A thousand "traditional tents" in the desert to host fans during the 2022 World Cup
Qatar plans to install "1,000 traditional tents" in the desert to receive visitors during the 2002 FIFA World Cup, with 1.2 million fans expected, organizers said yesterday.
"It will be one of the options presented in the next two weeks," Omar Al-Jaber, Executive Director of the Housing Department at the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, said in a press interview.
"This is a real camp, we will give people the experience of the desert and tents in the Bedouin style," he explained.
The tents will be provided with electricity through generators, water and sewage systems, but they will not be air-conditioned, and a luxury camp will be opened with 200 tents.
The tents will be set up on Sealine Beach in the south of the country, at the gates of the desert, in addition to "other sites that will be announced later," according to Al-Jaber.
While the number of hotels and their high prices are worrying audiences from abroad, the official noted that "more than 100,000 rooms" are available.
New options will be shown on the official platform open to match ticket holders in the coming weeks, including ready-made "villages".
Fans' options range from hotels, apartments, luxury villas, and floating hotels, as well as so-called "fan villages and cabins" (rooms), as well as other options such as what the committee described as "vacation homes" or accommodation with relatives and friends.
The organizers have reserved a large number of hotel rooms for the benefit of the teams, the referees, the officials and the media, but the International Federation (FIFA) will liberate those that will not be used.
He promised that "between July and September, there will be plenty of hotels available on the platform."
The busiest days are November 25, 26 and 27, in the middle of the group stage "which is the peak but that doesn't mean we don't have any rooms on those days".
More than 160 round-trip flights per day will be organized from neighboring countries in the Gulf (Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Oman) to allow them to host fans.
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