You #%^&*(@ Beauty

After months of trying I got an email today from FFA travel that starts

"Congratulations, your application has been successful in receiving tickets in the latest ticket allocation from FIFA!

Please read the following information carefully as it contains information about confirming or canceling your successful application.

Viewing Your Application

You can view the details of your ticket booking by clicking Click here. (Information about Package Codes can be found below)

Only a very limited number of changes can be made to newly successful applications:

1. You can remove people from your application, however you CANNOT transfer tickets to other people and you CANNOT add additional people.

2. You can change the way you would like to pay. Full payment must be received within five (5) working days of this notification."

I'm going to the World Cup after having resigned myself to missing out. This is only a couple of days after being informed that a limited amount of tickets are available in a FIFA reallocation. I must have only just mised out first time around. I hope others who missed out can get some tickets too. No need to tell you all how happy I feel right now.

 

I just received another email with more info. Apparently FFA didn't get any extra category 1 tickets for Japan so I have category 1 for the Brazil and Croatia matches and category 2 for Japan. Also I wont be sitting with the people who got tickets in the first round. I'm still wrapped to get tickets. Hopefully I can catch up with anyone else going at some stage and meet some of the people I've been debating football with.

 

Haven't decided yet. Depends a lot on the costs and if I can wrap up what I'm doing at work by the end of May. An extra 8 days can be expensive for an old fart like myself that likes comfort. I wasn't expecting to get anything ticketwise so I haven't looked into the details of add ons yet.