Tents and shipping containers at the World Cup: Visitors far outnumber hotel rooms, so Qatar is offering accommodation at temporary fan villages on the lower end of the price scale
DOHA, Qatar—At the World Cup, where host country Qatar spent $220 billion of its vast wealth building infrastructure to accommodateInside a pop-up village north of Doha, fans who paid more than $100 a night are sleeping in white tents that heat up as daytime
temperatures approach 90 degrees with only a fan for cooling—and are battered at night by howling winds. Shared toilets and showers offer little privacy and are missing towels. Brown water sometimes comes out of the tap, so visitors resort to buying bottled water.
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