Why do Bowl Packages Cost so Much?

[fflMTPHawk2]

FYI - Have been to bowl trips on my own and with Jon. Good product and worth the money if you have it. If you don't, find another way or don't go. I probably stay home just because I need to save my cash.

As far as tickets go .... usually, I would suggest that you purchase on seconary market to get better seats, but this year is different. Insight Bowl reps have done a lot to improve their bowl. One change is that they give the teams tickets on the sidelines not the corner endzone tickets. This is the first bowl that I have heard of doing that.

Go Hawks!

 

[deanvogs]

Just another thought to think about:

1) Why does it cost 10 times more to hire someone to paint your house than it would cost if you painted it yourself?

2) Why is a lawn service 5 times what it would cost to cut your own grass.

3) Why does it cost $1.25 per shirt to send it to the cleaners when you could wash it as home for a fraction of the cost?

I think I made my point.

Very well might I add!

 

[ShadasRevenge]

I am going for 3 nights for under $500.

Flying into Vegas though and renting car.

This seems like the smartest way to go. You can get a flight to Vegas from here for less than 100 bucks.

 

[busabus114]

This seems like the smartest way to go. You can get a flight to Vegas from here for less than 100 bucks.

Better yet just fly to Vegas and stay there rather than going to the bowl game

 

[ChosenChildren]

Actually, I think OKeef4Prez is tongue-in-cheek, as usual.

Put the BanHammer on him, Jon. BanHammer.

I'm just kidding. No one should be banned!!!

I do love that word, though: BANHAMMER. BANHAMMER.

We need a LB named John Banhammer (doesn't it sound a little Ohio Stateish?)

 

[ArizonaHawkeye88]

car gas round trip from my house--$20
Parking---$20
Food & drink during game per person --$50
seats 20 yrd line 8th row 2nd deck---$45 each

HAWKEYE VICTORY-----PRICELESS

 

[MNHawkeyeFreak]

I have done Jon's tours the last two years. If you don't do much traveling and don't want to mess with coordinating your own arrangements, it's a good way to go. Last year I waited too long to get the air package so took the land and had to arrange my own air arrangements. Huge pain and cost me more in the long run. The transportation to the game was worth it too.

 

[SDK46]

FYI - Have been to bowl trips on my own and with Jon. Good product and worth the money if you have it. If you don't, find another way or don't go. I probably stay home just because I need to save my cash.

As far as tickets go .... usually, I would suggest that you purchase on seconary market to get better seats, but this year is different. Insight Bowl reps have done a lot to improve their bowl. One change is that they give the teams tickets on the sidelines not the corner endzone tickets. This is the first bowl that I have heard of doing that.

Go Hawks!

Can you verify that? (serious question)

If so, I'll recant my previous rant on Univ tix for this bowl. That would be huge.

However, my experience when going to three Outbacks and the Cap-1, the Univ tix were bogus. People who went to the Orange bowl got crammed into the upper deck in an endzone.

I bought the first year through the Univ, then went on the open market after that, paid a bit more, but had a lot better seats.

 

[ColoradoHAWKEYE]

Can you verify that? (serious question)

If so, I'll recant my previous rant on Univ tix for this bowl. That would be huge.

However, my experience when going to three Outbacks and the Cap-1, the Univ tix were bogus. People who went to the Orange bowl got crammed into the upper deck in an endzone.

I bought the first year through the Univ, then went on the open market after that, paid a bit more, but had a lot better seats.

From the interview/presser with KF and Gary Barta last evening:

Q. Do you think Missouri will back out of the contract?

GARY BARTA: Missouri is a great team. Can't wait to play them.

You asked about tickets. The ticket allocation for both sides is 11,000, and one of the things ‑‑ Pam Finke is our ticket director. She's here. One of the things that is unique, back to talking about there's positives in everything, this bowl and the way they set up their bowl tickets, they give each school sideline tickets. They give us one whole side of the stadium, so the tickets that they're providing us that we'll be selling are in great location. We'll have 50‑yard line seats all the way from goal line to goal line at all levels. I think the pricing is tiered.

So this bowl does it a little bit differently in that they really provide us with great tickets for our fans. We had sold ‑‑ and again, Pam is here if you want to ask her questions afterwards, we had sold ‑‑ even before we knew the opponent, not even the opponent, the bowl, even before we knew the bowl, we had sold over 2,000 tickets to this particular Bowl. We know we're going to have a great showing by our fans, and now that we've announced it, I'm sure that people will start trying to make their way to Phoenix.

And you can fly into Phoenix, you can fly into Las Vegas or San Diego and drive there from several locations, so I think this is going to be a fan‑friendly Bowl match‑up.

 

[ColoradoHAWKEYE]

Ya gotta love Barta's direct answer to the asked question. He does come back to address it though a bit latter. Here is the link: Ferentz Talks Insight Bowl | Hawkeye Nation

 

[Iowatailgate]

Iowa Sections:

• Lower Level: 19-33
• Upper Level: 240-242

 

[SDK46]

Iowa Sections:

• Lower Level: 19-33
• Upper Level: 240-242

 

[SDK46]

OK....LL 19-25 not so hot, the rest are acceptable to excellent
Upper level....excellent.

For this bowl, I hereby recant my previous rant (sans my vent against the BCS which truly does screw the participating teams)

However....if we're the "home team" how's-come we're sitting on the visitor's side?

 

[Hawkeye101]

As far as the seats provided to the University, it's pretty simply.

The more prestigious the bowl (Rose, Orange, etc), the less desirable seats the U will receive. The less prestigious the bowl, the better the seats the U will receive.

Look at it this way. How much demand outside of Iowa or Mizzou fans will there be for the Insight bowl? Probably not much.

How much demand is there outside of the participating schools for any of the BCS games? A whole lot more. Groups, corporate events, sponsorships, "guests", etc. suck up many of the "good" seats at the best bowl games.

 

[CAARHawk]

This is a good discussion. I am not a bowl package person, because I usually like to take time and make a fuller trip out of it. For instance, take the kids to Disney and such on Florida trips. I also can't stomach paying retail for anything, and find it totally unnecessary for travel. Stayed right on beach in nice hotels for both Outback, and Orange Bowl for 70$ per night or less.

That being said, if I just wanted a total Hawk experience, I would consider a package.

 

[deanvogs]

This seems like the smartest way to go. You can get a flight to Vegas from here for less than 100 bucks.

Where can you get a flight to Vegas under $100 between Christmas and New Years? Plus you do need to fly back. Even going to Vegas will cost you $400 round trip, bags, taxes, fees, etc.

 

[SDK46]

As far as the seats provided to the University, it's pretty simply.

The more prestigious the bowl (Rose, Orange, etc), the less desirable seats the U will receive. The less prestigious the bowl, the better the seats the U will receive.

Look at it this way. How much demand outside of Iowa or Mizzou fans will there be for the Insight bowl? Probably not much.

How much demand is there outside of the participating schools for any of the BCS games? A whole lot more. Groups, corporate events, sponsorships, "guests", etc. suck up many of the "good" seats at the best bowl games.

So what you're saying is....if Iowa ever gets "invited" to Detroit, we fans should expect club seats?

 

[masoncityhawkeye]

Where can you get a flight to Vegas under $100 between Christmas and New Years? Plus you do need to fly back. Even going to Vegas will cost you $400 round trip, bags, taxes, fees, etc.

YEah the flight we got was $350 on Allegiant from DM (27th to 30th).

The hotels on priceline on the strip right now are all around $60 or under so the hotel and car will be cheap.

 

[deanvogs]

YEah the flight we got was $350 on Allegiant from DM (27th to 30th).

The hotels on priceline on the strip right now are all around $60 or under so the hotel and car will be cheap.

Exactly what I was trying to say, $350 is a FAR CRY from under $100. You certainly can't get that deal anymore, that was the CHEAPEST it was going to be, and it now $400 plus fees to do it. Plus you are flying into a city that is 5 hours away from your final destination. To each their own Mason, and I'm not trying to knock you....but to me that doesn't seem like a deal at all. Not to sound like okeefe4prez, but my time is worth money, and spending 9-10 hours getting to my destination isn't worth it to me.....

 

[Clark]

Exactly what I was trying to say, $350 is a FAR CRY from under $100. You certainly can't get that deal anymore, that was the CHEAPEST it was going to be, and it now $400 plus fees to do it. Plus you are flying into a city that is 5 hours away from your final destination. To each their own Mason, and I'm not trying to knock you....but to me that doesn't seem like a deal at all. Not to sound like okeefe4prez, but my time is worth money, and spending 9-10 hours getting to my destination isn't worth it to me.....

If I was flying into Vegas I think I'd plan on making it a little longer trip. Fly in to Vegas, spend two days there then drive down for the game, stay one night there and drive back to spend one more night in Vegas before flying out again.