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

damn man what are you, an accountant ? this is it…one of the biggest day of your life…

 

The only time there was some action to protect the real fans was during the 2006 world cup and back then, there was some tough posturing by the organizers to discourage the secondary market. The organizers even patiently went through court cases.
https://www.dw.com/en/person-to-person-world-cup-ticket-exchanges-banned-by-court/a-1975326
In the end, there were no ID checks, as they are just not practical.

Unfortunately common fans go around with very high expectations from FIFA.
On my way to England V USA match, I bumped into a couple of English fans from NY & Cambridge respectively and we spoke about our respective plans for the world cup. Fearing that FIFA will cancel their tickets for consecutive games, but on two separate accounts, they ended up putting tickets for one of the matches on resale to stay complaint

I explained that their understanding was off and that even domestic accounts weren't off limits. Although they had attended several world cups, they were very concerned about FIFA's strict rule enforcement.
I bumped into them again 3 days later and they thanked me for my input, as they had gone ahead and bought tickets for 3-4 more matches. So glad!

On this board, we have a different level of detail and understanding, as for example: members like @marianelah did some initial tests with the dom portal, before me/others got brave enough to sign up for a dom account.
In general, tickets were easier to grab on the dom portal and those cat 4s made it easier on the wallet!

 

Incredible! You just brought up a new use case. To attend all 64 matches, R16s should have been held in neighboring stadiums, sharing a common stand, from where folks could switch between the two matches.

The longest travelling fan, which I have come across is a German fan, who has been at most world cups (except Mexico '86) since 1974, if my memory serves me right.
He usually wears custom T-shirts with a world map containing logos of all the world cups he has attended and with the writing, "Harald - Immer dabei", which in this context means, Harald - always in attendance.

 

I have been on my laptop for nearly 6 hours.... Please drop

 

Something is up, it kicked me out the queue

 

I’m still in fcfs, and there’s no drop.

 

Nothing

 

From your browser to gods ears…. (Or whatever works to make some finals drop lol) been waiting on those to drop before I change my flight…

PS - If I can’t score any, I have a rm at the Le meridien City Center booked to the 19th up for grabs - dm me.

 

Hear, hear! Totally agree with your post @Straight_drive2 . Also a big up to @marianelah from me. I bought cat 4s for games after seeing your confidence in making and purchasing tickets on a dom account, you legend!

 

Just received my refunds for tickets resold back to the platform. No prior warning so good to finally get!

 

A single Cat 4 ticket for M64 also just popped. He he. You would think why not just wait instead of releasing them so randomly

 

If this happens, expect secondary market at face value for cat1/cat2.

 

Anulo mufa

 

I would think there’s more chance they will sell the final tickets in the ticket centre than online- no bots that way and fans are already actually in Doha. I’m betting if you go down there and with some luck you’ll be more likely than scoring them on the portal

 

What is the deal with CAT4 tickets? I understand they are meant for people with local ID - but can international visitors use a CAT4? Keeping all my options open for the final

 

You can use it, but to buy it you need to create another account saying you live in Qatar and enter a Qatar mailing address (like an hotel), and you can use your own passport. Besides Cat4 is cheaper, but I don't think they will release Cat4 tickets anymore, I only saw one or two on the resale portal.

Now if you have an INTL account and someone have an extra Cat4 ticket on his account, AFAIK they can transfer it to your international account without any problem.

 

No extra checks, separate gates or name matching etc for CAT4 tickets? Just like any other tickets once I have it on my phone? I have a domestic account and I carted a CAT4 for M63 3rd pace match but didn’t proceed to buy. Only 300 QAR!

 

Whats with the same old man that i saw at a couplemos stadiums asking for used tickets.. saying he collects them… is it as simple as he actually collects them.. or is there something i dont get??

 

There is a big market on Ebay for used ticket stubs - he is definitley collecting them to resell them

 

Plenty of Argentina fans outside DECC ticket centre around an hour ago when I was getting on the metro. Don’t think there was any action happening inside the centre. Indeed the best way for FIFA now is to sell them directly to fans that are already here.

 

It seems I have more faith in your team than you do =) Most people would be extremely happy with 50/50 odds at the final. My team has 0% chance

Get the damn flight, man.

 

I wish you guys seeking final tix all the luck. Just to give you some hope:

-in 2014 it was possible to buy final tix off the portal the day of the final
-in 2018 a friend went to the stadium super early and got 1 cat 3 ticket at FV from a guy with a spare

 

In 2014 I got my ticket at 11:45am, I was seating on the floor at the airport and using the Scorpyn scanner for almost 4 hours, got Cat2 (660 each if I remember correclty)

In 2018 I was unable to get any ticket for the finals (again using Scorpyn browser), but a fellow BS user sold me his Cat3 at FV. It was possible for this finals because europeans don't pay resale price, maybe some croatians (since it was their first time), but French's wont.

Now 2022 is different, Argentineans (or any team from the Americas) will over pay way over the FV to watch their teams in the finals, so there is a big resale market, but I'm hopping I will be able to get a ticket for me and my 2 friends, I'm their only hope because they don't have the experience and the tools to get a ticket from FIFA website.

 

I tried to get into the ticket center earlier and they told me to take a hike.

 

Been logged on since 10am Doha time..... getting a bit frustrated