DaSpecialOne wrote: Looking to book into and out of Carcassonne (Need to be back for work Monday). Can anyone recommend a hotel? Was looking at the Hotel Le Collonges near the Shamrock Bar.

Collonges looks decent alright and in a good spot. In terms of location, I'd say anywhere around that little ring-road is pretty good as the centre seems pretty small. I was looking at the Adonis close to the station, but then I got a spot on AirBnB a bit closer to the centre. I abandoned the Ibis Budget as it's a long way out but you can't argue with the price out there, especially for a triple.

Looking to book into and out of Carcassonne (Need to be back for work Monday). Can anyone recommend a hotel? Was looking at the Hotel Le Collonges near the Shamrock Bar.

Ha you changed ur mind buck!

Booked x 3

Carcassone
Limoge- stansted-knock

€60 each

Kudos to Pinky !!

Just spotted there that there's a bus from Toulouse to Brive leaving at 20.30 on Friday night arriving 22.50.
So should be able to connect with one of the trains from Carcassonne.

booking.ouibus.com/ScheduleSelect.aspx

Booked x 2

Me.
Herself.
Carcassonne.

menacethedenis wrote: Saturday 16th Jan 20.45 pm

www.epcrugby.com/matchcentre/fixtures_eu...by_challenge_cup.php

Nice one. Decent recovery time for the team, plus makes getting there and back reasonably OK.

Ryanair flight to Carcassonne on Friday has gone up a small bit but still reasonable (€36). Flight back on Sunday up over 100.
The route back from Limoges to Stansted and onward to Knock or Dublin on Monday is still cheap as chips. In fact I think the Knock one is gone down a fiver since I booked it (curse my proactivity).

So I reckon that's the best option for anyone booking. Unless of course you can't get Monday off in which case in and out of Carcassonne is the best option.

I reset the poll now that the date is confirmed. Sign up if you're going.
Updated the travel page with a summary of the info: www.connachtclan.com/match-travel/brive-2015-16

Haha TOLD YOU
6/01/2016 20:45 P1
Brive v Connacht Rugby
Stade Amédée-Domenech FR4

Saturday 16th Jan 20.45 pm

www.epcrugby.com/matchcentre/fixtures_eu...by_challenge_cup.php

Until now Bein just has shown 1 game per round, I didn't know they're going to broadcast every matches for round 5 and 6

connachta wrote: As I said on another topic, I'd really put my money on Brive v Connacht on French TV. Only interesting game for them, as they've already shown Grenoble v L.I

Well they will surely show both. As St Placide said, they are all televised on some one of BeIN's channels. The question is will they put one in their "prime" Thursday night slot, which would be a disaster for either Connacht or Irish - and not just because I have a flight booked for Friday

All will be revealed in a few hours (allegedly).

pinky wrote: Looking at the fixtures for round 5, London Irish v Grenoble is the obvious one to televise and after that Brive v Connacht is the pick of the bunch. They are in the same boat though with Irish playing on Sunday and Grenoble having a weekend off.
The only other game that might be vaguely marketable is Quins v Cardiff as it is 1st v 2nd but given that Blues have no real hope they won't be queueing up. That could end up being the Thursday night game for BT/Sky.
Hopefully French TV won't bother with a Thursday night game or will show a dead-rubber like Agen v Edinburgh who will both be well rested.
With some not too enticing fixtures in the Champions Cup also they'll hopefully save the more competitive Challenge Cup games for the weekend to fill out the schedule.

As I said on another topic, I'd really put my money on Brive v Connacht on French TV. Only interesting game for them, as they've already shown Grenoble v L.I

Looking at the fixtures for round 5, London Irish v Grenoble is the obvious one to televise and after that Brive v Connacht is the pick of the bunch. They are in the same boat though with Irish playing on Sunday and Grenoble having a weekend off.
The only other game that might be vaguely marketable is Quins v Cardiff as it is 1st v 2nd but given that Blues have no real hope they won't be queueing up. That could end up being the Thursday night game for BT/Sky.
Hopefully French TV won't bother with a Thursday night game or will show a dead-rubber like Agen v Edinburgh who will both be well rested.
With some not too enticing fixtures in the Champions Cup also they'll hopefully save the more competitive Challenge Cup games for the weekend to fill out the schedule.

Saw this on Tigers website:

EPCR say they hope to make an announcement on the kick-off dates and times on the evening of Wednesday, December 23 or the morning of Thursday, December 24.

Maybe they should just ask Santa to do it.

How quick can ya get to Brive if game is Fri eve like 7.45pm latest?!

Ploughed on and booked the following:

Fri 15 Jan
DUB - Carcassonne 1430 - 1715 (€22)

Mon 18 Jan
Limoges - STN 1205 - 1245 (€15)
STN - Knock 1535 - 1715 (£13)

I booked a few hotels here and there so provisional plan would be Toulouse for the Friday night (Hotel Ours Blanc - handy for the train station and the Melting Pot) and on to Brive in the morning.
If the game is Friday I'll have to book another flight out but I don't reckon it will be.
Might stay in Limoges Sunday night if the game is Saturday.