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Honest guides to planning a trip around the game — tickets, where to stay, and the city. World Cup 2026 and every big fixture.
Honest guides to planning a trip around the game — tickets, where to stay, and the city. World Cup 2026 and every big fixture.
The match is the easy part to dream about — it's everything around it that makes or breaks the weekend. These are the practical bits we'd line up before any trip to a game abroad: a phone that works the second you land, cover if something goes wrong, and a clean way in and out of the stadium. Trusted partners we genuinely rate; you book direct with them.
Mobile tickets, stadium maps, the meet-the-group chat and a taxi home — all need data the moment you step off the plane. Install before you fly, switch on when you land.
Get an eSIM → Travel insuranceFlights move, knees twist on the terraces, bags go missing. A policy sorted before you travel turns a ruined weekend into a claim. Don't fly to a game abroad without it.
Get covered → Airport & stadium transfersSkip the post-match taxi scrum and the late-night surge pricing. Book a fixed-price transfer from the airport, or to the ground and back, before kick-off.
Book a transfer → Car hireChasing more than one fixture, or a World Cup spread across host cities? Compare hire cars and keep the schedule in your own hands instead of chasing trains.
Compare cars → City experiencesYou're flying all that way — give the non-match days something to do. City tours, day trips and the local sights, all bookable in a few taps.
Browse experiences → Attractions & toursStadium tours on a rest day, museums, the landmarks worth your time — skip-the-line entry so you spend the trip watching, not queueing.
Browse tickets →Front Row may earn a commission when you book through our partners, at no extra cost to you. We only recommend what we genuinely rate, and we don't sell match tickets — you buy those from official sources.
Anyone can buy a ticket. The hard part is the rest — the right hotel near the stadium, getting in and out of the city, the bars where the fans actually go. We sort all of it.
From the World Cup across the USA, Canada and Mexico to a Champions League night in Madrid, we turn a fixture into a trip you'll talk about for years.
"It's not just the match. It's the away-day of a lifetime."
Some fixtures are worth crossing a border for — and a few are worth planning a whole year around. These are the trips we get asked about most, from a once-in-a-lifetime World Cup summer to a midweek European night that turns a whole city upside down. Tap any one to read the honest guide: where to stay, how to get tickets safely, and what the weekend actually costs.
2026The biggest tournament on earth, across three countries. Get the trip locked before it sells out.
EuropeMidweek magic under the lights — fly in, roar, fly home. The ultimate football weekend.
F1The noise, the speed, the paddock buzz. Race-side hotels and the whole circuit experience.
NFLAmerican football comes to Europe. A stadium spectacle and a London city break in one.
A taste of the fixtures — join the list and we'll send dates and how to plan the trip.
Find the fixture or event you want to be at.
Book hotels near the ground, flights and the city — all in a few taps.
Show up, lose your voice, and make the trip legendary.
We've done the messy away-days so you don't have to. We know which hotels are walkable to the stadium, where the atmosphere is, and how to make a single match into the trip of the season.
Hotels and tips right by the ground.
Flights, stays and the city in one place.
Routes and picks fans actually rate.
A European night under the lights — the anthem, a whole city up for one match.
Three days of a city taken over by racing, the cars louder than you'd believe.
An NFL spectacle wrapped inside a London city break.
Every trip we plan starts with the same homework: a real ticket, a bed you can get back to, and a budget that survives contact with reality. These are the guides we'd hand a friend before their first game abroad — written from the messy away-days, not a brochure.
Let's be straight about what Front Row is. We're an independent guide, not a travel agent and not a ticket seller. We don't operate trips, we don't run a box office, and we'll never ask you to send money for a match ticket. What we do is the planning groundwork — explaining how to get tickets from official sources, which hotels are genuinely walkable to the stadium, and how to turn a single fixture into a weekend you'll talk about for years.
You buy your own tickets, from the club, the league or the official ballot, and you book your own stays. When you book the practical bits — an eSIM, insurance, a transfer — through a partner we recommend, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. That's how the guide stays free to read. We only point you toward things we'd use ourselves, and we'd rather tell you to skip something than sell you a trip you don't need.
The questions we get asked most before a first game in another country.
No. We're an independent guide, not a ticket seller. We show you how to get tickets from official sources — club ballots, the tournament organiser, verified resale — and how to spot the scams. You buy your own tickets and book your own stays; we explain how to plan the trip around the game.
As early as you sensibly can. For the World Cup, hotels near the host stadiums and flights into those cities are the first things to go and the first to jump in price, often the moment a fixture or draw is confirmed. For a Champions League away night or an F1 weekend, the date is fixed well ahead, so beds within walking distance of the ground sell out long before the match. Lock the bed and the flight first; the ticket and the extras can usually follow.
Close enough to walk back after the final whistle, or on a direct transit line to the ground. Stadium areas empty out fast and taxis surge or vanish straight after a big match, so a bed you can reach on foot or by metro beats a cheaper one across town. Our city guides flag which neighbourhoods are walkable to each stadium and where the atmosphere actually is.
Start from the official source — the club, the league or the tournament's own ballot and resale platform — and treat everything else with suspicion. Walk away from sellers who demand bank transfer, gift cards or cash, who can't show the ticket type and seat, or whose price seems too good. Our guide to buying tickets safely walks through the legitimate channels and the red flags in detail.
Tickets, travel and stadium know-how for trips to the world's biggest games.