England World Cup 2018 football fans ripped off by Russian hotels charging 100 TIMES the normal rates during tournament
Three Lions fans hoping to catch the final group game against Belgium could end up shelling out £1,650 at Kaliningrad's Hotel Agora - even through the same room can be snapped up for just £16 today
ENGLAND fans heading to Russia will be forced to pay through the nose for accommodation - with some hotels cashing in by hiking their prices by over ONE HUNDRED TIMES.
Desperate Three Lions fans hoping to catch the final group game against Belgium could end up shelling out £1,650 at Kaliningrad's Hotel Agora - even through the same room can be snapped up for just £16 today.
The outrageous price hike means fans could end up paying 103 times the greedy hotel's normal asking price, on top of a £220 ticket to watch Gareth Southgate's men face off Kevin De Bruyne and co.
Furious Russian officials ordered a probe into rates after hard-up fans complained that the Gallery Park Hotel in Volgograd is charging £703 for a standard twin room in June that would cost just £20.30 now.
The presidential suite at the same hotel is currently going for £76.70 a night - but jumps to £1,654 for when England fans are due to arrive in the city for their opening game against Tunisia.
Russia's Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection has threatened hotel bosses with £650 fines for unreasonable price hikes - but greedy Agora managers could pay it twice over with the profit on just one room.
The bureau's Yevgeny Reznikov said: "An administrative case was opened against the hotel on the count of illegally overstating administered prices.
"People simply cannot understand where such prices come from."
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Fans will also have to shell out £268 for a bed at Volgograd's Lite Hotel if they want somewhere to sleep before watching England take on Panama - but the the usual price for a room is just £10.
And the grim Nizhiny Hostel in Nizhiny Novgorod will force fans to cough up £217 for a twin room - 13 times the usual rate of £16.
Labour MP Grahame Morris blasted: "FIFA and the football authorities should ensure fans attending the World Cup are not being overcharged."
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