Semi final travel options

[conman]

brent council and the police  are enforcing a no drinking in public in the streets surrounding wembley stadium
i have 2 words to say to that
NO CHANCE

sorry should that have been in the wembley pubs thread

The police, and the Met in particular, tend not to make regulations they can't enforce.

lol i was about to walk up the hill towards the green man to drink my cans
when a copper stopped me to say there is too many people up there mate
drink your cans on the grass over there
where about 500 people were drinking cans

[dave.woodhall]

brent council and the police  are enforcing a no drinking in public in the streets surrounding wembley stadium
i have 2 words to say to that
NO CHANCE

sorry should that have been in the wembley pubs thread

The police, and the Met in particular, tend not to make regulations they can't enforce.

lol i was about to walk up the hill towards the green man to drink my cans
when a copper stopped me to say there is too many people up there mate
drink your cans on the grass over there
where about 500 people were drinking cans

Sounds like they did exactly what they said they would.

[Witton Warrior]

Coming back on the train the lovely Welsh police were telling everyone it was a dry train and to bin their cans and bottles - 30 minutes later everyone was chatting with them while drinking - top coppers

[conman]

i got the coach yesterday but might get the train for the final
how was it ,,,did you have to change
what was it like getting a tube or train after the match

[Richard E]

When we were stood in the queue at Wembley Stadium station waiting for the Chiltern train back to Moor Street this teenage girl Villa fan staggered past en route to the platform that was heading back into London. She looked about 49 sheets, let alone 7, to the wind so God knows if she was intending to travel in that direction. I shudder to think what became of her. She could barely stand up.

[dave.woodhall]

i got the coach yesterday but might get the train for the final
how was it ,,,did you have to change
what was it like getting a tube or train after the match

Wembley Park tube was organised very well. I must have been one of the last in the queue but it was well marshalled and moved quickly.

[BlackCountryVilla]

I was in the queue for no more than 5 minutes at Wembly Park. It was well organised.

Moor street was a little more chaotic but still not too bad. I arrived at about 7.30 hoping to get the first train at 8.25. There was already a fair sized queue by then. Having said that I got on the second train and left at about 8.35. No chages, we got into Marylebone at about 10.50

As for "dry" trains , I didn't see anybody enforcing it and there were plenty fans drinking in the queue and on the train !

[pauliewalnuts]

I didn't get a ticket until Thursday, so decided to drive down, as the friend I was going with was already in London.

I was intending to park somewhere out of the way and get the tube in, but, having read UK Redsox (I think) saying that the Yellow Car park was really good as it pointed you out towards Harrow and Sudbury rather than the North Circular, I decided to go for that. Checked on Thurs night, good availability. Made mental note to prepay in the morning. Looked in the morning and it was sold out.

Only official one left was the Red car park, next to the new designer outlet place. So close to the stadium, you can almost touch it, at our end of the ground.

Thought it might be a nightmare to get out of a multi storey but booked it anyway. Dropped the Mrs off to go shopping at the aforementioned place, met friend, expected to get stuck in horrible traffic.

In the end, worked out brilliantly. I left a few mins after the final whistle, walked round, managed to get lost and walk too far round the outside of the ground, turned back, got in car and pretty much drove straight out, unobstructed.

Through Harrow and Sudbury (which I'd advise to anyone as a route out) and to the A40 at Northolt.

I must have got in the car at 5.15 and we were home in Leamington at 6.45, which included a ten min stop on the way back.

I think what made the difference was we'd won, and the car park was at our end of the ground. Am sure that, the last two visits, having lost, it would have been much more chaotic as people left the ground earlier.

[pauliewalnuts]

One thing about driving down I like is seeing all the cars with scarves out the window.

We went down earlyish, left about 10.30. I asked the mrs how long she thought it'd be after we got on the motorway that we saw the first car with Villa scarf.

We hadn't even got off the slip road onto the M40 before three went past us.

[UK Redsox]

All bow down in praise of my knowledge of the roads around Sudbury and Harrow

Some of you lot might take the piss out of my trips to Wembley for the American Rugby but all the research and trial runs finally paid off.

[UK Redsox]

Re the Yellow Parking Paulie. They emailed us overnight Friday to say that due to the large number of coaches Villa were taking**, some cars booked in the Yellow might be moved to the Red. However, we were there early enough to park up in the Yellow.

(** we had so many coaches that they even had some of them park up in the Liverpool Green Car Park)

It really is a great place for getting away back towards the West and the Midlands. I was back home 120 miles away by 19:30.

Which way did they direct you after leaving the Red? Was it down onto the High Road and past Wembley Central ?

[Legion]

We did not get back to VP until 10:15.

[pauliewalnuts]

Re the Yellow Parking Paulie. They emailed us overnight Friday to say that due to the large number of coaches Villa were taking**, some cars booked in the Yellow might be moved to the Red. However, we were there early enough to park up in the Yellow.

(** we had so many coaches that they even had some of them park up in the Liverpool Green Car Park)

It really is a great place for getting away back towards the West and the Midlands. I was back home 120 miles away by 19:30.

Which way did they direct you after leaving the Red? Was it down onto the High Road and past Wembley Central ?

No, we went up Wembley Hill Road, left on to the A4088 past North Wembley station and across to Greenford Road, then down and onto the A40. It is a less direct route (sort of an arc), but it worked out pretty well.

Was toying with going the way you described but when we came out, the rozzers had blocked the left turn off, so we went the otherway. Basically there was zero traffic, so decided to make the most of it and put my foot down to get as far away as we could as quickly as possible.

If we'd lost, though, I suspect we'd have been caught in much more traffic as the place would have emptied quicker.

I know this sounds nuts, but coming in from that side, and approaching from our "end", we hardly saw any actual Liverpool fans outside the ground

[UK Redsox]

That's the route that I would have hoped to take if I'd have had to use the Red. Wembley Hill Road took you back onto my route.

I'm glad that you didn't get forced down towards the High Road

[Rudy65]

One thing about driving down I like is seeing all the cars with scarves out the window.

We went down earlyish, left about 10.30. I asked the mrs how long she thought it'd be after we got on the motorway that we saw the first car with Villa scarf.

We hadn't even got off the slip road onto the M40 before three went past us.

Love it as well

I only remembered I had forgotten my scarf when I saw the first scarves in other cars. Will be flowing out the window for the final