What to Look for When Buying Super Bowl Tickets and Other Super Bowl Events

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published Jan 21, 6:40AM EST

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Plenty of excitement has built around this year’s Super Bowl in Arizona. The big game’s tickets have already topped the $4,000 average two weeks out and the price has been rising since the end of the Conference Championship Games.

Super Bowl XLXIX tickets on TiqIQ now have an average price of $4,385.01, up 29.8% from last year’s average of $3,375.88 on the secondary market. The game’s cheapest seat is currently listed at $2,100, which is found in the 400s Corner section of University of Phoenix Stadium. 100s Level sections average at $4,386.89 with a get-in price of $2,370, while 200s Level sections own a secondary average of $5,309.48 and get-in price of $2,852. The 400s Level sections average at $2,814.79 on the secondary market. As has been the case with past Super Bowls, the prices are likely to drop as the game gets closer.

Secondary ticket prices aren’t the only statistic taken into consideration for those planning on heading to Arizona. For fans traveling to the game from around the country, Hipmunk offers a variety of different flight plans to and from Phoenix. From Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, the cheapest round trip flight to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport leaving on Friday, January 30 and returning Monday, February 2 is $822 through United and US Airways. From Boston Logan International Airport, the cheapest round trip flight to Phoenix Sky Harbor leaving January 30 and retuning February 2 is $1,151 via US Airways.

When touching down in the Phoenix area, hotel accommodations will be a top priority. There are several hotels still available in close proximity to University of Phoenix Stadium, but they are being booked fast. The Hampton Inn Glendale is a five-star hotel located at 6630 North 95th Avenue and starts at $152 per night during Super Bowl weekend. The cheapest available hotel remaining in Glendale is Days Hotel Peoria at 8955 Northwest Grand Avenue. Days Hotel Peoria is a three-star hotel that starts at $55 per night during Super Bowl weekend.

If traveling to Phoenix a few days prior to Super Bowl Sunday, there will be a slew of Super Bowl parties taking place around University of Phoenix Stadium during the week. Perhaps the biggest event is the three-day DirecTV Super Bowl Party at Pendergast Family Farm from January 28 to 30. The concert will feature headliner Zac Brown Band and additional performances by Snoop Dogg, Calvin Harris, Imagine Dragons and Magic! The Rolling Stone Magazine Party will be the most expensive pre-Super Bowl event next week, with scheduled performances by Steven Tyler of Aerosmith and Charlie XCX.

Around the Phoenix area, there will be plenty of NFL related events occurring. The NFL Experience and Super Bowl Central will have plenty to do for fans hanging around during the day. One of the highlights is the Grand Canyon Experience, which is a rock climbing wall set to the backdrop of the Grand Canyon. Tickets will be available for just $5 both online and on-site. For other non-football ways to spend time during the week, there are over 250 golf courses in the Phoenix area.

For more details on the best tips for a trip to Glendale, check out the Super Bowl buying guide on the TiqIQ Blog.

About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.