Russia Accomodation

Just cancelled all the hotel rooms I had booked in Russia

I’m like Gary. I’m going wheather we qualify or not. I ended up booking another apartment in Moscow as I couldn’t get any satisfaction from my original booking. They just pulled a fast one saying my credit card wasn’t updated. Booking.com have them suspended now.

SuperDave84 wrote: Did you apply for individual games or Ireland TST tickets? Edit: I only applied for Ireland TST3 Cat2 tickets. No pending charge yet that I can see.

finbarrk wrote: I had a grand apartment in Moscow city centre booked since last June with booking.com. Got 2 emails yesterday from the apartment company saying my credit card was out of date. It wasn't, bit I updated it anyway on booking.com twice . Then got another email from the apartment saying it was cancelled as my credit card was out of date. It's relisted now at 3 times the price. Can't trust the Russians.

Get in touch with booking.com and see what they have to say about it.

Any emails yet? Applied for Cat 1s to the final and sh*ttin meself!

Colum wrote: mouldymould wrote: Made a second application for CAT 4 tickets for quarters (Kazan/Sochi), semis (St. Petersburg/Moscow), and the final in Moscow to pay via bank transfer. Will be very interesting to see the results of that application. We're Cat 4 not just open to the locals?

I have an apartment there with my other half who has a Russian passport so was able to apply that way

gspain wrote: Those who applied for tickets in phase 1 may see pending charges on their credit cards.   Note I strongly suspect charging is only at the early stages so I wouldn't be too concerned yet if no charges.  I have a pending charge for just under half of my application.  Obviously no idea yet what games I did/didn't get.  I know of others who applied for games that will be easy to get and no charges yet.

Applied in phase 1 and no charges here yet. Still another 3 weeks left anyway until the first come first served tickets.

Made a second application for CAT 4 tickets for quarters (Kazan/Sochi), semis (St. Petersburg/Moscow), and the final in Moscow to pay via bank transfer. Will be very interesting to see the results of that application.

SuperDave84 wrote: Are they guaranteed to be third class, as in open bunks, on the fan trains? There's also a rumour they're dry trains and they won't allow booze at all... If they're going to be open bunks, I would definitely be tempted to book a normal train in second class.

Haha dry trains, yes I was told that and burst out laughing, they may say they're dry trains (think most trains in Russia are) but we're an ingenious lot for getting drink wherever we want.

I will ask about the type of train. As I was led to believe these trains are specifically for football fans and general public won't be allowed on them. If that is the case then I'm also making the assumption they are like the trains recently shown on the recent BBC documentary series where Simon Reeves travelled Russia (think its called Russia). The trains on that show had carriages for what looked like 4 people with bunk beds above the seats. As the train expert SD I'm sure you'll know better what the types of trains are in Russia