How Much Does It Cost To Go To Super Bowl 51? Prices For Tickets, Airfare, Hotels In Houston Cheaper This Year

Going to the Super Bowl is never truly cheap. But comparatively speaking, data out Thursday showed Super Bowl 51 scheduled for Sunday in Houston wasn't breaking the bank as much as previous games.

Ticket prices fell sharply after the lineup was settled between the Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots. Tickets about a week ago might have run you double what you would pay now.

But the only real way to land a ticket at this point was through the secondary market, meaning the seats were being re-sold. The get-in price, or the cost floor, was $2,043, according to the latest data from TicketIQ, which tracks the secondary market for tickets. The average re-sell price was $4,243, though popular secondary marketplace Stubhub showed tickets Thursday for as little as $2,250 and as much as $112,000.

The cost to attend the 2017 championship was cheaper than it has been the past two years, but it was more expensive than it was in 2014, according to Yahoo Finance, which tracks prices leading up to the day of the game. Prices also typically fall immediately before the game as sellers looking to sell off their seats at the last second. Fans might be able to get in for — gasp — as little as one grand per ticket.

"I'd predict the over/under for the get-in price to be at $1,000 on game day," TicketIQ representative Jesse Lawrence told USA Today Sports this week.

Actually getting to Houston will cost fans as well, although not quite as much as game tickets will. Prices from travel site Kayak showed a round trip ticket from Boston to Houston arriving Thursday and departing Monday could cost as little as $962. The same itinerary from Atlanta cost at least $1,069. People who booked flights earlier, however, probably paid far less: Enterprising travelers who used all local airports could have secured tickets for a couple hundred bucks, NBC News reported.

Once a fan arrives in Houston, the cost doesn't stop climbing. Hotels aren't cheap, either. Data from travel site Trivago revealed a standard room was set to cost $343 per night in Houston during the Super Bowl, according to KHOU. That's far less than an average of $503 Trivago found for last year's game.