Experts in online travel ShermansTravel.co.uk offer their cut-price tips and advice to fans on booking hotels and flights to the World Cup Finals in Germany this June.

With over a million football fans expected to visit Germany for the World Cup this summer, flights and hotel accommodation is proving more expensive and difficult to find.

With prices on the up, a London based travel website, www.shermanstravel.co.uk, which offers travel deals and advice to British travellers, is urging football fans to be more creative in their travel preparations.

Editor of the website, Dale Lovell, comments; �Instead of paying highly inflated prices for hotels and flights to the World Cup, we suggest that fans book low-cost flights to countries such as Holland, Denmark or Austria and then make their way to Germany from there. It may take a bit longer, but the savings, even when you add the cost of a train ticket, are substantial.�

Over 100,000 English fans are expected to descend on Germany for the World Cup in June. England play their group stage games in Frankfurt, Nuremberg and Cologne.

Hotels throughout Germany are hiking up prices considerably, despite earlier promises of reasonable hotel rates. Recent research by Reuters found that staying at one of the Munich�s top hotels would cost 1,294 euros (886 pounds) per night over the weekend from 9th June. The same double room costs just 167 euros next month. The news agency also found that a four-star establishment is charging an overnight rate of 281 euros compared with 59 euros for the room in mid-February or mid-August.

Usually cheap charter flights to Germany from the UK are considerably more expensive than normal, too, for the World Cup period. A flight from London Standsted to Frankfurt with Ryanair in time for England�s opening game against Paraguay on 10th June costs from �119, one way, excluding taxes, but in February the same flight starts from just 1 pence, excluding tax.

ShermansTravel.co.uk points out that an Interrail travel pass valid for 16 days begins from just �165, and covers Denmark, Austria, Switzerland and Germany, thereby offering flexible travelling between games. �There are low cost flights to Denmark and Austria in June from just �10 each way,� continues Mr. Lovell, �This offers a significant saving, plus a more flexible travel option, than paying out �300 plus on return flights to German cities such as Frankfurt.�

Hotels in the major German cities, especially, those cities where England are playing, are already fully booked, charging anything up to four times the going rate.

But when it comes to booking a hotel, ShermansTravel.co.uk offers some great advice:

�We have found a website called Host-a-fan.de that puts would-be German hosts in touch with those needing accommodation for the World Cup. Prices start from just 15 euros a night, and you can even post specific accommodation requests� comments Mr. Lovell.

�No one likes being ripped-off when they travel abroad and we advise England fans to plan properly and do some research before they book anything - that way fans will be able to go and support England without becoming bankrupt in the process!�

For full details of how to travel to the World Cup for less visit: www.shermanstravel.co.uk

Dale Lovell, ShermansTravel.co.uk Editor, is available for interview. To set up an interview E-mail dlovell@shermanstravel.co.uk or call 07784 793439

About ShermansTravel ShermansTravel, Inc., is a leading publisher of travel sales and specials, as well as trip ideas and travel destination information. ShermansTravel free Top 25 travel deals e-newsletter is sent out weekly in the United States to over 3 million subscribers. The company recently formed a content and advertising partnership with USATODAY.com for travel specials and deals. ShermansTravel.co.uk, the UK subsidiary, launched in the UK in October, 2005.

Issued By: ShermansTravel.co.uk Contact: Dale Lovell E-mail: dlovell@shermanstravel.co.uk Tel: 07784 793439