PRICE REVEALS TRAVEL FROM HELL BEFORE EURO EXIT
24/10/2025 By Aaron Nijjar
GERWYN PRICE has revealed a travel nightmare left him exhausted before his shock European Championship exit.
‘The Iceman’ slumped to a 6-3 defeat to Daryl Gurney in round one in Dortmund after missing 13/17 darts at a double.
World No. 11 Price hasn’t lifted a major title since the 2022 World Series Finals, and this latest loss extends that drought.
Price later explained that a chaotic 48 hours had ruined his preparations, describing one disaster after another on his journey to Germany.
He wrote on Facebook: “Left for the airport and filled my car up with diesel and the card machine broke down at the garage — 2:30am… 20 minutes later finally all sorted.
“Driving to the airport and the postcode given took me 10 minutes out the way but finally got to the meet and greet car park.
“Hours before my flight, check-in staff arrived 35 minutes late but got through security just in time. Flight was great.
“Sat at the train station on platform 4 which I thought was platform 5 for a train from Dusseldorf to Dortmund.
“Train pulls up behind me on platform 5 so I rush and forget my case, leaving it on the platform. Luckily, I have an Apple tracker so my phone flashed up saying it was no longer close to me.
“Fifty minutes later after coming back, luckily it’s still there and I have my case back. Next train 45 minutes later — happy days.”
He added: “Finally arrive in Dortmund and get a taxi to the hotel. Driver decides he only takes cash so I searched everywhere for a cash machine but nothing. Managed to scrape enough out of the shrapnel in my bag.
“Check in at the hotel which was like a hostel. Tried to change hotels but nothing as it’s a football weekend.
“Next morning go down for breakfast at 9:54am, breakfast finishes at 10am — and everything’s gone. Lush.”
Markham thrower Price admitted his trip started with chaos at the petrol station and ended with him heading to the wrong airport on the way home.
He continued: “Check in at the hotel which was like a hostel. Tried to change hotels but nothing as it’s a football weekend, next morning go down for breakfast at 9:54am, breakfast finishes at 10am and everything’s gone, lush.”
“Anyway, gets to 1pm and the fire alarm goes off, everyone outside for a while, some tool smoking in the room like, turn up to darts thinking nothing else could possibly go wrong, yep I was s***e and lost.
“Get back to my hotel p***d off, but thinking oh well home tomorrow and book a flight home to Heathrow tomorrow morning at 7am and realise I flew from Birmingham. What a blast in 2 days.”
Image by Taylor Lanning.
