets inrikesdepartement vill ha ett samarbete med svenska justitiedepartementet inför EM. De vill ha uppgifter om de svenska fansen inför turneringen, uppger nyhetsbyrån Siren.

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Kievtips!

Om ni vill veta hur det är att vistas i Kiev från en svensk sida ska ni definitivt ge er in på denna blogg

Tyvärr!

Efter alldeles för mycket boendestrul har vi nu beslutat oss för att ställa in bussresan till Kiev i sommar. Vi var på god väg att fylla upp bussen men konstiga frågor, eller rättare sagt uteblivna frågor och kanske missuppfattningar gör nu att resan ställs in. Tyvärr innebär också detta att vi missar ett antal supportrar på plats. Men nu vänder vi blad och ser framåt. Alldeles nyss bokades en lägenhet två minuter från huvudgatan Kreschatik Street via denna förmedling. Där kommer eliten att inkvarteras och många sena efterfester utlovas. För att få extra bra service när ni pratar med Zina som för övrigt svarar hela dygnet nämner ni självklart SwedenAway.se:-).

”Bra att Zlatan vet vad hans nye partner heter”

"Bra att Zlatan vet vad hans nye partner heter"

John Guidettis succé med 14 mål på 13 matcher väcker uppmärksamhet i Fotbollseuropa. Nu söker Uefa historien bakom 19-åringen och fick en kaxig passning till Zlatan Ibrahimovic som svar. – Det är bra att han vet vad hans framtida anfallspartner heter, säger Guidetti till Uefas hemsida.

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Det rör på sig!

Förfrågningarna och bokningarna till Kiev börjar nu stadigt trilla in.

I nuläget har runt 20 personer ifrån Kungshamn, Uddevalla, Stenungsund, Göteborg och Östersund bokat in sig på sommarens bussresa till fotbolls-em!
Missa inte chansen att hänga med på tidernas äventyr!

Fler nyheter angående boendet i Ukraina.

In Ukraine there are enough rooms to accommodate fans at affordable prices. The director of the Local Organizing Committee EURO 2012 Ukraine, Markiyan Lubkivskyi, stated this during a press conference on 26 January. According to him, our country takes into account the fact that 80% of fans who will come for the matches will be looking for lower category budget accommodation.

“Since information of negative nature regarding the accommodation prices appears, our main task is to identify and classify facilities, to control compliance with safety and comfort standards, and – most importantly – to deliver information in accessible form to a foreign customer. Those who currently offer inflated prices at various unofficial sites should cool down and realize that the crisis has affected the purchasing power of fans”, the tournament director in Ukraine stressed.

He informed that today less than 20% of the rooms contracted by the agencies in Ukrainian accommodation facilities are booked. “Travel agencies listened and optimized their offers. You can find quite affordable accommodation options in each of the Ukrainian host cities with a reservation requirement of at least two nights”, Markiyan Lubkivskyi said. He stressed that the information disseminated by some media regarding fans wanting to live in four or five star hotels is untrue.

As, in his turn, the president of the Hotels and Restaurants Association, Dmytro Zaruba, stressed, for EURO the price for ordinary fans is 50-100% more than the normal price, so the Local Organising Committee “EURO 2012 Ukraine” urged fans to book rooms only at official sites of Hamalia and TUI Travel agencies. The main idea in promoting these resources is the establishment of close cooperation between the host cities and football federations of countries that will play in specific cities.

The President of the Hamalia travel company, Ihor Holubaha, has informed that Kyiv, where the travel agency contracted 7,924 rooms for 20,000 persons, offers a price for hostels at 18 to 85 euros per night, in hotels – 27.6-276 euros, sanatoriums – 69-115 euros.

At the same time, Donetsk (3,667 rooms for 9,717 persons) offers the following: hostels – 11.5-16 euros hotels – 60-115 euros, sanatoriums – 69-115 euros; Lviv (236 rooms for 569 persons): hotels – 23-46 euros, sanatoriums – 57,5-132 euros, and in Kharkiv you can book one of 256 hotel rooms for 92-253 euros.

Ihor Holubaha added that in Kyiv they will also use the camping Prolisok – 300 tents (15 euros per night) and Kyivska Rus camping park – an encampment for 530 persons (12 euros per night).

Källa:
http://ukraine2012.gov.ua/en/news/193/51443/

Vår nye superstjärna...men startar han i EM-premiären så går jag hem från Ukraina

Vår nye superstjärna...men startar han i EM-premiären så går jag hem från Ukraina

En svensk fotbollsstjärna är född. En plats i EM-truppen ska han ha. Men John Guidetti i startelvan i premiären mot Ukraina? Inte en chans.

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Gott om lediga rum i Kiev?

Over 60,000 places still can be reserved in Euro cities!

Up to 20 per cent of all places in accommodation facilities contracted by travel agencies for Euro-2012 fans have been already reserved, and 80 per cent of places are still available. Information about the lack of availability of accommodation facilities, along with dozen-fold overpricing, is not true, Markiyan Lubkivskyi said at a news conference in Kyiv.

According to him, Kyiv still has the highest share of available accommodation facilities. According to UEFA official accommodation partners, Tui Travel and Hamaliya travel agencies, almost 38,000 (37,714) beds for fans have been already contracted in the capital city. Meanwhile, the number of reserved beds is 5,155, and a further 32,500 places remain available for reservation.

The number of places contracted in Donetsk is almost 14,000 (13,884). The number of reserved ones is only 1,958, and 11,886 are still free. The number of places contracted in Lviv is 8,215, reservations have been made for 1,525, and almost 7,000 (6,690) still remain free. Over 11,000 have been contracted in Kharkiv. Reservations have been made for 1,200, and 9,899 are available. More information about accommodation prices in four host cities can be learned here.

The tournament director noted that travel agencies had optimized their offers in terms of prices and the period of stay of Euro guests. “In particular, two-night offers have appeared: they were not available previously because everyone wanted to snatch a large sum and to accommodate guests for a month or for 25 days. These appetites are presently reducing, and prices will also gradually reduce. Besides contracted accommodation facilities (low-star hotels, hostels, dormitories, sanatoriums and boarding houses), agencies are also examining additional resources, survey private housing market having the name ‘apartments’ in Europe,” he noted.

The tournament director summed up by saying that there are all kinds of confirmations that sufficient number of hotel rooms is available in host cities. “There was an inventory of everything that can be offered to foreign fans by Ukraine and particular cities. Having monitored economy-class accommodation facilities, we have concluded that the basis acquired by us makes our country accessible for visits by tourists in the future,” Markiyan Lubkivskyi noted.

In addition to the objects already available on official accommodation portals, the possibility to make reservations in the tent camps specially designated for the European tournament will appear in February.

Källa: http://ukraine2012.gov.ua/en/

England-Sverige, 15 november 2011

Ingen jätterusch?

Drygt 3 veckor kvar tills ansökningstjänsten stängs för de som vill ha biljetter till sommarens Fotbolls-EM.
Här har ni antalet ansökta svenska biljetter och än så länge är det väl inget överdrivet intresse för de svenska matcherna.