[Albion] Possibly Going To Stoke

el punal · Jan 7, 2018

As tickets are soon up for grabs for this game I'm giving this one a go. I must admit, although I've been to Port Vale for our promotion party in 2002, I've never been to the Britannia/Bet365 stadium. Any thoughts or suggestions on getting there (safely!). I intend travelling by train but I hear the station is two miles from the ground. Oh, are the pubs okay for visiting fans? Cheers ever so!

Beach Hut · Jan 7, 2018

Dire place I am afraid, ground on a hill always freezing cold.

We are doing taxi to shopping centre for lunch, taxi to the ground then bus back to the station.

Roughly two hours from Euston with Virgin Trains so a good journey

PILTDOWN MAN · Jan 7, 2018

el punal said:
As tickets are soon up for grabs for this game I'm giving this one a go. I must admit, although I've been to Port Vale for our promotion party in 2002, I've never been to the Britannia/Bet365 stadium. Any thoughts or suggestions on getting there (safely!). I intend travelling by train but I hear the station is two miles from the ground. Oh, are the pubs okay for visiting fans? Cheers ever so!

There's no queuing for P & R buses, or a wait for the train outside the ground or problem leaving the car park, there isn't any. But in truth by then you will so frigging cold you will want to curl up and die.

The coldest most depressing ground.

Enjoy

studio150 · Jan 7, 2018

Walk along the canal it will warm you up if going at a brisk pace as its bound to be freezing

Horton's halftime iceberg · Jan 7, 2018

We always stay with friends so get the bus from Hanley bus station - they have buses running from near the station (but I have never caught them) the one from Hanley can be a little rough and I have always hidden any colours and kept quite. I imagine the ones from the station would have more Albion on them. The away end has a fence around it and you do get some Stoke fans hanging around, but the many times I have been I have never had any trouble.

This is from a website last year: On matchdays there are shuttle buses that depart every 15 minutes or so before kick off near the train station. To catch one of these, turn right after exiting the station and look for Glebe Street on the A500 near a Church – the queuing fans will be hard to miss.

The bus costs just £3.00 for adults, and £2.00 for concessions such as children, students and OAPs.

The return buses for after the game depart from behind the Sentinel stand which is the Eastern side of the stadium.

alfredmizen · Jan 7, 2018

Id rather smother my balls in honey and put them in a nest of fire ants than go to stoke, a seriously depressing shithole.

Herr Tubthumper · Jan 7, 2018

Stoke is a shit hole

Pinkie Brown · Jan 7, 2018

The ground is only convenient if you travel by car as it's not far from the M6. Aside from that......

The stadium is located by a district known as Mount Pleasant. They do irony in Stoke. There is also a Holiday Inn nearby to the stadium if you wish to make a weekend of it.

alfredmizen · Jan 7, 2018

Pinkie Brown said:
The ground is only convenient if you travel by car as it's not far from the M6. Aside from that......

The stadium is located by a district known as Mount Pleasant. They do irony in Stoke. There is also a Holiday Inn nearby to the stadium if you wish to make a weekend of it.

CorgiRegisteredFriend · Jan 7, 2018

If you are getting a train then book it soon as Advance prices for the best times are going fast.

Horton's halftime iceberg · Jan 7, 2018

If you did walk you could always go via the old Victoria ground that is now a bit of waste land, it looks like after 20 years planning will go through to build houses on the waste land it currently is.

http://brucki.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/lost-ground-victoria-ground-stoke-city.html

PILTDOWN MAN · Jan 7, 2018

Pinkie Brown said:
The ground is only convenient if you travel by car as it's not far from the M6. Aside from that......

The stadium is located by a district known as Mount Pleasant. They do irony in Stoke. There is also a Holiday Inn nearby to the stadium if you wish to make a weekend of it.

Alternatively you could go east and stay in Burton. Go up day before, pub crawl, start drinking again following day miss the train and stay in Burton. You know it makes sense.

el punal · Jan 7, 2018

Thanks for the comments boys and girls. When I went Burslem, back in 2002 for the Port Vale game, I thought it was a bit on the rough side. Blimey, even the pub I used had a sloping floor and I hadn't even started drinking! Still, another away day to tick off the list if nothing else.

Beach Hut · Jan 7, 2018

Herr Tubthumper said:
Stoke is a shit hole

Indeed probably only surpassed by Burnley

Mackenzie · Jan 7, 2018

I’ve always driven there, just park up on the same verges as the locals use. It’s generally quite an unfriendly place for outsiders (think Royston Vasey) so I’d avoid wearing colours, clean clothes or brushing your teeth (all dead give aways).

Enjoy.

Horton's halftime iceberg · Jan 7, 2018

Out of the five towns that make up Stoke on Trent: Hanley, Tunstall, Fenton, Longton and Burslem, the latter is pretty bad for deprevation, but Port Vale has one of my favorite away grounds.

Is it PotG? · Jan 7, 2018

Horton's halftime iceberg said:
Out of the five towns that make up Stoke on Trent: Hanley, Tunstall, Fenton, Longton and Burslem, the latter is pretty bad for deprevation, but Port Vale has one of my favorite away grounds.

BensGrandad · Jan 7, 2018

The Victoria Stadium in Stoke was an old but homely type of ground and was replaced by The Britannia Stadium now called the Bet365 Stadium and what a dire stadium it is in the middle of nowhere on the A50 (I think it is) and as many have said always very cold with nothing nearby of note. I do not go to away games now but if I did ths is one I would miss.

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