Super splurge: What flights, hotels, and tickets cost for the 2025 Eagles-Chiefs Super Bowl rematch
Eagles fans are shelling out thousands to watch their Birds take on the Chiefs. Airlines, hotels, and Airbnbs have jacked up their prices, as always for the big game, and game tickets are costly.
Mikey Rankin would’ve paid up to $1,000 for a seat at the Super Bowl.
A single ticket to see the Eagles-Chiefs rematch costs more than three times that amount on the secondary market.
So Rankin, a 40-year-old King of Prussia native, isn’t going into the game.
But he’s still going to New Orleans, splitting a $4,000 Airbnb with three other people for the weekend.
“Pulling the trigger on that was tough enough,” said Rankin, who works in event marketing and currently lives in Panama City Beach, Fla. Throughout the Eagles’ playoff run, he’s been working extra hours to save for a trip to New Orleans, hoping his team would end up there for the Super Bowl. In the final minutes of the NFC Championship game, he booked the Airbnb for three nights.
The financial cost of the trip — likely a couple thousand dollars in all — will be worth it, Rankin said, if it means being in the same city as his beloved Birds when they win it all.
“I don’t need to be inside the game,” he added, noting that he and his friends plan to watch from Markey’s Bar, a favorite hangout of the Philly faithful in New Orleans. “I can justify the trip as a vacation with friends and being with fellow Philly fans. … I just want to be there.”
So do legions of other Philadelphia fans who are shelling out thousands of dollars for a Super Bowl weekend trip. It’s all in the fervent hope that they will be in the same city as the Eagles when the team wins the Lombardi Trophy for the second time in seven years.
How much does a New Orleans Super Bowl trip cost?
As always, the Super Bowl has jacked up prices on flights, hotels, and Airbnbs in New Orleans.
Round-trip airfare from Philadelphia to New Orleans costs about $900 per person on average, said Hopper spokesperson Ellie Breslin, pointing to the travel-booking site’s Super Bowl data.
Several airlines scheduled additional flights this week and weekend between Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) and Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) to accommodate fans.
Hotels in New Orleans cost about $1,200 on average, just for Sunday night, according to Hopper. Most hotels are already sold out, and those with vacancies are charging a premium. As of Thursday, a Holiday Inn Express in downtown New Orleans was going for more than $2,500 a night, while a Comfort Suites 20 minutes from downtown was priced at $900 per night. Airbnbs in the city cost between $500 and more than $10,000 a night.
To get into the game, fans are paying even more — about $7,200 per ticket on average, according to StubHub data provided to The Inquirer. That’s more than 3½ times the typical monthly mortgage payment in the Philadelphia region. On secondary-market sites this week, the least expensive seat in the Caesars Superdome was about $3,500 after fees.
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Thinking about splurging at the last-minute? A quick Saturday-to-Monday trip, including flight, accommodations, and a ticket to the game, would cost at least $5,500 before food and drink, activities, and ground transportation.
So far, consumers from Pennsylvania have bought 15% of the Super Bowl tickets sold on StubHub, according to the company’s data, while fans from Kansas and Missouri have bought about 8%.
Ways to save on a Super Bowl trip
Some fans have found ways to save by planning in advance, crashing with friends, cashing out credit-card or airline rewards, or getting lucky with giveaways.
Andrea Troublefield, 41, of York County, said she paid $20 for a raffle entry through an online betting site and won a ticket to the game. She and a friend will be heading down to New Orleans on Friday, staying in a hostel that will cost $70 a night, for a total of $210 per person for the weekend. Troublefield doesn’t have to pay for airfare, a perk of her job as an airline’s flight pay specialist.
She’s looking forward to sharing the experience, through FaceTime and photos, with her grandfather, 89-year-old Leamon Troublefield, a lifelong Eagles fan.
“In August, we were told they don’t know how long he’s going to live,” Andrea Troublefield said. “By the grace of God, he is still here.”
“To be able to go down to New Orleans, and to be able to see them … it is going to be something I can bring back to him,” she added. “It’s a big deal.”