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Travel tips for Super Bowl weekend
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- Date Jan 25, 2013
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You're lucky enough to get a -- you might be headed to the Super Bowl for Iraq moments we get a -- once.
If you are we have some travel tips to help get you through the weekend joining us now orbits dot com senior editor Geneen tornado -- good morning chain.
I'll miss teen has more travelling fans the -- well we looked at -- air bookings from Baltimore from San Francisco and at this point ravens fans are.
Beating out San Francisco fans about two to one.
So that we're definitely seeing more air looking down Baltimore and then from the west I guess that's sort of surprises me at that -- Cisco bigger city more people but.
That's not in my although patent.
Airfare tickets are a little bit more expensive coming from San Francisco.
Out of the area airports in San Francisco you're looking about 15100 dollars round trip for several weekend.
At a -- to -- close behind 12100 dollar that's just tell us Cisco has a -- -- a lot of money -- -- just a little bit about hotel prices how -- those looking.
Well first I'll tell you that anyone looking to stay in the downtown vicinity it's pretty much sold out much to want to pay about 15100 dollars for -- three star hotel room for one night so muscular looking at -- a bit further out even places like Biloxi Gulfport Baton Rouge.
You know hour to an hour and a half drive we're starting -- hotels fill up along the Gulf Coast now anywhere from 120 dollars for non casino hotel.
Upwards of 350 dollars -- -- for one of the casino properties in those areas how does this compare the prices this year compared to past Super Bowls -- in last year.
Very similar -- we typically see prices go up anywhere from 200 to 400%.
For Super Bowl weekend.
That the thing that's different about New Orleans from past destinations is that they don't have as many hotel -- it's a smaller markets and that's the reason that so many of the area hotels.
Have filled up so fast and probably more desirable place to visit -- no offense Indianapolis but Indianapolis in February.
Absolutely you have Marty all right on the heels of super balls a lot of people might be sticking around to take part -- extending its -- Do you get around -- to get there because I imagine traffic's going to be around the traffic it's going to be awful it's normally -- bad in New Orleans anyway in this weekend will you know.
Three times as bad.
So the everyone in the area recommends not renting a car you don't have to it's not expensive it's only about 25 dollars a day that.
Parking is a very expensive it's going to be tough to get around they actually have a new hop on hop off bus service.
In and the metro area that you can use it's not going to be running game day but for other days about forty dollars for an -- taken you can get off and get on much easier way to get around -- what about some things to do when you're not at the Super Bowl or gallon one of those great bars or -- -- -- -- -- -- New Orleans and take -- -- the other great things going on.
A couple of great things to see and do one is the national World War II museum.
Mountain it's a really really cool experience very interactive they have -- -- -- submarine experience freaking get on and you take part -- when the final missions I don't know that they have small -- there as well and yes and they also have a really -- film -- -- and produced by Tom -- -- afford the -- film so it's very fantastic -- and then jazz clubs cajun dance scene and you say there's an Audubon nature institute -- -- -- pretty -- bracing for families to do IMAX in sectarian -- it's all there are you for bringing kids -- need to -- -- thank you so much for coming in from -- it --