World Cup fever in Ahmedabad: Hotel, flight rates rise exorbitantly

Ahmedabad Skyrocketing hotel prices, a fleet of chartered planes, tourist attractions twinkling and spruced up — with the World Cup final between India and Australia at the 132,000-capacity Narendra Modi stadium on the anvil on Sunday, Ahmedabad is a city brimming with anticipation.

The ceremony in the stadium is set to be a spectacle, with an air show at the beginning, a bevy of performers and 1,200 drones lighting up the sky at the end, officials said.

This excitement has translated into impossibly priced hotel prices, and exorbitant flight tickets.