The Get Me Home Game

[donchatryit]

Okay, I have been trawling some old threads on my break and I came up with an idea for a game.

The rules are simple:
1) Each round starts with a challenge of getting the person home, to the first place they state from the second place they state, using any mode of transport, within as short a time as possible, preferably less than 24 hours. The shortest journey time posted within 3 days wins.
2) You must assume that the person will begin travelling on the date and time of their post
3) Their money is unlimited but lowest price will be used as a tie-breaker if two journey times are within 10 mins of each other.
4) Your journey must specify all changes and modes of transport.
5) You don't have to use your real "home" as your home station.

Here is an easy one to start:

Get me home to Castle Park, Blantyre from the Lycee Jean Bart, Dunkirk, France.

[Geo Ghost]

Sounds pretty much identical to "find the fastest route".
http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=41283

Bit of a shame that it more or less died though. Had an interesting route idea for that

[donchatryit]

Hmm. Thanks. Look like it would be defined as dead and this one would cover the entire world. Will see what the mods think.

[Lordmwa]

Ok lets do the obvious way

Leave at 10:40 to ensure catching the train (0940 UK time)
Walk to Gare de Dunkerque (1.4KM 17 mins according to Google (pretty slow but oh well))
Get the 11:06 to Lille Flanders Station Arriving 12:20
Walk the 600M to Lille Europe (7 Mins) and time allowed for check-in etc
Catch the 13:05 to St Pancras Arriving 13:33 (UK time again)
Tube to Euston (20 mins allowed to get up and down etc)
Catch 14:30 Euston to Preston Arriving 16:42
Catch 16:53 Preston to Glasgow Central Arriving 19:19
Catch 19:37 Glasgow Central to Blantyre Arriving 19:57
6 Min walk to the Public Park in Blantyre (Right place?????)

Arrive 10 Past 8

Journey Time 10 Hours 30 Mins

[donchatryit]

and the price?

[LaSeandre]

I've got this:

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Lycee Jean Bart		xxxx|0545
	15 MINS WALK
Dunkerque Pole Marine	0600|0610
	BUS, PRICE 8.20EUR
Calais-Ville		0655|0706
	BUS, PRICE 2EUR
Calais-Frethun		0721|0802
	EURO*, PRICE £167.40
London St Pancras	0756|0800
	15 MINS WALK
London Euston		0815|0830
	VT, INC IN EURO*
Glasgow Central		1301|1327
	SR, £3
Blantyre		1344|1344
	19 MINS WALK
Castle Park		1404|xxxx

It takes 8hrs, 19mins and should be £179.08 (give or take a few pence for currency exchanging).

[donchatryit]

^ You got the destination right and that is shorter than the other suggestion.

One day to go.

[donchatryit]

LaSeandre wins. Your shout.

[LaSeandre]

Right, get me home from the Kempinski Hotel Bristol Berlin (http://goo.gl/maps/ny1W) to Renton Train Station (http://goo.gl/maps/XLJj).

[flint]

This route includes a car transport.
This route has tolls.
This route crosses through multiple countries.

Berlin
Germany
1. Head northeast on Karl-Liebknecht-Straße toward Alexanderplatz
82 m
2. Make a U-turn at Alexanderplatz
1.2 km
3. Continue onto Unter den Linden/B2/B5
1.2 km
4. Turn right at Wilhelmstraße/B2/B5
160 m
5. Take the 1st left onto Dorotheenstraße/B2/B5
240 m
6. Take the 1st left onto Ebertstraße/B2/B5
180 m
7. Turn right at Straße des 17. Juni/B2/B5
6.4 km
8. Turn right at Rognitzstraße
180 m
9. Sharp right to merge onto A100
1.0 km
10. Take exit 10 to merge onto A115
27.5 km
11. Take the exit onto A10
11.9 km
12. Take exit 19-Potsdam to merge onto A10 toward Hannover/Hamburg/Magdeburg
8.0 km
13. Continue onto A2/E30 (signs for Hannover/Magdeburg)
297 km
14. Continue onto A2/E34 (signs for Dortmund/Bielefeld)
176 km
15. Continue onto A3
10.9 km
16. Take exit 14-Kreuz Kaiserberg to merge onto A40 toward Venlo/Duisburg
Entering Netherlands
43.9 km
17. Continue onto A67
Entering Belgium
74.8 km
18. Continue onto A21/E34
48.1 km
19. Merge onto A13
9.1 km
20. Take exit Antwerpen-Oost on the left toward Ring Antwerpen/Brugge/Gent/Brussel
1.5 km
21. Merge onto R1
8.1 km
22. Take exit Antwerpen- West on the left to merge onto A14/E17 toward Gent/Sint-Niklaas
49.0 km
23. Take exit Gent-Centrum toward Oostende/E40/Brussel
1.2 km
24. Merge onto B401
400 m
25. Take exit Zwijnaarde to merge onto A10/E40 toward Oostende
50.2 km
26. Slight left at A18
Entering France
41.7 km
27. Continue onto A16
56.4 km
28. Take exit 42 toward E15
850 m
29. Continue straight
1.7 km
30. Turn right
600 m
31. Take the 1st right
400 m
32. Take the Dover Folkestone - Calais Frethun train to Folkestone
Entering United Kingdom (England)
55.0 km
33. Continue straight
550 m
34. Turn right toward M20 Motorway/M20
2.5 km
35. Merge onto M20 Motorway/M20 via the ramp to London/Ashford
75.9 km
36. At junction 1, exit toward C. London/A2
2.1 km
37. Merge onto M25
7.0 km
38. Continue onto Canterbury Way/A282 (signs for Dagenham/A13/M11/M1/M25)
Toll road
850 m
39. Keep left at the fork
Partial toll road
4.2 km
40. Continue onto M25
64.0 km
41. At junction 21, exit onto M1
101 km
42. At junction 19, exit onto M6 toward Coventry (North)/Birmingham
36.4 km
43. At junction 3a, exit onto M6 toward M42 (S)/M5/B'ham
39.4 km
44. Take the exit onto M6
298 km
45. Continue onto A74(M) (signs for Glasgow/Edinburgh)
78.2 km
46. Continue onto M74
46.2 km
47. At junction 4, exit onto M73 Motorway/M73 toward Stirling/A80/Glasgow/M8
2.3 km
48. Take the exit onto M8 toward Glasgow (City Centre)
32.2 km
49. At junction 30, exit onto M898 Motorway/M898 toward Erskine/Bishopton
1.4 km
50. Continue onto A898 (signs for Glasgow/Crianlarich/A82)
2.5 km
51. Take the exit onto A82 toward Crianlarich
9.7 km
52. Take the exit toward Renton
750 m
53. Turn right at Renton Rd/A812
1.0 km
54. Continue onto Lennox St/B857
400 m
55. Turn left at Station St
79 m
56. Turn right at Back St
7 m
57. Take the 1st left onto Station St

Est. fuel cost: €232.44
18 hours 15 mins

[Ploes]

Right, get me home from the Kempinski Hotel Bristol Berlin (http://goo.gl/maps/ny1W) to Renton Train Station (http://goo.gl/maps/XLJj).

Step 1: Stay in Berlin

[LaSeandre]

You dissing the rantan? PFFFFFTTTTT.