Going to Qatar 2022: tickets, accommodations, etc. (non-politics)

Discussion in 'World Cup 2022 - Qatar' started by Danny Ascencio, Oct 22, 2021.

  1. ramae

    ramae New Member

    Real Madrid
    Argentina
    Jun 8, 2022
    I have a TST7 croatia cat1. Im not planning to go for the 3 group games, i will fly on the 5th. Can i sell all my group stage tickets without affecting my R16,QF, SF, F tickets?
     
  2. GcKoala

    GcKoala Member

    Ponte Preta
    Australia
    Nov 7, 2013
    Club:
    Queensland Roar
    Nat'l Team:
    Australia
    Only problem with that thought is FIFA Hospitality don't check payments until mid way through the following month, meaning Hospitality tickets won't be rescinded until late July.
     
  3. Silwalee

    Silwalee Member

    Real Madrid
    United States
    May 3, 2022
    USA
    No worries :thumbsup: yeah- that's the FCFS for phase 1. At least if you cancel Egypt or want to wait, you have many options nearby. I guess that's the nice thing about a Qatar World Cup :laugh:
     
  4. HJ1313

    HJ1313 Member

    Club Deportivo Guadalajara
    Mexico
    Jan 4, 2022
    Virginia
    Nat'l Team:
    Mexico
    Another question for those with experience with the resell platform:

    1. Are you made aware once your ticket is sold? Like via email similar to StubHub.
    2. Can you recover your ticket in case it hasn't been sold close to the match time?
    I might want to return a ticket for a low demand match but I would want to take it back and just go if there is low chance of selling vs. losing the money I paid for it.
     
  5. dag68

    dag68 Member

    Canada
    May 26, 2022
    Toronto
    That's me. I'll be arriving in Qatar after a 2 1/2 week trip to India. Sadly not looking forward to spending my first 24 hours in Doha in the dump of a hotel I've paid for. Guess I'll bring a book to read!
     
  6. Eddy714

    Eddy714 Member

    Atlas
    Mexico
    Nov 23, 2021
    I hope you still take your Peruvian jersey and represent.
     
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  7. vibrantcolours

    Manchester United
    Mar 21, 2022
    Doha, Qatar
    You can withdraw your ticket anytime once you put in sale platform and if it has not been sold yet.
     
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  8. brotherchung

    brotherchung Member

    Liverpool FC
    Argentina
    Feb 16, 2018
    World Cup accommodation cannot be used to quarantine. There are separate hotels for that. You need to book one of those here: https://www.discoverqatar.qa/welcome-home/ Maybe you knew that already. Thought I should mention anyway.
     
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  9. marianelah

    marianelah Member+

    Jan 14, 2006
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I've been kicking this around... and may give it a try on one of my accounts. What if your email account is "hacked" and you need to change your email address on your FIFA account. This is a possibility and I want to think FIFA has to accommodate the email change.
     
  10. marianelah

    marianelah Member+

    Jan 14, 2006
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    nope! didnt know. Thanks. Is flying thru Cairo and i'm hoping the 24 hour requirement changes.
     
  11. mazinio

    mazinio Member+

    Apr 16, 2014
    Club:
    FC Barcelona
    It will change of course, it will be crazy to keep that :) and i think all red countries will be removed but they will probably do it closer to the event..
     
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  12. Itiofele

    Itiofele Member

    Sporting Cristal
    Peru
    Jan 1, 2018
    Lima, Peru
    Nat'l Team:
    France
    Ha ha! I am currently touristing in Greece. I am about to go to the Acropolis.
     
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  13. Skippy 69

    Skippy 69 Member

    Apr 5, 2022
    I was looking at the Qatar corona travel restrictions today and my intepretation of it is that unless you are a GCC or EU passport holder you need to take a PCR within 48 hours of departure to Qatar, and even GCC and EU passport holders need to do a RAT within 24 hours of landing.

    These restrictions are essentially unworkable as there will be thousands of tourists who test positive in their pre departure test (and wont be able to travel) and thousands more who test positive with the on arrival RAT.

    As someone noted earlier the Red List and restictions havent been updated for three months. They need to get their sh*t sorted so people can book with confidence. So many aspects of the organisation of this World Cup are being done with, what i see as, intentional opaqueness. Maybe as an authoritarian dictatorship thats how Qatar is run day to day but it doesnt cut the mustard in most other places.
     
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  14. NNNJJJ

    NNNJJJ Member

    Chelsea FC, USSF Referee
    United States
    Oct 26, 2017
    San Francisco
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Changed plans and got tickets to the F1 race in Abu Dhabi on 20 Nov. Don’t know jack about auto racing, but enough friends said it’s a must-do that we decided to check it out. Guess we have five months to binge watch the Netflix show and learn.
     
  15. themanlarry

    themanlarry Member+

    Nov 14, 2005
    During the Fan Leaders Call in April this exact question was asked and they said that the partial resale of TST was allowed (ie. individual matches).

    It was also possible for World Cup 2018.
     
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  16. NCCFBALL

    NCCFBALL Member+

    Apr 19, 2007
    ITALY
    Club:
    CD Chivas de Guadalajara
    Nat'l Team:
    Mexico
    Are tickets able to be bought direct? If so, can you send me link on where you bought tickets to F1 in Abu Dhabi, thanks in advance
     
  17. eakin

    eakin Member

    Feb 14, 2016
    I'm not convinced, the queue will be massive for the FCFS2. They wouldn't want that on the same date as Welsh FA otherwise those Welsh fans will be waiting for many hours to get into the portal to use their code to buy tickets. Not the best experience...
     
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  18. Petersonnn

    Petersonnn Member+

    Jan 7, 2016
    Club:
    FC Barcelona
    If if is really 28th June they are releasing that info officially today or worst case tomorrow. They will not do it one day before on Monday.. although if I remember last fcfs was on a pretty short notice as well so an announcement today or tomorrow would not be impossible.
     
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  19. eakin

    eakin Member

    Feb 14, 2016
    A lot of matches have lost their availability on the portal...
     
  20. Marius Tresor

    Marius Tresor Member+

    Aug 1, 2014
    #7845 Marius Tresor, Jun 23, 2022
    Last edited: Jun 23, 2022
    Yes. I agree. We were looking at coming in from Sri Lanka. It is still on the Red List for Qatar for some unexplained reason. Sri Lanka has something like 5 total deaths from COVID in the last two months. That Qatar Red List is just ridiculous. The sooner they get rid of it, the better.

    I mean, the United States has a lot more than 5 COVID deaths EVERY HOUR. Why isn't the U.S. on the Red List? It just looks like some political reason, rather than science based.

    But Qatar cannot reserve all the hotel space they would need to quarantine the thousands of people coming in from those Red List countries. They need to get rid of the Red List before the World Cup.
     
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  21. mazinio

    mazinio Member+

    Apr 16, 2014
    Club:
    FC Barcelona
    Dont worry
    800,000 tickets means every group game will have between 1000 and 20,000 tickets available depending on the game.
    Im expecting
    Argentina x KSA to have around 2000 tickets available while costa rica x Japan to have 20,000 tickets.

    Knock outs will not have a lot of tickets available, especially those played on small stadiums.

    At least 10 games will have available tickets for 1 week and Fifa usually switch off the sales after 1 week, saying that these games sold out which is not true, and will reoffer them in last minute sales..thats probably their selling technique
     
  22. Marius Tresor

    Marius Tresor Member+

    Aug 1, 2014
    Agree 100%. They are sabotaging the World Cup, their own event, with the uncertainty created by their own outdated COVID restrictions. Pretty much every other country in the region has already dropped those requirements, some several months ago.
     
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  23. tedmak

    tedmak Member

    Manchester City
    Argentina
    Nov 11, 2017
    I had that problem in Euro 2016 when some people I bought tickets for didnt come in the end. It comes down to the match and the timing of the resale.
    Lets say, for example, you buy a KO round match expecting Brazil or Argentina to be in the game, they dont end up in that match and THEN you sell the ticket, depending on what the matchup is, you can be holding the baby, as it were.

    The best mitigation is to just buy tickets for matches you INTEND to go to. Works best for all concerned.
     
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  24. tedmak

    tedmak Member

    Manchester City
    Argentina
    Nov 11, 2017
    Indeed - and any unsold hospitality tickets can just be released into the FCFS phase later in the month. FCFS is never TRULY sold out. It is a fluid process.
     
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  25. Petersonnn

    Petersonnn Member+

    Jan 7, 2016
    Club:
    FC Barcelona

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