Qatar 2022 accommodations
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Topic: Qatar 2022 accommodations
Posted By: cildaratown
Subject: Qatar 2022 accommodations
Date Posted: 21 Nov 2021 at 11:35pm
| Know the Eire won’t be there, but anyone else planning on going to the World Cup? If so, has anyone booked accommodations yet? |
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Posted By: ConorMac77
Date Posted: 21 Nov 2021 at 11:49pm
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I'm hoping to get there myself, especially if I can get any match tickets but I would be more concerned about the cost of accommodation. With all the host stadiums being relatively close to each other this time, it means that fans of all 32 qualifying countries (plus God knows how many others) are going to be staying in the same area at the same time which is bound to drive up the cost of accommodation.  ------------- The nation holds it's breath...YES, WE'RE THERE!!! |
Posted By: FrankosHereNow
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2021 at 12:30am
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Anyone that goes to the World Cup is legitimising the regime and the process by which they were awarded the World Cup. ------------- YBIG Quiz Champion 2016, 2017 & 2018. As You Were Three in a row |
Posted By: Artie Ziff
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2021 at 12:49am
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If Ireland had of qualified I still wouldn't go. Scum country and the tournament is built on modern day slavery. Just bear in mind if you do go that in the hotel some of the hotel staff are paid less than €1per hour, have to work every day and up to 14 hours a day while their passports are taken. They just hide behind oh we are using contractors for staff we don't know what's going on wink wink FIFA So enjoy sipping on your poolside beers over there ------------- It would damage this forums' reputation |
Posted By: gspain
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2021 at 9:14am
It has been very difficult to book anything. Everything is being centralised. I booked a few nights on vrbo in the summer but when I contacted the place to try and join the gaps they cancelled my booking. Vrbo are useless aka AirBnB and 100% allow the owners to cancel resell etc. I have a booking on expedia for some of the nights I want but not a lot of confidence in it. They say there will be a bed for every ticket holder. It is worth signing up here but too early to get anything on it https://book.qatar2022.qa/" rel="nofollow - https://book.qatar2022.qa/ Time will tell but I don't believe it will be one big ripoff aka South Africa. It is more of the Russian model of showcasing the country and ensuring as little price gouging as possible. |
cildaratown wrote:Posted By: Roberto_Carlow
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2021 at 11:37am
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Can't remember if what I read was correct but seem to remember they have 143k hotel rooms for 1 million visitors? |
Posted By: Zinedine Kilbane 110
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2021 at 11:47am
That wouldn’t surprise me. I wonder if they will try and get a load of cruise ships to try and help them out. All the top hotels will be reserved for the teams and FIFA officials. It’s a long bus journey to UAE. ------------- |
Posted By: Roberto_Carlow
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2021 at 11:53am
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Found this, going to be a nightmare for travelling fans unless they are pitching a 2 man tent in the desert. The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy, which is the Qatari body organising the tournament (rather than an invention of the BBC comedy W1A), expects 1.5 million visitors during the World Cup. In 2019, Qatar had 35,000 hotel rooms – but the Qatari government says it is adding 105 new hotels and serviced apartments, and says there will be more than 100,000. To put the number in context, though, that will still be fewer than the city of Sochi – just one of the dozen venues for the Russia 2018 World Cup. Some supporters will be able to camp in the desert, in what’s called “Fan Village desert camping” while others will find cabins aboard cruise ships moored in Qatar for the event |
Posted By: craiglen
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2021 at 2:41pm
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At least 6,500 deaths, that we know of. Stadiums built on the bones of the dead, of people who were lied to, indentured and worked to death. You're an appallingly soulless individual if you decide to go to this tournament. God help you. ------------- Fan's game record: 5 Caps, 1 goal, 2 assists, 140 km covered |
Posted By: Lansdown Roar
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2021 at 3:28pm
Ffs give it a rest ------------- They've only gone and done it |
Posted By: nvidic
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2021 at 5:24pm
| Is he wrong? Dunno how anyone could justify going to it. |
Posted By: Daragho
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2021 at 5:38pm
I'm trying to justify watching it.
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Posted By: Bandwagon
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2021 at 5:42pm
Give it a rest??? Ah here. People like you are the reason FIFA are getting away with this World Cup shambles. How can you not give a single sh*t about fellow human beings all in the name of corruption and greed? Humanity aside, do you really want future tournaments to go to sh*tholes like Qatar? Because if this is in any way a success it will become a regular occurrence. Nobody should be contemplating attending this and I highly suggest not watching it on TV either, the only way they can be hurt now is a hit in revenue. Its a massive pity this didnt take the hit of the pandemic last year instead of the Euros.
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Posted By: Dalymount79
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2021 at 5:53pm
| And an irony will be the same workers will be bussed from their desert camps to fill the seats that can’t be filled. |
Posted By: MayoMark
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2021 at 6:26pm
Wow ------------- They finally did it man... They killed my f**kin' car... |
Posted By: colemanY2K
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2021 at 6:36pm
------------- "One of the dominant facts in English life during the past three quarters of a century has been the decay of ability in the ruling class." Orwell, 1942. |
Posted By: Paulie
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2021 at 6:58pm
| Even if we had qualified I wouldn't have gone to it. How people can say "give it a rest" in response to people highlighting the abuses of people's human rights over there is beyond me. But sure it's grand, it's all the way over there and it's only poor people that have died. |
Posted By: Lansdown Roar
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2021 at 8:14pm
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My comment was directed at calling Gary an appalling soulless individual for going to the tournament. He has been invited there, he is a football fan all the best to him and I hope he enjoys it. Not often you get to go to a World Cup, especially when you support us. ------------- They've only gone and done it |
Posted By: Newryrep
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2021 at 8:35pm
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it’s probably where do you draw the line ? Russia doesn’t exactly have clean hands and continues to perpetrate abuse and destabilise regions who any of us have boycotted it ? I know I wouldn’t of China ? If the wc was in China would we boycott ? No easy answers though I can safely say had not wish ever there go to Qatar or any of those ‘ playboy’ countries ------------- 'Irish' Songs for an Irish team - no SPL EPL generic sh*te Richard Dunne - 6th Sept 11 - best marshalling of a defence in Moscow since General Zukov Russia V Germany 1941 |
Posted By: MayoMark
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2021 at 8:43pm
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How about starting with football infrastructure? And with the stadiums that will host these games? Forget the overall regime for a second. Thousands are literally dead so that well off people can watch a football match. I can't understand how that wouldn't make everyone sick. ------------- They finally did it man... They killed my f**kin' car... |
Posted By: Lansdown Roar
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2021 at 8:59pm
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As Newry just mentioned where do you draw the line? Russia has a deplorable human rights record and look what they do the LGBT community in Chechnya. Don’t remember people saying here they wouldn’t travel to that tournament. Next World Cup after this in USA, how many civilians do they kill in the act of war each year. We could go on all day here. To call someone a soulless individual for attending a World Cup is a bit far IMO and that’s what my comment was aimed at. ------------- They've only gone and done it |
Posted By: Newryrep
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2021 at 9:01pm
Does it really make a difference if they died in the stadium construction or in mining the resources they built the stadiums hotels etc ------------- 'Irish' Songs for an Irish team - no SPL EPL generic sh*te Richard Dunne - 6th Sept 11 - best marshalling of a defence in Moscow since General Zukov Russia V Germany 1941 |
Posted By: Paulie
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2021 at 9:25pm
For me the difference is that so many people have died as a direct result of their preparations for the World Cup. Russia's domestic policy with regard to gay rights is there regardless of them hosting a football tournament. The same goes for America's foreign policy. The same cannot be said for Qatar. There are people dead as a direct consequence of them hosting the World Cup. |
Posted By: ConorMac77
Date Posted: 22 Nov 2021 at 10:21pm
Anyone else try using the link? I keep getting an error message saying 'email address not valid'.  ------------- The nation holds it's breath...YES, WE'RE THERE!!! |
Posted By: The Huntacha
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2021 at 5:17am
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It will be a disaster for accommodation IMO. Well, reasonably priced accommodation anyway. I can see people flying in and out from surrounding countries; UAE being one. It'll be a soulless WC, especially compared to previous ones with fan zones or drinking in squares, etc, which are huge parts of the fan experience. Even putting aside the obvious human rights issues, I don't see why any one would want to go. ------------- Jimmy Bullard - "Favorite band? Elastic." |
Posted By: nvidic
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2021 at 7:28am
That's it exactly
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Posted By: Shedite
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2021 at 8:52am
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Posted By: Newryrep
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2021 at 9:45am
That’s fair comment but given the boom in construction in all those gulf states abuse and exploitation of construction workers didn’t start with Qatar getting the World Cup nor will it end Like I said I have no interest in going to any of those states ------------- 'Irish' Songs for an Irish team - no SPL EPL generic sh*te Richard Dunne - 6th Sept 11 - best marshalling of a defence in Moscow since General Zukov Russia V Germany 1941 |
Posted By: Claret Murph
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2021 at 12:06pm
Hummm tried to get through Iran once filled out all the forms for a visa and was told come back in 3 months time , he knew i only had 2 months left on my visa in Pakistan
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Posted By: craiglen
Date Posted: 23 Nov 2021 at 4:06pm
It's not, it's bang on the mark. If you take the whataboutery approach you'll end up justifying everything and no one gets held to account. Where people decide to draw the line is entirely up to themselves. For most, knowing that untold thousands have died as a direct result of awarding the World Cup to Qatar is more than enough to make this tournament repulsive to them. I wonder where you draw your line, if that isn't bad enough for you or others. ------------- Fan's game record: 5 Caps, 1 goal, 2 assists, 140 km covered |
Posted By: Newryrep
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2021 at 8:11am
Iran is a dry state murph afaik so feck that ------------- 'Irish' Songs for an Irish team - no SPL EPL generic sh*te Richard Dunne - 6th Sept 11 - best marshalling of a defence in Moscow since General Zukov Russia V Germany 1941 |
Posted By: Ecumenical Matter
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2021 at 8:19am
| Everything about Qatar WC stinks. Ireland were right to avoid it. In any event, why go to a tournament when we haven’t qualified? |
Posted By: Claret Murph
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2021 at 9:16am
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Posted By: Ibaraki
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2022 at 11:50am
| I’ve just been in Doha for a few days. It’s an awful place. It’s a travesty for the tournament that it’s been held here. |
Posted By: Lostandfound
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2022 at 12:04pm
Can you elaborate on what made it so awful?
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Posted By: Ibaraki
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2022 at 1:13pm
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I’ll try…… There’s no people! Huh? What? Of course there’s people I hear you say  Let me explain. They have this brilliant underground that goes all over the place, but it’s empty. I was walking through these massive stations and I genuinely wasn’t seeing another person. It was really weird. They have parks with no one in them. They have seafront walks that no one uses. They have a city centre beach that was empty. Now I know the heat is excessive at this time, but even after the sun went down there still wasn’t the hustle and bustle you’d expect in a big city. There’s a 12 lane motorway that passes right by the final stadium in Lusail City (we’ll come back to that in a minute), but there’s hardly a car on it. Even the 8 lane roads in the city have very little traffic. Lusail city…… The so called city that makes it look like all the games aren’t being played in Doha. It’s not built. It’s just a big building site with construction work and cranes everywhere. There’s big empty spaces that wouldn’t look out of place on the moon. Barren with piles of rock and sand. Even around the stadium there’s construction work, unfinished buildings that won’t be finished in a few weeks, the pavements are all broken and need major repairs. The tram out to the stadium isn’t operational yet (but the underground is). There’s no pubs or socialising culture. When you do see people, it’s men. It’s really noticeable how few women are out and about and they’re nearly all covered from head to toe. Even the underground has separate carriages for “family’s” (women). The beach at Katara has a men only section and a family section. Single men aren’t allowed mix. There’s plenty of shopping malls full of high end shops if you’re into that sort of thing. I’m not sure how to post videos or photos on this site, so I got my niece to upload this clip to tictok. This is the biggest station on the underground system, where 3 lines intersect with each other, the Gold, Green and Red lines. It’s empty! Imagine that station in any other city. It’s not a freak moment as the station closes, it was like this for every journey at all times of the day! https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMNwtYndr/" rel="nofollow - https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMNwtYndr/ To some up, it’s just a fake, soulless city in the middle of a desert. |
Posted By: Lostandfound
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2022 at 1:25pm
 Interesting to hear all of that.
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Posted By: Roberto_Carlow
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2022 at 1:27pm
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Nice informative post Ibaraki. I haven't been to the middle East so can't really comment but maybe lack of people is it's the hottest time of year and they all dissappear? You would still expect some people about though. Place does seem a bit soulless from your post and definitely not a great place for traditional football fans to attend the greatest football event there is. If Fifa were so desperate to get the WC to this area of the world it should have been spread around several countries in the region imo, with a one off winter world cup on the table from day one sold as a unique event, giving people the chance to travel about and explore the region. Holding the world cup in effectively one city is ridiculous and is all about money. |
Posted By: ConorMac77
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2022 at 3:50pm
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Even when you look at it on Google Street View, it looks empty (though I'm aware of the caveat that it could have been recorded during the summer). I'd expect that it'll be busy when the World Cup is on but it certainly doesn't strike me as the sort of place I'd be in any rush to go back to at any other time. ------------- The nation holds it's breath...YES, WE'RE THERE!!! |
Posted By: Deane
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2022 at 9:49pm
| Even during chronic heat in Dubai's summer there are still a lot of people around. |
Posted By: Paulie
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2022 at 10:31pm
| The description reminds of Astana. It's probably no coincidence that's a nothing city in the middle of nowhere too. I remember being in a bar a little bit outside of the city centre one evening. I decided at about 9 or 10 to get a cab into town as the photos of it at night looked pretty spectacular. I arrived in to the city centre and there wasn't a sinner around the place. No cars. No people. It was eerie as f**k. I eventually found a couple of security guards at a shopping centre who were able to order me a cab back. It was just a really odd place and possibly the only place I've been to on an Ireland trip that I wouldn't go back to if we drew them again. |
Posted By: Claret Murph
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2022 at 7:21am
Very strange place indeed , did see one sign outside a restaurant with NO guns , Knives etc and NO Horses , just got me thinking did someone try and bring a horse into the joint before . ------------- Lansdowne Road debut aged 52 and 201 days . |
Posted By: Ibaraki
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2022 at 1:38pm
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We can’t blame FIFA on the following, but there’s no rivers, no lakes, no mountains, no trees and grass (apart from the odd man made park), no wildlife except pigeons and I seen a few cats. I’m usually a big “come and get it” sign to the mosquitos in a hot country, but even those little bastards seem to have got up and left.
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Posted By: Newryrep
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2022 at 7:27pm
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It does sound horrendously plastic Happy to swerve it ------------- 'Irish' Songs for an Irish team - no SPL EPL generic sh*te Richard Dunne - 6th Sept 11 - best marshalling of a defence in Moscow since General Zukov Russia V Germany 1941 |
Posted By: Mr. Snrub
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2022 at 10:06am
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Sounds like a god awful place. How anyone can even afford to go there is beyond me, you'd need to remortgage the gaff to spend a month in Doha. Didn't Gary Neville do an expose and they are charging around £18 a pint in the hotels?!  ------------- "Here's Robbie Keane...... yeeeessss! That is no more than Ireland deserve!" |
Posted By: Borussia
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2022 at 10:17am
Well, it definitely wasn't David Beckham who is taking money from the Qataris
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Posted By: Fatnacho
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2022 at 10:30am
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Didn't Gary Neville do an expose and they are charging around £18 a pint in the hotels?! [/QUOTE] I suppose that makes the €17.50 for a hotdog at Gary’s hotel look cheap. I’d doubt he’d turn down the offer to open up a new Hotel Football in Doha if the opportunity arose.
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Posted By: Deane
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2022 at 12:01pm
That sounds about right. Would have been the guts of £13 in Dubai as standard. With putting prices up for the event and probably cancelling happy hours I wouldn't be surprised.
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Posted By: craiglen
Date Posted: 17 Sep 2022 at 1:11pm
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Anyone who goes to this is a soulless enabler of slavery and human misery. ------------- Fan's game record: 5 Caps, 1 goal, 2 assists, 140 km covered |
Posted By: Claret Murph
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2022 at 3:14pm
Yep that's the Showgrounds  ------------- Lansdowne Road debut aged 52 and 201 days . |