Day -817. WorldCup2018
You know that feeling when you've been writing something daily for 182 days about an event happening in 817 days and on the 183rd day have no idea what to write about? Well that's when you revert back to the Welcome 2018 website the "World Cup Tourist Portal" for inspiration. The tourist friendly site happily provides a story about the new "transformer" hotel at the Kazan Arena stadium. The hotel rooms are going to be built into one of the stands. What a great idea. But hold on. Apparently the hotel rooms will be transformed (hence the name) into VIP sky boxes for matches. OK, maybe this is still good. I book a room at this hotel and I am guaranteed a perfect seat. Hotel room/VIP box, still my room, no? Maybe not.
"So the hotel won’t prevent spectators from enjoying the games, and it will provide lodging on off days."
In other words I could book a room in the Kazan Arena Transformer Hotel (can we call it the Iron Man hotel? Star Wars hotel?) as I have tickets for the match being played at The Transformers Arena. But on the day of the match I go from having secured a hotel room as close as possible to the stadium without actually being in the stadium (no, no...change that: "with actually being IN the stadium) to having to look for another hotel room because my room is needed for spectators who have tickets to come watch a match in my hotel room. But what if I checked out at noon on matchday, asked the hotel staff (or are they now stadium staff?) to store my luggage in the luggage storage room (now the changing room?) for the night, went out for lunch and a stroll, came back to the Transformed Arena for the match, watched the match, went to a bar and another and another to celebrate my team's win, showed up for breakfast at the almost-hotel-still-stadium and booked a room for that night at the Hotel Re-Transformed? And where do I book my match tickets and hotel room? Ticketmasterexpedia?
I think this might work. Hotel Transformer Kazan Arena, the hotel within a stadium which isn't a hotel when it's a stadium. And when it's a hotel....well, you're in a big empty stadium.
You know that feeling when you've been writing something daily for 182 days about an event happening in 817 days and on the 183rd day have no idea what to write about? Well that's when you revert back to the Welcome 2018 website the "World Cup Tourist Portal" for inspiration. The tourist friendly site happily provides a story about the new "transformer" hotel at the Kazan Arena stadium. The hotel rooms are going to be built into one of the stands. What a great idea. But hold on. Apparently the hotel rooms will be transformed (hence the name) into VIP sky boxes for matches. OK, maybe this is still good. I book a room at this hotel and I am guaranteed a perfect seat. Hotel room/VIP box, still my room, no? Maybe not.
"So the hotel won’t prevent spectators from enjoying the games, and it will provide lodging on off days."
In other words I could book a room in the Kazan Arena Transformer Hotel (can we call it the Iron Man hotel? Star Wars hotel?) as I have tickets for the match being played at The Transformers Arena. But on the day of the match I go from having secured a hotel room as close as possible to the stadium without actually being in the stadium (no, no...change that: "with actually being IN the stadium) to having to look for another hotel room because my room is needed for spectators who have tickets to come watch a match in my hotel room. But what if I checked out at noon on matchday, asked the hotel staff (or are they now stadium staff?) to store my luggage in the luggage storage room (now the changing room?) for the night, went out for lunch and a stroll, came back to the Transformed Arena for the match, watched the match, went to a bar and another and another to celebrate my team's win, showed up for breakfast at the almost-hotel-still-stadium and booked a room for that night at the Hotel Re-Transformed? And where do I book my match tickets and hotel room? Ticketmasterexpedia?
I think this might work. Hotel Transformer Kazan Arena, the hotel within a stadium which isn't a hotel when it's a stadium. And when it's a hotel....well, you're in a big empty stadium.
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