Soaring prices have forced many thrifty fans into remote desert campsites and giant fan villages in Doha's outer reaches, including one near the airport consisting of corrugated box rooms.
AL KHOR, Qatar — For scores of foreign soccer fans, the road to the World Cup in Doha starts every morning at a barren campsite in the middle of the desert.
"I'm here because I couldn't find anywhere else," said Haidar Haji, a 27-year-old architectural engineer from Kuwait. He said it was a pain to trek into Doha every morning from the tent village, but he had no other option."The hotels were just too expensive. It was crazy." Qatar's frenzied building program delivered tens of thousands of rooms through new hotels, rented apartments and even three giant cruise ships. But soaring prices have forced many thrifty fans into remote desert campsites and giant fan villages in Doha's outer reaches, including one near the airport consisting of corrugated box rooms.
Al Khor's arid grounds are no selfie-taker's paradise. But Nathan Thomas, a site designer, said he was very pleased with the"authentic Arabian" result. The only major worry, he said, is security. Not every tent is in eyeshot of a guard post. Tents have no locks. Their flaps easily untie.From the Free Zone Fan Village, in the desert south of Doha, fans were lugging suitcases across large swaths of artificial turf under the glare of stadium lights.
One camper on Twitter lambasted the site as"Fyre Festival 2.0," referring to an infamous music festival billed as a luxury getaway that left fans scrambling for makeshift shelters on a dark beach.
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