Details of interest regarding the base camps for France 2007
For the first time in the Tournaments history each of the 20 teams will be located in a regional base camp city during the initial pool stages of the Tournament. Teams will stay and train in the town or city and will play at least one match in their base camp region. Teams will travel to other match cities from the base camp, stay in the match city for a selected period of time then return to the base camp.
Within close proximity of each base camp hotel and match hotel will be: one full-size rugby pitch and access to a reserve pitch; an indoor training area; a swimming pool; and a gymnasium.
For the knockout stages of the Tournament (quarter-finals, semi-finals, Bronze Final and Final) hotels have been identified in Cardiff, Marseille and Paris. The eight quarter-final teams will arrive in their respective match cities on Tuesday October 2, 2007.