The clamour to find accommodation in Qatar for the World Cup has led to fans being quoted up to £60,000 for a month in a private apartment.

About 1.2 million visitors are expected to descend on the small Gulf state, which is normally home to fewer than three million people, during the tournament in November and December.

The World Cup draw on Friday, that pitted England against Iran, the USA and either Ukraine, Scotland or Wales, led to a surge of inquiries from fans looking to secure somewhere to stay.

England fan CJ Joiner from Coventry travels to every major tournament and hopes to book an apartment in Qatar so that he can take his partner and new-born son, who will be just eight months old.

He told Sky News: “If you go on booking.com or Airbnb now you are talking fifty or sixty grand for a month in an apartment or in a room.

“The actual hotels and stuff you can’t really book – there is literally just no availability…. there’s plenty of beds available but they are just not available to book yet.

“I can understand that there will be lots of people out there thinking ‘oh no what am I going to do?’.”

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Organisers have block-booked hotels in Qatar and will release them in due course and more accommodation options are being built all the time.

Cruise ships will be docked just in the bay overlooking Doha’s skyscraper skyline.

Some private accommodation providers are quoting eye-watering figures for luxury villas – Sky News was told by the owner of one four-bedroom apartment that it would be £20,000 a night for visitors to use his property during the World Cup.

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The most affordable option will be camping in the desert outside Doha. One beach resort an hour south of Doha has a huge expanse of sand between the dunes and the sea where they are planning to erect hundreds of “luxury cabanas” but they can’t yet confirm how much they will cost.

For Wales and Scotland fans the situation is less clear because their play-offs won’t be concluded until June – matches have been delayed because of the war in Ukraine.

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Welsh fans have loved travelling to the last two Euros competitions, but their last World Cup appearance was in 1958.

Wayne Jones who runs The Turf pub in Wrexham and regularly travels with Wales told Sky News: “You can’t help but get excited, we’ve all been looking at travel, but we have got to get there first.

“I’ll quite happily camp in the desert if that’s what it takes. I think we would just sleep anywhere if we can go to the first World Cup, for most of us, in our lifetimes.”

The Supreme Committee in Qatar, along with FIFA, insist there will be enough accommodation options for visitors.

Communications director for the Supreme Committee, Fatma Al-Nuaimi, told Sky News: “What we have actually promised is that there will be experiences catered for every fan, so whatever people want to come and enjoy in this country they will find it.”

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