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

For those who attended the arab cup and also uefa events in the past 2-3 years. Is the app the same? I mean except not being able to transfer one of the tickets - everything else looks the same?

 

They are pretty much the same. Same idea the ticket gets activated via bluetooth when you are close to the stadium.

 

Assuming the transfer is just to the the guest's email address, right? And that person gets an email saying "you have a ticket" type of thing. ?

 

If they already have the app the ticket appears immediately. If not then they get an email saying they have a ticket please download the app. If they don't you can reclaim the ticket on UEFA not sure re FIFA. If you transfer to somebody with the app the ticket is gone and cannot be reclaimed unless transferred back.

 

Logically-
Main applicant will get all the tickets in his app first.
Then the 'Guests' will have to create their own Fifa Ticketing Account with which they can open the app as well, perhaps with the same details as put by the main applicant.

Then the Main Applicant can transfer it to their guests via the app (by using email most probably)

 

No need to create a ticketing account, they just need to install the app, and tell it their email address (which will get verified by email). It will also collect some other info.

 

By "activated" do you mean that the ticket already downloaded to your phone gets the live barcode activated? I've got friends coming and going in all directions and so I need to understand how to meet and sort tickets etc... Of course this will all become evident eventually, but having an idea now helps visualize the planning.

Because of how these sales phases have unfolded (with all the restrictions), we will have tickets on multiple accounts and friends wanting to pick and chose which match they go to up to the day before. I see all these e-ticketing protocols being a source of one major headache for ME - the organizer of these yahoo friends of mine! Basically as I understand it all, the applicant ticket holder for each match will need to go to that match, unless we start passing cell phones around - which no one will like as wives and job folks will be texting at all hours... And all of this gets worse if a 4-10 or 6-10 combo is involved.

 

If they have the ticket on their phone they can enter whenever they want.

The main applicant does not need to attend the match however nobody else can use the main applicant's ticket without either borrowing their phone or logging in/out of the app.

It does not need to be complicated.

 

Conditional tickets are on a separate page, you have to go back to the main page (click on your name on top right) then there are two options there one for conditional one for general tickets. This should be for all users who are assigned "SUPPORTER" status on the account

 

It’s a hard question to answer. Like when someone asks me where the price of Apple stock will be in 3 months. If I knew this I’d be rich! Find the price point you’re comfortable with and pull the trigger. With flights, once I purchase I stop looking at prices.

 

I just watched the FIFA video. What a PITA. Anti-touting our not, I want my life to be simple. Cell phones regularly act up (stuck in some BS update, or iphone battery brain freeze, or other BS), and blue tooth is even more temperamental. So what will they do if hundreds of fans show up at the gates angry that their ticket isn't working? In these situations, the easiest plan is the best plan.

Personally, just give me my tickets and I don't give a rat's ass about FIFA's battle with touts. (well I do care, but not if it makes my life difficult. I'm the fan spending $10K after all!)

 

Wow! So the only true anti touting measure is on the main applicant.

 

And yet it seems to be when you have a group of friends all wanting to shuffle what matches they attend in real time... Sounds like we need a burner phone for every ticket application and then we just pass around the burner phones to whomever is going to the match...

 

Marianelah you must have my concern but even greater, as you have lots of people to manage. Sounds like every ticket-holding application needs it's own burner phone loaded with email. If you have 7 application accounts, you need 7 burner phones to make this simple. At the very least, you need 3 or 4 burner phones to cover the number of matches being attended in a single day...

 

Quite frankly, it’s ridiculous that FIFA charges the same price for a Cat 1 seat in the nosebleeds and one in the first rows. In the last 3 WCs I’ve never gotten a great Cat 1 seat despite buying tickets in the early phases. It’s only in the last minute drops when good seats seem to come up. It’s economics I guess with demand far outstripping demand

 

Reselling is big business in the US. Just about every event has a legal and culturally acceptable reselling platform. I’ve paid up to 4 times face value for a Qualifier from Ticketmaster. I think it’s the Europeans that have an ongoing (losing) battle with reselling. The culture of getting tickets in the hands of real fans is European. Here in the US teams don’t care. For the Super Bowl played in Los Ángeles, the local team played in the home stadium. The Rams (local team) raffled 7 tickets for their season ticket holders. Everyone else had to pay over 4K from the reselling platform. There was zero negative media; the culture has accepted this.

im not saying this is how it should be. But it creates an interesting set up for 2026.

 

Im just trying to get my head around the ticketing mess. I would normally just hand them the tickets and if one of these clowns decided they weren’t going I would hand it to someone outside the stadium. Did that in Brazil to a few locals. But here It’ll probably be easier to just take a loss. I’ve tried to get mostly cat 3s.

 

yes that is bullshit. Paying top dollar and getting shitty seats and all the other BS we are tolerating. Oh well, no one is forcing us to go

 

Exactly. Hand the tickets to who's going to what matches the morning of. Now we have download deadlines, applications and/or blue tooth that may not work, and non-transferability to sort out. With all due respect to the fine Europeans here on BigSoccer, this is typical European over regulation. 10 rules are always better than 5... Last time I visited Switzerland I couldn't go a day without breaking some bylaw.

 

I know the feeling. We paid $360 USD each for $85 tickets to USA’s qualifier in Orlando. No real recourse other than getting in before general sale.

 

And I do see a middle ground. You don't want all seats being vacuumed up by touts such that most fans end of paying way too much. But provided the anti-touting is applied at the point of sale (which ticketmaster has greatly improved over the years), everyone has a FCFS chance at a ticket. Then let the secondary market do its thing.

 

Looks like there is no affordable accommodation from nov 22th to nov 29th, apartment search show no results. I doubt they will add more apartments.

That's going to be interesting.

 

Many options still say 'Coming Soon', I'm also waiting for those before booking.

 

Deadlines? I gotta figure this out with Latinos. Where 3 pm means 6 pm ish. However, I made everyone buy flights before I embarked on this venture. Because Every 4 years we have this beer party where we all swear all of us are going. Then most everyone flakes out.

 

I still believe that many accommodation options are still not released. Not sure why yet, but they are coming sooner or later.