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A sampling of prices shows airline fares from Boston and New York have quadrupled over the past week. Some rental-car prices have more than tripled. And some suburban hotels are charging as much as six times a typical hertz rental used cars weeknight rate.
Plan to cruise to Scottsdale clubs in a rented Cadillac Escalade or have a chauffeur guide you around in a stretch limousine? Expect to pay up to double the amount you would pay seven days later. Organizers of Super Bowl XLII predict Arizona's economy will be the ultimate winner of professional football's championship game, with as many as 125,000 visitors looking to spend millions to book rooms, rent vehicles, shop and party with celebrities.
"The prices in Phoenix are ridiculous right now," said Tom Bielenda, a Boston-area resident and Patriots season-ticket holder. "The rooms that are available are going for five times the price of what they are worth."
Major resorts hertz rental used cars set their rates several years ago when they committed their rooms to the NFL, most at levels not sharply higher than regular rates this time of year. The steep price increases mainly can be seen at smaller and independent hotels.
The new Comfort hertz rental used cars Suites hotel in Goodyear, open just a few weeks, is advertising in New York newspapers, offering room rates starting at $600 a night. There is a four-night minimum. Regular rates start at $179.
A new Courtyard by Marriott near Avondale and the Hyatt Place in downtown Scottsdale each ran ads this week on the Boston section of popular Web site craigslist.org. Hyatt Place offered $699 a night with a four-night minimum, while the Courtyard is going for $599 a night with a three-night minimum. Their standard winter rates are $199 a night and $229, respectively.
The most expensive leg of the trip is Monday, Feb. 4. Many flights out of Phoenix to Boston, New York and other major cities are already sold out that day, forcing hertz rental used cars travelers to stay longer or fly out of Tucson or other cities. The airline is trying to bring in larger planes to add more seats.
The Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group has supplied its rental locations at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport with additional cars in anticipation of Super Bowl week. It has raised its rates, too.
"It is supply and demand and looking at what the competitors do," said Chris Payne, a spokesman for Tulsa, Okla.-based hertz rental used cars Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group. "It is very much like the airlines in that respect."
January and February is traditionally a busy period for limousine and shuttle companies such as Scottsdale-based Transtyle and SuperShuttle, which runs the ExecuCar sedan service in Phoenix. Add in a Super Bowl and the FBR Open, and the companies are scrambling to take orders.
ExecuCar is bolstering its fleet of limousines and shuttles with more vehicles. The company will charge hertz rental used cars $575 for a six-hour minimum to drive football fans to University of Phoenix Stadium on game day. The normal rate: $325 for six hours.
"We have to charge hertz rental used cars a premium for the game for two reasons," said Dave Bird, SuperShuttle's senior vice president of operations. "The traffic is going to be horrendous, hertz rental used cars and we have to buy a ($165) parking pass."
Bielenda, of Boston, arranged his Super Bowl plans in September on a hunch his beloved Patriots would make the big game. He'll skip Phoenix-area hertz rental used cars hotels due to high prices and the crowds associated with Super Bowl week. Instead, he booked rooms in Las Vegas and Sedona, with plans to drive to Glendale on game day.
Ardis said the budget hertz rental used cars buster for most fans isn't sky-high airline tickets or hotel prices but the price of tickets to the Super Bowl. Fans who didn't win their team's season-ticket lottery and don't have NFL or corporate ticket connections face ticket prices in the thousands.
He expects many fans will look for cheaper rates over the next week, prompting hertz rental used cars hotels to adjust pricing. "The truth is, people will turn away, and they will find an alternative. Come a week from now, they may be slashing their rates in half when they don't sell the room."
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Super Bowl guests willing to splurge on a last-minute weekend trip can expect to spend thousands of dollars. Here is a sample hertz rental used cars of what a visitor could spend during Super Bowl week compared with a similar trip one week later.
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