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IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship 2027 - Opening Game GER-SUI

Trip highlights:

  • World Championship opening game GER : SUI live
  • Over 60,000 fans in the Veltins-Arena
  • Unique hockey atmosphere

Together in Hockey Fever

A start that gets under your skin: Germany face Switzerland in the opening game of the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship 2027. Experience this prestigious neighbourly classic in front of more than 60’000 fans at the VELTINS-Arena in Gelsenkirchen – a spectacular night of hockey full of emotion and goosebumps!

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Day 1: Switzerland – Rhine-Ruhr Region
Today your journey begins towards a duel that is already building tension in advance. You travel in our comfortable coach to the Rhine-Ruhr region and check into your hotel room. The evening is yours to enjoy. While the two national teams look forward to their final preparations, the excitement is rising for you too: who will set the first mark of this World Championship tomorrow?

Day 2: Hockey fever at Schalke
Today the air is electric: over 60,000 fans, two ice hockey nations and a duel that both fan camps are eagerly awaiting. Germany face Switzerland in a prestigious neighbourly classic that offers everything for a gripping hockey thriller: pace, emotion and tension right up to the final siren!

Day 3: An experience that stays with you
After breakfast, you begin the journey home to Switzerland. Sit back and relax as you relive the most gripping game moments, the overwhelming atmosphere and the most emotional moments of this extraordinary World Championship opening.

You will stay in a comfortable mid-range hotel in the Rhine-Ruhr region. We expect several hundred hockey fans to travel with us to this opening game, so a variety of hotels are available for our guests. We will send you the name and address of your hotel around three weeks before departure, together with the travel programme. The transfers between the hotel and the VELTINS-Arena and back are organised and included in the travel price.

  • Well looked after in the Rhine-Ruhr

Included services

  • Journey in a Comfort coach
  • 2 x overnight stay in a mid-range hotel in the Rhine-Ruhr area
  • 2 x breakfast at the hotel
  • Transfers hotel - VELTINS-Arena - hotel
  • 1 x seated ticket, category 2, opening game GER vs. SUI

Comfort coach

The Comfort coach offers you everything that matters to you as a traveller. The generous legroom in particular will surprise you. Our Comfort coaches have 26 – 50 seats.

  • Rows of seats with grey headrests and red curtains in the Comfort coach
  • EUROBUS Comfort coach seen from the front outside the depot
  • EUROBUS Comfort coach parked in front of trees
  • 26–50 adjustable comfort seats
  • Seat belts at every seat
  • Individual fold-down table for each seat, movable footrests
  • 220-volt socket at every seat *
  • Radio / DVD / navigation system
  • Air conditioning, toilet and washroom, fridge, coffee machine
  • Lane assist and adaptive cruise control *
  • Free Wi-Fi/internet in Europe

* Most vehicles in the EUROBUS fleet are equipped with this.

View down the centre aisle of the Comfort coach with four-abreast seating

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