Inside the England World Cup team's teetotal Qatar hotel - where rooms cost from £64

Follow the guys on tour: England's World Cup squad will be staying at this hotel in Qatar, with rooms from £64. So how's it going inside? Ed Grenby checks into the Souq Al Wakra hotel, selected by England manager Gareth Southgate as his team's HQ 'Gareth seems to have deliberately chosen the most modest and boring accommodation,' he says In terms of facilities, the alcohol-free resort has a restaurant, cafe-bar, "small" gym and spa

He's hard to see how a spa replaces a bar - and even harder to imagine Harry Kane and the lads returning from a victorious quarter-final in the hopes of downing a few post-game celebratory pints and being given detox tea , followed by a session of facials and ve Radiance nail polish.

But that's exactly what England manager Gareth Southgate has in mind for his side at the FIFA World Cup on next month in Qatar. After five visits to Souq Al Wakra Hotel Qatar by Tivoli - the first in the summer of 2019 - he chose it as the team hotel.

Game on: Ed Grenby checks in at Souq Al Wakra Hotel Qatar by Tivoli (pictured), which has been chosen as the base for the World Cup in England

Inside the England World Cup team's teetotal Qatar hotel - where rooms cost from £64
Follow the guys on tour: England's World Cup squad will be staying at this hotel in Qatar, with rooms from £64. So how's it going inside? Ed Grenby checks into the Souq Al Wakra hotel, selected by England manager Gareth Southgate as his team's HQ 'Gareth seems to have deliberately chosen the most modest and boring accommodation,' he says In terms of facilities, the alcohol-free resort has a restaurant, cafe-bar, "small" gym and spa

He's hard to see how a spa replaces a bar - and even harder to imagine Harry Kane and the lads returning from a victorious quarter-final in the hopes of downing a few post-game celebratory pints and being given detox tea , followed by a session of facials and ve Radiance nail polish.

But that's exactly what England manager Gareth Southgate has in mind for his side at the FIFA World Cup on next month in Qatar. After five visits to Souq Al Wakra Hotel Qatar by Tivoli - the first in the summer of 2019 - he chose it as the team hotel.

Game on: Ed Grenby checks in at Souq Al Wakra Hotel Qatar by Tivoli (pictured), which has been chosen as the base for the World Cup in England

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