Any NTers going to Brazil for the World Cup?

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Anyone going? I am in the last minute planning stages right now and it's shaping up to be very pricey. If you are going can you share your itinerary and how much you are budgeting?

Right now my expenses are looking like this, I'm overpricing everything on the high side.

Roundtrip direct from NYC: $1,900
Accomodations: $1,000
3 game tix: $750
Intra-flights: $750
Spending money: $1,000

It's gonna cost a grip but once in a lifetime. Thoughts?
 
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hi

Im going June 13th to the 22nd, leaving from JFK and spending the entire time in Rio. The flight were $1846 direct flights, I didn't get any game tickets, but what Ifigured what I would do is scalped in front of Maracana for the Argentina vs Bosnia game and hustle a ticket off a local Brazil (who got the ticket at the discounted rate for locals)

Me and my boys (4 of us)  got a 2 bedroom apartment on Copacabana beach and it works out to be like $100 per night each. The hotels were too ridiculous.

As for moving around Brazil, I aint with it. Its too expensive and the distance between places are too far. I went to Southg Africa for the last one and it was much smaller and much cheaper to get around that country.

Plus, Rio is just the place to be in Brazil for world cup. What the other cities have that Rio doesn't? nothing. So I aint leaving, South Africa on the other hand, had Durban (nice  beaches) Nelspruit (safari) Cape Town (Eurocentric place) and JoBurg (big city hub)

send me a PM if needed, and yes you will need to get a visa
 
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Have fun you guys.
 
Anyone? I just booked my flight on Monday and submitted my visa application form this morning. 1 month til' I touch down in Brazil. Come on there has to be at least some NTers going!
 
Hate to be a Debbie Downer but I won't support a city/country that is doing what Rio is doing in order to host the WC.

They seriously need to stop giving WC and Olympics to places who cant handle it.
 
fraij da 5 11 said:
Hate to be a Debbie Downer but I won't support a city/country that is doing what Rio is doing in order to host the WC.

They seriously need to stop giving WC and Olympics to places who cant handle it.
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It's an absolute mess. Don't even know how they'll be ready for the 2016 summer olympics.
 
fraij da 5 11 said:
 
Hate to be a Debbie Downer but I won't support a city/country that is doing what Rio is doing in order to host the WC.

They seriously need to stop giving WC and Olympics to places who cant handle it.
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Seriously...and this Qatar **** is even more depressing and they are 8 years away from hosting anything...

The 2022 World Cup, which will be held in the Persian Gulf emirate of Qatar, is more than eight years away. But it is already making a lot of news—and not the sort of news the oil-rich nation hoped to make when it landed the tournament. 

ESPN conducted a special investigation into the human rights abuses in Qatar as part of its E:60 documentary series. The investigation, E:60: Trapped in Qatar, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the living and working conditions of the mainly migrant workers who have been building the massive new infrastructure that will allow a nation the size of Connecticut to host a tournament usually spread across host countries the size of Brazil, South Africa, or the United States.  

Since Qatar has only 278,000 nationals, the labor is imported from poor countries like Nepal, the Philippines, India and Sri Lanka. ESPN's alarming account reports that, in the last year alone, 184 Nepali migrant workersdied  from “cardiac arrest” caused by the working conditions and extreme heat. That’s only Nepalis. The documentary estimates that, at the current rate, more than 4,000 migrant workers will die by the time Qatar puts on the 2022 World Cup.

The scariest part is that ESPN’s calculation is at the current rate. So far, Qatar has only broken ground on one new stadium. By 2022, it needs to construct 12 of them. What happens when Qatar falls behind on construction, as every country hosting a major tournament does?

The Qatari government denies  that any worker has died on projects for the World Cup. Instead, they say that those deaths occurred on separate construction and infrastructure projects. Even if that were the case—which is highly unlikely based on the E:60  documentary—the high number of deaths would be infuriating. It’s telling that the Qatari government only denies that the deaths occurred on World Cup projects. They freely admit that the deaths have happened.

On Friday, when FIFA President Sepp Blatter was asked whether selecting Qatar as a host country—done in an incredibly shady process—was a mistake, Blatter replied, “Of course.” But the reason Blatter now regrets giving the 2022 World Cup to Qatar has nothing to do with the violations that ESPN revealed. Rather, he said he was worried about the professional athletes who would be playing the games in the extreme heat. That's outrageous.

Contrast the scene in Qatar with that of this year's host. Eight construction workers have died  in Brazil in preparation for the World Cup next month. That comparatively puny number has provoked outrage from both those within and outside the country.

There is no reason that FIFA cannot rescind Qatar’s right to host the 2022 World Cup and assign it to another country. Eight years is enough time to design and build stadiums to host the games, particularly if the country already has significant infrastructure in place. By refusing to do so, FIFA is abetting the deaths of these migrant workers. How many Nepalis should die for a soccer tournament?

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/...-cup-pace-kill-4000-migrant-workers-says-espn
 
Gonna have a whole generation of children who are completely missing their education in a place who's education system is already poor.

Schools bankrupted, teachers not getting paid...

People being evicted from their homes to make space.

People dying daily in Qatar building stadiums... 
 
fraij da 5 11 said:
 
Hate to be a Debbie Downer but I won't support a city/country that is doing what Rio is doing in order to host the WC.

They seriously need to stop giving WC and Olympics to places who cant handle it.
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sad thing is Qatar is making Brazil look holy w/ how foul they are 
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Yeah I mean I get that these poorer countries are steeped in Soccer tradition and all but peoples lives are ruined over it... more than just a few.

Keep it in USA, Germany, France, England etc... 
 
The Olympics are going to make the World Cup look like crumbs on the table when it arrives. Olympic sailors have already been warned not to go in the water due to pollution which includes a ton of decomp. Brazil wasn't ready for events of this magnitude.
 
I'll be there for about 10 days. My plan was to stay in Rio the entire time but due to difficulties getting Rio game tickets, I'm going to SP for 2 days to catch England/Uruguay and Belo Horizonte for the Argentina/Iran match. I have been obsessing over the tournament for a better part of a week now. It cant start soon enough.:smokin
 
im also going too. I will be in rio from the 14th to the 21st. going by myself so i would love to meet up with some other people. pm if anyone wants to meet up. next week cant come fast enough.:nerd:
 
I would straight be trying to land luana or M. Santiago or anything from the Brasilerias pron I love :D
 
She got a light skin friend look like Michael Jackson, she got a dark skin friend look like Michael jackson.

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World Cup starts tomorrow, looks like we got some more NTers going now, here's my itinerary, PM me if you are at these locations when I am:

June 21-22 - Sao Paulo
June 22-23 - Curitiba (Aus/Spain)
June 23-24 - Belo Horizonte (England/CR)
June 24-29 - Rio

Anyone else going? Post your itineraries!
 
fraij da 5 11 said:
Yeah I mean I get that these poorer countries are steeped in Soccer tradition and all but peoples lives are ruined over it... more than just a few.


Keep it in USA, Germany, France, England etc... 
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Most cities in those countries cant handle these events either. The problem is FIFA doesnt pay anywhere close to enough for these events. They are the ones who make most the money but let the cities pay for most of the expenses.
 
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