Sharepoint workflow add calendar appointment to outlook of creator

Hi,
I'm working on a workflow to handle vacation requests. The basic requirements are:
1. Task is assigned to creators manager who approves/denies the request.
2. After approved an event is created in a calendar list.
To solve this I have created two lists: A Time Off Requests list where I want users to fill in their data. And a calendar list which holds all approved requests.
I've gotten this to work with Sharepoint Designer 2013 creating a list workflow. The next thing I would love to do is to add the entry to the requestors' outlook calendar aswell. Any suggestions?
I guess the easy solution is to create a link en the "Send Email" action pointing to the event ID in the calendar list and then ask the user to click on that link? Any of you tried this in Sharepoint 2013 using the
http://sharepoint/sites/yoursite/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll ? or should it be done another way now?
Thanks

To follow up on the "create link" solution I've tried to follow this one for SP2010:
http://ameyakawale.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/email-a-calendarappointment-link-using-sharepoint-workflow/
Basicly my link would end up being:
http://servername/Time%20Off/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?CS=109&Cmd=Display&List={8ACF06D0-2629-46D3-AC88-CB17FC58DF62}&CacheControl=1&ID=[%Time
Off Calendar:Request ID%]&Using=event.ics
After my request has been approved I receive this email where I should be able to add the appointment to my outlook calendar. However the "Calendar:Request ID" is not being converted to a number as you can see below. This Column is one I've created
in the Time Off Calendar which holds the value from the Time Off Request list so I can map the two together
I've also tried to create a Variable with the value of the Request ID as an integer and insert that into the URL by using the String Builder. I receive this error which might be the root cause:
So to "solve" this I would need something else than the GUID for my list? Anyone knows how to get the list ID with a lookup?
Thanks again

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