QPR are, for some reason, taking more than 5,000 fans to MK Dons this weekend for an FA Cup tie. If you’re one of them, read on.
Ground Name: Stadium MK
Capacity: 22,000
Address: Denbigh, Milton Keynes, MK1 1ST
Main Telephone No: 01908 622 922
Ticket Office: 01908 622 900
By Car: Just under 50 miles and 80 minutes at the speed limit from Loftus Road. Up the M1 from London to junction 14 where you leave and head towards MK. Go across one roundabout and then turn left at the second by the Total Garage. Go across another roundabout (this is Milton Keynes after all) and then take the next right into Stading Way. Follow that across several roundabouts to Grafton Street where you turn left and then right at the next roundabout after that. Well signposted along that route.
Perhaps an easier route however is along the A421 from junction 13 which runs alongside the motorway and then bends left. Take the turning onto Groveway as you approach the city and then go straight over four roundabouts at which point the ground should appear in front of you.
Map:
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Parking: The stadium is adjacent to an Asda and an IKEA – do not park in their car parks, they are well patrolled and clamp down on football traffic not using the store. There is room for 2,000 cars in the official car park at a cost of £7 but many choose to go on the nearby industrial estate – pass the stadium entrance on your left then turn right at the next junction.
Train: Virgin and London Midland services out of London Euston for this one with a journey time of just under an hour, and there are three separate stations you can use. Milton Keynes is the obvious one but Bletchley and Fenny Stratford are actually closer. £14 off peak returns to MK and Bletchley on London Midland (slower but cheaper) and £20 to Fenny Stratford which does require a change at Bletchley – although given the stations are in the same village and about ten minutes walk apart you’d be mad to pay an extra £6 and wait for the connection. If you do, get a £14 one to Bletchley and then a £2 one from there to Fenny Stratford and save yourself £4. Trains run very frequently from all three stations.
Coach: The official club coach leaves Loftus Road at 10.30am and the Target Roundabout at 11am. The cost is £22 adults, £13 for seniors and young adults and £11 for juniors. The LSA coach leaves the Springbok at 10am but is now completely sold out.
Pubs: At the ground there is the Red Dot Bar in the adjoining hotel, or the Inn on the Lake, which sounds like one of those out of town Harvester type joints, a short walk away behind the nearby ASDA. Many Rangers fans are planning on heading to Bletchley and Fenny Stratford which is easily accessible on the train and has eight different pubs to choose from. Other than that it’s drink in the middle of MK, where the pickings are slim, and then a taxi out to the ground later on. They do serve alcohol in the ground, £3.20 for a bottle of Carlsberg or a can of Tetley’s.
Tickets: Bizarrely, after ten years without an FA Cup win, QPR have sold out their allocation of more than 5,000 tickets for this game – although some message board posters report still being able to buy them online today. This is all ticket for away fans.
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