Transportation and lodging prices are predictably through the roof The Minnesota Vikings miracle win over the New Orleans Saints in the Division Round of the playoffs gave fans of the team hope that they could not only win their first Super Bowl in franchise history, but become the first team to win a Super Bowl in their home stadium.
The Philadelphia Eagles dashed those hopes in brutal fashion a week later, but residents and business owners in Minneapolis can still come out a winner on game day because fans of the Eagles and Patriots will flood the city with their wallets open, and local vendors, airlines, and hotels will charge those fans a pretty penny for their stay.
Prices for flights, lodging, and local transportation inevitably skyrocket in the week before the big game in the city hosting the Super Bowl, and Minneapolis, which by this point is pretty much booked in full, is no different. ?People are reporting there are some [hotel] rooms [still available] further out in the suburbs,? said Kristen Montag of Meet Minneapolis, the city?s convention and visitors association. ?They?re sparse. They?re quite a bit more expensive than they might normally be.?
There are roughly 42,000 hotel rooms in the greater Minneapolis area, according to Montag. The NFL reserved 19,000 of them for itself, which includes NFL staff, the teams, credentialed media, sponsors, and others. That cuts the supply of rooms available in half at a time when demand is higher than usual.
The resu...